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Warped?
It's just a jump to the left...And then a step to the ri-i-i-i-ight...Put your hands on your hipsAnd bring your knees in ti-i-i-ight!Do the pelvic thrust - It nearly drives you insane...Let's do The...
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I think today should be...
...a "Say Something Hat Day" - courtesy of today's birthday girl Elsa Schiaparelli!Don't you?More Elsa here and here.
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The glamorous Miss Fogel
Many happy returns to the beautiful model-turned actress Barbara Bain, star of Mission Impossible and Space: 1999, who blows out 90 candles on her cake today...Barbara Bain (born Mildred Fogel, 13th...
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Autumn's in the air...
Margaret Lockwood (15th September 1916 – 15th July 1990)Anne Bancroft (17th September 1931 – 6th June 2005)Greta Garbo (18th September 1905 – 15th April 1990)Joey Heatherton (born 14th September...
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The funereal thud
Autumn Song (Chant d'automne)Charles Baudelaire 1857Soon we shall plunge into cold shadows;Farewell, vivid light of our too-short summers!Already I hear the funereal thudOf echoing logs on the...
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On the Jukebox this weekend at Dolores Delargo Towers - a "the higher the...
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Burnt orange till the end of time
I recently binge-watched the entire recent Marvel series Loki, and it is impressive. The storyline - typically for Marvel, given its long history of intelligent storytellng - is every bit as convoluted...
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Morning, noon, and night-time, too
This week way back in 1978 saw the birth of a legend......as Miss Lily Savage made her world debut at the Black Cap in Camden!Sad to say, the Black Cap remains boarded-up as the legal wranglings...
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THE Dame
"I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going."It is our supreme Patron Saint Dame Angela Lansbury's 96th birthday today.All hail!
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It's a look...
click to enlarge[From Reuters: A man wears a suit made of mirrors at a fashion and clothing exhibition in Tehran, Iran.]
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Always the Bride
[on playing the title part in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)]"The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I...
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A cold dark keeps arriving, punctually, sooner
Daylight Savingsby Tess TaylorHow strange it is as we verge on Novemberand the fields go bare, and days grow tighterto wake and find, as if from thin airan unexpected gift: An extra hour.This...
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Glamour, glitz and gore
Another Whitby Goth Weekend took place this Hallowe'en weekend!Of course.
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"Camp? Really?"
“Camp? Really? I prefer ‘flamboyant’, or ‘enthusiastic’. I’ve always been a bit over-the-top.”Very sad news today, as another of the veterans of British variety showbiz television has tap-danced his...
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Britannia rules!
With one of the most remarkable voices in opera, Welsh operatic dramatic soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones, who is 85 today, gave many of the "bigger" names among Wagnerian divas - like Kirsten Flagstad,...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
click to enlarge...like the irrepressible Mrs Shilling, doyenne of Royal Ascot Races' Ladies' Day (wearing the millinery creations of her son David) for three decades!Gertrude Ethel T. Shilling (3rd...
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I think today should be...
Isabella Blow (19th November 1958 – 7th May 2007)Gene Tierney (19th November 1920 – 6th November 1991)Eleanor Powell (21st November 1912 – 11th February 1982)Ofra Haza (19th November 1957 – 23rd...
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