Lovely Lilli Palmer.
8/26/09
8/24/09
8/21/09
Friday's Compare & Contrast Homework
So, anyway, yesterday I had some time, and I watched two movies from two separate eras: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). What a difference 29 years can make. Both movies start in Texas. Both are about a guy, a gal, and some guns. Bonnie and Clyde doesn't have any vampires, but it has cooler cars. From Dusk Till Dawn doesn't have the Great Depression as a backdrop, but it has good looking dancers. The earlier film seems to have a sexual subtext and a downbeat ending. The later film seems to have sort of a religious subtext and an upbeat ending. Go figure. (It's always best to keep these Compare and Contrast homework assignments brief and to-the-point, dontcha think?)
(The person who drew a rear sight onto this gun's
muzzle had no idea what he was doing.)
8/20/09
Beckett's Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was the muse of Irish playwright
and Theatre of the Absurd dude Samuel Beckett.
(From 1960's Mania AKA The Flesh and The Fiends posters.)
8/19/09
8/18/09
Little Lady Ann Blyth
The dresses in The World in His Arms (1952) are by Universal's Bill Thomas, who also did Little Egypt (1951), Playgirl (1954), Magnificent Obsession (1954), Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957), The Female Animal (1958), and Touch of Evil (1958). The tiny figure underneath the dresses belongs to 5'2" 34-23 1/2-34 Ann Blyth. What's that, a dress Size Zero or something?
Here's a very nice tribute video:
Her birthday was August 16th. Sorry I'm late.
Happy birthday, Ann.
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