santiago

this is santiago, isn't it? i think so. i know its stephen rea, more or less half in drag from the movie 'interview with a vampire.' i don't think i've kept it a secret from anyone, but i'm going to explicitly admit it now: i've been in love with stephen rea since the first time i saw him... which must've been in 'the crying game,' now that i think about it. something about his understated style and peculiar profile just drives me crazy. i think, and have always thought, that he was absolutely gorgeous. when he's on screen, i know i can't stop staring at him. his accent is dreamy, and his profile is unlike any other i've ever seen. he's got one of those faces that i wouldn't mind seeing over my cereal every day for the rest of my life. he 'rea'-lly turns me on.

ferry dust

this is a smallish one, but i love it. i wanted something punch-colored to go in this slot, so i chose this wild, hot shot of mr. bryan ferry. jean-lucien sent me this screen capture a long time ago. i can't remember exactly where its from, and i can't glean enough information from the image to place it, like as to what year it was. i can tell its probably sometime during the roxy music days. even in this small frame, in his eyes, you can see the wild dedication to his art. whether manufacturing hard, loud, jagged glam rock, or the calmer, more serene stuff from his later days, i've never questioned bryan ferry's sincerity. he believes in what he's doing, and he always does his best. he works damn hard. and we all reap the rewards of it.

hyacinth

if anyone has followed this publication, they may have noticed my taste in male sex symbols is often, well... shall we say, unconventional? the same thing goes for the girls. for instance, for several years i've had a serious girl-crush (woman-crush..?) on the english actress patricia routledge. most will know her from her brilliant comic portrayal of hyacinth bucket (...bouquet!!) in the bbc series 'keeping up appearances.' i admit, she is still very beautiful in the program, but i also have seen her quite a bit younger in certain earlier movies such as 'to sir, with love.' apart from having milk-fine skin, smart quick eyes, and very pretty lips, she also has an unfailing talent to make me laugh. i think she's a prize. i love her.

more playtime

yes, i just can't get enough... of vintage 'playboy' magazine, that is. here's another issue i don't remember having growing up. like i've said of other issues, if my brother and i did have it, we must've gotten one without the cover, because i know i wasn't aware of this particular cover until i saw it years and years later. it enlarges pretty nicely, so click on it to see it full-size. i know with a little research, i could find out who the centerfold was, but i don't feel like looking it up right now.

passion for ash

yes, i haven't posted a shot of ian holm as science officer ash in a long time, so here goes one i just caught and tricked like, within the last ten minutes. like, i had 'alien' rolling anyway, and i thought i might as well get a close-up of him as he explains the terms of their contract to parker and brett. i know i caught him like, in between words, but its still a pretty good shot. well, in MY mind, its almost impossible for him to look bad. i'm so crazy when it comes to him. its no wonder i'm on like, three different kinds of medications-to-keep-me-sane.

sylvie vartan : cette lettre la - video

instead of going with harold hill this morning, i decided to let miss sylvie take me to 'night church,' with this moody, cool, contagious french ballad. from the first time i heard it, the charming, bluish, dated hook had me, well... hooked. it sort of brings to mind cozy rain dotted windows, the sweet musk of often-borrowed library books, and softly padding cats. sylvie looks smart in her little white suit, and her voice has a sexy, plaintive strain to it. i love this one.

thank you

thank you for visiting the planet. we love you.

amen.

ian plays dead

i don't think i've posted this one yet. here is a shot of ian holm, on stage, i think its a production of 'romeo and juliet,' but i could be wrong. but wow... how beautiful he was. he still is. i see a shot like this, and two words come to mind : time machine. god, he's lovely. when i think of all those lucky ladies he had to kiss on stage, i go crazy. i'm not a bad actress myself, but i think if i had to kiss ian holm in front of cameras or an audience, i am quite convinced i might faint. ian, if you're out there, i love you. in fact, i'm rolling 'alien' right now as i write this. i think you're better than olivier, and every bit as good as guinness. where ever you are right now ian, i wholeheartedly kiss you good-night. sigh.

le bon

here's a cool example of how just two pieces can come together to make one dreamy slide. the model is the very sexy young simon le bon... it looks like 'girls on film' era. jean-lucien just placed the well-cut scrap on top of some swirly purple he had laying around. but as simple as it is, its just gorgeous. it would make a groovy door poster, bookmark, or cigarette lighter.

shirley she will

man, its late. i don't have anything planned to post, but i wanted to mark my place. so dig it, this hot and sexy picture i found of shirley maclaine in a belly dancing outfit. i'm sure with a little research i could figure out what movie this costume test was for, but i don't feel like digging around for that information right now. you know she's warren beatty's sister. i wonder if they ever made out. i know if either one of them was my sister or brother, i'd have a hard time keeping my hands off them. then again, i'm a twisted freak! sigh... so here's to sassy shirley. i love her untanned complexion. tans are really a turn-off for me, like, 90% of the time.

bull terrier

there's some line in

'perfomance' that asks the question:

'what do you do with a sick dog that's likey to bite you?' i may not have the line exactly right, but the answer is, of course, you put it down. this screen capture was shot and tricked beautifully by jean-lucien. chaz (james fox) is seen in the center, holding a bullseye dog. i love the juxtaposition of the glinting cufflink finery and the wispy down from the beaten feather pillow. almost every shot in the movie is a work of art. just gorgeous.

pilgrim

here is the marvelous miss marsha hunt posing in a puritan costume for the cover of Life. (obviously) as a photograph, i feel like this shot is legendary. marsha hunt was something less than a superstar by hollywood standards, but i know her. unsung, i suppose is the best way to describe her. what a face! she actually wrote a book whose title i can't remember, all about her and her life in the studio system. if you can dig it up, its well worth a look. i've used this image in at least one collage... to me, its no less iconic than the shot of marilyn's skirt blowing up. what a knowing look in her eye. the camera just loves her. marsha, if you're out there, i love you.

patchwork

i think this may have been a notebook cover, but i'm not sure. i love it. i love the lilac stained glass feeling of it. perhaps only jean-lucien and i know, but i think it was made using bits of other semi-finished pieces. i love the composition, the weight of it. it seems to have a touch of frank lloyd wright, or perhaps more accurately, charles rennie mackintosh. its just dreamy. a keen eye will notice alain whyte, sally bowles, and of course, steven patrick morrissey. just lovely. dig it. (click to enlarge)

stacked

anyone who knows me knows i love vintage playboy. i don't think i've ever owned this one... if i did, it didn't have a cover when i had it. but i love it. the shoes alone are every bit as sexy as the silky female flesh. i think the ever-present bunny icon is hidden in the buckle. like, i don't know where else they could've hidden it. but man, what a blazing pair of shoes. they even don't look all that uncomfortable to me. they look strappy and sturdy and well-made. if i had a pair of shoes like that, i'd just lie back, stick my lovely legs in the air, and just dig on them. so hot.

happy birthday lady dylan

i feel sort of slight and a little bit discon

-nected tonight. but i wanted to at least mark my place here. i noticed today was the 67th birthday of miss robert zimmerman; also known as bob dylan. i admit, i am not an expert on the dylan catalogue, but the stuff i like, i really like. my favorites include the early 'the lonesome death of hattie carol,' and the later 'isis.' i've always liked 'lay, lady lay.' needless to say, his influence over popular music is almost impossible to measure. i wanted to post a picture i've never seen before, so i landed on this one after some quick pearldiving. i think that's donovan in the background, and i'm not sure who the chick is. nico? could it be nico? i really don't know. i have to admit, i'm not exactly a 'nico' expert. but all the same, here's to you, lady dylan. happy birthday.

martha

i look at a picture like this, and i can't help but wonder what the date was. did martha have undone homework hanging over her head? was she looking forward to some cold dessert she'd sneaked a peek at in abby's icebox? what sort of covers had she woken up underneath that day? at the time this picture was taken, did she have access to a radio...? and if so, what was her favorite song? she must have had supper later on, i wonder what it was. was there something yucky she sheepishly pushed to the side of her plate? did she have an honest, good, hard laugh that day...? and if so, who made her laugh? were her clothes comfortable? what can she tell me about her jeans and shirt and belt? and who helped her with her hair? my mother, ladies and gentlemen. when i look at this shot, i am proud of her. she must've been a brave little girl.

experiment

i love this one. it demonstrates jean-lucien's affinity for genius impulses. he reportedly scattered a few handfulls of picksh (plural of 'pictures') on the scanner with minimal conscious arrangement, and just took a shot of it. it blows up big and gorgeous. christ, the resolution of the modern machine is truly miraculous. within it, you can spot such stars as sylvie vartan and harry flowers from 'performance.' there is also a dazzling spattering of colors and the wildest thing about it is: it was all 99.9% accidental. wow. dig it. (and click to really enlarge.)

