I Loved!

Someone seems to have gotten the dialog reel mixed up! Or are we to believe that Biff(or insert other he-man like name here) is actually saying "You've got my heart on the run. Don't play with me dearest" without the aid of a rufy while riding that carousel horse in a speedo?

Bimbo's Initiation

Would you say this film best describes your last...

a. Job.
b. Bawdy Spree
c. Date
d. Relationship.

As far as mugshots go...

This one's pretty good! I know of several people who would hope to photograph this well after a thorough gussying up! Let alone being arrested!

Original Caption: Held On Kidnapping Charges. Omaha

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A fifteen-year-old girl and four sixteen-year-old boys, all from Chicago, are being held in Omaha for Federal Grand Jury action. They are accused of kidnapping a Chicago salesman and transporting a stolen car across state lines. Left to right: Edward Neerose, Anthony Medino, Pauline Barrett, Tom Murphy, and Robert Campbell. As juveniles, they face confinement in a correctional institution until they reach 21, or possible life imprisonment under the kidnap charge. (1944)

Via: If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,<br>There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

What I wouldn't give.......

for either the hoosier cabinet or the wheeled cart!

Circa 1918. "Food Administration home economics demonstration rail car, University of Illinois." National Photo Co. glass negative

via: Meat Train: 1918 Shorpy Photo Archive

those jeans ain't worth squat!

Bad news on the wardrobe front yesterday. I tried desperately to fit into a former favorite hardly ever worn pair of jeans yesterday only to find that my quads have become so big they are prohibiting the pull and close of a smaller waist size.

While the working out has paid off must it cost me my favorite clothes???

Vince Edwards

I spent this afternoon at the local Noir theater talking in a little "B" quickie, 'Murder by Contract" starring Vince Edwards in a very generous amount of shirtless scenes....

Murder By Contract (1958) dir Irving Lerner w/ Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi [81 min] This quickie B movie, shot in just 8 days(!), drags film noir into the sunlight and finds it just as tense and thrilling when brightly lit. At the film's center is Claude (Edwards) a contract killer who is more salaryman (he's saving for a house on a river) than sinister assassin. Yet his workman-like killings are all the more chilling for their efficiency. When Claude takes a big payday job that brings him to Los Angeles, however, he meets his match in the growing modernity of that sun-drenched locale.

Born Vincent Edward Zoino in Brooklyn, New York, in July 1928, actor Vince Edwards was initially pegged as an athlete rather than a thespian. A terrific swimmer, Edwards won a scholarship to Ohio State in the 1940s, but a serious illness sidetracked his ambition. He then returned to New York to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Edwards' natural acting ability and impressive physique got him noticed quickly by Broadway producers, and soon Hollywood talent scouts signed him for films. His first was the low-budget 1951 United Artists comedy Mr. Universe, with Edwards portraying Tommy Tomkins, an honest wrestler who runs afoul of gangsters. His next starring role came in Monogram's 1952 release Hiawatha as the title character. By the mid 1950s, Edwards swapped his 'pretty boy' image for that of a shady character in such film noir thrillers as The Night Holds Terror (1955), The Killing (1956), and Hit and Run (1957). In 1961, Edwards again shed his image, leaving behind the bad-boy roles in favor of heroes, by taking the title role in ABC's Ben Casey. He also proved himself to be a good singer, releasing several albums and making nightclub appearances.

Marlys

The asnwer is no, by Lynda Barry

via: Marlys Magazine: starring Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry

And who could compete with that????????

Via: Flickr: Retromod's Photostream

Yeah, that'll happen....

So don't let them snicker at your skinny scrawny figure...........

via Vintage Ads

Why Not?

Here's Hoping

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!!!!!

Lest you misbehave......

Original Caption:Girl Evangelist Blasts Beach Iniquities, Boston -- When Mary Agnes caught this pair spooning on Revere Beach, her wrath knew no bounds. Incidentally she would not appear on the beach in her one piece bathing suit until she had securely fastened her stockings above her knees. "Bare legs," she shuddered, "not before that crowd." (1922)

Unfortunately Mary Agnes(it figures) failed miserably. I grew up near Revere Beach, this sort of thing went on all the time and is still going strong...BOTH the spooning AND the bare knees!

Meanwhile.......

You just KNOW that Jimmy's about to get whacked across the head with oneof Lois' manolos!!!

I am going to start telling irritating people that "I'm going to make a test with my shoe"........

Happy Halloween!

Hope you all get to enjoy the festivities this evening! Alas, I'll be stuck bartending tonight in the ever enduring struggle to make my mortgage payment.

Yesterday's bad weather did have one bright spot here on campus, we got a double rainbow for enduring all the rain.

Jaunty!

