eno smokes

yeah, i haven't featured a smoker for a while. and since i couldn't decide whether to post a man with a cig or a chick with a cig, i decided to take the middle ground and post a shot of brian eno with a cig. i have to admit, this is a pretty groovy photograph. i mean, the grain and contrast is 'all good,' and he actually looks pretty. but hey, i get the feeling i wouldn't want to be stuck next to him on long, long cross-country flight. unless, of course, he was like, tipsy with 'loose lips' and more than willing to 'dish the dirt' on bono and the U2 boys... or share wild, first-hand accounts of some cokey roxy music groupie parties, or similar tales of ultra-bi backstage bowie shindigs. but... if he was just gonna talk all 'ambient' on me, i think i'd crank up my i-pod with some morrissey and-or beck and very much tune him out, out. (mmm, i soooo don't own an i-pod.)

fisher smokes...and tells

yes, we all know miss carrie fisher has a wild side. we've all seen her come on strong with warren beatty as a teenage temptress in 'shampoo.' we all know about her going all the way to '...the edge,' but apparently, she went all the way in other areas, too. i just heard today that carrie is writing another 'tell-all' book. and in it, she supposedly reveals how she and the 'real han solo,' mr. harrison ford, used the force, namely, the sex-force to heat up the 'space' between them during the filming of 'star wars.' hey, in a way, its almost like, 'tell me something i don't know.' i mean, personally i woulda bet she banged them both. and maybe chewbacca. but not C-3p0, we know he's not all that 'into' chicks. i mean, why do you think he's always with that other male robot that comes up to like, waist-level? (mmm, lame joke)

smoking miss christie

hey, i'm pretty busy tonight... trying to rebuild my files, but as i mentioned last night, i want to meet my goal of at least one post each night. so, in keeping with my 'smoking stars' series, dig on this mod shot of the lovely and very '60s' miss julie christie, taking a deep ah-draggity-drag on a long, brown, not-usually-intended-for-ladies 'rawhide' variety cig. have you seen miss christie lately? she looks great. i've never smoked a brown cig, but i would if someone offered. i mean, as stupid as it sounds, as long as i'm still an active smoker, i'd try anything. i remember one time i was at four seasons mall in greensboro, north carolina with a high school wrestler i was dating at the time. i think he must've been trying to impress me, because he stopped in the tobbacco gift shop and made a pretentious point out of buying some exotic-strong european cigarettes called like, Dortmunders or something i'd never heard of. (and you know it was a long time ago, because he was able to light up right there in the mall.) so, he smoked as we walked around, and it was very clear early on that they were a little too much for him. he started coughing and volunteering such comments as, '...wow, these are stronger than i thought they'd be..." (cough, 2-3-4) "...but that's cool, i like them strong." mmm, i didn't ask. and if i remember correctly, after he'd burned through two of them, this six-foot tall wrestler had to like, take a break and sit on a big planter, saying he was "...just a little light-headed." i think he made us leave soon after that.

cute suzy

tonight's featured smoker is the one and only miss susan sarandon. from the hair and face, i'd say this was relatively early in her career; i'm guessing post-rocky horror, somewhere around 'king of the gypsies' or maybe even 'atlantic city.' i can't remember a time in my life when i didn't like susan sarandon. in louis malle's 'pretty baby' she sometimes managed to upstage the surreal spectacle of a teenage brooke sheilds. she was wonderful in 'bull durham,' and she managed to lift some scenes in 'witches of eastwick' up to a glory the movie did not deserve. but after all the classics and duds, i still love 'the suze.' nobody else looks or sounds or seems quite like her.

peter smokes

as i mentioned last night, after seeing fritz lang's 'M,' i have a new found respect and admiration for peter lorre. up until then, i must confess i knew him best from 'casablanca.' and don't get me wrong, he was excellent as ugatti, the black marketeer... but after seeing 'M,' i realized he was a criminally underrated talent. its clear to me he was quickly typecast by most American movies. if you ask me, he could've played anything. even a leading man. i should really learn more about him. i'll bet his story is well worth reading. here's to you, peter. wherever you are.

valentino smokes

i missed a big birthday yesterday. the great rudolph valentino was born 113 years ago. and his beauty is still as striking as ever. i just wanted to let his ghost know someone remembered, even if i was one day late. i'm sorry about that, rudy. i'll make it up to you, i promise. sigh. so lovely, so legendary. sleep well, lover. amen.

bogart smokes

tonight's featured smoker may be the only thing that gets posted tonight. i'm still officially 'fishing,' so i only have a little time. so here's a lovely shot of the smart, tough, pretty humphrey bogart. and he's smoking. and i don't really have too much else to say about it. if anyone can speak for himself, mr. bogart can.

shirley smokes

tonight's featured smoker is the lovely and wildly talented miss shirley maclaine. obviously, this shot was taken some time around the filming of 'irma la douce.' i think she's extremely foxy. and bright. i love her lips and eyelashes and the sound of her voice. apparently she had the savage hots for jack lemmon, and i have to admit, i don't blame her. i'll bet he was great in bed. and out of it. i love a man who can make me laugh, then kiss me like he 'valentino'-means it. and i have a feeling jack lemmon was (is) that kind of guy. and he's even cute in drag. i think i sense a jack lemmon post in the very near future.

how does it feel?

