Saturday, October 24, 2009

Top Ten Most Beautiful Actresses in Movies I've Watched Alone This Year

10. Carolyn Seymour as Grace Shelley in the Ruling Class
“Can't be...it's wax.”




9. Oja Kodar as the Girl in F for Fake





8. Dorothy De Poliolo as Gloria Perkins in L'Avventura
“Tolstoy, for instance, or Shakespeare.”





7. Jeanne Crain as Ruth Berent in Leave Her to Heaven
“Hello.”




6. Brigitte Bardot as Juliete Hardy in ...And God Created Woman





5. Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven
“Oh, I'm sorry. I was staring at you, wasn't I?”





4. Lea Massari as Anna in L'Avventura





3. Monica Vitti as Claudia in L'Avventura
“Go on, speak.”





2. Teresa Izewska as Stokrotka/Daisy in Kanal
“Rest now.”





1. Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight and Charlotte Andergast in Autumn Sonata
“Oh, dear Maestro, no one has been as kind to me as you have, since she died.”


“We're not as young as we were.”





Monday, June 22, 2009

William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, Fifth Duke of Portland



















Wore a 2 foot tall silk hat, two overcoats, a high collar and carried a deep umbrella for hiding behind if spoken to.
Received letters and roast chickens through in and out mailboxes in the doors of his rooms.
Unused rooms were painted pink and contained only a lavatory pan.
Eventually built a maze beneath his estate.

Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford
















Hired eight cabs and placed musicians on the roof, drove around the streets at high speed while they played.

Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby














Knee-length beard, aquatic.

Sir George Sitwell



















Inventions:
  • musical toothbrush
  • "egg" made of smoked meat and rice in a synthetic shell
  • small revolver for shooting wasps

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester



















When forced underground, assumed dual identities of "Dr. Bendo", a gynecologist and "Mrs. Bendo", his wife.

Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath













1 wife, 64-75 wifelets.



















With a wifelet.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Arcimboldo - Vertumnus

Brothers Quay - The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer




















With Arcimboldo painting.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - The Librarian

Andre Martins de Barros - The Philosopher

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Marfan Syndrome, Artists, Subversion























































Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait With Arm Twisting Above Head

Beresford Egan - Fleurs du Mal

Aubrey Beardsley - Cinderella

Bruno Schulz - Undula with the Artists





















Svengali (1931)

























Trilby O'Farrell has the most beautiful foot in Paris.

Svengali (1931)























Svengali's dreamlike exterior? interior?