The Victorians are just absolutely fascinating.
"Should we hold an event to showcase our industrial prowess"
"Yes, of course"
"Should we dam and expand the river so that we can import Venetian Gondolas to ferry guests"
"100 percent!"
"And construct a giant oriental style palace to host said event"
"That's exactly what I was going to suggest"
The Victorians truly embodied the "You can just do things" attitude.
Happy 96th Birthday Vera Miles.
The Hitchcock blonde who got away, Miles was born in Oklahoma on August 23, 1930. She is one of the last leading ladies of the tail end of Hollywood's Golden Age, and the last surviving credited cast member of “Psycho.” Miles began her career in beauty pageants, winning Miss Kansas in 1948 and coming third in the Miss America contest. Moving to Los Angeles, she was offered minor roles in the early 1950s. Under contract to Warner Brothers, her career picked up and she was cast by John Ford as Jeffrey Hunter's love interest in the classic John Wayne Western,”The Searchers” (1956). The same year she had her first encounter with Alfred Hitchcock, when she appeared in his film “The Wrong Man”. Miles played Rose Balestrero, the fragile wife of Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), a musician falsely accused of murder. Instantly deciding that Miles was the “next Grace Kelly” (who, by then, was living in Monaco) Hitchcock signed her to a personal contract. He intended her to star in “Vertigo” (1958), but she withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Kim Novak was cast instead, which displeased the often irascible director, who found Novak “stupid” and said later that she had been “miscast”. Despite Hitchcock's disappointment regarding “Vertigo”, he continued to see Miles, eventually giving her the role for which she is most remembered; that of Lila Crane in the groundbreaking “Psycho” (1960). In a nuanced performance, Miles portrayed the determined sister of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who solves the mystery of the latter’s disappearance in the most unpleasant way possible. After “Psycho”, Miles appeared in episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”, but never starred in another of his films - he had found a new blonde in the form of Tippi Hedren. In 1962, Miles reunited with John Ford for the “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”, opposite John Wayne and James Stewart, who competed for her hand in marriage. Miles guest starred in numerous popular television shows throughout her career, including “Wagon Train”, “Laramie”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote.” She became a favourite of Walt Disney, appearing in six live-action family films. Miles was married four times, and, at 96, is unlikely to marry again.
Canada is quite possibly the single worst White country on earth right now.
They’re so consumed by hate for Trump that they don’t even realize they’re being replaced by Indians while being turned into an economic outpost of China.