Sunday, 31 December 2023

Reflections on ... New Year's Evil (1980)

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  Staying in tonight? Want some thematically appropriate festive viewing? I recommend grisly low-budget slasher flick New Year’s Evil (1980...
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Monday, 18 December 2023

Mamie Van Doren's Christmas Pictorial in Escapade Magazine (1966)

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  In the countdown to Kitschmas ... Mamie Van Doren's festive pictorial for Escapade magazine, 1966. I posted this set on my Facebook a...
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Monday, 20 November 2023

Reflections on ... Tomato Soup Cake

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Further adventures in baking: on Sunday the boys were coming round, so I whipped up Tomato Soup Cake from B Dylan Hollis’ essential Baking Y...
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Saturday, 21 October 2023

Reflections on ... the hates and loves of Ann-Margret in 1964

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  In 1964, then-23-year-old starlet Ann-Margret bared her soul to 16 Magazine about her “hates and loves” (or, as they put it at the time: ...
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Saturday, 7 October 2023

Reflections on ... Little Richard: I am Everything (2023)

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  I finally watched the 2023 documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything . (It's streaming on Amazon Prime). Director Lisa Cortés succe...
Monday, 28 August 2023

Reflections on ... the Diva exhibit at The V&A Museum

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  / Grace Jones with flowers at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, October 1981 by David Corio / Who’s up for some “diva worship”?  My quick re...
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Saturday, 26 August 2023

The Next Lobotomy Room Film Club: The Leech Woman (1960) on 21 September 2023

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  Are you anxious about the specter of old age? Do you dread the inevitable ravages of time? Honey, we all do! Let’s watch a movie that exa...
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