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                                George Burns and Gracie Allen

George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen were a comedy team who worked in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved substantial success during the decades of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. George Burns wrote most of the material and played the straight man to Allen’s innocent and zany dumbbell persona.

As is often the case with performers who play dumb, Gracie Allen was in reality, highly intelligent. She fought a long battle with heart disease which led to her early retirement and finally to her death from a heart attack in 1964. Afterward, Burns visited her grave once a month, professing to talk to her about whatever he was doing at the time. George would go on to live another thirty-two years and had reached the age of 100 when he died on March 9, 1996.

As much as he looked forward to reaching age 100, Burns also stated that he looked forward to death, saying that the day he died he would be with Gracie again in heaven. When he was interred with Gracie, the crypt’s marker was changed to, “Gracie Allen & George Burns — Together Again.” George had said that he wanted Gracie to have top billing.

Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain

Rockers Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain were married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 24, 1992. Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by the actress Frances Farmer and Cobain wore green pajamas. Six months later, on August 18, the couple’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain was born.

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression. The pressures of his fame as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nirvana, along with some lifelong personal pressures, finally led to his death at age 27 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

A suicide note was found near his body at his home in Seattle, Washington. The note said, in part, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now”. A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were also found in Cobain’s body at the time of his death.

Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee

Singer Bobby Darin met teen star Sandra Dee when they co-starred in the film,Come September. The pair fell in love and were married in 1960. Unknown to most of his fans, Bobby Darin’s health was dangerously fragile and strongly motivated him to succeed within the limited time he feared he had left to live.

His fears materialized when Darin was 37 years old. He entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for surgery to repair two artificial heart valves received in a previous operation. The surgery was initially successful but Darin died in the recovery room on December 20, 1973.

Although the couple were divorced in 1967, Sandra Dee never remarried and referred to Darin as the love of her life. Her later years were marked by ill health and she admitted that for most of her life she battled anorexia nervosa, depression and alcoholism. In 2000, it was reported that she had been diagnosed with several ailments, including throat cancer and kidney disease. It was complications from kidney disease that ultimately led to her death on February 20, 2005, at age 62.

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio

 Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and screen siren Marilyn Monroe eloped on January 14, 1954. Trouble began brewing in their marriage almost immediately when during their honeymoon in Japan, Monroe was asked to visit Korea as part of the USO. She performed ten shows in four days for over 100,000 servicemen. Things boiled over in September of the same year when Monroe filmed the skirt-blowing scene for The Seven Year Itch in front of New York’s Trans-Lux Theater. Their turbulent marriage dissolved 274 days after the wedding but the couple would go on to remain life-long friends.

On August 5, 1962, Marilyn died at age 36 as the result of a drug overdose. After her death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged the funeral. He also had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week for the next 20 years.

Joe DiMaggio would succumb to lung cancer on March 8, 1999. On his deathbed DiMaggio said, “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn”.

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

Early Hollywood actors, Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind, Mutiny on the Bounty) and Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey, To Be or Not to Be) were married in March 1939. On January 16, 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash at the age of 33, while promoting the purchase of defense bonds during World War II. Gable, who was devastated by her loss, joined the United States Army Air Forces shortly after her death. On January 15, 1944, Gable attended the launch of the Liberty ship SS Lombard, named in his wife’s honor.

Lombard is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Although Gable remarried, he was interred next to Lombard when he died in 1960 as the result of a heart attack.

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier

John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married on September 12, 1953. In the 1960 U.S. presidential election, John Kennedy narrowly beat Republican Richard Nixon, and a little over two weeks after the election, Mrs. Kennedy gave birth to the couple’s first son, John, Jr. A second son, Patrick, was born on August 2, 1963, but died two days later.

On November 22, 1963, the First Couple flew on Air Force One from Carswell Air Force Base to Love Field in Dallas, Texas. They were accompanied by Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. A 9.5-mile motorcade was to take them to the Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a luncheon. After the motorcade turned the corner onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, three gun shots rang out. The President was shot once in the upper back and was killed with a final shot to the head. President Kennedy was 46 years old when he died.

In January 1994, Jacqueline was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a form of cancer. She died in her sleep at 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, 1994, two and a half months before her 65th birthday. She is buried alongside President Kennedy, their son Patrick, and their stillborn daughter Arabella, at Arlington National Cemetery.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Musicians, peace activists and visual artists, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, were married on March 20, 1969. After The Beatles, John Lennon enjoyed a successful solo career with such acclaimed albums as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band andImagine, which produced the iconic songs Give Peace a Chance and Imagine.

