fortheloothoney:

R.I.P Larry Hagman

I am extremely sad over this…seriously…

retrogasm:

R.I.P. Andy Griffith

It’s a sad day in Mayberry…

screengoddess:

RIP Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012)

harperbooks:

thedailywhat:

Letter of Note of the Day: This 2006 letter from the late Ray Bradbury to the assistant director of Fayetteville Public Library goes behind the scenes of the writing of Fahrenheit 451:

Dear Shawna Thorup:

I’m glad to hear that you good people will be celebrating my book, “Fahrenheit 451.” I thought you might want to hear how the first version of it, 25,000 words and which appeared in a magazine, got done.

I needed an office and had no money for one. Then one day I was wandering around U.C.L.A. and I heard typing down below in the basement of the library. I discovered there was a typing room where you could rent a typewriter for ten cents a half hour. I moved into the typing room along with a bunch of students and my bag of dimes, which totaled $9.80, which I spent and created the 25,000 word version of “The Fireman” in nine days. How could I have written so many words so quickly? It was because of the library. All of my friends, all of my loved ones, were on the shelves above and shouted, yelled and shrieked at me to be creative. So I ran up and down the stairs, finding books and quotes to put in my “Fireman” novella. You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves. It was the perfect way to be creative; that’s what the library does.

I hope you enjoy reading my passionate output, which became larger a few years later and became popular, thank God, with a lot of people.

I send you all my good wishes,

(Signed)

[lettersofnote]

It started with a rented typewriter in the basement of a library…

lucynic83:

Rest in peace Whitney Elizabeth Houston: August 6, 1963 - February 11, 2012
“God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?”  

countryandwestern:

Etta James - All I Could Do Was Cry

R.I.P. to one of the greats.

Rest in peace you wonderful man, Humphrey “Bogie” Bogart December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957

bookmania:

“He never disappointed.” George Whitman, the owner of Shakespeare and Company, a bookshop that became the core of English-language literary life in Paris and might be the most famous and beloved bookstore in the world, died Dec. 14, 2011 in his apartment above the store. He died two days after his 98th birthday.

lucynic83:

R.I.P Gloria Stuart

(July 4, 1910 - September 26, 2010)