Producer Michael Todd in a publicity photo for his 1950 nude review, Peep Show, which ran for 278 at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre.
Hélène Cixous, French writer, poet and philosopher - b. June 5, 1937…
“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.” —
New York based performance artist Laurie Anderson is 64 today…
Her many collaborators through her performance career from the ’70s onward include John Giorno, William Burroughs, Brian Eno, Spalding Gray, Andy Kaufman, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Laurence Gordon, Hector Zazou, and of course her husband (since 2008), Lou Reed…