On the night of December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the entrance of the Dakota apartment building. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of the Double Fantasy album for Chapman. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. On the following day, Yoko Ono issued a statement which ended with the words, “John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him. Love, Yoko and Sean.”

Linda and Paul McCartney

Linda Eastman married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on March 12, 1969. She was a professional photographer, animal rights activist and a member of Paul’s band, Wings. Linda became Lady McCartney when Paul was knighted in 1997. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died on April 17, 1998, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Paul’s last words to Linda were: “You’re up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It’s a fine spring day. We’re riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue.”

Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson

Natasha Jane Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave. In the summer of 1994, she married Irish actor, Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Kinsey). The couple had two sons, Micheál, who was born in 1995, and Daniel, born in 1996. On March 18, 2009, when she was 45 years old, Richardson died following a head injury sustained during a fall while she was taking a skiing lesson at a Quebec resort.

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

Actress Sharon Marie Tate was married to director Roman Polanski from January 20, 1968, until her death on August 9, 1969, when at age 26 she and her friends were brutally murdered by members of Charles Manson’s “Family”. Sharon Tate was nine months pregnant when she was killed. According to the coroner’s report she had been stabbed sixteen times, and five of the wounds were in and of themselves fatal.

Priscilla and Elvis Presley

The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu were married on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Their only child, Lisa Marie, was born exactly nine months later on February 1, 1968. The couple divorced in 1973, but shared custody of their daughter and remained friends until Elvis died on August 16, 1977, at age 42. Presley’s body contained 14 different stimulants and depressants at the time of his death. Shortly after, President Jimmy Carter issued a statement that credited Presley with having “permanently changed the face of American popular culture”. Elvis Presley is buried on the grounds of Graceland in the Meditation Garden.

Dana and Christopher Reeve

Actors Christopher Reeve (Superman, Somewhere in Time) and Dana Morosini (Above Suspicion, Everyone’s Hero) were married on April 11, 1992. Christopher Reeve became a quadriplegic when he shattered his first and second vertebrae in a horse-riding accident on May 27, 1995. After the accident, the Reeves lobbied on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries, founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation, and co-founded the Reeve-Irvine Research Center. Christopher Reeve also authored two books, “Still Me” and “Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life”. Christopher died from heart failure on October 10, 2004, at age 52. Dana Reeve followed less than two years later. Although she was a non-smoker, Dana died from lung cancer on March 6, 2006. She was 44 years old.

Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood

Young movie stars, Natalie Wood (Rebel without a Cause, West Side Story) and Robert Wagner (Prince Valiant, A Kiss Before Dying) were married for the first time on December 28, 1957. They divorced in 1962, reunited 10 years later, and remarried on July 16, 1972. Their second marriage lasted until Natalie’s early death when she accidently fell overboard and drowned on the night of November 29, 1981. At the time, Natalie, her husband, the boat’s captain, and Christopher Walken, who was Natalie’s co-star in the film Brainstorm, were spending a Thanksgiving weekend aboard the couple’s yacht which was moored off the coast of Catalina Island. Tragically, nobody onboard noticed that Natalie was missing until it was too late. Her body was found the next morning floating less than two hundred yards offshore. Wood was 43 years old.

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Wedding Dresses

                                    Wedding Dresses

Hello everyone, today I want to write about how looks the different Celebrity Wedding Dresses in different times.
Grace kelly

When Hollywood darling Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the event was dubbed “the Wedding of the Century.” 
Bianca Jagger

For a woman known for her masculine-feminine style, it’s only natural that she carried that signature look into her 1971 wedding ceremony. When Bianca married Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, she wore an Yves Saint Laurent Le Smoking jacket (hello, plunging neckline!), a long skirt, and what is perhaps the world’s fanciest floppy hat.
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor may have had eight weddings, but we’ll always remember her first. The then-18-year-old married Conrad Nicky Hilton in 1950, in a satin gown that reportedly cost $1,500 (not so crazy a price for some brides today but totally costly at the time!). We can’t decide what we love more, the romantic lace top or that gorgeous, sweeping skirt.
Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling not only wore a red dress down the aisle—but a red dress with a metallic print! The custom Vivienne Tam sheath was drop-dead gorgeous.
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn is a fashion icon, and the dress she wore to her 1954 wedding to actor Mel Ferrer is one of the reasons. The tea-length Pierre Balmain dress had quite a bit going on—full sleeves, a high neck, circle skirt—but Audrey looked as effortless and elegant as ever.
Chelsea Clinton 

