Have a good time, but try to stay out of jail,
out of the hospital, and out of the morgue.
See ya next year!
12/31/08
Be Safe, Be Well, Be Easy
Have a good time, but try to stay out of jail,
out of the hospital, and out of the morgue.
See ya next year!
The Sexy Cowgirl Picture Post
Generally, I don't like women in hats. You've
heard me say that, right? And, generally speaking,
I don't really like to see women in cowboy hats.
Every once in a while, some corporate country
music star comes to town, and the downtown
streets are filled with drugstore cowboys and
cowgirls pretending that they are not accountants
and secretaries in real estate offices. Anyway,
they generally look silly in their hats and boots.
But I'll make an exception for the ladies in this
post, who somehow make their hats look great.
If you're at all interested, this site is
completely dedicated to cowgirls.
Now git!
12/30/08
Fericit Nou An!
Glade Nytt år å våre internasjonal besøkende JEG prøver en ny oversettelse apparat. Utleie meg vite hvis den arbeider. Jeg håper det du er glede seg over det vinhøst skuespillerinnen fotografier. Takk skal du ha for besøk.
Szczęśliwego nowego roku wobec nasz międzynarodowy wizytatorzy JA jestem trudny pewien nowy tłumaczenie pomysł. Puszczać mi znać jeśli ono prace. Mam nadzieję jesteś cieszący się ten winobranie aktorka fotografie. Dziękuję za odwiedzanie.
Fericit Nou An la spre our internaţional visitors I sînt trying un nou traducere drac. Lasă-mă să ştiu dacă it works. I hope tu eşti enjoying art.hot. vintage actress fotografie. Mulţumesc pentru visiting.
maligaya bagong taon sa atin pandaigdig dalaw ako ay trying a bago tagapagsalin aparato. pahintulutan ako malaman kung ito gumawa. ako umasa ka ay magtamasa ang vintage actress kunan ng larawan. pasalamatan ka dahil sa dumalaw.
Glad Nyåren till vår internationell besökaren JAG prövar en ny översättning anordning. Låta mig veta om den arbeten. Jag hoppa det du er njuta av den vinskörd skådespelerska fotografieren. Tack själv för besöka.
Šťastný Nový rok až k náš internacionál host JÁ am trying jeden nový dešifrování aparát. Podržte mě vŘdŘt -li ono práce. JÁ naděje tebe ar být šťasten člen určitý víno herečka fotografie. Být zavázán tebe do být na návštěvě.
Iloinen Veres Ikä jotta meidän kansainvälinen vieras I-KIRJAIN olen koettaminen veres käännös aparaatti. Antaa we osata tokko se tehdas. I-KIRJAIN odottaa te aari iloita viinisato näyttelijä valokuva. Kiittää te ajaksi vieraileva.
Boldog {j Évet -hoz -unk nemzetközi látogató Én kipróbálás egy új fordítás berendezés. Hadd tudjam meg ha ez szerkezet. Remélem ön élvez a szüret színésznő fénykép. Köszönöm részére látogatás.
Srećan Nova godina za naš međunarodan posetilac JA sam težak jedan nov prevod sprava. Javi mi da to utvrde. Nadam se te biti uživanje određeni član berba glumica fotografija. Hvala ti umjesto posjetni.
mutlu yeni yıl -e doğru bizim uluslararası ziyaretçi I am trying a yeni tercüme aygıt. izin vermek beni bilmek eğer o inşaat. I umut etmek sen are zevk almak belgili tanımlık iyi mevsimde yapılmış kadın oyuncu fotoğraf. eyvallah için ziyaret etmek.
12/29/08
Who's Left?
I found this photo at Vintage Photo. It's listed
as a "Marian Carr" photo; she's the delicious
blonde on the right. Actually, it's a group photo
from the 1955 film Kiss Me Deadly.
Then I ran across this Mary Tyler Moore Show
cast photo from the 1970s recently posted at
Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist.
Weird, no?
Cloris Leachman, like a good wine, got better
with age. (Me, my favorites are on the right
side in both photos.)
Come Together
I'd try something with it in segments. It's harder
than it looks. (Whoa! It worked.)
By the way, this beauty is Corinne Sylvae, "one
of the lovely models at Shubert's A Night in Paris
at the 44th Street Theatre."
