Blue Truck, Red State: R. I. P. Angela Lansbury, 1925-2022

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

R. I. P. Angela Lansbury, 1925-2022

Glamorous Angela in The Harvey Girls, 1946.

Angela Lansbury, beloved star of stage, screen, and television in a phenomenal career that spanned nine decades, died yesterday at her home in Los Angeles, five days short of her 97th birthday.

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2 comments:

Davis said...: This is a superb piece and she was a terrific actress - too good in her words. "Stardom" isn't really for the great. I first saw her on broadway in 1967 in Mame. I've adored her ever since. There was something so honest and honorable about her.; October 17, 2022 at 10:17 AM
Russ Manley said...: A terrific actress, yes - the length and breadth of her career are really quite breathtaking when you think about it. One of the all-time great talents. She was never at the top of the glamour list like Liz, Marilyn, etc., but was nominated for an Oscar at age 17, and just kept going and going and going for eighty more years. Wow.; October 19, 2022 at 11:49 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu