tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68329556769351619862024-03-13T12:17:49.577-07:00The Frog's EyebrowsThe Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.comBlogger304125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-21528548476113638232012-04-19T18:03:00.000-07:002012-04-19T18:03:00.443-07:00Blog from the Road IIINext to the huge statue of Louis Riel outside the Manitoba Legislature.<br />Who's seen Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg"? What did you think of it? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-61sNwPnWqGw/T49kWX21dRI/AAAAAAAAAGk/oh6hJNNOs6Y/s640/blogger-image--1428715349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-61sNwPnWqGw/T49kWX21dRI/AAAAAAAAAGk/oh6hJNNOs6Y/s640/blogger-image--1428715349.jpg" /></a></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-24434995783360547432012-04-18T12:59:00.002-07:002012-04-18T12:59:00.467-07:00The Fashion of Doctor Who<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411184/" title="550w_cult_doctor_who_logo_04 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/6905411184_538c176e3a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="550w_cult_doctor_who_logo_04" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Next year <i>Doctor Who</i> will turn 50 and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the BBC has planned to celebrate it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you've never seen an episode of this cult classic, either the new version or the classic one, then you've truly missed seeing some great television.</div><div style="text-align: center;">What is it about tuning in every week to watch a daft old man fly around time and space in a magic box that has made it last for so long and to gain in popularity every year that it's been broadcast?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, it's more than just a children's show and it's more than a sci-fi show. Every week you can watch a brilliant adventure unfold before your eyes (or from behind the couch) as you watch the Doctor and his companions battle monsters and save the world. It's just good fun to watch, even when the budget only allowed to wobbly sets and aliens made out of tinfoil.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I like to think that what has made <i>Doctor Who</i> last for fifty years is the Doctor's fashion sense. He is truly a unique style icon. Remember that every time the Doctor regenerates, he's never really himself until he has the time to select a new outfit that fits his new personality.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7051502383/" title="william-hartnell-doctor-who-740x1024 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7074/7051502383_15d667599a.jpg" width="361" height="500" alt="william-hartnell-doctor-who-740x1024" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>One.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ah yes, the befuddled and grumpy Edwardian grandfather look. The First Doctor wore plaid pants (almost all of the Doctors have worn plaid at least once) a frock coat and a string tie. He was also the first Doctor to experiment with hats, including a Stetson. Because Stetsons are cool. Perhaps because he was so young, this is the only Doctor who would regularly change his outfits in order to blend in the the local environment that the TARDIS had accidentally landed in. And this is not the last time that we will see the Doctor in an Edwardian style outfit, since it is ordinary enough to not seem too strange but unique enough to stand out in a crowd.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411482/" title="second-doctor-patrick-troughton-2 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6905411482_e27b03d836.jpg" width="391" height="500" alt="second-doctor-patrick-troughton-2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Two.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Second Doctor's look can best be described as a cross between a hobo and a clown. Or Chaplin's Llittle Tramp character in space. He is the first Doctor to have bigger on the inside pockets to hold useful objects, like a yo-yo and his flute. He would also wear a giant fur coat, and you know how I love my fur coats. While outwardly childish and forgetful, the Second Doctor was really quite cunning and forceful.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7051501873/" title="8hv6fxLNv7MOmBn by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5312/7051501873_19399f39ab.jpg" width="451" height="500" alt="8hv6fxLNv7MOmBn" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Three.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">I would like to describe the style of the clothes horse that was the Third Doctor as bitchin'. This is the rock 'n' roll Doctor. From his frilly shirts to his velvet suits and from his giant bowtie to his capes and fluffy hair, this is one cool cat! And let's not forget Bessie, his bright yellow car and his penchant for wearing fedoras. Plus, he's the only Doctor who would regularly change his outfit throughout a season. Watching a Third Doctor serial makes me scour the vintage shops even harder in my quest for the elusive perfect velvet suit.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7051502121/" title="DOCTORSCARF by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5272/7051502121_716b451a2a.jpg" width="410" height="500" alt="DOCTORSCARF" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Four.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The most recognizable of all the Doctors, Four is also the most worthy of the label "style icon". The Fourth Doctor was the most unique in terms of looking like you would imagine a weird alien Time Lord type of chap to look. From his long coats (I need a purple frock coat! Why can't I find one?) to his tweed trousers, vests and crumpled fedora, he's really got a stylish look going on there. Plus you can dress up like him everyday and never get bored of wondering around town in it and offering jelly babies to random strangers.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But really, the Fourth Doctor is all about the scarf.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tom Baker's long scarf really said a lot about the Doctor. Weird, slightly ridiculous, outwardly showing little purpose, but you'd be lost if it suddenly disappeared.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411442/" title="Gal_doctor_7 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7252/6905411442_da0cb01f83.jpg" width="500" height="350" alt="Gal_doctor_7" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Five.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Fifth Doctor is my all-time favourite Doctor.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love his cricket outfit, from the running shoes to the stripped pants to the celery in the lapel to the Edwardian frock coat. Seriously, what is it about the Doctor and his love of frock coats and why aren't they easier to find? At first glance, you might think that the Fifth Doctor would look ordinary walking down the street, but then you see the eccentric touch of the celery in the lapel and you think again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411222/" title="doctor6 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6905411222_e3361372c4.jpg" width="342" height="471" alt="doctor6" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Six.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, poor number Six. The Eighties were really hard on you. Just look at the patchwork coat you've got on. On second thought, best not to look. It burns my eyes!</div><div style="text-align: center;">As to the Sixth Doctor's time in the TARDIS:</div><div style="text-align: center;">No.</div><div style="text-align: center;">No.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just no.</div><div style="text-align: center;">That regeneration did not go well.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411272/" title="doctor7 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7191/6905411272_ca62ba282c.jpg" width="342" height="471" alt="doctor7" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Seven.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Seventh Doctor definitely had the look of the alien showman going on. It's theatrical while still being academic. He also brought back the plaid pants and I love his straw hat and his habit of wearing two scarves at once and always carrying an umbrella.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You may have noticed that throughout the Eighties, the four different Doctors had the motif of wearing a question mark (or multiple question marks) somewhere on their costume. The question mark refers of course to the ultimate question that we've been asking about the Doctor since the show started fifty years ago and that is: Doctor who?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411086/" title="8doctor1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5191/6905411086_60f32e2451.jpg" width="392" height="500" alt="8doctor1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Eight.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Poor Eight. You had such an awesome Victorian dandy look going on, but you only had one Americanized TV movie to show it off in. It's such a wonderful outfit and I wish we'd been able to see that velvet frock coat for a longer period of time. Hopefully, they'll include the Eighth Doctor in that multi-Doctor they are planning for next year so you'll have more time to shine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411652/" title="the_ninth_doctor by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5465/6905411652_09d8e61633.jpg" width="350" height="470" alt="the_ninth_doctor" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Nine.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Ninth Doctor was the first Doctor to not look like the Doctor. He didn't even wear a tie! Just that leather jacket and non brightly coloured sweater. Boring! This is why when you're reviving a series, you do not hire a non-fan lead actor, especially one who doesn't understand why the Doctor has to look uniquely eccentric.</div><div style="text-align: center;">On the other hand, you could look at this as the shell-shocked Doctor. He has just survived the Time War and destroyed his own people in order to save the entire universe and time itself and he just doesn't want to associate himself with any of his past selves, since to do so would bring back too many painful memories.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Or you could just see him as the boring to look at Doctor.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411512/" title="tenthdoctor by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7232/6905411512_4bbe2a4c6e.jpg" width="437" height="491" alt="tenthdoctor" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ten.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">From the modern suit to the Converse, the super long coat and the cheeky grin, the Tenth Doctor is the second most recognizable Doctor look. You could also wear it everyday and not get a second glance, except from people you recognize the super long coat reference.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6905411398/" title="dr-who-fez by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5322/6905411398_09ec0bd9a3.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="dr-who-fez" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Eleven.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">If your high school science teacher were a tall and lanky young man, he'd look like that. At least the Eleventh Doctor is driving up sales of Harris Tweed by wearing a tweed jacket every week. And have you seen his stripped shirt cuffs? Awesome! Hopefully, his immense popularity will bring back the bowtie.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bowties are cool!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fezzes are cool!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Carrying a mop might never catch on though. Just saying.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because you can find a fan video about also anything about <i>Doctor Who</i>, I found one about his fashion:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a7LzZeMb08E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I think I'm going to have to write a post about some of the more stylish companions from the classic Doctor Who, not the ones from the new Doctor Who since they are a bit boring and interchangeable. Anyone of any favourite companion styles that they'd like to suggest?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-84168664089419944992012-04-17T10:08:00.001-07:002012-04-18T18:04:03.906-07:00Blog from the Road IIView from the Top of the World at the Centre of the Universe. Now at the Forks.<br />
