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The good wife's giude

I guess time has change a lot since 1950.

trangendoll

Russian children toy stores have appeared strange Chinese dolls looking like a girl-doll but if fully undressed there can be something found that better would suit for a boy-doll.

People demand to band those dolls from being sold on the territory of Russia and claim that it maybe done on purpose by some evil forces from outside of Russia in order to form a bad perception of female/male orientation from the early age.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball

Freedom2006 and Anytime score hit over the globe

After almost 2 years Freedom2006 still going strong with 45,652 hits and Anytime became the group biggest hit with 90,376 hist total(13565 first release+ 76,811 re release)

Summer under the star at TCM

TCM Special Summer under the stars Kick off today with Elizabeth Taylor. It's a part of TCM festival every august. Also in line up this week included Peter O' tool (8/2) , Joan Crawford (8/3) , William Holden (8/4) ,

Here is some of my pick for the first half of the month..


1 Wednesday

• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) ****
  
• Place in the Sun, A (1951) ****
  
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) ***1/2
  

3 Friday

• Mildred Pierce (1945) *****
• Possessed (1947) ****
• Flamingo Road (1949)***1/2
• Harriet Craig (19500 (N/A)
• Autumn Leaves (1956) ****
• Caretakers, The (1963) (N/A)
• Trog (1970) (N?A)

5 Sunday

• Anatomy Of A Murder (19590 (N/A)
• Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952) **

6 Monday

• Two For The Seesaw (1962) (N/A)
• Out of the Past (1947) *** 1/2

7 Tuesday

• His Kind Of Woman (1951) (N/A)
• Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) ***
• Outlaw, The (1943) (N/A)
• Macao (1952) (N/A)

8 Wednesday

• Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946)***1/2

9 Thursday

• Thin Man, The (1934)***
• After The Thin Man (1936)
• Another Thin Man (1939)
• Shadow Of The Thin Man (1941)
• Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945)
• Song Of The Thin Man (1947)
• Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer, The (1947)**
• Ambassador's Daughter, The (1956)***

10 Friday

• Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)***

11 Saturday

• Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960)
• It's A Great Feeling (1949)**
• Lover Come Back (1961)***
• That Touch of Mink (1962)**1/2
• Tea For Two (1950)
• Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)***

12 Sunday

• Citizen Kane (1941)****
• Shane (1953)***

13 Monday

• Good News (1947)
• Three Musketeers, The (1948)**1/2
• Little Women (1949)***
• Opposite Sex, The (1956)

14 Tuesday

• From Here To Eternity (1953)****

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy

There's a bunch of episode of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy that you can listen on line at cityofrosesradio.com

Bergen & McCarthy ...

MADONNA & PALS LIKE BUTTER

Another LA hotspot, Butter, was treated to a visitation by some A-list celebrities Monday night. THE NY POST's PAGE SIX reports that Madonna showed up for some fun, and was said to be "quite chummy" with fellow musician Shakira. The two pop divas reportedly showed up "hand in hand," according to a source. Shakira wasn't the only famous friend hanging out with Madonna, though, as Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and Penelope Cruz reportedly joined her for a dance on the club's banquettes. Also at Butter that night was Janet Jackson, who reportedly sat a few booths down from Madonna and her crew.

The women remake

After almost 70 years from it's original release date "The Women" is actually going to be re-made. The movie is coming out in 2008 and it will star Debra Messing, Eva Mendes, Annette Being, Jada Pinkett Smith and Candice Bergen.







The Women directed by ladies director George Cukor, about "catty" women, rivalries, and infidelity. This above average comedy drama features Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Marjorie Main, Virginia Grey, Ruth Hussey, child actress Virginia Weidler, Cora Witherspoon, Lucile Watson, and Hedda Hopper (among others)....

Thierry = Manfred ???

My friend Aiden is not the only one to get tired of his own name ,the 59-year-old French designer and perfumer, Thierry Mugler, has been lifting weights to such an extent that he's bulked himself into an unrecognizable musclebound creature that necessitated a name change. Please, call him Manfred Mugler now


Before: (with always Glamorous Cyd Charisse )


After :Manfed New Name & New COLT look

American Idol

I'd just realize that I never write anything about my favorite show "American Idol". Tonight I feel bad about the departure of Lakisha . I hope she and Melinda would be in the final. Not that I don't like Blake thought .But the thought of having Blake and Melinda in a finalis just like apple and orange. Plus Blake can sell a million cd if he got vote off tonight.

Gay Pride Month at TCM

In celebration of June’s Gay Pride Month, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will present Screened Out: Gay Images in Film, a month-long, on-air film presentation of the varied concepts, stereotypes and imagery of gays & lesbians as represented in classic Hollywood cinema. Esteemed author and historian Richard Barrios will serve as special consultant and co-host of the event, along with TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne, providing context for the film series with introductions on the network preceding the films. In addition to Barrios’ commentary, several prominent figures will provide their thoughts and remarks, including Michael Musto, Tab Hunter, Ron Nyswaner, Charles Busch and Alan Cumming.

