This week's theme: Doris Day Doris Day was one of the biggest female stars of the 1950s and 60s. As a singer she recorded over 650 songs - possibly the most titles of any female recording artist of her era. She is probably best known for her ground breaking "bedroom comedies", movies with Rock Hudson and James Garner. **************************************************************** Doris Day Quotes The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. **************************************************************** I think a lot of people think the "sexual revolution" came out of the hippies and "the summer of love" (1967) and such but it really began in the late 1950s and emerged from the main stream middle class. I'm not saying Doris Day movies led the way, but they do reflect the changing mores of that period. She just recently turned 96 (April 3). A Brief History of Birth Control in the U.S. https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-brief-history-of-birth-control/ They say having children is hereditary - if you're parents didn't have any you probably won't either :-) **************************************************************** Oscar Levant Quotes "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin". "A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it." "Schizophrenia beats dining alone." "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I." "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left." "There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side." "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath." "So little time and so little to do." "I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself." ****************************************************************