That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
Italo Calvino, Journalist (1923) |
Jane Darwell, Actress (1879) |
Paige Davis, Actress (1969) |
Sarah Ferguson, (1959) |
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist (1908) |
Lee Iacocca, Businessman (1924) |
Tito Jackson, Musician (1953) |
Abdul Kalam, Statesman (1931) |
Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity (1959) |
Linda Lavin, Actress (1937) |
Vincent Canby, Critic (2000) |
Mata Hari, Dancer (1917) |
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coach (1852) |
Randall Jarrell, Poet (1965) |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Poet (1838) |
Pierre Laval, Politician (1945) |