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Shirley Temple's 95th birthday has started in Australia about six hours ago. She served as a diplomat for two years under President Ford, almost three years under the first President Bush and about one day under President Carter .......... She reported that she had met President Carter on his first day in the White House and told him that she was "interested in continuing in public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?" .............. Was that Carter's first mistake as President? .............. As a little boy in Australia in the 60's she was my favourite...

Shirley Temple grew up to be a very very attractive adult woman. Two days ago, to mark the 9th anniversary of her death, I made this freerepublic post about Shirley Temple: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4129952/posts I forgot to mention what a hot woman she was as an adult. Should I apologise? Sexuality is a part of who we are. We go back and forth across history of how explicit and open we are willing to be. There was Pre-Code Hollywood. Then there was The Code. Now there is extremely explicit porn accessible to anyone who knows how to find it with an online...

Shirley Temple was my childhood friend. She made me happy. A Great American. All around the world.

Jane Withers, an actress known as a foil for Shirley Temple as a child actress, as a star of the movie classic "Giant," and as larger-than-life Josephine the Plumber on a long-running series of TV spots, has died at 95.

Mark Zaid, one of the lawyers representing CIA leaker Eric Ciaramella, previously bragged about getting security clearances for “guys who had child porn issues.”Mr. Zaid in 2018 was responding to a fellow lawyer on Twitter who had claimed they helped people with past domestic abuse issues get security clearances. “I’ve gotten clearances for guys who had child porn issues,” Zaid responded to an attorney who specializes in helping government employees get security clearances.“Why would the whistleblower’s lawyer brag about this?” GOP operative Arthur Schwartz tweeted over Zaid. Why would the whistleblower’s lawyer brag about this? https://t.co/R8Wz9s81FL— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) November...

Shirley Temple was an actor, a diplomat, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and wife for fifty-five years to the late Charles Alden Black.

Shirley Temple Black, who died Feb. 10, had a grunge connection: her daughter Lori Black, bassist for The Melvins, dated its leader Buzz Osborne, a crucial early influence on Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who was a member of Osborne's and Lori Black's circle. Osborne has said that Cobain's career was far less bizarre than what he termed the "massive skeletons" in the family closet of Shirley Temple Black, whose home he visited. "Everything that’s happened -- from Nirvana going crazy and on and on and on -- none of that holds a candle to how weird that situation was," Osborne told...

On The Hugh Hewitt Show last week, I made, like many other commentators, a rather obvious point about Shirley Temple: She was the child star - so in other words, by the time she was 22, she should be on drugs, and her life's a wreck, and she's getting thrown in the celebrity wing of the L.A. County Jail like Lindsay Lohan or whatever. But she was a child star back when they were still reasonably sane. But that's selling her short. What separates her from the likes of Lindsay Lohan & Co is not just the lack of post-child-stardom...

I learned only yesterday that Shirley Temple, the iconic child actress, died earlier this week at age 85. Reports on her death were easy to miss. I went through my usual scan of various websites and saw nothing. I fortunately caught a buried “Shirley Temple, R.I.P.” by a writer at a political website. I was dismayed by the sparse reaction to the loss of this woman who lived a great American life. Had Shirley Temple died 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago, the country would have stopped. People everywhere would have paused to give Temple her due. It...

For those who didn't know much about Shirley Temple, her passing this week revealed two surprises. First, that her post-Hollywood career was dominated by public service. She ran (unsuccessfully) for Congress in 1967, served as a representative to the United Nations and was ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. And second, she was a Republican. She was that rarest of things nowadays: a Hollywood star who admitted to voting for the GOP. Today, Hollywood appears uniformly liberal. But once upon a time, things were different. While researching my forthcoming book on Hollywood and politics, I was surprised to discover how many...

Child star Shirley Temple, all grown up at the age of 85 as Shirley Temple Black, passed away late at night on February 10th and the left-wing got wind of the fact that she was—*gasp*—a Republican.Andre Nantel @nantelSaddest part about Shirley Temple dying: I learned on Wikipedia that she spent most of her post-acting life working for the Republican Party8:38 AM - 11 Feb 2014…

They sure don't make 'em like they used to.  

Lefties bash late Republican star, smear her as ‘roaring racist’ Nate Igor Smith @drivenbyboredom Follow Twenty years from now most of the Republican Party will be dead. Shirley Temple was just another old conservative who now can't vote. Joe Szalai @JoeSzalai Follow I dunno. I though Shirley Temple died when she became an active Republican. 9:24 AM - 11 Feb 2014 James Kass @jameskass Follow I had no idea Shirley Temple was such a staunch Republican. I guess the "Good Ship Lollipop" was really a INS deportation boat.

<p>Shirley Temple Black SNIP died surrounded by family at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85.</p> <p>By six, she'd received a miniature Academy Award and left her hand and footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.</p> <p>She married twice and gave birth to three children before venturing onto the political stage, serving as US ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia, a US representative to the United Nations and chief of protocol in the administration of President Gerald Ford.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died, according to publicist Cheryl Kagan. She was 85. Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at about 11 p.m. at her home near San Francisco. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, Kagan said.

Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. The actress found fame as a young girl in the 1930s in films like Bright Eyes, Stand Up and Cheer and Curly Top. After retiring from films in 1950 at the age of 21, Temple returned to the public eye as a Republican candidate for Congress and as a US diplomat. She died on Monday at home in Woodside, California, from natural causes. "She was surrounded by her family and caregivers," a statement said. Born in 1928, the sweet-faced, curly-haired Temple was one of the most popular...

Hollywood star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85, her family has said. The actress found fame as a child star in the 1930s in films like Bright Eyes, Stand Up and Cheer and Curly Top. She died on Monday at home in Woodside, California, from natural causes. "She was surrounded by her family and caregivers," a statement said.

Shirley Temple has died. RIP.

Not Such A Happy Birthday (Shirley Temple Breaks her Arm) Army Archerd April 23, 2008 Shirley Temple is 80, April 23... I was sure I wouldn't be able to get through on the phone to wish her a happy birthday -- so I called today. She didn't sound happy at all. Over the (many) years, we usually chat at great lengths -- on all subjects -- from showbiz to politics -- both about which she is well-versed and legitimately well-opinioned. But her always-warm voice was different and she begged off quickly explaining, "I broke my left arm." She awakened during...