rare marilyn

i know i just posted a shot of miss monroe earlier this week, but i wanted to post this one on the grounds that its really sexy and i've never seen it before. i love the soft haziness to it. and she just looks so shy and soft and backstage-deelish. i'm not sure what picture she's working on, but for some reason i'm thinking it had to be around the time she did 'let's make love,' or 'some like it hot.' you know, when she was all lush and sudsy and beautifully well over 30. and even though her face is a little bit fuzzy and turned to the side, i still think she looks happy, somehow. i mean, she wasn't 'sad and tragic' marilyn all the time... i'm sure she had her good days. i've been avidly looking at and searching out shots of marilyn since i was a little girl, so i love it when i see a shot i've never seen before. so dig it, her creamy deelish-ousness.

thistle

yes, i christened a new book tonight. and i found i was a little bit hesitant with the picture choice. hey, don't get me wrong, i love the shot. but, i knew other people were going to see it, and i realize a lot of people don't think the monkees are as cool as jean-luc and i think they are. yes, after all these years, i'm still an immense, crazy, non-apologetic, die-hard monkees fan. and mike nesmith is, and always has been, my hands-down fave. (his solo music is incredible... like, 97% of it is stuff i would want on a desert island.) so lets see... what exactly do we have here? yes, we have an amorous second-season michael nesmith attempting to woo the groovy biker chick. (the actress's name in ginny gann.) its from a mostly-great episode called 'the wild monkees,' where the guys have to 'get tough' to impress the all-girl motorcycle gang... only to find out they're 'tired of the open road,' and want to turn over a new leaf and get all feminine. the whole episode is worth a look, even the contrived and goofy bike race musical sequence near the end. i titled it 'thistle' because it sort of felt like the cold thorns of the remaining winter are still upon us... yet, the dainty, fresh flowerings of spring are not far away. and i've always liked that word, too. in the 'medallions' at the bottom of the main picture we have, left to right: the full moon, a beautiful 1970's 'curly hair' variety julie christie, an orange sweet dripping of honey, the closely-shorn harrison ford in 'blade runner,' an orchid, and last but never, never least, my main lady, miss georgina hale. i have to say i'm pleased with it. now i just have to fill it up. wish me luck. oh, and please forgive the imperfect reproduction... i just laid it down on my carpet and took a picture of it while the cat was being weird. (click to enlarge)

night off

i'm taking the night off, kids. i'm like, tired like the kind of tired you used to get in 5th period, in high school on a 71 degree day, after a big lunch. you know, when you'd succumb to 'waking sleep' behind a propped-up book, so damn sleepy you don't even care if you get busted for snoozing. i'm tired like that. so, as i dive into those pillows and covers, i'm leaving the planet in the capable hands of 'the barrister dolenz!' yes, its a screen shot from the second season of 'the monkees,' an episode entitled 'a coffin too frequent,' co-starring george furth and ruth buzzi. its like, one of the worst episodes, and one of the best, at the same time. jean-lucien knows what i mean. it sucks, but i love it anyway. more tomorrow night lovers, groovy.

the lash

yes, you can add gary oldman's name to the list of those that have 'gone for' the dramatic and ever-cool look of the clockwork orange 'droog lash.' i know i just posted a shot of gary earlier this week, but i needed something cool for tonight's slot, and you can't get much cooler than this. and i assume he's just doing it for 'cool-factor,' because the last time i checked, he hadn't done anything 'clockwork'-related, cinematically. maybe he did the voice for a 'book-on-tape,' but i haven't heard anything about that, if that was the case. something tells me he just did it to be cool. eddie izzard has also, in the past, 'gone for' the lash. so, tonight my lovers, dig on the totally cool mr. oldman, being cool for us. roight, roight, roight...?

john taylor...

... for those of you who don't know john taylor. okay, i'm posting this shot because, according to me, it falls into that all-important category of 'unintentionally hilarious.' sure yeah, he looks handsome enough, he looks cute enough... i mean he's smiling and he's got that vital, healthy 'tan-that-money-can-buy,'... but i'm actually posting it for a reason beyond mere 'cuteness.' yeah, i know its a smallish picture, but if you're able to enlarge and look real close, you'll see the patch on his right-hand side, just above his pocket... like, where a soldier's name should be, it reads... i'm almost positive it reads: 'stay rude.' huh? i mean, what the hell...? his 'goal' or rather his 'mission' is to 'stay rude?' well, good luck with all that... i guess. how exactly do you do that? i mean, do you just go out and make a point of causing trouble and...like, being really free with the insults and the breaking in line and stuff? do you make sure you curse a lot and 'talk shit' about people's mothers and sisters and stuff? do you leave crappy tips and frequently use the following phrase with indignation: '...hey, do you know who i am??? does 'hungry like the wolf ' mean anything to you??' do you cuss out desk clerks and let the 'eff word' slip out during important interviews? well, whatever it means, something tells me john taylor would have very little difficulty living up to his daily quota of 'rude.' (click to enlarge)

