I'm up at 4:14AM. Must've dozed off while looking at the midpoint of "Hollywood Homicide" -- gotta go back and look at it again; but as i wake up and reload my Twitter page (which was at 86 tweets) I check my Yahoo and i see the headline "Lena Horne dies at 92". I don't know why I'm not shocked. I don't know why I'm not breaking down in tears. Must be a delayed reaction. It's kinda like when my mom called me last year and told me that grandma passed--I didn't break down in tears right away or anything. And, yes, i know Lena is not a relative; but the importance to me still stands out.
When I was a little girl, I used to spend a lot of time at the public library, Hallandale Branch, and used to love love love books/biographies of old Hollywood stars. It was the white ones at first that I swooned over; Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Jackie Collins, and Judy Garland--yes, Judy Garland, but then one stood out, Lena Horne. This beautiful, striking 'light-skinned' woman who epitomized style and glamour just as much as all the other Hollywood stars.
As I would get older and read more and look at more movies, and learn more about Hollywood LaLa Land, I would come to idolize Lena Horne; and for obvious reasons that I won't care too much to mention. He he. But I always daydreamed of the day that i would be famous, having got all the naughty stuff out of my system and people seeing that I am talented and respect me for my hard-driven career, that Lena would be sitting in the audience giving me an applause, and looking at me as grandiosely as she does Halle Berry and Vanessa Williams--for obvious reasons I won't care to mention here; but she is one of my favorites. One that I used to idolize in my adulthood. (what's funny is that I don't have a bio from her, but i do of Dorothy Dandridge who never did it for me) Anyway, sadly another Hollywood veteran is gone. Just goes to show how time is going by. But I'm glad that I'm old enough to know all of these people and witness them at their greatest heights of fame and notoriety.
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