'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
| Alice Barrett, Actress (1956) |
| Jennifer Beals, Actress (1963) |
| Beatrice Dalle, Actress (1964) |
| Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress (1865) |
| Jean Genet, Dramatist (1910) |
| Richard Hammond, Entertainer (1969) |
| Doug Harvey, Athlete (1924) |
| Derrick Jensen, Author (1960) |
| Al Kaline, Athlete (1934) |
| Richard Leakey, Environmentalist (1944) |
| John Amery, Politician (1945) |
| Arthur Capper, Politician (1951) |
| Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist (2001) |
| Masaru Ibuka, Businessman (1997) |