The themed film series will air such classic movies as The Broadway Melody (1929), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and Designing Woman (1957) every Monday and Wednesday evening in June beginning at 8 p.m. ET.

By the way I did't realize that The Maltese Falcon has a gay theme. May be I need to watch it over again. oops!!

missing cover

King RAMA VII also was on the cover of 1931.



Here is another cover.

searching for a missing cover

After submit my vote for my pick of the most influential people of the year at TIME website . I found out that King Bhumipol was on cover of TIME magazine twice. I did found one online . It was the cover on May,1966. It also included a 10 pages article "Holder of the Kingdom, Strength of the Land"

Not Bad...

This is the first time I get highest score At TCM classic movie Trivia..I guest I' not that bad huh?

Autumn Leaves ****

One of my favorite movie theme is the older woman with a younger lover (Sunset Blvd.“ and “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone) Joan Crawford play A lonely spinster is seduced into a romance with a man 20 years younger. Once married, their lives come unhinged when the young man begins to have a psychotic breakdown.Fine performances from Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson give this taught drama more emotional resonance than might be expected from the plot summary. Crawford is superb - all huge eyes and trembling lips, she makes the relationship with Robertson's character believable and moving and also very real. Their characters are clearly very close sexually; whether he's nuzzling her neck as they dance or they're nuzzling in bed, Burt and Millie are obviously turned on by each other and sincerely like each other. Burt's boyish charm lightens Millie considerably, just as her common sense and responsiveness to him give him much-needed assurance. Very Romantic but the same time Robert Aldrich direction (what ever happen to baby jane?, Hush Hush sweet charlotte) give a movie creepy feel.

Joan Really like working with Robertson she said “It was an intense and happy working relationship.... (I'm proud to say I coached him from all the research I'd done for “Possessed.“) Good story, believable characters, good script, good acting, consequently a good film...”


Also When Miss Crawford uttered that famous line, “And you, you slut!“ it made my day..Totally.

Japan new Bombshell

In Japan, adult love dolls are called “Dutch Wives” dachi waifu ダッチワイフ but we’re not sure why this term or where this term came from. These dolls however are not inflatable dolls but use soft vinyl, urethane, and silicone to make them feel like real women. These state of the art dolls are priced around 600,000 yen and there is even demand for adult doll magazines, rental services and love doll hotels!

Joan Crawford A movie star

"Joan Crawford behaved like a star. Some do, some don't...You know, when Joan came on the set, somebody came on the set."

Rosalind Russell

"My first impression of Joan Crawford was of glamour. Glamour had nothing to do with aloofness or temperment, it had to do with friendliness, tremendous vitality and hard work, ambition and constant desire to improve her work, and to get knowledgeable about things that were

important to the work."

James Stewart

"Joan was a star in every sense of the word. She didn't remind you of it in any particular way. You just knew it. And you didn't think any less of her for it."

Henry Fonda

"Joan Crawford, as much as I dislike the lady, is a star."

Humphrey Bogart

What a star!!

Birds do it, Bees do it.

Filmmakers recently went in search of homosexual wild animals as part of a National Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role in the mating game.They are discovering that homosexual and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal kingdom.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic pair-bonding behavior—entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper flapping, and the rest.

...The team caught female Japanese macaques engaged in intimate acts which, if observed in humans, would be in the X-rated category.


.Whether it's a good idea or not, it's hard not make comparisons between humans and other animals, especially primates. The fact that homosexuality does, after all, exist in the natural world is bound to be used against people who insist such behavior is unnatural.

The Night That Panicked America

On the eve of Halloween in 1938, what could best be described as mass hysteria swept across the nation after millions of Americans tuned in to CBS radio about a quarter past 8 p.m.

October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theatre, under the direction of Orson Welles, performed a radio play called “War of the Worlds” on WABC, New York, and over the Columbia Broadcasting System network, coast-to-coast.

It was based on a science fiction story by H.G. Wells (no relation) which entailed Martians landing in New Jersey to take over the world. The broadcasted imagery produced through sound effects and acting was so powerful, it caused mass hysteria. Thousands of listeners panicked nationwide, not realizing it was just a radio play, even though disclaimers were announced before and during the production.

How bad was it? The next day, “The New York Times” ran this headline:
Radio Listeners in Panic,Taking War Drama as Fact

Many Flee Homes to Escape `Gas Raid From Mars'--Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy

In Brooklyn, one man refused to believe a policeman’s denial by telling him, “What do you mean it’s just a play? We can hear the firing all the way here and I want a gas mask

In Indianapolis, a church service was interrupted when a woman dashed in screaming, “New York is destroyed! Go home to die with your loved ones.

the most terrified listeners were in the town of Concrete, located in Skagit County, 60 miles northeast of Seattle. By coincidence, during the midpoint of the broadcast a power failure plunged almost the entire town of 1,000 into darkness. Some listeners fainted while others grabbed their families to head up into the mountains

Some of the men grabbed their guns, planning to blow away any bug-eyed monster or spaceship that got in their way.

Listen The 1938 original broadcast of the mercury theatre " war of the worlds" here

WarOfTheWorlds.mp3