justice comes to town

take a look at the order of those names. team cillian!!

when we were young

mac

Although he was the highest paid star of the 1960s, McQueen had a reputation for being tight-fisted. On some films he would demand ten electric razors and dozens of pairs of jeans. It was later found that he gave this stuff to Boys Republic, a private school and treatment community for troubled youngsters, where he spent a few years himself.


photo: steve mcqueen with his daughter

hooray for it

laughing is good

tuesday with kinski

until i adopted cosmo (top) i could not relate to small dogs. now i love all of them. thanks to nastassja i now know that chihuahuas have such big eyes so that they can eat bagels with them.

beloved best friend

Jean Marais found this dog in the forest during the WW2 - he was lost and certainly abandonned - He followed Jean and they became very close friends. When he died, Jean was so sad that he did not tell it to his friends. About a year after Moulouk's death, Jean Marais was dining with Jean Cocteau (his ex-partner and his great friend untill he died). Jean Cocteau asked Jeannot (Jean Marais was Jeannot and Jean Cocteau was Jean) : "how is Moulouk ?" and Jeannot told Cocteau he was dead. Jean Cocteau said "why didn't you tell me ?" and Jeannot answered : "if I had told you I could not help crying and I was so sad that I did not want to be more afflicted !!!" Jean Marais told this story long long after Jean Cocteau died in a TV Show dedicated to animals. Moulouk was playing in "L'Eternel Retour".

making 'mata hari'

garbo was just UNREAL.

film, fashion, fun

"Women dress alike all over the world;

they dress to annoy other women"

Elsa Shiaparelli

the great designer had a point! her clothes aimed to enlighten as opposed to irritate.  her designs were beautiful and artistic. look at this jacket! it incorporated a drawing of the deeply original artist and filmmaker jean cocteau. 

Jean Cocteau's favorite actor/muse was jean marais. like brando, marais's looks were very arresting.  of brando, cocteau said, "Marlon is the only man who can make noise without disturbing anybody."

photos: shiap/brando/marais

sand and see

photo: Martin Munkacsi, Greta Garbo on vacation, detail, ca. 1932

popularity

AFI's list of the top 50 greatest screen legends of American cinema, 25 male and 25 female.


imagine if this was a list of people who dated one another!

Male Legends	#	Female Legends
1.	Humphrey Bogart	1.	Katharine Hepburn
2.	Cary Grant	2.	Bette Davis
3.	James Stewart	3.	Audrey Hepburn
4.	Marlon Brando	4.	Ingrid Bergman
5.	Fred Astaire	5.	Greta Garbo
6.	Henry Fonda	6.	Marilyn Monroe
7.	Clark Gable	7.	Elizabeth Taylor
8.	James Cagney	8.	Judy Garland
9.	Spencer Tracy	9.	Marlene Dietrich
10.	Charlie Chaplin	10.	Joan Crawford
11.	Gary Cooper	11.	Barbara Stanwyck
12.	Gregory Peck	12.	Claudette Colbert
13.	John Wayne	13.	Grace Kelly
14.	Laurence Olivier	14.	Ginger Rogers
15.	Gene Kelly	15.	Mae West
16.	Orson Welles	16.	Vivien Leigh
17.	Kirk Douglas	17.	Lillian Gish
18.	James Dean	18.	Shirley Temple
19.	Burt Lancaster	19.	Rita Hayworth
20.	The Marx Brothers	20.	Lauren Bacall
21.	Buster Keaton	21.	Sophia Loren
22.	Sidney Poitier	22.	Jean Harlow
23.	Robert Mitchum	23.	Carole Lombard
24.	Edward G. Robinson	24.	Mary Pickford
25.	William Holden	25.	Ava Gardner

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j. irons

now he is really starting to look like the humbert humbert who sat in a prison cell reliving his days of (dolores) haze, before succumbing to heart failure.

i am a long time fan of this terrific actor although i surely do not see all his films. i discovered him in 'betrayal' and seriously flipped over how astonishingly great he is. i was pleased for him to get an oscar for 'reversal of fortune' but it was a nasty sort of movie. however, that wasn't nearly as bad as 'damage' even if everyone in that one was super.

photo: from his next film 'night train to lisbon.'

the look of....

... hopelessness. jeremy irons, stunner.

late night understanding

from 'last tango in paris'

i've got to see a man about a dog

tom hardy. what else is there to say? oh yes, his dog's name is 'woodstock.'

life on film

Michael Haneke took home the Palme d’Or for The White Ribbon three years ago. This year, Haneke may be taking home a second Palme d’Or forAmour, which has received enthusiastic praise following its screening earlier today at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring veterans Jean-Louis Trintignant(The Conformist, Red) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour; Leon Morin, Priest) as an elderly couple facing illness and death as the biggest challenges to their love, Amour has been described as Haneke’s masterpiece. Or, in some cases, his latest masterpiece.

photos: emmanuelle riva

bone structure

17 nominations and 3 oscar wins. the remarkable streep has a presence like no other. she SHINES. she has 69 film credits and never seems to lose relevance.

on a recent flight i saw 'the iron lady.' it was strange because even though i no longer take pills to get through a flight, i only remember that the movie was good, nothing else really. i watched 'the queen' in the comfort of my home and didn't like a thing about it. why connect those films? well, helen mirren is as exceptional an actress as meryl and they both had the courage to portray famous women who are alive.

lyin' lo

 'I'm really sorry that I cheated so much. But I guess that's just the way things are.'  


photo: making 'lolita': sue lies while stanley stares.