Let's see you non-Canadians figure that out.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OmDCLXfItYU/T42joaAgHSI/AAAAAAAAAGc/-x8NeQwNQO4/s640/blogger-image-1377120592.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OmDCLXfItYU/T42joaAgHSI/AAAAAAAAAGc/-x8NeQwNQO4/s640/blogger-image-1377120592.jpg" /></a></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-55360150764839642002012-04-12T04:57:00.001-07:002012-04-12T04:57:53.230-07:00Blog from the RoadTrying on helmets at the War Museum in Ottawa.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s4aZARA1QXQ/T4bDP05052I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/FNDcPrjOa98/s640/blogger-image-1490405802.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s4aZARA1QXQ/T4bDP05052I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/FNDcPrjOa98/s640/blogger-image-1490405802.jpg" /></a></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-19709147319755543512012-04-11T23:07:00.000-07:002012-04-11T23:07:00.853-07:00Vintage Books {A Moveable Feast}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7052765751/" title="ernest-hemingway-a-moveable-feast by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5116/7052765751_bdafc9e1ea.jpg" width="316" height="473" alt="ernest-hemingway-a-moveable-feast" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I decided to finally read Hemingway's memoirs of being a young writer in Paris in the Twenties after getting my DVD of <i>Midnight in Paris</i> recently. I'd been meaning to read it for a number of years, but I just kept putting it off because I've read a couple of his novels and I really don't like his writing style.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hemingway wrote in simple sentences.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And this book is no exception.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hemingway hated adjectives.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And descriptions.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He wrote to show you people, events and places. Not to tell you of them.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was also very much a man's man.</div><div style="text-align: center;">However, I liked <i>A Moveable Feast</i> and you have to read it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a fascinating memoir of how Hemingway was training himself to be a great writer by living in a small flat with his first wife and child, struggling to get by and yet still making himself write all day and every day in order to publish stories here and there.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You really get a taste of what Paris must have been like during the heyday of the Lost Generation of writers and artists that had gathered in Paris.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And there are also the stories he tells of the famous people that he was friends with. There are tales of him drinking with people like Ford Maddox Ford and Ezra Pound and borrowing books from Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. His and everyone else's hero-worship of James Joyce and a great chapter on how much Gertude Stein's lectures and advice meant to everyone. But the saddest story of them all are the chapters about his friendship with Scott Fitzgerald and how his drinking affected him, which is worth reading the entire book just to get to.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish that more Lost Generation writers had written memoirs about the Twenties in Paris. It was a truly a Golden Age and a unique period of creativity and a wonderful times to be alive and I'm sorry I missed it but I know that we must live in the present and visit the past through the texts that they left behind.</div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-46770591023905940602012-04-07T23:10:00.001-07:002012-04-08T04:24:32.614-07:00Daily Outfit<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6909771384/" title="7 April 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/6909771384_f27aa99713.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="7 April 12" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">No, I don't just hang out in the cemetery randomly. Okay, I do sometimes. However, I've been slowly learning how to drive in the cemetery. It's great. There are hardly any people to not run over, no cars and there are roads and corners to go around in.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cardigan: thrifted</div><div style="text-align: center;">Skirt: thrifted</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tights: Hue</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shoes: Bloch</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I decided to follow <a href="http://elegantmusings.com/2012/02/cupids-arrow-sweater-embellishment/">Casey's tutorial </a>and add a Cupid's Arrow to this plain black cardi and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7055859859/" title="Detail 7 April 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7055859859/" title="Detail 7 April 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7055859859_815d1eb7ba.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Detail 7 April 12" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7055859859/" title="Detail 7 April 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> In other news, I'm leaving tomorrow for my two week vacation.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've decided to have an adventure. So, I'm going on the greatest journey that a Canadian can take in a lifetime.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay, maybe not the greatest.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can't afford the greatest.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm going on the greatest Canadian journey that I can afford to take.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's go with that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've scheduled a couple of posts for when I'm gone and I'll have pictures when I get back.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Does anyone know if I can buy Remix vintage shoes in T.O.? Or maybe just a pair of saddle shoes?</div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-34355959950859485912012-03-27T23:52:00.002-07:002012-03-29T04:31:07.742-07:00I Spy With My Little Eye<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6877087526/" title="Cosby by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7248/6877087526_3802d0bfef.jpg" width="284" height="422" alt="Cosby" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Given my affinity for the Sixties Spy-Fi genre, I have gotten a number of requests to write something about <i>I Spy</i>, which ran for three seasons from 1965-1968. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I only got into <i>I Spy</i> recently, since I tend to watch parodies and slightly surreal spy shows and movies like <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2010/02/avengers.html">The Avengers</a></i> and <a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2010/02/cinema-tuesdays-our-man-flint.html">Derek Flint</a>. But I really adore <i>I Spy</i> now that I've started watching it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">If I were to compare it to another spy-fi show, it would be <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2010/02/danger-man.html">Danger Man</a></i>, in terms of it's realism. You wont find any gadgets in I Spy. The two characters rely on using their wits and intelligence to get them out of sticky situations. There's one episode were they break out of a locked room using some dry ice and saltpeter.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a clip of Scott and Kelly breaking out of jail.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tKh9hECF8C0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7023188315/" title="3_122 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/7023188315_86ec5b44a9.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="3_122" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, why do I love this show?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, a couple of reasons.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The first is the relationship between Scott and Kelly. Bill Cosby plays Alexander Scott and Robert Culp plays Kelly Robinson, they work for the American Government as secret agents using the cover of being tennis bums to cover up their jet-setting ways. The focus of the show is really on their buddy relationship. Their hip banter back and forth is a bigger draw for watching this show than the espionage is. Kelly is the athletic playboy who's after the girl (most of the time) and lives by his wits. Whereas Scott is the working class Rhodes Scholar who speaks several languages and is more pragmatic. But these two different people complement each other it make their partnership work. It also helps that Culp and Cosby were actual friends and their amazing chemistry together is genuine. Kelly and Scott treated each other as brothers and you knew that by the end of the episode, no matter what they fought about or if anything tragic happened over the course of their assignment, they would end up together. Plus, they always worked together, which I like better than <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2011/07/classic-television-man-from-uncle.html">U.N.C.L.E.</a></i>, since Napoleon and Illya would spend most of every episode apart and you never really got to know their characters.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a clip which sums up how much Scott and Kelly really cared for each other.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VVvTeLCs5uU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; ">Now, why should you watch the show if you don't really like spy shows?</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Well, for the reason why this makes the show almost entirely unique in the history of American television.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">It's filmed on location.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Actual, exotic locations.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">If Scott and Kelly are escaping the baddies by running across rooftops in Hong Kong, they are actually running across rooftops in Hong Kong.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">If they're chasing someone on a Vespa in Rome, they are actually navigating Roman traffic.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You want to see Vegas back when it was cool in all it's neon glory?</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Watch this show.