February 2011
10 posts
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BONUS: Emmanuelle (1974)
Love the simple yet sexxxy composition and I’m not mad at those curvy letters either.
(via wrongsideoftheart)
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Le Doulos (1962): Deep Cover.
“In underworld slang, doulos means “hat”. But in the secret language of police and criminals, doulos is also the name given to the one who wears it… the police informer.”
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The Getaway (1972): Mo' Money Mo' Problems.
The Getaway is the love child of Indecent Proposal, Bonnie and Clyde and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with a score by Quincy Jones. Doc McCoy (McQueen), is a Texas prisoner waiting on a parole that won’t come. He sends his wife Carol (a sun-kissed Ali McGraw) to go above, beyond, and (to his dismay) beneath a shady businessman with pull to get him released, but there’s a...
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Hubba Hubba: Faye Dunaway (1968)
Faye Dunaway, 1968 by Jerry Schatzberg.
Hubba Hubba is a weekly feature showcasing the pulicity and editorial photos of the leading ladies and gents of old Hollywood. They don’t make ‘em like them they used to.
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BONUS: Teenage Mother (1967)
This Teenage Mother poster is one of my favorites. I have a copy of it above my kitchen table (not kidding!) and it makes me smile every morning when I’m stuffing Frosted Flakes into my little face and chugging Grovestand OJ like a champ. “She does her homework in parked cars!”
Poster via (wrongsideoftheart)
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The Cotton Club (1984): Gangsta's Paradise.
“It was the most exciting period in America, the twenties into the thirties. …It was the starting of the Mafia. And the numbers racket was the most lucrative business of them all. For a penny you could fill a dream. But my dream turned into a nightmare”
This is how producer Robert Evans begins the story of the epic flop The Cotton Club. It’s part of a handful of...
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Hubba Hubba: Humphrey Bogart (1941)
And since we’re on the topic of gangsters… Humphrey Bogart, 1941 by Scotty Welbourne.
Hubba Hubba is a weekly feature showcasing the pulicity photos of the leading ladies and gents of old Hollywood. They don’t make ‘em like them they used to.
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BONUS: Stolen Kisses (1968)
Spanish poster for Francois Truffaut’s 1968 romantic comedy Stolen Kisses.
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Robert De Niro and Michael Pitt by Hedi Slimane...
Hedi Slimane’s latest diary entry is a small group of photos of two of my favorite actors. Robert De Niro, winner of the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award, Focker, and he of a recent hilarious 30Rock cameo; and Michael Pitt, who I’ve loved since Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Gus Van Sant’s Cobain inspired Last Days, The Dreamers, and more recently as Jimmy...
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Things to Do: Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria,...
Earlier this month the Museum of the Moving Image unveiled a face lift to rival that of the tautest of Beverly Hills housewives. The museums new reflected exterior with accents of hot pink, and expanded wing designed by architect Thomas Leeser make it stand out from the neighboring restaurants and shops in Astoria. Upon entering the lobby you feel as though you’ve been transported to a...