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Today I turn 88…I’ve seen some serious shit. The most serious of it all is love. I love my family, my friends, and my wonderful fans. The power of love remains.
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September 13, 1981
with @DefLeppard on the final night of the Blizzard of Ozz Tour at Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach, FL
📸: @RossHalfin
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Robert Duvall reveals that Francis Ford Coppola drove to his Virginia farm to beg him to join 'The Godfather Part III' and left with a crab cake recipe instead
"The per diem wasn't high enough. Everyone was doing it for money, so if they're not going to pay, I'm not going to do it.
Francis drove to my farm in Virginia to get me in Godfather III. I said, 'Before we talk, pull up a chair. I'm cooking my mother's Maryland crab cake recipe.'
I cooked it, and he went crazy for it. I wrote it down, but when he left, he forgot the recipe.
He called twice. He was more concerned about that recipe than whether I'd do the movie."
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In 2018, an antiques enthusiast named Laura Young was browsing a Goodwill thrift store in Austin, Texas, when she spotted a striking marble bust sitting on the floor beneath a table. Intrigued by its craftsmanship, she purchased it for just $35 and took it home. After noticing its unusual weight, wear, and stylistic details, she began investigating its origins. Her research eventually led her to experts who confirmed the unbelievable truth: the bust was an authentic Roman sculpture dating back nearly 2,000 years, likely from the late first century BC or early first century AD.
The bust had once belonged to the collection of the Bavarian State Archaeological Museum in Germany. During World War II, many artworks were moved for safekeeping, and this particular piece was stored in a building in Aschaffenburg. When the building was bombed, the bust disappeared, presumed destroyed or looted amid the chaos of the war’s final months. How it traveled from Germany to Texas remains a mystery, but experts suspect it may have been taken by an American soldier and eventually passed down or sold privately until it ended up, astonishingly, at a Goodwill.
After confirming its identity, Young worked with lawyers and museum officials to arrange the bust’s return to Germany. Before repatriation, the San Antonio Museum of Art displayed it publicly under the title “A Roman Portrait from Germany in Texas,” allowing Texans to see the extraordinary artifact that had quietly sat in a thrift store for decades. The bust has since been returned to Bavaria, closing a remarkable loop in its long, war‑torn journey. The story has become a modern legend of accidental discovery, an everyday thrift-store find that turned out to be a priceless piece of ancient history.
the Roman bust wasn’t just any anonymous artifact, it’s believed to depict Sextus Pompeius, the nephew of Julius Caesar and son of Pompey the Great, one of Rome’s most powerful generals. That identification wasn’t confirmed until after the bust resurfaced in Texas, because the museum in Germany had lost all records of the piece after World War II. Even more surprising: when Laura Young bought it, she had to strap the 52‑pound marble head into her car with a seatbelt to get it home safely.
For nearly four years, it sat quietly in her living room while she negotiated its repatriation, making it one of the strangest cases of an ancient Roman noble “living” in a modern Texas household.
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