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5 Movie Actors Who Were Late Bloomers

Posted on 04/10/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyBesedka Johnson proved that it’s never too late to become a movie actor. She began at age 85, and won praise for last year’s Starlet, her first and only film. The Detroit native, who passed away on April 4 at age 87 in Glendale, Calif., moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue a modeling career and then became a successful dressmaker. She took an acting class in her 30s, but never seriously considered striving for a Hollywood career. …

Ruben Salazar in Art and Reality

Posted on 04/10/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Legacy | Your LifeI never intended a visit to the Museum of Latin American Art to revive memories of an old friend whose stature as an icon of courage began rising the moment his life was ending. In fact, the gallery in Long Beach was filled with far more compelling work than the simple portrait of Ruben Salazar by the noted Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. But only Salazar’s image managed to stop me in my tracks. It was personal. He was a …

Annette Funicello: From Mouseketeer to Teen Idol

Posted on 04/8/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyIn a sense, Annette Funicello created the template for Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus. Funicello, who passed away on April 8 at age 70 in Bakersfield, Calif., proved the possibility of evolving from a cute child star in the Disney firmament into a sexy teen idol. But when Funicello accomplished that feat in the 1950s and 1960s, she did it without the personal drama that has plagued her recent successors. The closest that Annette came to a scandal …

Margaret Thatcher: 10 Surprising Facts About the Iron Lady

Posted on 04/8/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyMargaret Thatcher, who died on April 8 at age 87, served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, and she was the first woman to ever hold that office. Her gender, though, wasn’t what made her stand out. Thatcher arguably was the toughest politician who ever occupied 10 Downing Street, so intractably hard-headed that she made another famously gruff Conservative Party leader, Winston Churchill, look almost like a softy by comparison. But while Thatcher didn’t have to confront Nazi Germany, as …

Lilly Pulitzer: 5 Facts About the Woman Who Led a Fashion Rebellion

Posted on 04/8/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyFashion entrepreneur Lilly Pulitzer, who died on April 7 at age 81 in Miami, proved that simplicity can be stylish. In the early 1960s, she popularized the tropical print shift, a colorful version of a rudimentary design — the sleeveless sheath — that was the first dress every American girl who took home economics in high school was taught to make. What distinguished Pulitzer’s shifts was the startlingly bright hues and playful patterns of the fabric, which Pulitzer had custom-produced …

My Lunch With Lady Thatcher

Posted on 04/8/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Legacy | PoliticsIn the early 1990s I presented Margaret Thatcher with an award at a convention in Florida. We both wore navy-and-white polka-dot power suits. I only realized that Britain’s former prime minister and I were dressed alike moments before we were supposed to go onstage. I didn’t have time to rush back to my room in the massive Disney World hotel and change. Trying to make the best of it, I said, “Lady Thatcher, I admire you so much that I …

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