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You want to see what Hong Kong looked like before the Chinese took it over and built skyscrapers? </div><div style="text-align: center; ">Watch this show.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You want to see Venice with a slightly higher water level?</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Watch this show.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You want to see San Francisco in the Sixties?</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Watch this show, baby.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You want to see what everyday people wore and how cities looked on an ordinary day in the mid Sixties?</div><div style="text-align: center; ">I know you do.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Screw <i>Mad Men</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Watch <i>I Spy</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7023188507/" title="Tao_149 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/7023188507_5b80ef55ae.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Tao_149" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I said earlier that this show is based on realism because of it's lack of gadgets. Well, it's much more than that. I said in my post on <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2010/02/danger-man.html">Danger Man</a></i> that John Drake is more realistic than James Bond and it predated Bond on the screen. Well, <i>I Spy</i> is in direct contrast to the massively popular Sean Connery period. There are a number of references in it's pilot "So Long, Patrick Henry" (which was actually written by Robert Culp) to James Bond in order to highlight the direct contrast to James Bond. Bond is a fantasy, But Scott and Kelly are real. I Spy shows the tough, gritty world of being an agent. Yes, there is world travel and beautiful girls, but sometimes the girls are the enemy, or they die or they are just using Scott or Kelly. Plus Scott and Kelly know that they can't commit to a girl without giving their job and settling down. Their assignments are tough, dangerous and sometimes have no purpose. But they can't do anything about it because they knew what they were getting into and at the end of the day, they are like anyone else with a government job, but at least they have medical benefits and a pension. There aren't always happy endings in <i>I Spy</i>, but that's not to say that it's a strict dramatic show. There are episodes played purely for laughs (try watching "Will The Real Good Guys Please Stand Up") and there are some episodes that are really sad, but what makes the show great is it's combination of dramatic tension with the comedic banter and reactions of Scott and Kelly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is an example of an action scene in Hong Kong. You can actually picture this happening to a real life spy team.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4Wcl3JfU_zY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6877087454/" title="19_118 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7241/6877087454_f6b51c17f5.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="19_118" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If I can just say a few words about the clothes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, the women were gorgeous Sixties fashions, but they also were what look like their own clothes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But Scott and Kelly are really snappy dressers. </div><div style="text-align: center;">And they wear a lot of white jeans and repeat their clothes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And they wear bright colours and a lot of knitwear for some reason.</div><div style="text-align: center;">So, there's a lot of fashion inspiration.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In terms of celebrity guest stars, there are some, but not as much as <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.ca/2011/07/classic-television-man-from-uncle.html">U.N.C.L.E.</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">But two notable ones are Anna Karina speaking in English in "A Gift From Alexander" and the fabulous Eartha Kitt playing a herion addicted singer in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSLr3qhfEg&feature=related">"The Loser"</a>, which was written by Robert Culp and is one of the best episodes of the series.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PkIqzUspqqQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, you may have noticed something about the two stars of the show.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the first television show in history, maybe even in the entire Western history of performing itself, where a black man and a white man are shown as being not only co-stars, but as true equals. Yes, <i>I Spy</i> is a historically and culturally significant show in that regard, but I wasn't going to mention it, because it was never mentioned on the show. And that means that <i>I Spy</i> has aged well. It's also modest and admirable. Here they were, a groundbreaking show at the height of the civil rights movement and the two stars insisted not only on not making it a big deal, but on not mentioning it. They only wanted to entertain.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I Spy</i> is available on DVD in Regions 1 and 4.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7023188399/" title="188b901e0 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/7023188399/" title="188b901e0 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7076/7023188399_7bdb9a92ab.jpg" width="400" height="286" alt="188b901e0" /></a></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-82936983109304072122012-03-17T23:10:00.001-07:002012-03-18T04:29:27.652-07:00Before The Parade Passes By<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6989136595/" title="108021-L by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6989136595_7dfcc0b5b1.jpg" width="303" height="475" alt="108021-L" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A couple of years ago I took the interwar lit course at uni and it's topic was The Great War and Shell Shock. The professor devoted a full month to discussing <i>Parade's End</i> by Ford Maddox Ford, which no one had ever heard of before. It has never been out of print but it has never been a best-seller. But it has been hailed as one of the greatest English novels of the Twentieth Century, which I would have to agree with.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Parade's End</i> is actually four novels, published separately but meant to be read as one volume. They are:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Some Do Not...</i> (1924)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No More Parades</i> (1925)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A Man Could Stand Up</i> (1926)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Last Post</i> (1928)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have struggled since I began this blog to write a post about this novel since I began this blog. It's just so hard to put the plot and what the author is saying into words. So, here goes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Parade's End</i> chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens from his life just before the outbreak of the war, to his service on the Western Front and his life after he returns and tries to find his place in a society that has no need for his character and what it stands for.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tietjens is "the last Tory". And by Tory, I don't mean a member of the Conservative Party, I mean a Tory as opposed to a Whig. Just look it up, it's to hard to explain succinctly. Tietjens is a brilliant government numbers man, a member of the landed gentry, an officer and a gentleman and the last Edwardian. Or at least he was before 1914. After the war he is still the same man, but the problem that he faces is that the Twentieth Century started while he was serving at the Front and by the time 1918 roles around and he returns from France, everyone who acted like him and held his values had either been killed or were too old to have a meaningful place in society. For Tietjens, the Twentieth Century is embodied in the two women in his life. His bitch of a wife Sylvia, a vindictive and sadistic socialite who is determine to ruin both him and his entire family history and Valentine, a high-spirited modern woman and a suffragette whom he meets during the war and whom he lives with after the war in an unconsummated relationship.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the book, Ford wrote that the effect of the First World War was "a crack across the tabletop of history". And in a sense, it was. It ripped an entire society from the stagnate past and thrust it into the modern world in the space of just four years. Nothing would ever be the same and this was the message that Tietjens finally begins to understand by the end of the book.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But what is the book about? Well, that's rather hard to explain. To begin with, Ford began writing it during the war, but didn't finish it until ten years after. The plot is hard to explain because Ford is one of the first writers to employ that oh so modernist method of time skips. The narrative, like memory itself, jumps around from different times and places and it is only at the end that we finally get the full picture of just how much being in the war had affected Tietjens.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Parade's End</i> is about trying to capture and explain the world that Tietjens comes from, the world that was lost so suddenly in 1914. In a nutshell, <i>Parade's End</i> is about the end of an epoch and it is an attempt to recapture what was lost: lost time; lost friends; the loss of a generation of young men; the magic of the past; the ending of parades; the end of the natural officer class; and the end of a way of life.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Remember the last episode of <i>Blackadder Goes Forth</i>? That is what this book is about. It is about those officers who went Over The Top and survived and came back to discover that after the most horrific experience in human history (up to that point) they had no place in society.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wouldn't say that I liked my experience of reading <i>Parade's End</i>. I didn't enjoy reading it, but I was engrossed by it. You have to read it in order to understand fully the effect that the Great War had, not only on those who lived through it, but more importantly, the affect that it had (and still has) on those who came after it and on the modern world itself. For without the First World War, there would be no modern world.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because it is so long and has no linear narrative, <i>Parade's End</i> would be almost impossible to adapt to television (it could never be a movie) without losing the development of it's characters and Ford's message. Or at least that's what I and everyone in my class thought so when we were reading it. However, the BBC has adapted it into five episodes for broadcast later on this year and have cast Benedict Cumberbatch (the most awesome real name ever!) as Christopher Tietjens. I think he will be perfect in the role. There is only one production still at the moment, but I shall post the trailer and air dates as soon as they are released. But I do highly recommend reading the book before it airs. You have plenty of time to do so. Tell me what you think of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6843013146/" title="PD*51284652 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6843013146/" title="PD*51284652 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/6843013146_c50b10c859.jpg" width="500" height="323" alt="PD*51284652" /></a></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-26157545414576067172012-03-08T23:51:00.001-08:002012-03-09T04:31:33.235-08:00Recently Embroidered<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6820429500/" title="Gee! by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6820429500_9e9a3d8564.