...i like it, that's how it feels. this picture accurately captures the sense of liberty and tranquility i feel after having been granted my own place. all the interior walls are bare wood, allowing me the solid, (if not fanciful) fantasy of being in some kind of all-american frontier cabin. for most of my hours, my feet are (symbolically) up... i do as i please and i smoke under the stars. i know, i know i should be wary of romantasizing. after all, as a wise script once warned me, '...all glory is fleeting.'

amen.

you've come a long way, rosemary

...baby! yes, its been a long time since i had a 'featured smoker,' and tonight its the complicated and highly cool miss mia farrow. if you've never seen 'rosemary's baby,' then you're missing one of the finest movies of that era... or indeed, of any other. i'm not sure where i snagged this shot; i've had it for a long time. she's so cute. so, everyone dig on miss mia... hey, she was once mrs. frank sinatra! (which i've always thought was a little bit odd, i mean... she doesn't seem like his 'type,' ...but i guess that goes to show, when it comes to attraction, anything goes. i mean, hey... two words: woody allen.) hey, don't get me wrong, i love woody. oh well, i'm getting a little verbose here. so dig on miss mia... so cool. but i must admit, i do think she was highly mis-cast in 'the great gatsby.' actually, i think redford was miscast, too. i always thought it would've had more impact had it been cast entirely with unknowns... but that's just my haughty cinematic opinion.

la cigarra

tonight's featured smoker probably doesn't really smoke at all. well, if he does, he's done a good job of keeping it out of the public eye. it is, of course, morrissey. this picture of him with a big gaudy cigar in his mouth was taken sometime in late 2007, on tour. i don't know the city. but i love the picture for many reasons. he's really grown into his looks. what a man. woof. please seek out his stuff, it rarely disappoints.

laurie, smoking hot

i don't think i've featured a smoker in the last few days, so here's a good one. the gloriously sexy mr. hugh laurie, ladies and gentlemen. as a reporter, i realize i should know what film this is from, but hey, i can't remember it right now. so just enjoy this shot of him, dragging hard. i will probably go to my grave wondering what is it about mr. laurie i find so ticklish and irresistible. he's not even my type. (mmm, i guess i don't really have a 'type,' do i?) i mean, he's tall, and i like short guys... i almost never go for guys with curly hair, (with two exceptions), and his teeth aren't that great. but what talent! i think, once i saw him play piano, i was smitten. ahhh, who am i kidding? i was smitten long before that. i just love him. and i guess it doesn't matter why, does it? ahhh, he's so taken. taken-by-some-girl-i-don't-know.

10:08

tonight's featured smoker is once again, mr. jools holland... a very young jools holland. i'm not sure i remember what year it was, but its obvious it was late 70's, i would guess... the very early days of Squeeze. you can see by the clock that its around ten... what a face. honestly, i've always thought he was a lovely creature. so much talent, such a sense of humor... and i've never heard anyone with a speaking voice quite like jools. and either he's a talented businessman, or he has a fantastic agent, because he's always been in a prime spot to rub shoulders with stars and showcase his stunning affinity for 'the keys.' with me and jools, it was love at first sight, when i first laid eyes on him sometime...mmm, i'd say around 1985.

i am michael caine

tonight's featured smoker is the always-cool mr. michael caine. has he ever been un-cool? i guess his turn in the campy 'the hand' is about as close as he ever got. michael caine is one of those blokes i've been in love with for as long as i can remember. favorite roles? hey, 'deathtrap.' where else can you see him lay a gay kiss on superman himself? something about him is so definitively English. i've never really been able to 'do' his voice convincingly, but hey. he won an oscar for best supporting actor in woody allen's 'hannah and her sisters' for the lovestruck, romantically confused, chain-smoking husband of mia farrow. that may be his finest role, now that i think about it. madness even wrote a song for him. unfortunately, i can't find a version i can post. but dig it on your own if you can.

smoking hot ustinov

yes, it may seem odd to those that only know him from the agatha christie movies, but this is a teenage peter ustinov, featured as tonight's smoker. i would guess he's about nineteen or so in this shot. i've always been in love with peter, for as long as i can remember. i even used to swoon over his voice when i was as young as ...six or seven years old? i remember jean-lucien and i had an audio recording of disney's robin hood, where ustinov voiced prince john. he was a frighteningly talented man who could do it all. i regret i never had the chance to tell him face to face what he meant and continues to mean to me. excellence.

tudor cigs

its past one...late-nite, and the lusty between-takes terry jones snags a cig.

play it again, john

speaking as a 'casablanca' purist, i recognize the fact that rick never said 'play it again, sam.' other purists know what he said. all the same, i needed a cool tagline for my nightly 'sexy person smoking' feature. and tonight's smoker seems to fly in the face of my 'ugly is the new cute' philosophy. there is no universe known to me in which johnny depp could ever be called ugly. this shot of him smoking and playing piano is already iconic in my family. so dig it, the smutty, genius sex appeal.

smokebreak

wow. its late. time for a smoke-break. like, i know i should quit, but i'm not going to... at least, not yet. pictured smoking tonight is the silky georgina hale. hey, georgie, drag on one for me. and tell ken i said hello.