Thursday, July 25, 2024

Bing Crosby - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the American actor, singer, radio host, comedian and entertainer Bing Crosby.

With more than half a century of career, Bing Crosby received several awards, including an Oscar for best actor in 1945, for his performance in the film: “Going My Way” (1944) playing the role of the priest “Priest Chuck O’Malley”. He later won two more major lifetime achievement awards: the Golden Globe in 1960 and the Grammy in 1962.

Bing Crosby was passionate about art, travel, dogs and pipes.

The actor is one of the record holders for stars on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, with three of them: at 1611 Vine Street, Cinema category; at 6769 Hollywood Boulevard, Radio category and at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard, Music category.

Born Harry Lillis Crosby, May 3, 1903, Tacoma, Washington, United States, died October 14, 1977, Golf La Moraleja, Alcobendas, Spain, aged 74.

Bing Crosby was married 2 times. His first marriage was to the beautiful American actress, dancer and singer Dixie Lee (1909-1952) from 1930 to 1952, of whom Crosby was eventually widowed. The couple had 4 children, all American actors and singers: Gary Evan Crosby (1933-1995); the twin brothers born on (July 13, 1934) Dennis Michael Crosby (1934-1991) and Phillip Lang Crosby (1934-2004) and Lindsay Harry Crosby (1938-1989). His second marriage was to American actress and singer Kathryn Grant - Kathryn Crosby (1933-) from 1957 to 1977, widow of Bing Crosby. The couple had 3 children: American investment banker Harry Lillis Crosby III, better known as Harry Crosby (1958-); American actress Mary Frances Crosby (1959-) and American professional golfer Nathaniel Patrick Crosby (1961-).

Monday, July 22, 2024

Haiku: Troubadour - ©Theda Bara

Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2024
 I sing, I tell

In a corner I find myself

I sing in the corner I find!

Friday, July 19, 2024

Jane Wyman - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the American actress, singer, dancer, TV presenter and philanthropist Jane Wyman.

Jane received several awards throughout her career, including an Oscar for best actress (1949), for her performance in the film: “Johnny Belinda” (1948), in the role of: “Belinda MacDonald” and three Golden Globes for the series of TV “Fireside Theater” (from 1955 to 1958). Her professional career began at age 16, in 1933, when she signed a contract with Warner Bros.

The actress has two stars on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, at 6607 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Cinema category and at 1620 Vine Street, in the TV category.

Born Sarah Jane Mayfield, January 5, 1917, Joseph Sector, Missouri, United States, she died September 10, 2007, Rancho Mirage, California, United States, aged 90.

Jane Wyman was married 5 times. Her first marriage was to Los Angeles businessman Ernest Eugène Wyman (1906-1970) from 1933 to 1935; her second marriage was to telegraphist Myron Martin Futterman (1900-1965) from 1937 to 1938; her third marriage was to the actor and 40th president of the United States Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) from 1940 to 1949, with whom she had 3 children: the American political activist Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941-2001) the political commentator Michael Edward Reagan (1945-) and Christine Reagan (June 26, 1947), the girl died hours after being born; her fourth and fifth marriages were to American actor Fred Karger (1916-1979) from 1952 to 1955, six years after their separation they married again from 1961 to 1965.

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Haiku: Family - ©Theda Bara

Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2024
Father... Mother... Children... Uncles... Cousins... Grandparents...

Our family

Without them we are wolves without a pack!

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Charlie Sheen - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the controversial American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, comedian and film and television producer Charlie Sheen, widely known for playing “Charlie Harper” in the award-winning television series “Two and a Half Men” from 2003 to 2011, a series that many say is biographical, as not only the character's name is confused with the actor.

In cinema, Sheen starred in the award-winning “Platoon” (1986), where despite being the young protagonist of the plot, the character “soldier Chris Taylor” was not even nominated for an Oscar, but the film won the statuette. “Wall Street” (1987), character “Bud Fox”; “Top Gang” (1991 and 1993), character “Topper Harley”; and “The Three Musketeers” (1993), character “Aramis” are some of his other hits.

Charlie Sheen is one of the famous artists of the American “Sheen” family, having as his father “Martin Sheen” (1940-), mother Janet Elizabeth Estévez, known professionally as Janet Sheen and Janet Templetonque (1844-) and three artist brothers Renée Pilar Estevez (1967-), Ramon Luis “Ray” Estevez, also known as Ramon Sheen (1963-) and Emilio Estevez Sheen (1962-).

Awards are not the strong point in Charlie Sheen’s career, the actor only has a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Series Musical Comedy 2002, for: “Spin City”, character “Charlie Crawford”. He was nominated in the same category, in 2005 and 2006, for his performance in “Two and a Half Men”, also receiving four Primetime Emmy nominations for this work, from 2006 to 2009, but did not win.

The actor has his star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Cinema category.

Born Carlos Irwin Estevez, on September 3, 1965 in New York, United States, he is now 58 years old.

Charlie Sheen may not be an excellent actor, like his father, for example, but behind all the problems he got into on film sets where he worked drunk and often drugged, so much so that on October 25, 2010 he was hospitalized in New York due to a drug overdose. “The drug almost killed me”, said the actor, who despite everything, does good social actions. In 2013, he donated $12,000 to the funeral of paparazzi Chris Guerra (1984-2013), who was chasing Canadian singer, songwriter and actor Justin Bieber (1994-), dying after being run over while trying to photograph Bieber in his white Ferrari; Sheen also donated $10,000 to people suffering from epilepsy after seeing a man put up posters about the disease in the streets. The posters told the story of the man’s grandson, who was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 3; and he also donated US$25 thousand to typhoon victims in the Philippines.

Charlie Sheen’s love life is also quite troubled, he had three official wives and several lovers, and also a three-way relationship with the American porn actress Rachel Oberlin, better known as Bree Olson (1986-) and with the model and graphic designer American Natalie Kenly (1987-), both 24 years old at the time, this love triangle happened in 2011, the year of the actor's last marital separation, however, the young women broke up with him and started living together. On November 17, 2015, Sheen revealed that he has been HIV positive since 2011, when he discovered the disease, without knowing how he acquired the virus. His children and ex-wives have been tested and none of them have the virus. However, nothing official is known about the health of his ex-lovers.

His first marriage was to American actress and model Donna Jainie Peele (1973-), more famous for being Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife than for acting in mediocre films. The union lasted just one year, from 1995 to 1996; Sheen’s second wife was another American actress and model Denise Lee Richards (1971-) to whom he was married from 2002 to 2006; and his third official wife was American socialite and actress Brooke Jaye Mueller (1977-) from 2008 to 2011.

Charlie Sheen has five children: Cassandra Jade Estevez (1984-), from his relationship with Paula Profit Speers (1963-), his high school sweetheart; Sami Sheen “Sam” (2004-) and Lola Rose Sheen (2005-), from the relationship with Denise Richards; and twins Bob and Max (2009-), who have lived with their maternal grandparents since their mother, Brooke Mueller, voluntarily entered a drug rehabilitation clinic in 2019. 

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