Bitterness Personified

Phew! I am whoppingly behind with my blogging. Life has got in the way in recent months: Iwas in Canada for two weeks over Halloween an...

/ C ult movie actress / burlesk artist / convicted felon / naive outsider painter / gangster's moll ... the fabulous Liz Renay (192...

Hungarian glamour puss Zsa Zsa Gabor, at the height of her plastic surgery-enhanced pulchritude in the 1950s. Now a 94-year old bed-boun...

/ The astonishing burlesque queen Tempest Storm (judging by her bouffant hairstyle, circa the early sixties) / It’s fair to say everyo...

/ And God Created ... Brigitte Bardot / Happily, my jinxed period at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern has definitely has come to an end – thi...

/ Jayne Mansfield with a totally impractical surf board / This was my first post- Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender Dr Sketchy. I s...

/ An intoxicated and bleary-eyed Jayne Mansfield parties with Mamie van Doren (check out Mamie's outrageously fake wighat). Jayne lo...

/ Early sixties Ike and Tina Turner: I love Ike's mighty processed conk and sleazy little pencil-line mustache. Tina's painted-o...

/ Sweater Girl: A sultry, hair-hopping young Violetta Villas working the projectile bullet bra look / The second Dr Sketchy of the New...