forgotten birthday

yes, i admit it. i was so engulfed in my own life yesterday that i totally and utterly forgot the birthday of the one and only legendary steven patrick morrissey. anyone that knows me knows i would never have willingly forgotten. i could lie and say i really remembered, but just didn't acknowledge it, but i admit it, i flatly forgot. morrissey turned a gorgeous 49 years old on may 22nd. i send him ardent kisses and tremendous thanks. his contribution to my life is probably impossible to measure. i remember one christmas when my brother and i were about 12 years old, the main thing we wanted was a copy of the smith's 'meat is murder.' we got it, on cassette, along with a stereo. we opened it on christmas eve and played 'how soon is now?' to our mother's slight dismay. it was the christmas where boys and poetic ideas had at last (almost) eclipsed barbie dolls and bath beads. (actually, i'd love a barbie and some bath beads even now.) still, i apologize to morrissey for having forgotten. i wish him health, happiness, prosperity, inspiration, and all the earthly delights he can stand. i love you steven, i always have. (below, please allow morrissey to thrill you with a live television performance of one his best recent songs.)

morrissey - i will see you in far off places : video

here is morrissey at his best performing one of my favorite songs from his most recent album 'ringleader of the tormentors.' i love it. and he looks great.

seals and crofts : dance by the light of the moon - song

i dig it already, even on that proverbial 'one hearing only.'

hot fox

...sounds like a radio station, doesn't it? '...107; hot fox!' yes, i missed another notable birthday here on the 'planet' recently. english actor james fox turned 69 hot years old on may 19th. here he is pictured as chaz from roeg's masterpiece of psychedelia 'performance.' james plays a cocky english gangster forced to go underground due to a ...queer set of circumstances. i can't praise the movie enough. james fox is so engaging and handsome that at times he even upstages mick jagger. jean-lucien sharpshot this frame, which features the slightly-scarred chaz freshly washed and 'un-dyed.' in other words, 'this is the normal.' of course, normal is relative, as the brilliant film keenly illustrates. if you haven't seen it, go do so... if you dare! some people out there have actually told me they don't 'get it,' if you can believe that.

sweet baby james

yes, i was so preoccupied with other stuff yesterday that i realize i missed a very big birthday. mr. james stewart would've been 100 years old yesterday. and yes, i could easily spend several lines marveling at what a great actor he was and like, what an exemplary American he was, but tonight, i think i'm just gonna sit back and say, 'whoa, what a fox!' yes, 'planetcool' is oftentimes a place where i sing for the largely 'unsung,' and although sweet jimmy gets plenty of accolades for his talent, his drop-dead, full-throttle, take-no-prisoners facial sexiness hardly gets the recognition it deserves. i mean, christ, have you really looked at him in 'destry rides again' or 'the philadelphia story?' he's silky, bright, and in all aspects, physically incredible. and this is one of my favorite shots of him. woof!

sylvie vartan : pour lui je reviens - video

i love this one. sylvie's at her best. the song is light and lovely and her costume is dazzling. i love the long hair, i just love the outfit on her. it accentuates her charming boyishness yet remains glitteringly feminine. she's wonderful. dig it.

the silver ball

here is a gorgeous example of the art of screen capturing. this is a single frame from ken russell's film 'tommy' that jean-lucien sharpshot a long time ago. it was taken from the 'pinball wizard' sequence; and anyone who's seen that film knows how damn fast it gets. a quick eye froze it, and the artist tricked and coaxed it to a perfect color and shimmer. the end result is dazzling, but altogether faithful to the original image.

cool mode

oddly, whilst i was living through the 1980's, it was difficult to tell who was legit and genuinely talented from those that were mostly musical lightweights. after twenty additional years of living, it has become very clear that mr. dave gahan and depeche mode were more than mindless synth-pop. they've managed to turn out a consistently cool and quality product year after year. even in the charming, very early days of depeche mode, dave gahan's cool, expressive vocals set 'mode' apart from other bands like them. their melodies were inventive and contagious. they handled serious heavy dirges as deftly as they handled bubbly love songs. highly listenable, depeche mode still have a solid place in my music rotation. i almost never skip 'meaning of love,' 'see you,' or 'its called a heart.' there are many others, of course. so let me blow a kiss to mr. dave gahan. he's cute, too.