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Gee!" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This year, I've been embroidering a lot of little quotes to hang on my limited wall space. I love embroidering text above all else, mostly because I am unable to draw and there are just too many wonderful modern and vintage patterns floating around Flickr and Etsy to choose from.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The above is from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymous_emily/4333924044/in/faves-frogseyebrows/">this</a> title card from <i>The Plastic Age</i>, which I really want to see, since it stars Clara Bow. It hangs above my perfume bottles on my dresser.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6966640691/" title="As You Wish by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6966640691_8d536c6e1b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="As You Wish" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If <i>The Princess Bride</i> had had a musical number, it would have been <i>the</i> most perfect movie ever! It also has my second favourite sword fight scene. My Dad's hobby is calligraphy, so he wrote this out for me and I embroidered it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here it is in context, above one of my bookcases.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6820428146/" title="DSCF0161 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6820428146_e0ffed01eb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCF0161" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6820428302/" title="Ernie Kovacs quote by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6820428302_4dbf3b1efa.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Ernie Kovacs quote" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ernie Kovacs -television's original genius. I love Ernie Kovacs. I think he's hilarious and perhaps one of the two true geniuses that television has ever had. I'm working on a post about him that I hope to have written by the end of the month.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I found this frame at the thrift store after I had finished it and I popped it in because I thought the matting made it look like it was on the television screen. It's on the wall next to my TV.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6820429018/" title="Ceiling Fan and Radio in every room by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6820429018_93b04a80e0.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Ceiling Fan and Radio in every room" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought my bathroom (and by bathroom I mean literary a closet with a toilet in it) was a bit plain, so I decided to dress up the walls by embroidering two phrases from vintage matchbooks on scraps of floral fabric. I wrote down "Ceiling Fan and Radio in every room" ages ago on my list of stuff to embroider. I don't remember where I saw it, but I could have sworn it was from a post on motels from <a href="http://milliemotts.blogspot.com/">Millie Motts</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6966550175/" title="Close Cover before Stricking by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6966550175_1b117cc6eb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Close Cover before Stricking" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't they look nice on my wall?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6966550327/" title="DSCF0108 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7210/6966550327_efd323af34.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCF0108" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6820428738/" title="There's too much Tuesday in my beetroot salad by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6820428738_3b3c59704e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="There's too much Tuesday in my beetroot salad" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I was re-watching my <i>Beyond The Fringe</i> DVD for the millionth time a few weeks ago and during the "Words and Things" sketch, Jonathan Miller said as an example of everyday speech: "There's too much Tuesday in my beetroot salad". I thought it was so absurdly wonderful that I immediately started embroidering it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HVQrpok9KPA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-91269212110435291912012-03-05T11:13:00.000-08:002012-03-05T11:13:00.358-08:00Murphy Brown is Kick-Ass!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6529868759/" title="Picture 4 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6529868759_47d5d3fa71.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 4" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have a confession to make: I can't stand the <i>Mary Tyler Moore</i> show. I realize that it is a important show in that it had the first single, independent career woman as it's star, but I never found the Mary Richards character to be a great role model. She was just too weak and dull.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, Murphy Brown is more than just a role model. She's a kick-ass role model. And she changed the face of American television. There are still some aspects of her character, mostly her razor-sharp wit, that hasn't been seen on television since.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Murphy Brown</i> aired for 247 episodes from 1988 to 1998. It's first episode began with Murphy, a forty year old, single, award-winning and famous investigative journalist and a co-anchor on a live newsmagazine show called <i>FYI</i>. Murphy returns to work to find that the show's producer has been replaced by a young Yale grad called Miles Silverberg, who is a naive, over-achieving yuppie and knows almost nothing about producing a news show. The Network as also added a new member to <i>FYI</i>, the Pollyanna-like Corky Sherwood, a former Miss America, who is perpetually perky and knows nothing about world affairs. She does those light stories about puppies and decor they show at the end of the hard-hitting <i>FYI</i> episodes. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The pilot takes place on Murphy's first day back at work after she has been in rehab for alcohol and cigarettes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This had never been done before. Normally it's the male characters on a show that have a drinking problem and have just turned forty and have no intention of getting married. But here, it was a woman and a famous woman at that, at the top of her profession and played by a famous actress (Candice Bergen). </div><div style="text-align: center;">Rounding out the cast of characters are Frank, the show's undercover reporter and Murphy's best friend, Jim Dial, the stoic veteran anchor, Phil the owner of the bar next to the studio in Washington D.C. who knew everything about every political figure for the past fifty years, especially stuff that the public didn't know and Eldin, the philosophical artist that Murphy hired to paint her house in the pilot and spent the next six years painting murals all over her house. He's my favourite character in the show.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530133235/" title="Picture 40 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6530133235_11e7c80259.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 40" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But over the course of the series, Murphy Brown as a character is about more than just a recovering alcoholic. She is intelligent, works very hard at her job, takes her duty as a journalist very seriously, loves pulling pranks, slops around the house in pyjamas, becomes a single mother, stands up to the Network suits on several occasions, deals with breast cancer in the final season and loves Motown with a passion.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The reason why I think that Murphy Brown is a better role model than any other character on television today is that she stood behind her principals, even if it would cost her her job. Murphy Brown was made just before the news and the world of the journalist changed dramatically with the popularity of 24 hour news networks and everyone getting a summary of the news from the internet as it happens. For Murphy, being a journalist was about getting a story or an interview on the air, without compromising her ethics. Even if it meant landing in jail for not revealing her sources.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Murphy is also tough as nails. She got to the top of her profession on her own merits and isn't going to let anyone treat her as a little lady. </div><div style="text-align: center;">All this being said, <i>Murphy Brown</i> is also a hilarious sitcom that has really aged well. A lot of sitcoms get old and unfunny really fast, but not this one. Even it's topical political satire is still funny. It also deals with some issues that aren't present in today's shows and it also assumes that the audience is actually paying attention to what's going on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Murphy Brown </i>is still shown on reruns on a few channels, but it's largely forgotten today, and I really don't understand why. The first season was released on Region 1 DVD, but they wont release the remaining nine seasons on DVD because the the "high cost" of obtaining the music rights to songs, since the show had no theme song and played Motown songs throughout every episode. Which is a damned shame, since the show is cleverer than most modern shows on now, ridiculous 80's fashions aside. Actually, I quite like some of Murphy's clothes, since they suit her character.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The torrent for the first season is on most public sites, whereas the torrents for the remaining seasons are available on the private site TV Vault.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530132787/" title="Picture 25 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6530132787_5d6a026fa6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 25" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530131569/" title="Picture 16 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6530131569_cc4c309836.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 16" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530132981/" title="Picture 39 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6530132981_642b064669.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 39" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530134087/" title="Picture 73 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6530134087_5e5a83f3e1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 73" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6529868359/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6529868359_3428b0bde0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6529869093/" title="Picture 13 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6529869093_1ed9c26347.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 13" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6529866165/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6529866165_7d11b8fa50.