John Nolan

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Remembering Jean Harlow, who died at the age of 26 this day 6/7/1937. One of her most fabulous roles was in "Dinner At Eight''' and this ending scene stands the test of time....

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist.

21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million.

And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV.

Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham.

Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options.

She married young during WWII.

By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs.

She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust.

There was just one problem:

She was a terrible typist.

The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible.

One typo could mean retyping an entire page.

Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job.

But Bette had another skill.

She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money.

One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization:

“An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.”

That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint.

She poured it into a nail polish bottle.

The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors.

It worked.

For five years, her boss never noticed.

Other secretaries did.

Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles.

Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends.

She called the product “Mistake Out.”

Then came the twist.

In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter.

Her boss fired her immediately.

It became the best thing that ever happened to her.

She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time.

Orders exploded.

By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year.

By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually.

Then she did something even more unusual:

She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America.

Her company offered:
• child care
• continuing education
• leadership roles for women
• jobs for disabled workers
• integrated staffing

This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas.

In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million.

Six months later, she died at age 56.

Half her fortune went to women-focused charities.

The other half went to her son.

That son was Michael Nesmith.

Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees.

And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips.

It featured short films set to music.

PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV.

So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create:
• a multimillion-dollar company
• one of America’s most progressive workplaces
• and the blueprint for the modern music video era

Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood:

The mistake wasn’t the failure.

It was the opportunity.

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

The Broadway musical is an American invention — and George M. Cohan is considered one of the art form’s founding fathers.

Mo Rocca takes a look at how Cohan, an actor, playwright, producer and composer of standards like “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “The Yankee Doodle Boy” and “Over There,” became “the man who owned Broadway.”

[Variety @Variety]

John Lithgow is now the oldest man to have ever won a competitive acting Tony.

He took home Best Actor in a Play for “Giant” at tonight’s #TonyAwards.

https://t.co/It4QItdlwC

[John Nolan @SDan52]

@vicioushardy Affirmative, lol.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

Official word from The Whitehouse

“Trump is the sharpest, most accessible and energetic president in American history”

[Carlos @Carlos_9802_]

En 1972 Lou Reed edita Transformer, mi disco favorito del genio neoyorquino.
Producido por sus amigos David Bowie y Mick Ronson. Este último toca también la guitarra, piano, arreglo de cuerdas.
En el disco está una de las mejores canciones de la historia👇🏻

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

We invite you to enjoy a classic and witty comedy sketch featuring the legendary Dean Martin and comedian Foster Brooks, in which he portrays a brain surgeon in a series of satirical exchanges at a bar.

[John Nolan @SDan52]

@Navythunder808 Leo who? He's ok. Doesn't do that much for me personally.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

For a president of the United States to nonstop shitpost this kind of ass-vomit and dumbfuckery, the degree of derangement, jealousy, and insecurity has to be off the charts.

[Today In History @historigins]

In a 2003 interview, Chris Martin recounted how he came up with the iconic piano riff for “Clocks” while playing around with some chords in a rehearsal space. ⁠
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He explained that the distinctive circular melody was nothing more than a trivial idea that he almost left off the album, until his bandmates insisted it would be a hit.

[Jayde Bae ジェイド・ベイ @jadeinbae]

#Jazz #ジャズ #TheloniousMonk
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
(Live on the Newport Jazz Festival, in De Doelen Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 31, 1971)

Jazz Legends play "Straight, No Chaser."

Thelonious Monk - Piano
Art Blakey - Drums
Kai Winding - Trombone
Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet
Sonny Stitt - Saxophone
Al McKibbon - Bass

[Laurie @one4laurie65]

Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs as The Dukes of September - Lowdown🎶

[John Nolan @SDan52]

@POPin4k SO lowkey that I don't know his name, lol. But I agree with that designation.

[John Nolan @SDan52]

@vicioushardy Sam wins the prize in my case, lol.

[John Nolan @SDan52]

I love this. If only every parent of a gay or bisexual boy could be this accepting & loving.

[a a r o n @vanishingboy]

It’s the first Sunday of June..
bringing back this classic.
have a great week

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

AFI's list of the 25 top actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood......... who is your favorite?

[John Nolan @SDan52]

@kirkura17 @Back2Daniel I agree Kirk. He's the essence of twunk dreaminess, lol.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

One of the most extraordinary tribute speeches you’ll ever hear, delivered by the late great RICHARD BURTON to his friend — FRANK SINATRA in 1983.

Phenomenal stuff.