libertie

i love this one. jean-lucien made it over two years ago, i think. i love it. i love the colors, the framing, the use of size and overall plain visual grooviness. the main illustrated image of the girl was lovingly borrowed from alphonse mucha, and the contemplative napoleonic figure beneath is my darling ian holm. (indeed dressed as napoleon for some tv thing he was in.) jean-lucien shows he's a master at that ever-effective marriage of sea green and shades of pink. really gorgeous. (click to enlarge.)

scarlet smokes

so... how are you? i'm a little stressed today with a doctor's appointment looming over my head. i hate appointments; like they always take a huge boring bite out of my otherwise mostly-groovy day. actually, its not until wednesday, but i don't really see me coming back to 'the planet' in full force until that's all overwith. and, since i'm pretty sure the physician is going to tell me i need to quit smoking, i decided to mark my place with a shot of lesley-ann warren as miss scarlet in 'clue,' accepting a well-timed light from professor plum, (christopher lloyd) who i can't help thinking looks sexy in the part. so, take a big drag for me, miss scarlet. i'll be back hopefully on wednesday night with some groovy new entries.

ian sleeps

just one post tonight. its a shot of ian holm, sleeping. sweet dreams, ian. kisses.

anna kendrick : life upon the wicked stage - video

i certainly mean no vile juxtaposition by featuring this song just above a tribute to peter lorre who played the pedophiliac child murderer in 'M.' it was just a coincidence, i swear, that i chose to showcase this precocious ribbon-haired ponytail darling miss kendrick and her rendition of the classic song from rogers and hammerstein's 'showboat.' (backed by the sluttish german chorus of the girls from 'cabaret.') i have no idea what year it was filmed or what broadcast it was taken from, but i love it. the kid's great.)

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.

smoking party

umm, i don't think i've posted this one yet. its a slice of notebook art jean-lucien sent me a long time ago. i like the composition. the young long haired guy getting a light is none other than a very young jools holland. i think there's some alphonse mucha in there, along with some well-chosen dreamy paint. so dig it.

deliberate ash

if you ask me, you can never have too many shots of ian holm in his 'science officer' uniform. costume, whatever. if you know the film, you know he and ripley have finally gotten down to getting physical. and i know i've said it before, but i think their fight scene could've gone on a lot longer... with a lot more clawing and hair pulling and rolling around on the floor on top of eachother... but apparently ridely scott wasn't thinking about my future twisted voyeuristic kinks when he filmed this back in 1979. (hey, like i was seven in '79...and had only been thinking about sex for a couple of years.)

bitten

ahhh, anything goes tonight, right? so jean-lucien will recognize i'm going wayyyy back for this one. yes, its a shot of ronan vibert from the cult hit 'the shadow of the vampire,' in his stunning role as the tormented photographer wolf muller. the devotion to his craft can clearly be seen as he trembles on the ground with a little pale make-up on his face. pardon me for being sarcastic, i mean, i love ronan vibert as much as the next guy, but his acting in this flick seems to range from 'slight smirking' to 'pale trembling.' then he sort of disappears. i think we're supposed to assume john malkovich fed him to willen dafoe. then cary elwes shows up to mystify us further with his weird smiles and breathless, forced german accent. still, its a wonderful film, you should check it out.

sally's back

i don't really feel like posting too much tonight, so here's something just to mark my place. its a shot of liza minelli's back during a costume test during the filming of 'cabaret.' i love the composition. jean-lucien tricked the colors perfectly, and just let her back and shoulders and everything 'speak for themselves,' so to speak. i wish i had more interesting junk to say about it, but i'm not really feeling all that poetic or descriptive. like, i need to start getting some real quality sleep around here, dammit. hopefully i'll be back on track soon. i love you all.

french penny

here is a shocked still jean-lucien took of a psychedelic dancer from the most-often underrated movie 'head.' i wanted to end the night with a bit of color, so here she is. she's davy jones' frugging partner during the hard and thumping peter tork number entitled 'do i have to do this all over again?' like many other films i advocate, it is required viewing for the devious mind.

francoise hardy : la maison ou j'ai grandi - video

ladies and gentlemen, i present the tough and lovely miss francoise hardy. the song is haunting and well worth your 3 minutes and 37 seconds. yes, i know its in french. but its so nice it doesn't matter. please, allow yourself the pleasure of digging it.

lorre

after having seen fritz lang's 'M' sunday morning, i have a new respect for actor peter lorre. here is one of the more interesting pictures of him i could find.

