Today is the birthday of writer, serialist and national treasure ARMISTEAD MAUPIN (1944). Maupin is most famous for his six book "Tales of the City" series of books. The first were originally published in serial forms in Bay Area newspapers. His later novels include "The Night Listener" and "Maybe The Moon" and 2009's "Michael Tolliver Lives." His name, coincidentally, is an anagram of "is a man I dreamt up."
It’s a busy life for The Wonderful Mr. Maupin with a brand spanking new musical based on Tales of the City. And PBS just featured a delightful documentary, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, He is married to Christopher Turner. His most recent book revisits his beloved characters from Tales, The Days of Anna Madrigal. New York: Harper. 2014. ISBN 978-0062196248.
For more on Armistead Maupin, and maybe to send him a birthday greeting, visit his website at http://www.armisteadmaupin.
Happy Birthday Armistead. Long may you wave!
When we are able to arouse love in our hearts without any cause, just because love is the heart’s quality, we feel secure.
—Ayya Khema, “What Love Is”
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In
a moment of real struggle not to give in to the body’s desire, a new
awareness can appear—an awareness that is neither attracted nor
repulsed, that is separate and free from the forces of like and dislike.
—Stuart Smithers, “Losing Our Bodies, Losing Our Minds”
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On this date the acting genius of stage and screen KATHERINE HEPBURN was born. She's also a Gay diva for those into great acting chops and killer dialogue. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the greatest female star in the history of American cinema. Do yourself a favor and watch, or re-watch, "Woman of the Year," "Adam's Rib," "African Queen," "Pat & Mike," "Philadelphia Story," and/or "The Lion in Winter." Celebrate a brilliant actor and the remarkably independent woman behind the roles.
There are reliable reports of her – at the very least -- bisexuality, which is not hard to believe. Gore Vidal himself has vouched for his buddy Scotty Bowers, who claims that he set Katharine Hepburn up “with over 150 different women” in his book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of Stars. Vidal flew to L.A. expressly for the book’s launch party. He wanted to assure attendees that Bowers is totally telling the truth. In a speech, he told party-goers he’s never caught Bowers in a lie in the 60-plus years he’s known him, joking that L.A. is a town “where you can meet 1,000 liars a day.” We’d say that never catching someone in a lie is a little different than saying someone has never told a lie, but hey—good enough for us.
So that settles it: Katharine Hepburn was a very sexually active Lesbian. Case closed! OK...bisexual, maybe.
Together we are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and
a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the
end. None is deprived of pain here and we have all suffered in our own
ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing
each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all
those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let
us help each other survive.
- Ram Dass -
If
we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can
respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let
them go.
—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Allow for Space”
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