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Happy Birthday, Bette!
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born in 1908 and was, arguably, one of this...
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Happy Birthday, Clare Boothe Luce!
Clare Boothe Luce was quite the Renaissance woman, given that she lived in the...
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Happy Birthday, Ms. Simone!
Nina Simone would have been eighty years old today. Born Eunice Kathleen...
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Happy Birthday, Nigella!
The wonder that is Nigella Lawson came to me through an article in the...
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Happy Birthday, Mo’Nique!
I’ve been a fan of Mo’Nique since she hosted Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance on...
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Happy Birthday, Candye!
When I visited a friend in San Francisco in the late nineties, I took Super...
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Happy Birthday, Dawn!
Better late than never: I finally discovered Dawn French. Two years ago, my...
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Happy Birthday, Nell!
When I was a teenager, I listened to the first record of my two-album set of...
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Happy Birthday, Shelley!
Shelley Winters (1920-2006) once described her life as a “rocky road out of...
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Happy Birthday, Helen!
Although she probably wouldn’t like it, Helen Mirren is a role model...
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Happy Birthday, Josephine!
Josephine Baker deserves a wider audience today. An American-born French...
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Happy Birthday, Adele!
She’s all of twenty-four years old, but I don’t think I’m alone...

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