witch hunt

here is a cover to the paperback version of aldous huxley's 'the devils of loudun.' this was the work on which ken russell's film was based. the artwork on the cover is actually a still from the film. the chained nun is vanessa redgrave, and the priest is none other than the marvelous murray melvin. as i have often said, the film, which was banned for several years in the u.k., is required viewing for anyone interested in film. i think i've read the text, but i could stand to read it again. i love this cover. it seems to have a light of its own. like a stained glass kind of thing... which i suppose is fitting. dig it.

foxhunt

there have been times over the last ten years when i felt odd about princess diana. it wasn't until she was killed that i realized i always liked her. like most people, i remember where i was when i 'heard the news today, oh boy.' i had just come home from the beach. since then, i've often felt as though it was all too common of me to express any sadness or sense of loss at her death. but i think the five year old girl in me saw the kindergarten teacher in her. and that five year old girl was duly stunned. diana, the smart shy flirt from wales, got far more out of life on earth than she bargained for. may god bless her.

two ladies

jean-lucien recently sent me some screen test shots from the film 'cabaret.' i really should dig around real quick and come up with the names of these two actresses who share the spotlight with joel grey in the 'two ladies' number. but hey, it's late. i love the colors jean-lucien was able to coax out of the film stock. and i dig the poses... it almost looks like they're posing for their mugshot after tangling with the law near the wild end of some glam oktoberfest. st. pauli girls' gone wild.

love you cool

here is a very cool yet very small detail from one of jean-lucien's earliest collages. he artfully cropped a small rectangle, embellished it with some well-chosen print, and voila... gorgeous. i don't think i'm being too presumptuous when i say that he intended it to be sort of a love note to me. i don't know what i would do without him. we're almost like two halves of the same person. all that aside, this slice of art is juicy and teasing. at least a dozen individual artistic desicions went into the cutting of this detail. very nice.

sweet miss georgina

as far as i know, i haven't posted this shot yet. yes, its my angel miss georgina hale. my guess it was taken sometime in the mid-to-late 1970's. theoretically, i'm not into blondes... but georgina surpasses all classifications. she is more platinum than blonde. she is more genius than cheesecake. she's a brilliant actress with beauty almost too great to chart. if you haven't seen her in ken russell's 'the devils' or in russell's 'mahler,' then you are missing the work of one of the greatest english actresses in my lifetime. in my opinion she is every bit as good as judi dench or either redgrave. she is a jewel. georgina, you have my undying devotion. i'd love to hear from you sometime.

morrissey italian style

...man, what a lame title-line, like even for me, that's pretty weak. but its one of my favorite more-recent pictures of morrissey. this was taken in italy presumably during the recording of his last album. ('ringleader of the tormentors.') i love the look of the rugby shirt on him. he looks good in blue, and you can tell from his slight smug facial expression that he loves to get his picture taken. really, i don't think i've ever seen morrissey like, hold his hand up in front of his face in the presence of photographers in that standard, 'don't take my picture' -fashion. he loves it. and deservedly so. what a face. i'm curious to hear what he puts out next. but i realize i may be in for a long wait. sometimes years pass between records.

kathe von nagy

the best thing about pearldiving is that sometimes you come up with a rare and intriguing beauty like this one. there wasn't much information on her. i think i saw her name associated with some early silent european productions. wow... what a face. she kind of reminds me of a melancholy rachel maddow. i know the photography in this particular shot is very flattering, but something tells me her face didn't really need much help. what a face... sigh.

how nice

i've been watching 'clue' a lot lately. (mmm, that's a big effing surprise.) and after all these years, i find there is some lobe of my brain that is still trying to reconcile the image of dr. frank-n-furter and the very much NOT in drag 'Wadsworth.' sometimes i catch Wadsworth looking exactly like dr. frank and vice-versa. personally, i think the tan gets in the way. in 'Clue,' tim curry is very California-tan, and in Rocky Horror he is '...as pale as pasteurized milk.' well, no matter the costume, tim curry has proven to be the 'best thing' in anything he's been in. in productions from 'rocky horror,' to 'legend' to 'oscar' to 'clue,' tim has proven to be unfailingly 'the best part.'