The pianist Marvin Maazel, uncle of conductor Lorin Maazel, circa 1921 in New York. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

via: http://www.shorpy.com/

The Honeymoon Killers

The Honeymoon Killers (1969) is the result of Leonard Kastle's reaction to Bonnie & Clyde. Have you seen pictures of the real Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker? These were not beautiful people. They certainly looked nothing like Warren Beatty or Faye Dunaway. Kastle wanted to craft a crime movie that avoided ties to Hollywood glamour. So he researched one of the most infamous crime cases of the '40s: the "Lonely Hearts" murders.

Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez killed as many as 20 people in a scheme to bilk lonely women out of their savings. Martha and Ray were finally convicted of murder in three cases and sentenced to the electric chair. Martha was overweight and unmarried and destined to remain that way — until she communicated with Ray through a "Friendship Club." After trading letters with him for several weeks, they finally met, and it was love at first sight. She gave up her job as a head nurse at a hospital in order to be Ray's constant companion. But Ray's only source of income was in bilking lonely women out of their savings. So with Martha posing as his sister, Ray continued to ply his trade. Martha even watched as Ray married some of these women so that he could get closer to their bank accounts. But Martha's deep insecurity about her looks and her suspicions about Ray's philandering ways sowed deep conflicts, leading to arguments and eventually murder. In the most carefully documented case, Martha took a hammer and crushed the skull of a Florida woman who had drawn her entire savings out of the bank and accompanied Ray and Martha back to New York. Ray then finished the job by strangling the woman and burying her body in the basement of his house. Ray and Martha went to the electric chair while continuing to profess their love.

Kastle wrote a screenplay based on this story and then went shopping for a director. He found a young Martin Scorsese, who had recently scored with his debut feature film Who's That Knocking At My Door? However, with a total budget of only $250,000, Kastle became concerned as he watched Scorsese spend several hours trying to film a tin can in a bush — "It'll create mood," he told Kastle. Eventually Kastle decided they'd quickly run out of funds with Scorsese as director. So he fired Scorsese (!) and began looking for a replacement. He found no one. With the project poised to founder, stars Tony Lo Bianco and Shirley Stoler urged Kastle to take over the direction, and with no immediate alternative, he did. Never mind he had no directing experience whatsoever. He was a composer. He knew opera. But Kastle had a vision of what he wanted to see on film and he had the determination to see the project through to its completion.
The resulting movie is one of the most astonishing independent films of the past 40 years. It's uncompromising and brutal. It's stark and unsettling. Filmed in documentary-style in black and white, The Honeymoon Killers looks terrifyingly real. You feel guilty while you're watching it, as if you're peeking through a keyhole and seeing things you were never meant to see. True to his intentions, Kastle did not glamorize crime. He created a perverse and ugly love story that fascinates precisely because it's so perverse and ugly. Shirley Stoler soars in this movie. She gives one of the great unselfish, unglamorous performances in cinema history. (Her subsequent roles were few in number. Most people probably know her as "Mrs. Steve" on Pee Wee's Playhouse.) And Tony Lo Biano is excellent as Ray. (Soon after The Honeymoon Killers, he would star in The French Connection and The Seven Ups, and he would star in one of the best TV crime shows of the '70s, Police Story. But since then almost all of his performances have been in supporting roles.)

Stoler and Lo Bianco are surrounded by several fine supporting performances. Doris Roberts (who now stars in Everybody Loves Raymond) plays Martha's friend Bunny (looking very thin!), who urges her friend to begin writing letters to the Friendship Club. Mary Ann Higby plays a woman 30 years Ray's senior. She's so eager to be with Ray that she does whatever Martha and Ray request. And Kip McArdle plays a pleasant but insufferably upbeat middle-aged woman with a young daughter. She marries Ray and even remains upbeat with Martha prowling the halls of her uncluttered suburban home. In one the movie's most chilling scenes, McArdle confesses to Martha that she is now pregnant with Ray's child, hoping for Martha's advice and fearing that Ray won't want the baby: he was terrified that Martha would even find out the marriage had been consummated. We see Martha's face stiffen and we know things will soon get very ugly.

Strangely enough Kastle never made another movie — but not for trying. However, no subsequent projects ever came to fruition. That's our loss because he shows amazing skill in The Honeymoon Killers.

Furniture hopping

I’ve spent this past weekend playing musical chest of drawers, Having been looking for a perfect 36”w by 36”h mahogany chest of drawers to it into the last available but of free space in my bedroom, I resignedly purchased a slightly larger piece in need of MUCH T.L.C. at our School’s rummage sale (solely due to the price tag of $30.00!)

I then spent Saturday shopping for a similar piece with a friend of mine for his child’s room after turning him green with envy showing off my. new purchase.