in like a lion

yes, march is fresh on the calendar... and outside tonight, up here in the north, a load of fresh snow is quickly piling up on the deck and ground. but if you ask curvy, sexy marilyn, she'll tell you we're 'havin' a heatwave, a tropical heatwave.' here's a shot of the magical miss 'MM' as the young starlet vicki parker in the 1954 backstage film 'there's no business like show business.' she plays a hot cabaret singer who gets vaudevillian donald o'connor to fall in love with her. she has at least three cool numbers in this underrated movie, including the steamy 'heatwave' bit. i tried to post this picture in color, but it just wasn't working. the shades were far too gaudy. but even in black and white, her dreamy creamy sexy curves come through. i mean, man... look at that sweet little fleshy fold at her waist... yum! look at those arms... you just wanna like, shake some salt on her and take a bite. i remember reading some place that this costume caused a lot of furor with the censors because of how that triangle is cut out beneath her belly button. mmm, how times have changed. in any case, this movie is worth a look, because at any given time, either ethel merman is on, or mitzi gaynor is on, or donald o'connor is on, or marilyn monroe is on. like, how can you lose? unless you happen to accidentally land on boring johnnie ray's big number. (click to enlarge)

mrs. starr

or was she mrs. starkey? well, we know for sure she was miss bach... miss barbara bach. and hey, i just learned last night after a little digging around, she's totally no relation to catherine bach; miss daisy duke. i remember thinking they were sisters or something, but apparently they're not... i found no evidence of that in my research. and yeah, i know what you're thinking; this picture doesn't even look like her... i mean, not at first glance, but its her, from her early days as a cover model. and we all know she had quite a movie career in the 70's... she was even a slinky, sexy bond girl... she played major anya amasova in the 1977 bond flick 'the spy who loved me.' she also turned up as a military femme fatale named maritza petrovich in 1978's 'force ten from navarone.' sometime around 1980, she met famous beatle drummer ringo starr, and the couple 'starred' together in the somewhat uneven, juvenile, but 'worth-a-look' stone age spoof 'caveman.' (1981) man, i haven't seen that movie in over 20 years. i wonder what i would think of it now? (i remember dennis quaid as an ice age caveman, peeing square ice cubes or something... ) anyway, i liked this shot of barbara... its a groovy magazine cover just on those merits alone. but hey, since she was a beatle wife too, i figured it was well worth a post. (click to enlarge)

is it really so strange?

yes, some girls like brad pitt, shirtless with a cowboy hat in 'thelma and louise.' some girls like colin farrell, all sweaty and stubbled and strutting around... some girls like russell crowe, fighting lions and crap... or that orlando bloom in a blouse, fighting pirates... but i must be pretty weird, because the sexiest thing i saw in the movies all year was gary oldman as james gordon in 'the dark knight.' annnnd i can't even explain exactly why i found him so hot in that role. it wasn't just the glasses, although they did suit him, it wasn't just the lush, dark, slightly-unruly swept-back hair, or the official-looking neck tie... or the chiseled features, or the understated american accent. it was everything. he just gave off a quiet sort of sexiness that made me want to reach through the screen and drag him 'behind closed doors' so i could dose him and get his wild, kinky side to come out. kind of like when guys cornily dream of seducing the buttoned-up secretary... as seen in the 'goody-two shoes' video. (by adam ant.) (...mmm, no kidding.) i guess when you put it that way, its really not so weird of me after all... to wanna get the shy guy to 'cut loose' and 'get sexy.' i mean, if it works for female secretaries, it could work for lonely, pent-up, shy police commissioners too. yeah, he was infinitely hotter than christian 'increasingly weird' bale. and i purposefully chose a rather non-dramatic picture of gary in the role to prove my point. like, if i had a job where i had to work in close proximity to gary looking like that, i'd freak... freak from wanting to 'bed him down.' (hey, lucynell... what's your favorite goldman look? if its this look, we might have to like, fight it out or whatever.)

michael nesmith : smoke smoke smoke - audio

yes, i just got back in from burning a camel myself. here's mike at his finest, doing a glorious southern-fried version of the merle travis cigarette anthem. enjoy.

foxy

yes, the fine fox brothers. there's james fox, who starred in the legendarily cool 'performance' with mick jagger and anita pallenberg, and then there's his slightly older brother edward fox, who starred in one of my fave weekend movies 'force ten from navarone.' every time 'navarone' is on, i'll let it roll. hey, it features a youngie harrison ford, barbara 'mrs. ringo starr' bach, the guy who beat up rocky in the first movie, and quint-from-jaws; mr. robert shaw. yes, if you watch carefully, if it wasn't for edward fox's character 'miller,' they wouldn't be able to like, blow up the bridge and all that. and he also has one of 'navarone's' best lines: '...we can't just sit here like ducks in thunder.' he's the coolest. and so handsome, too. so hey, eddie baby, where ever you are, i thank you for all your handsome contributions to cinema... and hey, kiss your brother for me. oh, let's not forget, he also steals the show in the albert finney movie 'the dresser,' as the fey and impolite mr. oxenby. speaking of 'thunder,' when the wartime production of 'king lear' is in danger of losing its tempestuous special effects, it's oxenby who realizes the play takes precendence over his attitude, and decides, at the last minute, to take the meteorological boomings into his own hands. i love you, eddie baby. you're the coolest.