When Chelsea Clinton wore this sophisticated Vera Wang gown for her 2010 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky, jaws dropped. The embellished belt and swirling confection of a skirt (made of laser-cut chiffon) created one bridal look to remember on the former first daughter.
Jacqueline Kennedy

When you marry into one of the country’s most notable political families, you can be sure all eyes will be on you—and your wedding dress. And Jackie Kennedy’s Ann Lowe-designed gown didn’t disappoint: Fifty yards of silk taffeta made up the bodice and skirt, which Jackie wore along with her grandmother’s pared-down veil.
Kate Middleton

When you marry into one of the country’s most notable political families, you can be sure all eyes will be on you—and your wedding dress. And Jackie Kennedy’s Ann Lowe-designed gown didn’t disappoint: Fifty yards of silk taffeta made up the bodice and skirt, which Jackie wore along with her grandmother’s pared-down veil.
Portia De Rossi

When Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi tied the knot, both brides wore Zac Posen, but they couldn’t have looked more different. While Ellen went with sleek white pants and a vest, Portia chose a dramatic ball gown in the palest of pinks.
Yoko Ono

For John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s minimalist 1969 wedding, Yoko wore a white mini, knee-high socks, a wide-brimmed hat, and oversize sunglasses. Her wedding look was as unique as the couple themselves.
Mia farrow

In 1966, Hollywood royalty Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow made it official in (where else?) Las Vegas. The bride’s simple white shift was the perfect complement to her legendary Rosemary’s Baby short haircut, and the look is the epitome of 1960s gamine-chic.

Jewish wedding

               Jewish wedding

A Jewish wedding is a wedding ceremony that follows Jewish law and traditions.

While wedding ceremonies vary, common features of a Jewish wedding include a ketubah (marriage contract) which is signed by two witnesses, a wedding canopy (chuppah or huppah), a ring owned by the groom that is given to the bride under the canopy, and the breaking of a glass.

Technically, the Jewish wedding process has two distinct stages: kiddushin (sanctification or dedication, also called erusin, betrothal in Hebrew) and nissuin (marriage), when the couple start their life together. The first stage prohibits the woman to all other men, requiring a religious divorce (Get) to dissolve, and the final stage permits the couple to each other. The ceremony that accomplishes nisuin is known as chuppah.

Today, erusin/kiddushin occurs when the groom gives the bride a ring or other object of value with the intent of creating a marriage. There are differing opinions as to which part of the ceremony constitutes nissuin/chuppah; they include standing under the canopy - itself called a chuppah - and being alone together in a room (yichud).While historically these two events could take place as much as a year apart,they are now commonly combined into one ceremony.

Signing of the marriage contract

Before the wedding ceremony, the ketubah, or marriage contract, is signed in the presence of two witnesses.The ketubah details the husband's obligations to his wife, among which are food, clothing, and marital relations. This document has the standing of a legally binding agreement. It is often written as an illuminated manuscript that is framed and displayed in their home.^[5] Under the chuppa, it is traditional to read the signed ketubah aloud, usually in the Aramaic original, but sometimes in translation. Traditionally, this is done to separate the two basic parts of the wedding.Secular couples may opt for a shortened version to be read out.

Bridal conopy

A traditional Jewish wedding ceremony takes place under a Chuppah or wedding canopy, symbolizing the new home being built by the couple when they become husband and wife.

Covering of the bride

Prior to the ceremony, Ashkenazi Jews have a custom to cover the face of the bride (usually with a veil), and a prayer is often said for her based on the words spoken to Rebecca in Genesis 24:60. The veiling ritual is known in Yiddish as badeken. Various reasons are given for the veil and the ceremony, a commonly accepted reason is that it reminds the Jewish people of how Jacob was tricked by Laban into marrying Leah before Rachel, as her face was covered by her veil.(Vayetze) Sephardic Jews do not perform this ceremony.

Unterfirers

In many communities, the groom is led under the chuppah by the two fathers and the bride by the two mothers,known as unterfirers (lit. ones who lead under).

Encircling the groom

The bride traditionally walks around the groom three or seven times when she arrives at the Chuppah. This may derive from Jeremiah 31:22, “A woman shall surround a man”. The three circuits may represent the three virtues of marriage: righteousness, justice and loving kindness (see Hosea 2:21). Seven circuits derives from the Biblical concept that seven denotes perfection or completeness.Sephardic Jews do not perform this ceremony.

