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by Leo GrinThe casting of Robert Montgomery (1904--1981) in They Were Expendable was uncommonly appropriate. The suave, handsome actor made his name in debonair romantic comedies throughout the 1930s, but like John Ford he didn't wait until America was dragged into war before enlisting. In 1940, fired up by the...
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Happy Birthday to the Corps!
That's a very inviting photograph.
OOH-RAH
I saw a Democrat at the gas station trying to put air in a tire that had a huge hole in it, I said you must fix the hole first before the tire can hold air you retard, and he said shutup you racist, I know it will work if I keep doing it.
The Bizarre Topsy-Turvy Speeches of Barack Obama
Can you say Academy Award for best short, short subject on a person of African descent?
Just don't go to the Bates Motel!!!
link to seeing Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood domestic terrorist, listed as member of Obama's Transition Team, page 29
http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsRep...
What a wonderful vision of loveliness to greet one in the morning. I'm in love.
for some unfathomable reason, that picture reminds me of a '57 Caddie. i wonder why that is?
Bah-da-bing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfhsUcyld0
Is it just me and my old age, 64, or are modern hotties less glamorous, and harder looking than the old time movie stars. I saw the pictures of January Jones in GQ, and she looked hard. Personally I'm still hooked on Veronica Lake, Lana Turner, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, et al., but I wouldn't walk across the street for Angelina, Jennifer, or most of the other "hot" babes of the current generation.
What a knockout, wow!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7090300.stm
Curvy women may be a clever bet
Nigella Lawson: Curvy figure and an Oxford degree
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.
Semper Fidelis!!!
lol, that made me laugh out loud for real Smelly.
Nope, it's not just you Thomas and I'm not nearly as old as 64.
Hmmm, the women back then sure were "perky" weren't they.
No, it's not just you. I'm 48, and I agree with you and with the first set of names you listed, hubba, hubba!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_li...
This item should raise even more flags about the underlying motives of this Obama Socialist administration.
One thing I am certain of: Holder and Obama are not in the least concerned about 'terrorist' organizations unless they happen to be of the right-wing anti-Obama flavor…. you know…..gun owners, veterans, anyone that speaks of conservatism……….
Even though he was a white guy it was obvious to him that you are a racist!
They are all feral now.
I want to weep every time I see Ava Gardner. I'm 45.
I think most of today's "hotties" are just hungry…that can make one grumpy.
Help me out here. Who is this stunner? Poeple are talking about Ava Gardner, but the pic title on download says Janet Leigh, who I thought was a blonde.
The pic is an absolute heart-stopper.
I'm a woman and agree that a lot of the female 'movie stars' today are hard looking. They are all underweight and covered in that fake spray tan which makes them resemble scrawny overcooked chickens. A lot of them have tattoos which I believe are nothing but trashy especially on a woman.
It makes me long for the days of Katherine Hepburn, and I'm not even old enough to have been around in those days.
Did we ever do a post Mad Men finale discussion? I'll get the old ball rolling:
Will the Politician turn out to be a pervert? Will Bets regret her decision to dump Don? Will the Sterling/Cooper/Draper/Price ad agency flourish? Will they hire the tortured Sal back? (They must!) Will the Stalking Schoolteacher show up to make Don's new bachelor life miserable? Will Roger and Joanie get back together after her hubby is shipped to 'Nam? Will Don continue to have flashbacks that don't make any sense?
This brings up a yell-at-the-TV issue for me:
What Do Women Want?
To wit, the new Playtex bra commercials. Women so happy as to how their "best assets" are wonderfully displayed, then in the middle comes the complaint "Hey, eyes up here!"
Good Lord, what do you want us to do? What's next, the flashing LED display top with swirling spirals centered on the nips, that you will wear to work then complain about sexual harassment when we look?
If you don't want us to stare, if you really do want "eyes up here," there is a readily-available solution, commonly known as an Ace bandage.
Keep this up, and we will have to retaliate. We will have pants with a sculpted pouch, right in front, don't-look-eyes-up-here. We too will claim the option of padding and similar "enhancements." And before you even suggest escalation, remember this: You already accuse us of having too many "phallic symbols," we have grown immune to that criticism. We can bring back the codpiece. You are warned.