Intensely Jane
I've been reading Jane Fonda's autobiography My Life So Far. I guess I was hoping for a Hollywood story, but it is a Jane Fonda story. A few years back I read Peter Fonda's book, Don't Tell Dad and Peter Collier's The Fondas: a Hollywood Dynasty. All of these books seem to agree that Henry Fonda was a magnificent actor but a cold, stoic, and distant husband and father. The books also agree that the suicide of Jane and Peter's mother, Frances Seymour Brokaw, didn't do anybody any good. And then Collier's book goes on at length to describe Jane's worries about her "fat ankles." And Peter's book devolves into endless weed smoking adventures. Jane Fonda, however, is still charging ahead. Many people, at least in the United States, dislike Jane Fonda's politics (and I don't want to get into all that). Many people still credit Jane Fonda's workout videos with giving them a healthier lifestyle. Some people, myself included, appreciate her body of work (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Dollmaker). And some simply appreciate her body (Spirits of the Dead, Barbarella).
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity" - Yeats
There are 194 customer reviews of the book on Amazon.com. I couldn't read them all. One positive review, however, pointed out that Jane "analyzes every second of every day and emotion." Yup, that's about it. There are 624 pages of intensely passionate self-analysis. I did, however, find the "Making Movies" chapter rather interesting. It actually discusses motion picture production and the actor's instrument. The rest of the book was feverishly introspective.
It is usually a person's biography, not autobiography, that reveals its subject's transparent rationalizing, compulsive self-reinvention, and narcissistic tendencies, all of it disguised as "personal growth" and "self-actualization." But Jane Fonda does it herself. Jane deals out the most intense psychobabble imaginable, at one point discussing Ted Turner's "enmeshment." Whoa! Enmeshment? Words like that come from the mouths of people with way too much time on their hands.
Is she a heroine? Is she a villain? That's up to you to decide. But, of course, Jane is right, fervently right, about whatever she is. She has after all spent a huge amount of time analyzing herself. And if she ever writes another book, say, debunking My Life So Far, she'll be righter then than she is now. Count on it.
Cat Walks
Irena goes hunting, while Alice leaves work.
In Cat People (1942), Irena ascends the stairway
set from The Magnificent Ambersons (also 1942).
Seminal images, indeed.
Surfing the Snowbanks
Nitro - Dick Dale
Wipe Out - The Surfaris
Pipeline - Dick Dale & Stevie Ray Vaughan
California Sun - Ace Andres & The X-15s
Misirlou - Dick Dale
12/28/08
The Half Million Mark
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2008 Top 10 Starlet Showcase Photos
March 16, 2008
Me and my oldest cat, Jesse. . .she's the Calico
who's really smart and comes to you when
she's called. . .well, we went through all the
posts from 2008 and voted on our favorite
pictures. And this is what we came up with.
In no particular order.
May 17, 2008
November 1, 2008
November 22, 2008
September 13, 2008
June 14, 2008
July 20, 2008
February 24, 2008
February 9, 2008
April 1, 2008
Jesse, being a smart kitty, noticed right away
that we have repeated ourselves a couple times
this year. That is, we have posted the same picture
twice under slightly different categories. Alas, that
is bound to happen sometimes in a pile of 4,537
photographs. Frank, my smaller and more agile
cat, is only interested in the starlets-with-kitties
photos. But Frank doesn't keyboard quite as well
as Jesse. And my third cat is hiding under a bed
somewhere. I think.
12/27/08
Cruising a Fabulous Planet
Assuming you're not homophobic or humorless, go over and visit the Not Safe For Work Fabulon site, where men are men and boys are "house boys," and the ladies are sometimes men, too, but they all seem to be having a good time. And they're funny as, well, heck. They're crazy about hats and shoes and poodles and interior decorating over there. Occasionally, they borrow photos from Starlet Showcase, so they must have good taste. The pictures here are not really representative of the naked dude pictures and high fashion stuff they often show. But it's always a fun place to visit.
(And if you never return, I'll understand.)
12/26/08
Dec 26th - Business As Usual
Another magical Xmas season is done.
Back to our usual agenda of murderous greed
and brutalizing indifference.
WHEW!
12/25/08
12/24/08
Happy Birthday, Ava Gardner
December 24th is Ava Gardner's birthday.
What a nice present for the rest of us.
12/23/08
In a Miniskirt Mood
From the Italian Sixties Seventies
miniskirt and hot pants page.
Twisting miniskirts (The Revelettes)
The World Famous Pontani Sisters in miniskirts
12/22/08
Holiday Spirits
Marie McDonald, Charle Boyer, and Lynne
Baggett remind all of us to
stay positive
until this holiday nonsense is over.
It's almost over.
Just a few more days.
Anti-Wind Chill Medicine
There are hundreds of pinups to keep us warm
and some interesting World War II history at
The Pin Ups That Went to War.