Presentation of the ring (Betrothal)

In traditional weddings, two blessings are recited before the betrothal; a blessing over wine, and the betrothal blessing, which is specified in the Talmud. The wine is then tasted by the couple.

The groom gives the bride a ring, traditionally a plain wedding band,and recites the declaration: Behold, you are consecrated to me with this ring according to the law of Moses and Israel. The groom places the ring on the bride’s right index finger. According to traditional Jewish law, two valid witnesses must see him place the ring.

During some egalitarian weddings, the bride will also present a ring to the groom, often with a quote from the Song of Songs: "Ani l'dodi, ve dodi li" (I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine), which may also be inscribed on the ring itself.This ring is sometimes presented outside the chuppa to avoid conflicts with Jewish law.

Seven blessings

The Sheva Brachot or seven blessings are recited by the hazzan or rabbi, or by select guests who are called up individually. Being called upon to recite one of the seven blessings is considered an honour. The groom is given the cup of wine to drink from after the seven blessings. The bride also drinks the wine. In some traditions, the cup will be held to the lips of the groom by his new father-in-law and to the lips of the bride by her new mother-in-law.Traditions vary as to whether additional songs are sung before the seven blessings.

Breaking the glass

After the bride has been given the ring, or at the end of the ceremony (depending on local custom), the groom breaks a glass, crushing it with his right foot, and the guests shout "Mazel tov!" ("Congratulations"). At some contemporary weddings, a lightbulb may be substituted because it is thinner and more easily broken, and it makes a louder popping sound.

The origin of this custom is unknown, although many reasons have been given. The primary reason is that joy must always be tempered.This is based on two accounts in the Talmud of rabbis who, upon seeing that their son's wedding celebration was getting out of hand, broke a vessel - in the second case a glass - to calm things down. Another explanation is that it is a reminder that despite the joy, Jews still mourn the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Because of this, some recite the verses "If I forget thee / O Jerusalem..." at this point. Many other reasons have been given by traditional authorities.

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef, has strongly criticized the way this custom is sometimes carried out, arguing that "Many unknowledgeable people fill their mouths with laughter during the breaking of the glass, shouting 'mazel tov' and turning a beautiful custom meant to express our sorrow" over Jerusalem's destruction "into an opportunity for lightheadedness." 

Yichud

Yichud (Hebrew for "togetherness" or "seclusion") refers to the Ashkenazi practice of leaving the bride and groom alone for 10–20 minutes after the wedding ceremony. The couple retreats to a private room. Yichud can take place anywhere, from a rabbi's study to a synagogue classroom.The reason for yichud is that according to several authorities, standing under the canopy alone does not constitute chuppah, and seclusion is necessary to complete the wedding ceremony. However, Sephardic Jews do not have this custom, as they consider it a davar mechoar, a "repugnant thing", compromising the couple's modesty.

Special dances

Dancing is a major feature of Jewish wedding. It is customary for the guests to dance in front of the seated couple and entertain them.Traditional dances include:

• The Krenzl, in which the bride's mother is crowned with a wreath of flowers as her daughters dance around her (traditionally at the wedding of the mother's last unwed daughter).
• The Mizinke, a dance for the parents of the bride or groom when their last child is wed.
• The "Horah" is a Middle Eastern/Israeli style dance usually played as a second dance set.
• The gladdening of the bride, in which guests dance around the bride, and can include the use of "shtick"—silly items such as signs, banners, costumes, confetti, and jump ropes made of table napkins.
• The Mitzvah tantz, in which family members and honored rabbis are invited to dance in front of the bride (or sometimes with the bride in the case of a father or grandfather), often holding a gartel, and then dancing with the groom. At the end the bride and groom dance together themselves.
• Birkat hamazon and sheva brakhot

After the meal, Birkat Hamazon (Grace after meals) is recited, followed by sheva brachot. At a wedding banquet, the wording of the blessings preceding Birkat Hamazon is slightly different from the everyday version. Prayer booklets called benchers, may be handed out to guests. After the prayers, the blessing over the wine is recited, with two glasses of wine poured together into a third, symbolizing the creation of a new life together

Jewish prenuptial agreements

In recent years, the organizing bodies of several branches of Judaism in the United States have developed standard Jewish prenuptial agreements designed to prevent a man from withholding a get (Jewish bill of divorce) from his wife, should she want one. Similar documents have been developed in Israel and the UK.