Divine @ 61 !!!

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">Today, Divine (Glen Milstead),</font></strong> <strong><font color="#000099">star of all the greatest of John Waters' films, would have turned 61 years old!!! Divine died at the age of 42, on the cusp of major commercial success in TV, Film &amp; Music,in March 1988... Happy Birthday Divine (&amp; rest in peace).</font></strong></p><p><img height="465" src="http://www.rpi.edu/~turcoj/Timeline/Art%20History/Pink_Flamingos_mellomstort.jpg" width="300" border="0" /></p><p><img height="233" src="http://www.dreamlandnews.com/divine/img/gravestone.gif" width="350" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">The grafitti on the headstone says &quot;Make Heaven Flashy,&quot; &amp; the fingernails of the praying hands have been <font color="#ff00ff">polished pink</font>!!!</font></strong></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 10-19-06 @ 8:22 AM</span>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">There's an ironic headstone in the background on the right!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/DivineHeadstone.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[giannidesk]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>I thought you stop celebrating birthdays after you kick the bucket.</p><p>The grafitti on the headstone&nbsp;is pretty disrespetful.</p>

[pennington]

I think he/she would still have a successful career today.&nbsp; Like too many other people, he paid a price for his over-indulgences.

[bobrobot]

<strong>giannidesk</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I thought you stop celebrating birthdays after you kick the bucket.</p><p><strong><font color="#000099">I dunno about that, some folks still celebrate Jesus' birthday!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00065GHWE.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1116193370_.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">I go to&nbsp;Divine's grave every year on his birthday...</font></strong></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 10-19-06 @ 11:27 AM</span>

[Jujubees2]

<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Know what Devine would be doing if he/she were alive today?</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><p>&nbsp;</p></span> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Scratching and clawing at the inside of his/her coffin.</span></p></font>

[Tall_James]

<strong>pennington</strong> wrote:<br />Like too many other people, he paid a price for his over-indulgences. <p>Yup.&nbsp; He ate one too many dog turds.</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>giannidesk</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I thought you stop celebrating birthdays after you kick the bucket.</p><p><strong><font color="#000099">I dunno about that, some folks still celebrate Jesus' birthday!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00065GHWE.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1116193370_.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&quot;So get off your heathen ass and fucking celebrate!&quot;</p><p><img height="200" src="http://www.motherbuster.com/wnut/garrison.jpg" width="154" border="0" /></p>

[AKA]

<p>I actually (unknowingly) saw HAIRSPRAY the day he died. And, yes, HE was a HE - when he was in drag, he only played women's roles, but every once and awhile he played a dude, like in FEMALE TROUBLE when he raped himself. I have that movie poster signed by him. </p><p>FEMALE TROUBLE was one of his best roles; so many ideas from that movie, that seemed shocking then, seem commonplace now - I would have loved to have seen Divine in DESPERATE LIVING - PINK FLAMINGOS is still a movie I have issues with (is it gay porn? is it beastiality porn? is it egg porn?!)</p><p>Edith &amp; Divine - who knows what kind of stardom the two of them could have gotten if they had been around long. </p>

[KennethC]

Divine suffered for his art, now it's our turn!

[Badinia]

<p>R.I.P., big man.&nbsp; Luckily, Antony is picking up the torch for Divine.</p><p><img src="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-6TF_XkSsvj2sM:http://www.birmingham101.com/Music" border="0" /></p><p>Nice sig, Ken.</p>