Oh Oh Annette
Last night on Turner Classic Movies, the best
darn channel on all of television, I watched a
documentary called The Age of Believing: The
Disney Live-Action Classics. It was all about
Mary Poppins, The Shaggy Dog, The Swiss
Family Robinson, The Love Bug, and stuff
like that. And it floored me that I hadn't
seen any of them. I mean, I've seen part
of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I
actually sat down and watched The Monkey's
Uncle once (because Annette Funicello was
in it), but otherwise I've missed everything.
Of course, I wasn't permitted to go to movies
when I was a little kid (for some weird reason
having to do with religion), so I never got to
see any Disney classics. By the time I was
finally allowed to go to movies, my growing
mind was not interested in shaggy dogs and
love bugs. I was looking at girls like Annette
Funicello with different thoughts in mind.
Alas, the 1960s was a confusing time. It
even confused Walt Disney, according to
the documentary. I'd go back and watch
those movies, except that the magic of
my childhood, such as it was, has passed.
And just the clips that they showed of those
films look tedious to me. But I still enjoy
the occasional Annette Funicello post.
Happy Birthday, Ruth Roman
December 22nd is Ruth Roman's birthday.
Just last month, we had an item about her.
Happy birthday, Ruth.
12/21/08
No Country For Cold Men
A foot of snow since midnight.
The Wind Chill is -8 degrees F.
The Rust Belt almost looks pretty.
Our rusted bridges are coated in white.
Our closed factories are frosted over.
Our poisoned rivers are crystalline
We're just buried here.
12/20/08
Surfing Me Against Them
The irreverent Me Against Them blog
always has some cool sh!t. And it's in
full color. Go check it out. I'll wait.
12/19/08
12/18/08
Whoa! BB!
For some familiar and lots of wonderfully
unfamiliar photos of Brigitte Bardot, go
visit The Desertshore.
Extra Wishes For XMas
Lupe Vélez and Alan Ladd urge us all to
stay positive
until the cheer-filled holidays are over.
12/17/08
12/16/08
Buck Up, Humbugs!
Bella Darvi and George Sanders urge us to
stay positive
during the Yuletide festivities.
12/15/08
Oh Carole!
Chuck Berry
The Stones
Ted Nugent
Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away
I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
-4 Wind Chill
Yesterday it rained. A gray, cold Rust Belt
sort of drizzle. It's kinda like being p!ssed
on all day long. But cold p!ss. Like you'd
get from an angry dead giant maybe. I'm
just sayin'. Anyway, today the snow is
back. And it's blowing horizontal. Like
25 miles per hour. And the wind chill is
minus 4 degrees F.
"F" is right!
Our visitors from Sverige (Sweden) should
know what I'm griping about here. Our
visitors from Romania might know, but I
doubt it, since I really don't know where
the heck Romania is. I mean, I wasn't
really sure there was such a place any
longer. (Sorry, Eastern Europe.) And
I'm sure our guests from Boca Raton
and Brazil and Brisbane haven't any
idea. Okay, here's the perspective.
If you sat on my front step you'd die
faster than if you sat inside the freezer
at your place. That's about it.
Majorly F.
Starlet Burst
My "Starlet Groups" folder is bursting with
pictures, so I'm releasing some of the pressure.
12/14/08
The Annual Debauch
So I'm home from the Annual Christmas Party.
Me, I'm in good shape. Some people are going to
be seriously hurting in the morning. Some folks
are going to have some explaining to do. Some
people are going to be apologizing to their
husbands and wives and girlfriends. For a long
time. (You may remember me talking about the
one last year.)
There was some serious drinking going on. Me,
I brought my usual bottle of Jack Daniels to
contribute to the decimation, but I stuck to
the cranberry-raspberry juice myself. I have
slept on the bathroom floor. I have kissed
the porcelain. I have hoisted a beer in Los
Angeles and awakened in Las Vegas. Been
there, done that.
I was climbing a basement stairway from the
downstairs half of the party to the upstairs
half of the party, and as I reached the
kitchen my level eyes came upon a man's
hand down the back of a woman's jeans.
What impressed me was that I know them
both and their separate spouses. I later saw
his wife doing the same sort of thing in another
room with another dude. I guess they have
what one might call "an understanding."
I saw a woman in impressive raccoon eye makeup
that I liked a lot. The makeup, not the woman.
I mean, she's not my type, but her eye makeup
was definitely up my alley. And somebody else's
wife was explaining to me that her thick hair
came from her Italian background. But, she
explained, she had Italian in her growing
rump, too. She patted it to emphasize the
point. I really didn't have much to say.
It was a great little package, of course.