Janet Leigh didn't become a "blonde" until the 1950s. As a 1940s ingenue, she stuck with her natural hair color. And trivia of the day (most of you probably know this), Jamie Lee Curtis is her daughter. Another tip: great Christmas movie which will probably be making the rounds in a few weeks — "Holiday Affair" (1949) with Robert Mitchum. Speaking for the female persuasion — Robert Mitchum — they don't make 'em like that anymore either.
I'm 30 and I'd take any of the gals you mentioned over the current crop of hotties. It might be the fake tan, fake breasts, over stuffed lips, and oddball tatoos, but I just don't find most of the modern as appealing.
I've seen "Holiday Affair" at least twice in the last couple of years. One good thing about it is that the two male leads are both decent guys. You don't have the good guy/bad guy dichotomy of "Duel in the Sun" or some other movies. Victory Jory would have been a good husband and a decent father, but Mitchum's character was all of that plus he was an exciting person, which Jory's character wasn't.
Yes quite pert!
Sounds to me like he's going to start lobbying for a special government stimulus bill in order to keep feeding quarters into the air compressor.
Or anyone that disagrees with "The Politics of Change."
Of course not. See they get it. The reason Islamofacists hate America isn't because of gay rights, same sex marriage, divorce rates, women's rights, or lurid and lascivious pop culture. No, they hate Americans because of right wing, family oriented, religious people.
So once Obama & Co. get rid of them, the world will love America again.
Really? LOL
I agree to a point. I'm 26 and when people ask me who my celebrity crush is, I say Barbara Stanwyck circa 1941 when she did Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve. (Although I like JAG's Catherine Bell, too.)
However, I would stack Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchette, Kate Winslett, and Aishwarya Rai against any of the Golden Age actresses (though I confess the fact that none of them are American isn't a good sign either).
Is it me or does she look like she could be related to Vivian Leigh (though I'm sure there is no relation)… I'm probably just making a connection that's not there… Jamie Lee looks a lot like her mother.
From Hollywood, announced on the Marine Corps' birthday and the week of Rememberance Day:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43018
WW2 is now "passe" and the Sgt. Rock movie will be set in . . . the future.
*thump*
Democrat stories! It could be a nice children´s book if you remove the expletives. Imagine the funny illustrations and the speech ballons!
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." –Thomas Paine, The Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Aishwarya, yes. Indian actresses are a different story. Some of those Bollywood gals have class and curves in the best Hollywood tradition.
I´m 43 and you´re right. Of course there are many very attractive actresses today. But they suffer by comparison.
Janet Leigh's hair color was brunette early in her career, when this glamor shot was taken. That photo is of her.
Janet – as Susan Vargas in Touch of Evil – O..M..G
Anyone see today that Obama officially went on the record as supporting penalties (like fines and/or jail time)for those who won't buy health insurance after the bill passes? Of course, he dressed it up by talking about fairness and how people need to take responsibility for their own insurance and not live off the dime of other taxpayers….HA!
I can easily see Roger and Joan getting back together, clandestinely or not. Remember when he pushed his drunk wife's arm away while he talked to Joan on the phone? I'll be very surprised if they don't kill off Joan's husband while he's in Vietnam.
I find it hard to believe Betty will live happily ever after with her new man. I imagine she'll be just as unhappy as she was with Don. Does that woman ever crack a smile?
I hope we get to see more of Lane Price. Loved his parting shot at his boss, wishing him a happy Christmas.
re: tats.
I very much enjoy DancingWTStars, but the blue/black tats on Kelly Osbourne's forearms are an absolute distraction. And it's impossible to tell what they represent, if anything.
Trashy? those, not so much, maybe, but every time I see them I think she should go wash.
I like Lane Price, too. However, his wife is not going to be too happy that he is staying in the U.S.
I agree about Betty, too. She is too whiny and crabby. The Politician doesn't know what he's in for: a life of unrelenting misery and 3 kids to boot. Hey, what about Peggy and Duck? Will they bring Duck back to work for SCDP?
Sorry – can't agree on Robert Mitchum… there was just something untrustworthy about him. I am one of those women who can't abide a cad and love the "good" guys.
