Susan Boyle Fashion Photos
Yes, Susan Boyle got all gussied up for her photo shoot with Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
Biographies
Super Freak +5
Rick James died five years ago today.Here he is in June 2004, two months before his death, rocking crushed velvet alongside Cincinnati’s own Bootsy Collins. (Photo supplied by WENN.)
Squeaky Fromme to be Released From Jail
It was just this past May that would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore gave an interview about her 1975 attempt to kill President Gerald Ford.Now Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the other woman in jail for attempting to kill Ford, is set to be released this month, after 34 years in prison. CNN has the story here.
Putin on Holiday
The U.K. Guardian has some terrific video of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on holiday. See how macho he looks here.
G.I. Joe Doesn’t Exist, Really
We’ve added a profile of G.I. Joe, just in time for the movie being released this weekend.Histories of the doll make it pretty clear that G.I. Joe’s creation in 1964 was a direct response to Barbie’s popularity with girls. Hasbro freely admits they coined the term “action figure” because they were afraid boys wouldn’t play with “dolls.”
Dennis Quaid Has Appeared In A Lot of Things
Heh! I love the “He has appeared as…” sequence in our profile of Dennis Quaid.You want befuddled, nihilistic, overprotective, sinewy, shady, plucky? He’s your man.Here he is as plain ol’ Dennis, bearing the difficult burden of joining Sienna Miller in Rome to promote their new G.I. Joe flick.
Happy 48th Birthday, Mr. President
U.S. President Barack Obama turns 48 today.He was born the same year as hockey star Wayne Gretzky. And he’s exactly two weeks older than Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
The Queen is NOT Her Royal Highness
MAY I RESPECTFULLY POINT OUT THAT QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 IS NOT ‘HRH’ (HER ROYAL HIGHNESS), SHE IS IN FACT ‘HM’ — THAT IS TO SAY — ‘HER MAJESTY.’So writes Who2 reader Eric Ryan-Lander from the island of Madiera.
Awkward Photos With People in Animal Suits
In this edition: Madonna avoids a strange nun-kitten who has stationed herself (himself?) outside of the singer’s London home.
Barack Obama Didn’t Insult Special Olympics Kids in Quite the Way You May Have Heard He Did
This week the New York Times repeated a common error about the bad Special Olympics joke Barack Obama made to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in March of 2009.