Lena Horne Passes at 92

R.I.P. Lena Horne

Lena Horne is in one of my favorite movies, Cabin in the Sky (1943).



Check it out if you have time. Great film.


Lena Horne was born in Bed Stuy Brooklyn on June 30, 1917 and passed yesterday, May 9, 2010. She attended what is now Boy and Girls High School (Formerly Girls High School on Fulton street, Brooklyn but dropped out before graduating.

She started performing in New York's Cotton Club at 16 years of age. As well as being a serious triple threat (singer, dancer and actress) she had strong political views and was black listed in 1947.

Here's a great time line of her life.


Here's a clip from when she was on another of my favorite TV shows, A Different World. She enters at 1:33.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKk8xS4iPJI&feature=related

Here is the rest of the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcp9JFvEQAk&feature=related



I love her line towards the end...

The best thing about living is being able to keep on doing it!

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Tre Sportacious!

This Saturday, March 6th @ 8pm, HBO will be doing an special called,

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals.


According to HBO Sports president, Ross Greenburg, the show "...will tell their full life stories and provide an in-depth portrait of their complicated and historic bond."


Now I'm not a huge sports fan like that but these are dudes, I grew up watching. My favorite aunt was a huge basketball fan and she would always call me when they were on and make me watch.