Derek Smalls solved that problem for you. You're lucky. Do you know how much a new bra costs as opposed to a cucumber?
Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas – O.M.G.!
Price's wife is going to be furious. She's sort of the anti-Trudy. You wouldn't see her bring in lunch for her husband's co-workers.
Are Peggy and Duck still together? What a creepy relationship that is. I'm still ticked off at him for abandoning his dog in season 2.
January Jones must be doing a great job because I absolutely HATE her character! I am furioius with my husband for getting me hooked, because now I have to wait FOREVER for the next episode.
Did you know she played that part with a broken arm? They removed the cast for the scenes where they couldn't camouflage it.
Connecting the dots
How long Before Hussein Obama goes all Jihad ?
/tell me I am wrong
She is terrific. I could easily see her as one of the icy blondes Hitchcock loved to cast in his movies.
As much as I like Mad Men, I think Breaking Bad is even better. Can't wait to see what they do in season 3.
Duck is a creepy person. I didn't really like him before he abandoned his dog, but that incident confirmed his conniving character to me. Surely Peggy is not that stupid to think the guy likes her…she had better watch her pillow talk.
I wonder how much time will have passed when the new episodes begin?
Frankly, I've seen a couple of interviews with her and she's not very likable offscreen. I despise her character, too. Shallow and self-absorbed.
When will the new episodes begin? Next August?
Women don't want you to check them out, except when they do.
After everything that has happened to Peggy, I don't think she easily believes anything anyone tells her. She seems much more guarded.
I've been wondering about when the next season will be set. I can't imagine them jumping ahead to 1968 with all the turmoil that would bring, but who knows?
Hasan?
Hang'em high.
But what to do with the:
AMERICAN PSYCHO
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/ameri...
My top five for Janet Leigh:
1) Psycho
2) The Mancherian Canidate
3) Touch of Evil
4) The Naked Spur
5) Bye, Bye Birdie
(I also have a soft spot in my heart for "Night of the Lepus", perhaps the greatest giant killer rabbit film ever made.)
Thankfully, the *only* giant killer rabbit film ever made.
Don't forget Monty Python and the Holy Grail's killer bunny!
Actually that was a foil-wrapped zucchini. All ready to pop in the oven…
You can eat that, I'm not hungry.
I know, and that is the problem!
Can't they give us some easy-to-read indicator? Like a big necklace pendant-type thing, rotating arrow, they can point it up or down…?
"I soiled my armor!"
Castle finally joined the cheap partisan shot bandwagon last night. A bike messenger is killed and everyone wonders, "What could be so important you would kill a messenger to get it back?" Castle muses, "Dick Cheney's soul on the way to the devil?" I think we'll be halfway through President Bachmann's first term and Hollywood will still be taking cheap shots at Cheney and former President Palin.
And, of course, the Senator with a morally questionable family is identified onscreen as R-NY.
I know what some of you will. "Baby, them's just jokes!" Yeah, and I'm going to keep on watching Castle, but it's annoying when they have to take these little shots that could be dropped without any impact on the story. You can't watch a favorite show without wondering, "Will this be where they call me a teabagger?"
Any bets as to the number of times the supposed CiC says I or me at Hood today? My heart breaks.
This why, more and more, I listen to music and not television programs or 'the news'. Beethoven doesn't go for the cheap shot just b/c it is easy to do so and Artie Shaw doesn't add filler material simply to make the recording longer.
I spent 5 hours in my car yesterday driving and playing music and I never felt better.
Me too – Bad Boys always just came off as that – bad. Do something to break the law? Dont expect me to sympathise with you because youre getting your come-uppance. MUCH prefer the good guys.
The weird thing about Hasan is that he has a pleasant face in that photograph that seems to be everywhere.
*Maybe he doesn't look so pleasant in most photos and in real life…so why are we seeing this same photo over and over? Because it is easy to obtain by lazy-ass news people or because we are being fed this 'happy face' photo by agents trying to make him more appealing and 'forgivable' (can't even really use that word….pitiable? Is it "Save the Muslim" time?
Would he have gone so f'ing crazy w/o his religion riding his ass?
Weirder still is that I have known maybe 3 people with that same type of face. One friend killed himself and no one else, the other guy has an outlet for his anger and no religious crap egging him along and the third guy is very creative, intelligent and yet a mental case.