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530133857/" title="Picture 46 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6530133857_15be197157.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 46" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6530132537/" title="Picture 20 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6530132537_4761ab0f19.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 20" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gjomMmAFkFk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a clip from a show about why the 90's ruled.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HruIRGqUpbg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the rather short piece about <i>Murphy Brown</i> from the PBS show America in <i>Primetime</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0CZ0u-itBYY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I found it hard to get clips from the show, so here is a promo for it's Australian syndication </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EQRKJLoTjIw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The longest and funniest running gag on the show was the crazy secretaries that Personal kept sending to Murphy's desk. Above is a clip of the secretary of the day from the first season and below are two clip shows of the secretaries that Murphy had to deal with in the first season.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cvboKEoIoac" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5-m_KfChas8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-80389897094725586052012-03-04T23:45:00.001-08:002012-03-05T03:49:52.189-08:00I'm Back<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6808975564/" title="4 Mar 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6808975564_cc70bf9cd4.jpg" width="331" height="500" alt="4 Mar 12" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I haven't been around blog land at all this year. How shame-making of me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The hours at the store where I work have been cut back and moved around, so I've been working almost exclusively the night closing shift for the past three months and nights are the time when I feel the most creative, in terms of writing. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I tried writing during the day before I have to go to work, but I've been distracted by rearranging my room. I live in an attic, so my room is quite oddly shaped and there is very limited wall space, but I finally figured out a plan to fit all of my stuff (at least the stuff that I didn't get rid of in my six month downsizing project).</div><div style="text-align: center;">What I have been mostly doing instead of blogging is watching a lot of TV. My library finally has a decent amount of complete television series on DVD, so I've finally been able to watch the TV shows that I've always been meaning to watch, but could never find a copy of. And I've gone through a burst of embroidery projects that have been on my mind for quite some time.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I feel that last year, I focused too much on my Cinema Tuesday series and less on other aspects of the vintage lifestyle. Mostly the television and music aspects, which do take longer to write a post of, particularly if I want to screen cap a TV series. So I've decided that for the rest of 2012, I'm going to limit Cinema Tuesdays to just three films a month in order to focus on writing on a wider range of vintage topics.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As always, I'm open to thoughts and suggestions. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Outfit Details:</div><div style="text-align: center;">The sweater, skirt and belt all come from the thrift store up the street from my house and the shoes are from Bloch and they are the perfect ballet flat. I thought the sweater was a bit boring on it's own, so I freehanded some embroidery along the neckline. Because I can. The necklace is from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/suegrayjewelry">this lovely shop</a> on Etsy. A lot of people of asked me about the meaning behind the small flower on my necklace, since I do wear it everyday, but if you've seen <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.com/2011/11/cinema-tuesdays-harold-and-maude.html">Harold and Maude</a></i>, you'll understand.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6808975806/" title="Detail -4 Mar 12 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6808975806_04e008463d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Detail -4 Mar 12" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have a new television post that I'm preparing for tomorrow, but in the mean time, here is a random picture of one of my cats. Her name is Ruby (after Ruby Keeler) and she's a polydactyl cat, meaning that she has extra fingers on each of her paws. And if you've seen my FB profile, she's the one on my head in my profile picture. I've tried to get a picture of her sister, but she's small and quite shy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6808975960/" title="DSCF0109 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6808975960_ff9db23b37.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCF0109" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-11731656541318253372011-12-27T10:07:00.001-08:002012-03-05T03:14:19.813-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Tootsie}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707161843/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6707161843_aa3694fb5d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">1982's <i>Tootsie</i> tells the story of Dustin Hoffman playing a struggling actor named Michael Dorsey. He's actually an excellent actor and everyone, including his respected agent, admires his work. The problem is that he can't hold a job down because he's such a damned perfectionist and no one will hire him because he's just too difficult to work with. He's also almost 40 and hasn't had an acting job in four months.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162045/" title="Picture 18 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6707162045_50dcfc8a6a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 18" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162207/" title="Picture 41 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6707162207_33d7abce52.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 41" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">His friend Teri Garr has an unsuccessful audition for a role on a soap opera called <i>Southwest General</i> and both out of desperation and in need of raising money to put on his room mate's new play, he decides to audition himself.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162385/" title="Picture 44 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6707162385_4de10d48f0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 44" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Using his skill of doing his own makeup, Michael becomes Dorothy Michaels, flunks the audition, tells the pompous director to fuck himself and is hired by the female producer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162569/" title="Picture 64 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6707162569_fa49f90d74.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 64" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot director is played by wonderfully played by Dabney Coleman, who also played a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot executive in <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.com/2011/06/cinema-tuesdays-nine-to-five.html">9 to 5</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162751/" title="Picture 100 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6707162751_36433fb271.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 100" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What makes this film great, aside from being hilarious and the hijinks that ensue from Michael working in drag and trying to maintain a personal life is that you tend to forget that Dustin Hoffman is playing Dorothy. You forget that this is a man playing Dorothy, he's just that good at it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707162911/" title="Picture 123 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6707162911_7aaa1acd9d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 123" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707163103/" title="Picture 139 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6707163103_6ca76446cf.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 139" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707163275/" title="Picture 151 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6707163275_cd76d374fe.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 151" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My favourite character is this film is Bill Murray playing Michael's room mate. Bill Murray was a big star at this point, but he's wonderful in this small role and apparently he improvised his lines.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707163523/" title="Picture 187 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6707163523_c2f352a3d8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 187" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dorothy Michaels objects to most of her lines and the way her character is written, so she makes up her own lines and turns the character into a tough, well-rounded woman, which you don't normally see on soap operas. As a result she becomes America's hottest new actress.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707163693/" title="Picture 199 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6707163693_a29342aec3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 199" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707163887/" title="Picture 211 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6707163887_9e0142a0cb.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164061/" title="Picture 222 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6707164061_3c7a48ece5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 222" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On the other hand, Michael falls for Dorothy's co-star and new best friend Julie, a single mother in an unhealthy relationship with the director. And Julie's widowed father falls for Dorothy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hilarity ensues.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164217/" title="Picture 256 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6707164217_299fecc1de.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 256" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164415/" title="Picture 280 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6707164415_36d7e51bc0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 280" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164621/" title="Picture 288 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6707164621_9cdd2fdd91.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 288" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164769/" title="Picture 294 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6707164769_97b67d0225.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 294" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707164965/" title="Picture 325 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6707164965_037496440d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 325" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707165155/" title="Picture 327 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6707165155_d6d0ab6b53.