On Sunday I visited a new antique co-op I’d heard of but never been to, only to find the PERFECTLY sized chest in PERFECT condition marked down to only $200 AND I was fortunate enough to have another friend with a S.U.V. along to cart it home. Thus avoiding delivery charges

Long story short, three days of shopping, two purchases, many phone calls, two deliveries and one swap out later I find that I am now furnishing my friends home as well as my own. I should be getting a commission for this.

Edson Stroll

Attractive, dark-haired leading man Edson Stroll was born in Chicago in the mid-'30s and arrived in Hollywood just in time for television to have eaten away at most of the opportunities he might otherwise have had. Possessed of a deep voice to go with his good looks, he appeared in Westerns and adventure shows such as Tombstone Territory and Sea Hunt, plus a pair of Twilight Zone episodes, "The Eye of the Beholder" and "The Trade-ins," and the Elvis Presley vehicle G.I. Blues, in an uncredited role. He finally started getting leading parts in films in 1961, but those were in a pair of Three Stooges features, the too-opulent-for-its-own-good Snow White and the Three Stooges (playing Prince Charming) and The Three Stooges in Orbit. From there, his being cast as Gunner's Mate Virgil Edwards in the sitcom McHale's Navy -- playing the resident lothario of Ernest Borgnine's motley crew .

And BTW, YES I would.......

Louis L'Amour, then and now

Would you or wouldn't you?

You know you've been cataloging waaaay too long when...

...all the numbers you see in the marc record are repeated in your head by the voice of the Count from Sesame Street.

Guess who bought a new Televison......

As well as $200 in throw pillows(yes how far from butch can you get) Consumerism is alive and well within my soul as the construction begins to wind down and my credit cards still have some wiggle room before hitting their limits.....

Poll:

Now , how many of us have had relationships end in just this way????

via: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

YES! Even shaved bald with a brain transplant scar......

Born Earl Craver in Kansas in 1931, Cal Bolder appeared in several films and a number of TV shows from 1960 to 1968,. After attending college and doing a stint in the Marines, Bolder relocated to Los Angeles and became a policeman. A chance meeting with notorious agent Henry Willson (he gave Willson a ticket, but Willson was too enamored with the size of Mr. Craver’s biceps to care) got him into acting. Mr. Wilson came up with the name “Cal” short for California and “Bolder” to emphasize Mr. Cravers build.

Today, Cal Bolder is perhaps best known for his role in the campy 1966 horror film "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter". from which the picture above is taken. In the late 1960s, Bolder retired from acting and moved his family to Washington. In 2001, he published a novel, Last "Reunion", under his real name E. C. Craver,

Sadly, Cal Bolder passed away on January 19, 2005, from cancer at age 74.

The wicked Stepmother, Would you or wouldn't you?

I must admit to a strange fascination with the wicked stepmother from Walt Disney's "Snow White" I always found her much more attractive than the heroine. I always found Snow white to be much too childlike, causing me to look on her marriage to Prince Charming as something bordering on pedophilia......

Burt's literary endeavors........

Miss Emma R. seems to have some issues, as does the educational program of the state of Georgia, if this letter is any result of their training. Still putting all that aside. it is a novel approach, even if it is aimed (but seemingly not wasted) on "Burt Reynolds Sweet Reynolds"

One can only hope that Mr Reynolds was in fact kind enough to send her some candy or "jules".....

Why yes, it is coming out my ears.....

Two more days to go of non-stop chicken soup. This round hasn't been as bad as those in the past as I haven't suffered too much from carb cravings. Of course it doesn't help much that the dinning hall at school has suddenly gotten creative with their menus and seemingly increased the quality of their food during the week I was not allowed to partake. Oh well I'll just think of it as a "different" kind of dry spell.

At the very least I think I've dropped another percentage of body fat, not that anyone is testing those waters.........

Betty please

An old episode that lives on forever in the fact that my circle cannot sit in a restaurant without someone moaning "Betty Please" "Betty Pick up your hash blacks" at least once.

I love a a running gag

I would kill for this wallpaper at the moment!

If I'm stuck with a 1950's pink tiled bathroom I might as well run with it.

via: http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/

When did Little Gloria get so happy that she 'designed" these?

Four Pepito Bismal Pink Vinyl placemats with Gloria's moniker added for only $245.45?

Quick buy me three sets as I only entertain dinner parties of 12!

See: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=2210477

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And I am puzzled as to how a manly virile fisherman with such fine manscaped pecs allowed his abs to go to seed thus a girdle...

Judy Holliday - It's a Perfect Relationship

Judy Holliday testing the proto-type of personal ads.

Just what exactly are their careers?

While I may have asked for quite many things, here on this blog and elsewhere: dates, money, elusive answers to the questions that plague my soul, I am quite sure that I never, ever, asked for "BEACH-PARTY ACTION and "SURFING GALORE" I think I would have remembered asking for that.......