Today in 1882, the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He wound up being America’s longest serving president, but at one point FDR had a very different destiny in mind for himself: he wanted to write screenplays for movies. Plus: we mark the birthday in 1951 of musician Phil Collins with a story of a statue that unintentionally looked just like him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Patriot, Statesman, and Would-Be Hollywood Screen Writer... (Old Magazine Articles)
The President’s Mystery (Futility Closet)
Church builds huge baby Jesus statue — that looks like Phil Collins (New York Post)
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