My elderly neighbor, who lived in LA since childhood and spent decades working in entertainment has told me some scrazy stories, but the craziest is that Carol Channing and Diana Ross were actually cousins, and that Carol's machinations were a big part of Diana's ascension to lead status in the Supremes.
Carol Channing and Diana Ross were secretly COUSINS
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 12, 2012 2:14 AM |
Whenever you are near me.... I hear a SHHYMPHONY.... shhweet tender MELODY....
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 11, 2012 9:44 PM |
Carol Channing had a black grandfather so it could be true.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 11, 2012 9:53 PM |
Channing's from San Francisco and San Francisco lead the way with mixed marriages. They were all the same race marriages, just some white people marrying people not so white.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 11, 2012 10:02 PM |
The legs, the smile...they do look a alike.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 11, 2012 10:11 PM |
Has anyone done a separated at birth photo of them?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 12, 2012 12:41 AM |
They both have the same smile, teeth, and large eyes.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 12, 2012 12:46 AM |
R7's pic really looks like a lot of the black people who used to live in San Francisco. Today they are much more generic.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 12, 2012 12:46 AM |
really????
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 12, 2012 12:46 AM |
On the "Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits" album, there is a liner note from Carol Channing commenting on her love for The Supremes.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 12, 2012 12:49 AM |
Yes, it was ww2 that brought in the generics.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 12, 2012 12:50 AM |
Raaaazzzzberries!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 12, 2012 12:51 AM |
They both wore the same type of red dress from Hello Dolly and Lady Sings The Blues.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 12, 2012 12:57 AM |
They both like corn too.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 12, 2012 1:01 AM |
R19 that hasn't been funny in decades.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 12, 2012 1:02 AM |
If by cousins you mean lovers yes.
That is where the term Kissing Cousins started
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 12, 2012 1:09 AM |
They share a wig maker.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 12, 2012 1:14 AM |
her momma looks black.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 12, 2012 2:03 AM |
It was actually Carol's dad who had the mixed ancestry, not the mother. He had rather full lips, but I know a lot of white people with soup coolers like that...
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 12, 2012 2:14 AM |