07 April 2025

Lady Sings in Glasses

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Billie Holiday, tormented and ravaged but resilient jazz diva (7 April 1915 – 17 July 1959). All these decades later her hauntingly soulful voice still incites goose-bumps.




06 April 2025

Gregory Peck

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With a ball point pen, nevertheless. Savage.

05 April 2025

Marguerite Duras

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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.