Video searches for Tommy Wiseau and his masterwork, The Room (read all about it above) brought me to this little gem entitled “Worst Line Reading Ever”. It's from a film called?a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough_Guys_Don't_Dance_(film)” target=”_blank” title=”Tough Guys Don\'t Dance Wikipedia”>”Tough Guys Don't Dance” and it just proves that as much as Norman Mailer can fight and write, directing is simply not his forte.

Despite a cast including the always incredible Isabella Rossellini, and?Ryan Oneal (sorry for your loss Ryan), this one has become a minor cult camp classic due to scenes like this one. Oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man indeed.

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Posted on July 6, 2009

It was a rough day for American icons and those of us that grew up with them. Farrah Fawcett, who epitomized blonde, American, smiling sexuality with her ubiquitous pin up poster and role on Charlie's Angels lost her long battle with cancer just before news of the surprise death of fellow superstar Michael Jackson hit the internet.

Giving the world the feathered haircut and agreeing with me and most teenage boys on the sexiness of ditching the bra, there were few women that had more influence on the popular culture of the 1970's than she did.

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Posted on June 29, 2009

Though Sian Phillips's roots are more working class (she's the daughter of a teacher and a cop), I think the word “regal” is the best way to describe her powerful aura. Even if you don't know her by name, she has graced many of my (and possibly your) most favorite things.

She's probably most famous for her role as Livia in the awesome I, Claudius, but she also graces the excellent George Smiley series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, opens David Lynch's Dune with a commanding forehead, accepted and declines invitations in Age of Innocence, and if you're not so much the BBC miniseries or historical romance type, maybe you remember her from Clash of the Titans or Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (which featured a little girl named Cindell who became my little brother's imaginary friend).

She was also once married to Peter O Toole and currently lends her voice to Rufus Wainwright.

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Posted on June 8, 2009

Gardner McKay spent his life turning heads. He is so gosh darn good looking that people could offer him a key to stardom after just one glance. That's exactly how he became one of televisions first heart throbs. That would have been Dominick Dunne that did the spotting that ended in McKay's most famous role in Adventures in Paradise, but before then Richard Avedon also spotted him and asked the then photographer to model in a series of Suzy Parker photos.

It was from one of those photos that his jawbone caught my attention (see more about the ICP show here), and I jut couldn't understand how a once world famous man like that could be so unknown today.

Ends up that the life of a star just didn't sit well with him. Unable to be kept in a cage, he left the business as suddenly as he had skyrocketed to the top of it and continued on as a sculptor, writer and real life adventurer. Amazing. I didn't know any celebrities actually retire when they threaten to (Joaquin, Gwyneth, JayZ, and on and on and on).

Just another way McKay was different than most men (the other way being, of course his incredible handsomeness).

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Posted on June 1, 2009

Maxine de la Falaise's obituary reads like a dream: she grew up in a family that “were the highest of haute bohemia”, as a child in school, “her clothes – Rhoda's (her mother's) discarded Schiaparellis or bespoke oriental ensembles – were awesome”. Later, shipped off to the US to find a wealthy husband, “She hung around Vogue in New York, was introduced to Elsa Schiaparelli, whose couture house had reopened… as perfect in her lanky loucheness to wear and sell for the house in its last years, and she was also photographed as a model for Dior, whose rise finally eclipsed Schiaparelli.”

She counted Louis Malle and Max Ernst among her lovers before becoming “an influential hostess among the Manhattan creatives” and a food columnist for Vogue. She was great friends with Andy Warhol and I know her well from his camp classic Blood for Dracula. Yves Saint Laurent, who claimed her daughter Loulou as a muse, was also enamored with Maxine and she both modeled for him and acted as his licensing consultant.

She was a gorgeous and fascinating woman who left her own, unique stamp on the world.

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Posted on May 25, 2009