Lauren Bacall in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996). Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx, New York, the only child of Natalie ("née" Weinstein; 1901–1977), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales. Both her parents were Jewish. According to Bacall, her mother emigrated from Iași, the Kingdom of Romania, through Ellis Island, and her father was born in New Jersey to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a significant center of Jewish life, in present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. Soon after her
Hard Up in the 2000s (film) Hard Up in the 2000s (film) Hard Up In The 2000s is a rockumentary film of the spring leg of indie rock band Aloud's Fan The Fury tour, which took place from March to April 2008. Direction and editing of the film was credited to Alan Smithee. The film is set against audio from radio interviews the band gave during and after the tour, primarily by Phil Fleming (WMFO) and Jamie Leigh Griffiths (WDBK). The title for the film was taken from the song of the same name on Aloud's second album "Fan The Fury". With the exception of "Murder