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 327" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707165293/" title="Picture 345 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6707165293_47da5fb63a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 345" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707165469/" title="Picture 350 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6707165469_4219dcd085.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 350" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707165601/" title="Picture 364 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6707165601_bef4af7909.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 364" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707165759/" title="Picture 376 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6707165759_40d956b6e9.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 376" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707166067/" title="Picture 422 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6707166067_388bcc5ebe.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707166259/" title="Picture 438 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6707166259_eb93d55263.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 438" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707166381/" title="Picture 456 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6707166381_2ccc3417e2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 456" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6707166557/" title="Picture 466 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6707166557_42af33c5ce.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"That is one nutty hospital"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BhhIxGXLayU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-61398433076354355222011-12-20T23:23:00.002-08:002012-03-05T03:12:17.051-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Some Like It Hot}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574260787/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6574260787_8e84e9f83f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">According to the American Film Institute, this is the greatest American comedy ever made. I would have to agree with that. Mostly for the punch line and more so for Jack Lemmon's reaction to it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Set in 1929's Chicago during the days of prohibition, jazz and gangsters, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play struggling musicians Joe and Jerry. They witness the Saint Valentine's Massacre and are seen by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft who was a close friend to several gangsters) and flee for their lives. Dressing up as Josephine and Daphne, they join an all-girls band which is headed to Florida where they meet Marilyn, who plays Sugar the band's singer. Joe does an impression of Cary Grant in order to romance Sugar as a millionaire with a yacht and Daphne is romance by Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). But then Spats and his gang turn up in Florida for a mob convention and all hell breaks loose.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The film isn't strictly historically accurate, but who cares. This is a Billy Wilder comedy at it's best!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574261129/" title="Picture 5 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6574261129_1e5ba63c37.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 5" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Another thing I love about this film is that you can tell that Tony Curtis is really playing the sax.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574261343/" title="Picture 36 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6574261343_35e24f7d2c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 36" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574261565/" title="Picture 39 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6574261565_da26c4c86a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 39" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574261753/" title="Picture 43 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6574261753_167556940c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 43" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574261909/" title="Picture 64 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6574261909_f93735b944.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 64" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574262119/" title="Picture 69 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6574262119_fe20b9bcca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 69" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574262297/" title="Picture 73 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6574262297_d2938751be.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 73" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Look how she moves. It's like Jell-O on springs."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574262519/" title="Picture 81 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6574262519_36ffdd079a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 81" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574262679/" title="Picture 111 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6574262679_84afd9f501.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 111" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574262911/" title="Picture 126 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6574262911_d085520ea8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 126" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263093/" title="Picture 150 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6574263093_fe3511cf49.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263271/" title="Picture 163 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6574263271_6ca1dfdb80.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 163" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Just keep telling yourself: you're a girl!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263443/" title="Picture 178 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6574263443_f6402006a6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 178" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263587/" title="Picture 183 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6574263587_b854382046.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 183" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263767/" title="Picture 195 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6574263767_c0d737f7d5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574263969/" title="Picture 198 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6574263969_acd0748bf7.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574264179/" title="Picture 218 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6574264179_04028543b5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574264383/" title="Picture 231 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6574264383_eb5eb6d7e7.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 231" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574264585/" title="Picture 242 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6574264585_c3b05c3851.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 242" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574264841/" title="Picture 244 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6574264841_8b39c39451.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 244" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574265217/" title="Picture 260 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6574265217_7a546ef6cd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 260" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is actually the Hotel Del Coronado in southern California, which you can still stay in today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574265497/" title="Picture 274 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6574265497_146e2c7f20.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 274" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574265921/" title="Picture 276 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6574265921_e805e392c6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 276" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574266143/" title="Picture 287 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6574266143_4ec8da3a78.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 287" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574266395/" title="Picture 294 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6574266395_000def6e39.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 294" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574266607/" title="Picture 324 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6574266607_0e18c03bd2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 324" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574266805/" title="Picture 328 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6574266805_83d32e5b8b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 328" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574267049/" title="Picture 349 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6574267049_afc9b081a7.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 349" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"We named the oil company after them"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574267275/" title="Picture 351 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6574267275_9ae38a4d46.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 351" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574267535/" title="Picture 359 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6574267535_3b8b32c733.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 359" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Zowie!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574267765/" title="Picture 361 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6574267765_2777599ee5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 361" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574267959/" title="Picture 371 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6574267959_876d10285f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 371" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't you think that for 1959 this dress is terribly daring, even shocking? Actually the whole movie is rather shocking for 1959. You have the romance between Osgood and Daphne, Sugar has stated that she's lived with a few saxophone players, Joe is a womanizer and then you have this dress which doesn't leave anything to the imagination. <i>Some Like It Hot</i> didn't receive approval for the Production Code and was condemned by the League of Decency and was one of the films that contributed to the end of the Code. This is another excellent reason to watch this film.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574268419/" title="Picture 397 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6574268419_4aa918cc1e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 397" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574268183/" title="Picture 376 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6574268183_75a2580f8c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 376" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574268827/" title="Picture 431 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6574268827_a7213397f5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 431" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574268619/" title="Picture 415 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6574268619_99cb8d04b8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 415" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574269031/" title="Picture 458 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6574269031_c6c58cc053.