Linda Evangelista

Via Girl in Photo; click to enlarge.

Weed respite: noir edition

A 1941 novella by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish, via Lunettes Noires; click to enlarge.

Her home was the gutter!

Pulp friction from 1954, via Decaying Hollywood Mansions; click to enlarge.

Lip Service

Above: Laura Fraser (a dead ringer for my dead sister) and Ruta (♥) Gedmintas, aka Cat and Frankie (♥♥) from Lip Service (you can watch it on Netflix instant); click to enlarge.

    Without a third season in sight, Lip Service has so far been both intensely promising and generally frustrating. While I find no fault with what I consider to be its secondary characters, the show failed to notice the goldmine that could have been in the bi-polar relationship between Cat and Frankie. I love how they’re introduced — Cat all conservative, Frankie all rock n’ roll — while peeling back an uneasy history of lust, longing and heartbreak. And for the first season, just six episodes, I was eager to see their potentially interesting future unfold.
    Unfortunately, as I got into season two (just another six episodes), there was something of a letdown — the spontaneity of the first gradually diminishes, characters devolve into superficial dramady figures… while one of its central, and genuinely compelling, women is dropped for good while the other is emotionally neutered and cast into exile. Midway through season two I began to question (rather than speculate) just where the thing was headed, and wondered what the charismatic Ruta would be doing next.

Tina Turner

Via Fookdamorph; click to enlarge.

I ♥ Ruta Gedmintas's back

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New Lana album on the way

Due this November. Click to enlarge.

Bohemian nights

Natalie Wood reads aloud from Thomas Wolfe’s The Hills Beyond as Dennis Hopper and Nick Adams listen, 1955. Photo by Ralph Crane. Via Homicidal Brunette; click to enlarge.

Daliah Lavi

Via Lunettes Noires; click to enlarge.

Douglas Sirk on Barbara Stanwyck

    “She impressed me all the time as someone who had a great exeperience, someone who had really been touched deeply by life in some way. Becouse sha had depth as a person. That is exactly what we see on the screen and that is why she’s a great star. ..And yet she’s so descret, she gets every point, every nuance without hitting on anything too heavily. And there is such an amazing tragic stillness about her at the same time. She never steps out of it, and she never puts it on. But it is always there, this deep melancholy in her presence. I think she’s more expressive and resonant than any other actress.”

Via Polyhymnia; click to enlarge.

Anne Hathaway

Click to enlarge; via Suicide Blonde.

Jonathan Winters roasts Frank Sinatra

1978 Dean Martin Roast

Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick on Merv Griffin

C. 1965; via Sunset Gun.

Happy Birthday, Nic

    I’d like to offer a belated Happy Birthday to Nicolas Roeg (born August 15, 1928) with Big Audio Dynamite’s “E=MC2,” a musical dedication to the director and his films.

Today’s dollbabe (illustrated)

Artist unknown; click to enlarge. Via Old Erotic Art.

Poetry slam, pseudo Ginsberg edition

Vampira in The Beat Generation (1959); click to enlarge.

Via Pour 15 Minutes d’Amour.

Sue & Stanley

Sue Lyon and Stanley Kubrick share a laugh during the filming of Lolita; click to enlarge. Via Suicide Blonde.