helicopter

i am a serious student of film. i have been so since i was about five years old. even at that age i was reading credits because i was curious to know who was responisble for freaking my little girl brain. my eyes have always been wide and thirstily focused on 'the screen.' that being said, my praise for filmmaker francis ford coppola has been historically selective. i've seen 'apocalypse now,' and i think the scene where the playboy girls are lowered under cover of darkness to entertain the wild troops is among the most eloquent scenes. it could conceiveably 'say it all.' i'm not sure who was responsible for costuming the girls in this scene, but what the girls are wearing really adds to the impact.

rosemarie

often i find myself taken by suprise when i'm pearldiving. but i must admit, i was markedly surprised by the exceptional beauty of miss rosemarie hillcrest. she was a playboy playmate. october... sometime in the late 60's. i chose not to post anything more than her face here, because it was her face i found the most remarkable of her arresting features. make no mistake, her body was incredible, too... but i was so struck by her face. i found myself opening my picture file over and over again at several times during the day just to look at her. it was like i had to keep checking... did i see her right? is she really that beautiful? apparently she was. is. so, if you're out there, miss rosemarie hillcrest, please accept my ardent and sincere praise. yours has become a face i would never willingly forget.

ash in control

i haven't posted a cool shot of my darling ian holm in a while. here he is once again as science officer ash, ready at the controls to help steer the ship to their dark destiny. he looks so damn good in the part. and he sounds even sexier than he looks. but beware, he has a cloaked agenda. i don't suppose that blows away too much of the plot. so enjoy the handsome face and cool manner of ian holm in the scientific driver's seat. (sigh, i haven't slept too much in the past five days... and whoa, is it ever obvious.)

le bon appetit

here's a slinky, sexy picture of a very young mr. simon le bon. fans can tell at once, that this is a shot taken from very early on in the days of 'duran.' yes, those days of the rum runner, and songs like 'faster than light,' and of course, their first video. it was an underrated video for an underrated new age-new romantic first single, 'planet earth.' when i hear it, the only thing i hear is pop. pure, cool, inventive, danceable, british pop. almost thirty years later, simon le bon is still doing it. many people don't seem to recognize they've lasted longer than the beatles, led zeppelin, and well... a lot of other bands that seem to get more glory. don't get me wrong, the beatles and zeppelin deserve their glory... and in my opinion, Duran Duran deserves some glory too. so here's simon le bon in the beginning. (and yes, that's his real name.)

use the force...

...on this new way-out video game apparently somehow based on 'the return of the jedi.' i honestly say i can't remember playing it. maybe my cool cousin eric had it, but somehow i don't think so. but i like the artwork. ummm, what else can i say about it? like, i assume there's a 'speeder-chase' thing included, but other than that, i can't imagine what the 'meat' of the game could be. ewoks thwarting those two-legged empire things? a shoot-out at the mouth of the Sarlaac? (hey, i'm sure i misspelled that.) ... like i said, i don't remember ever playing it. or seeing one at the local 'godfather's pizza.'

hmmm?

i've been away for about a week. i was out of town on pressing matters of business... and the heart. so, after rolling around with my One True Love for a few nights, i'm ready to get back to the wild elusive publication that IS planetcool! sigh. and i'm starting it off with this lovely shot of a younger ronan vibert. i think this is from some british film about some guy and a violin...? whatever. he's handsome and smooth. hey, its ronan vibert! (mmm, can you tell i'm a little out of practice with this?)

wild dracula

yes, i wanted some color, so here's a splash of hot red via this rare-ish poster for andy warhol's 'dracula.' i'm not sure what year it was released, and i'm not gonna look it up tonight. i'm sure part of my tired brain knows who starred in it... oh wait, it was udo kier right? and the kid joe-whats-his-name? i actually have never seen it myself, well... i've seen parts of it, but hey, that was a long time ago. i guess it was groovy enough. it was bloody-like-i-like-it-to-be. and i think udo kier is very talented and largely unsung, as a motion picture talent. so um, dig on this rare poster. hey, sink your teeth into it...!

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.

your love is king

i wanted to end with a little color, so here's a shot i found a long time ago. i don't remember where i found it, but i do know its for some recording associated with the 70's version of 'king kong,' starring jessica lange. that version was such a turkey it had pre-disposed me to thinking peter jackson's 'kong' was going to suck as hard. but of course, we all know that it didn't. i happen to think jackson's 'kong' is excellent. in fairness, i like jessica's costume in the 70's version. and i love her haircut. but honestly, those are the two best things about the whole gobbling production.

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.

dig it

this is all for tonight, lovers. dig it. peace.