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 458" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574269291/" title="Picture 470 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6574269291_8927c103af.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 470" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574269583/" title="Picture 474 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6574269583_699ceec6a2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 474" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574269819/" title="Picture 478 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6574269819_0d4237e3ee.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 478" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574270075/" title="Picture 495 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6574270075_715ab039a5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 495" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"I'm engaged"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Congratulations, who's the lucky girl?"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"I am!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574270283/" title="Picture 515 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6574270283_8119930352.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 515" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574270515/" title="Picture 523 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6574270515_fe70058ec5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 523" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574270747/" title="Picture 526 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6574270747_9116df10c1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 526" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574270901/" title="Picture 531 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6574270901_335bab9dab.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 531" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574271207/" title="Picture 549 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6574271207_aa3a8d8607.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 549" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574271455/" title="Picture 558 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6574271455_b40f9099dc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 558" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6574271655/" title="Picture 592 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6574271655_0e04b6de62.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 592" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Best punchline ever! Mostly for the look on Jack Lemmon's face.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9In3apq_SSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-69643075337362657402011-12-15T12:24:00.000-08:002011-12-17T13:18:02.673-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Thoroughly Modern Millie}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524882645/" title="Picture 23 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><blockquote></blockquote><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6524882645_d23ff7ee32.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 23" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've loved this movie since I first saw it when I was six. It's truly delightful! <i>Thoroughly Modern Millie</i> is a 1967 light hearted spoof of the Twenties, complete with slang, speakeasies, flappers and title cards. I love the title cards! Julie Andrews plays Millie, a Modern who's determined to be an equal of men and marry her boss, regardless of love. Mary Tyler Moore plays Miss Dorothy, a rich orphan who's determined to keep her curls and write cheques for cab fare. James Fox (who's brother Edward stars in <i>The Day of the Jackal</i>. Watch it, you'll never look at a melon the same way) plays the adorable and carefree Jimmy Smith, who is more concerned with climbing buildings and getting Millie in his "employer's" red roadster than with actually working. And Carol Channing plays Muzzy, I wanted to be her when I grew up, but alas, I have yet to find a multimillionaire. And in her last movie, Beatrice Lillie plays the unforgettable Mrs. Meers.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Millie is a girl from a small town, trying to make it in the big city as a "stenog" and decide whether she should keep pursuing her swell boss Trevor Graydon who calls her John or if she should be poor but loved with her beau Jimmy Smith. Helping her on her adventure is her new best friend Miss Dorothy, who never carries any change with her. And along the way the girls get mixed up in a white slavery ring. But there's a happy ending for all.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This isn't really a cross-dressing comedy, but James Fox does wear a dress near the end and Carol Channing is a gay icon.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay, I just wanted to screen cap the fantastic costumes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524882807/" title="Picture 28 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6524882807_2be99433cf.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 28" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524883003/" title="Picture 42 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6524883003_c71013279a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 42" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524890209/" title="Full Fronts by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6524890209_debfa0141b.jpg" width="500" height="431" alt="Full Fronts" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(borrowed from <a href="http://www.andibgoode.com/2010/01/silver-screen-sunday-thoroughly-modern.html">Andi</a> since I have no idea how to stick images together)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524883269/" title="Picture 45 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6524883269_e09cb4dbac.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 45" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524883513/" title="Picture 53 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6524883513_7e5e0b5a26.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 53" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524883765/" title="Picture 63 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6524883765_e653ae4c84.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 63" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Sad to be all alone in the world"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524883901/" title="Picture 79 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6524883901_6234e67c58.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 79" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Best elevator ever!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884045/" title="Picture 99 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6524884045_750800dda0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 99" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884239/" title="Picture 107 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6524884239_6118c01a10.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 107" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884413/" title="Picture 117 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6524884413_6266bda879.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 117" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884569/" title="Picture 128 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6524884569_de5749c0b9.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 128" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884709/" title="Picture 144 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6524884709_429c7000ec.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 144" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524884899/" title="Picture 149 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6524884899_0fed7acdda.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 149" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885095/" title="Picture 159 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6524885095_15beff1a47.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 159" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885277/" title="Picture 164 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6524885277_0f5c589d7a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 164" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885453/" title="Picture 165 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6524885453_2d96a84112.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 165" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885623/" title="Picture 188 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6524885623_d28df4a887.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 188" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885813/" title="Picture 218 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6524885813_c93186d271.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love the top half of this dress, it's too bad we never get to see it in full</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524885981/" title="Picture 223 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6524885981_116590c164.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Raspberry!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524886143/" title="Picture 256 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6524886143_680b27d21f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 256" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524886575/" title="Picture 261 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6524886575_611a4e2c37.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524886815/" title="Picture 274 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6524886815_b346c41bed.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 274" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887055/" title="Picture 277 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6524887055_6466af52f0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 277" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887195/" title="Picture 289 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6524887195_c7b6383b1b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 289" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887259/" title="Picture 290 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6524887259_acfbae0f69.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 290" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887443/" title="Picture 300 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6524887443_25476b9ef6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887589/" title="Picture 315 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6524887589_5da92e1a63.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 315" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887751/" title="Picture 328 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6524887751_18598f20fc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 328" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524887911/" title="Picture 344 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6524887911_199cbcfc95.