Waiting anxiously for the 24 premiere. However, if Jack Bauer is still unburdening his soul to the Iman, I will give it up with no remorse.
Did you know that 'those' were often referred to as ' Dagmars ' in the styling studios in Detroit? Just some info for you. If you don't know who 'Dagmar' is…just 'google' the name. She was a buxom blonde who was on TV in the 1950's and co-starred with Jerry Lester in a comedy-variety show.
If you like MItchum you have to see "His Kind of Woman" – Mitchum, Raymond Burr, Jane Russell and a terrific comic turn by Vincent Price as a washed up actor.
"My Sister Eileen" is goo too. Boy can Betty Garrett sing! Boy can Janet Leigh fill out a sweater!
umm whats wrong with her boobies?
Bullett Bra. Those puppies were set up like concrete in one of them things!
Now that the DC Sniper is set to die where is Tim Robbins, Sean Penn and their ilk? Not a peep from the lefties today when it's a slam dunk case. Why do they pick and choose who to fight for? I guess they are not opposed to the death penalty in all cases? If John Allen Muhammad were a Journalist like Mumia would they fight for him? Maybe he's not as popular as Mumia and they won't get the positive press coverage they love. Have some character and stand up for what you believe in you cowards.
Absolutely nothing!
It's really pretty easy. Women like being checked out and thought of as sexy, but they want you to be subtle about it. A full-on stare at your chest while you're trying to get to know a person isn't sexy. A glance or two, a quick body sweep, etc., those are fine. The Hannibal Lecter stare is creepy.
When you have a conversation with anybody, eye contact is important. Girls know straight away if you actually want to get to know them or just ogle them up close. If they have any kind of self respect at all, they'll kick you right to the curb over the latter one.
I rolled my eyes over those bits, too. And the bit about how the fall guy did it because he couldn't afford insurance for his sick kid? Yeah.
It was nice to see that the Senator, who was actually the cause of it all, had no idea and did everything he could to help make it right once he did know, though.
I was tired when I started the episode, so the motive for taking the fall went right over my head. Another strike against this episode. Still, it hasn't fallen to the level of the typical cop show, where the cops are walking around talking politics every minute of the day.
HUBBA HUBBA!! Janet Leigh looks much better as a brunette. I wonder if Stoney Curtis ever kicks himself for screwing things up.
Half the population agrees what is in the picture above requires more than one or two glances.
I am starting to agree with the viewpoint that women dress up more to impress each other than they do to impress men, making each other jealous about one's ability to attract is more important than actually attracting. Really, if you are looking for anything longer than thirty minutes, all we need is enough to know there is not a lights-out horror story under the wrappings and we're good.
Simple rule, if not for quick sale then don't put it in the display window. If you want it to be appreciated, keep it in view behind the counter. If we catch a glimpse while walking by and are intrigued, we will enter, notice all the offerings, perhaps even fall in love with the store. And isn't that what women say they really want?
What about Fatal Attraction, lol?
DEF the BEST ep of the season! I KNEW my gal Joan would come back! Get rid of Betty-she always seems like shes hooked on the new '60s drug, Quaaludes!
My favorite is 'The Vikings'. A glorious cheese-fest with Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas and the inimitable Ernest Borgnine. Janet Leigh was freakin' HOT in that one!
actually i did know that. a buddy of mine was a hardcore car buff and he once used that term to describe a waitress' bust. i asked where he came up with that and he told me about its car industry history.
speaking of such usages- in skydiving, a "Mae West malfunction" is when one of your lines goes over the top of the canopy, making it look like an enormous bra. (usually this excessively compromises steering & control, so must be cut away and the reserve deployed).
Big Bazooka's
Va-va-voom! Janet was a cute kid, huh?
Names –
I knew a stripper once, billed as Toni Curtis – real name: Bernice Schwartz.
Swear to god.
They don't make stars like THAT these days!
Holiday Affair! How can you beat a romance with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum?
Yes, I think everyone loves "Night of the Lepus". Something about terrible effects, acting, and those cute bunnies killing everything….
Very few of today's female celebs could hold a candle to Janet.
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