Happy birthday, dear Kate!!

"La primera dama de la pantalla grande" es como la llamaban algunos. "Veneno para la taquilla" la llamaron otros.
Hace apenas dos años que falleció y hoy celebramos el que habría sido su 98 cumpleaños.
Genio y figura hasta la sepultura, Katharine Hepburn es mi actriz favorita, simple y llanamente. Elegante, sincera, independiente, nadie supo llevar pantalones como ella. Pero si está hoy en el blog es por una razón más.
Hace un par de días, antes de que me contara sus aventuras con la arcilla depilatoria, el de las paletas de playa se quejaba de que sólo pusiera fotos de macizos en mi página.
"Podrías hacer una concesión a tu público masculino y poner a alguna chica de vez en cuando"
"Esta bien" accedí "dime quién te gusta y subo su foto al blog"
"Pues no sé, así ahora mismo..."
¡Típico!
"Alguna habrá, digo yo"
"Muchas, muchas, pero estoy tratando de pensar una que sea consistente con el tono de tu blog... ya lo tengo ¡Katharine Hepburn!"
He tardado un par de días en subir su foto, querido pinponero playero, porque he esperado conscientemente para aprovechar y felicitarle su cumpleaños al mismo tiempo, espero que no te parezca mal y espero, también, que te satisfaga la foto que he elegido.
Y, ahora, os dejo con algunas de las cosas que dijeron compañeros, amigos y enemigos sobre la divina Kate.

Cary Grant:
"She was this slip of a woman, skinny, and I never liked skinny women. But she had this thing, this air, you might call it, the most totally magnetic woman I'd ever seen, and probably have ever seen since. You had to look at her, you had to listen to her, there was no escaping her. But it wasn't just the beauty, it was the style. She's incredibly down to earth. She can see right through the nonsense in life. She cares, but about things that really matter."
"Kate's a joy."
"Working with her was incredible. You never saw such timing! She had a mind like a computer--every detail worked out! Yet computers don't have instincts, and her instincts were infallible. She taught me just about everything I know about comedy--how to time my lines, the solemn way to say something comic, and if there was anything she didn't know, which I doubt, then Howard Hawks could fill in the rest"

Humphrey Bogart:
"She was a true eccentric. And I found that no one is sexier than Katie, especially before a movie camera... and you remember she has legs like Dietrich's. The twenty years since I saw them on the stage in 'The Warrior's Husband' hadn't hurt them at all. You learn to brand as rank slander the crack that you can throw a hat at Katie and it'll hang wherever it hits."

John Wayne:
"Goddamn, she's a great dame! She reminds me of me!"

Nick Nolte:
"...a cranky old broad, but a lot of fun"

Howard Hawkes:
"She has the most amazing body--like a boxer. It's hard for her to make a wrong turn. She's always in perfect balance. She has that beautiful coordination that allows you to stop and make a turn and never fall off balance. This gives her an amazing sense of timing. I've never seen a girl that had that odd rhythm and control. "

Frank Capra:
"There are women and there are women--and then there is Kate. There are actresses and there are actresses--and then there is Hepburn."

Pues si lo dicen ellos que la conocían bien... ¿Quién soy yo para contradecirles?