And she knew it. But I wasn't going to make
some dirty old man comment about it, no matter
what she did. I may be a guy-type dude at times,
but I'm not freaking stupid.
In any case, several people were much too young
and much too drunk. And some of the less-drunk
spouses and girlfriends looked somewhat
alarmed at what was going on. So I escaped.
And I'm home and safe and dry and warm and
not in jail. And there's nothing for me to
apologize for on Monday. Which works for me.
Love Lee
December 14th is Lee Remick's birthday.
We celebrated it last year, and we're doing
it again.
Happy birthday, Lee.
12/13/08
Harem Holiday
I woke up with the Harem Holiday song in my head.
Don't ya just hate when that happens? It's like
having a song by ABBA or Neil Diamond or
The Carpenters stuck in your head. Uh, I mean,
assuming you don't actually adore songs by The
Carpenters, Neil Diamond, or ABBA.
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
I'm gonna pack my bags because
this great big world is calling me
Every pretty girl's gonna know I'm around
They're gonna know I'm in town on a harem holiday
Twenty women, twenty women by my side
I'm gonna kiss them all,
because I've gotta keep 'em satisfied
Gonna have the best time money can buy
I'm gonna be flying high on a harem holiday
If Romeo had a harem holiday
You can bet that Juliet would have
never been his girl forever
Gonna go back, gonna catch that midnight plane
Twenty dancing girls are waiting
just to call my name
Gonna have a ball, I ain't gonna waste no time
I'm gonna make 'em all mine on a harem holiday
Here's a lot more information than you'll ever
need about Harum Scarum, aka Harem Holiday.
(Okay, yeah, I know that's not actually Neil
Diamond on the video linked above, but I
thought it was a clever little item, and I just
love the backup singer in the little black dress,
the one who can't keep time. Adorable.)
12/12/08
Get 'Em Now
Several eBay seller are unloading some
huge inventories of gorgeous movie star
photographs right now. I mean, one of
them is selling them by the file cabinet
drawers. It's amazing, but you'll have to
hurry. Find yourself a gift this year.
Spotlight on Photography
I'm certain that this is not an original idea
for a blog post. (And we've already had one
mother-daughter post.) But these photos of
Ingrid Bergman and Isabella Rossellini show
some interesting changes in photographic
lighting over the years.
12/11/08
12/10/08
Brighten Up Your Christmas!
Inger Stevens and Charles Butterworth urge us to
stay positive
until these grim holidays have passed.
12/9/08
Standoffishness
Standoffishness is a great word, but I don't
think it translates very well.
以有些冷和后备的方式
op een enigszins koude en gereserveerde manier
幾分冷たく、予約方法
d'une façon quelque peu froide et réservée
κατά τρόπο κάπως κρύο και διατηρημένο
de una manera algo fría y reservada
in einer ein wenig kalten und reservierten Weise
в несколько холодном и сдержанно образе
약간 찬 보류하는 방법에서
(I gave it my best shot.)
12/8/08
Read To Live, Live To Read
A bad book is like a bad boyfriend,
but it's easier to get rid of.
A good book is like a good lover,
but it lasts longer.
Evelyn Brent & Stevie Nicks
Okay, so I see this photo of actress
Evelyn Brent, and it reminds me of
Stevie Nicks, which is really weird.
I checked out other photos of Evelyn,
but they don't look like Stevie. So it's
just this one. Great eyes, these two.
Oh, and they both like to wear really,
really complicated dresses.
Dyan Cannon 1971
This is Dyan Cannon in The Anderson Tapes (1971)
from Columbia Pictures with Sean Connery and a very
young Christopher Walken. There are several more
photos here. It's out on DVD now.
12/7/08
12/6/08
12/5/08
12/4/08
Merry. Yeah. Whatever.
Okay, here are those graphics for your
holiday cards and emails. Doesn't Jane
Greer look just peachy?
12/3/08
The Dolls of Moontide
The good people at Fox Film Noir have
released Moontide (1942) on DVD. The
print is pretty damn good, too. There is
a commentary track by some guy. The
special features include an interesting
piece called Turning of The Tide: The
Ill-Starred Making of Moontide, in which
my favorite commentator guy from other
DVDs, Eddie Muller, appears. Buy it or
rent it. You can't miss with Claude Rains.
Noir dolls Megan Abbott and Kim Morgan
also appear. (And they have great eyes.)
No, seriously, they are well-informed, erudite, and
articulate. But...
Whoa!
Curing Those Holiday Blues
Carole Landis and Kurt Cobain urge us to
stay positive
during this tiresome holiday season.
12/2/08
12/1/08
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