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 344" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524888099/" title="Picture 348 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6524888099_311c345f56.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 348" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524888283/" title="Picture 353 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6524888283_bcb4c1668b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 353" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524888449/" title="Picture 368 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6524888449_391b027817.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 368" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524888629/" title="Picture 378 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6524888629_c0e37f543f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 378" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524888855/" title="Picture 379 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6524888855_24b30c2c5c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 379" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889029/" title="Picture 394 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6524889029_0e41e3abb5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 394" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you say <i>Safety Last!</i> reference boys and girls?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889157/" title="Picture 446 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6524889157_f1a5cc79d5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 446" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889311/" title="Picture 460 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6524889311_c479199b2a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 460" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889465/" title="Picture 479 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6524889465_2d21eaf007.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 479" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889625/" title="Picture 488 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6524889625_2ae4f8ef41.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 488" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524889811/" title="Picture 491 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6524889811_6d93f4dd0f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 491" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524890035/" title="Picture 520 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6524890035_1bc2fec9e6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6524890159/" title="Picture 575 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6524890159_8000e75cf1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 575" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jCug0golA6c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-90167319250500886792011-12-09T23:25:00.000-08:002011-12-10T03:57:14.517-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Victor Victoria}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486027611/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6486027611_f6e6a52f3a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">For those of you who have not seen it, <i>Victor Victoria</i> is Blake Edwards' 1982 remake of a little known 1933 German film of the same name wherein a struggling light opera singer named Victoria (Julie Andrews) meets up with Toddy (Robert Preston) a struggling gay cabaret singer who comes up with a brilliant money making idea. Turn Victoria into Victor, the world's greatest female impersonator and "he" becomes the toast of Paris, provided no one finds out that "he's" a phoney. Matters are of course complicated when James Garner shows up, falls in love with Victoria and doesn't approve of her "woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman" lifestyle.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love this movie! It's hilarious, the suits are gorgeous and the interiors are stylish. Plus, I love the character of Norma, pretending to be Jean Harlow in <i>Dinner at Eight</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486028203/" title="Picture 11 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6486028203_38f2086028.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 11" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486028467/" title="Picture 20 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6486028467_b12fb72f05.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 20" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486028623/" title="Picture 26 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6486028623_46f79e80dc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 26" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486029301/" title="Picture 28 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6486029301_58fba69676.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 28" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486030351/" title="Picture 55 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6486030351_40bd2cb9fb.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 55" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486031053/" title="Picture 75 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6486031053_4649d8dbb0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 75" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486031333/" title="Picture 84 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6486031333_fa84915b88.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 84" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486031527/" title="Picture 97 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6486031527_635ff375d4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 97" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486031775/" title="Picture 101 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6486031775_d6687b919c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 101" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486031957/" title="Picture 113 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6486031957_8d13a19fd8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 113" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486032155/" title="Picture 127 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6486032155_eb50e38cc4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 127" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486032389/" title="Picture 130 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6486032389_581b60b11c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 130" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486032603/" title="Picture 139 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6486032603_8e014d4f1a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 139" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486032833/" title="Picture 145 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6486032833_014fd6dac0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 145" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033005/" title="Picture 150 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6486033005_1fa66c786b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033167/" title="Picture 152 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6486033167_02c6b904da.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 152" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033363/" title="Picture 165 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6486033363_6539b9c4e1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 165" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033551/" title="Picture 178 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6486033551_120efc425a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 178" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033749/" title="Picture 192 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6486033749_d9e0a7d849.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 192" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486033981/" title="Picture 204 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6486033981_2cb25bec37.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 204" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486034135/" title="Picture 213 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6486034135_e7e68f5ab5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486034281/" title="Picture 228 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6486034281_90652e57f1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486034479/" title="Picture 234 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6486034479_6bc577c8b1.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 234" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486034935/" title="Picture 254 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6486034935_15ae8ea62a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486035099/" title="Picture 269 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6486035099_1784274402.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486035365/" title="Picture 277 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6486035365_e576b2eed5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 277" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486035715/" title="Picture 295 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6486035715_7b85a7813c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 295" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486036121/" title="Picture 307 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6486036121_0434e30fc2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 307" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486036357/" title="Picture 314 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6486036357_5f0e4a7bae.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 314" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486036601/" title="Picture 337 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6486036601_10fdeb9aaf.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 337" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486036989/" title="Picture 343 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6486036989_29026ec66b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 343" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486037501/" title="Picture 369 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6486037501_21c45f9b51.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 369" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486037769/" title="Picture 374 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6486037769_e384b0941d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486038153/" title="Picture 384 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6486038153_b973602721.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 384" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486037275/" title="Picture 350 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6486037275_e78e086eab.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 350" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486037961/" title="Picture 382 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6486037961_d696728cda.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 382" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486038343/" title="Picture 399 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6486038343_9b1555b468.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 399" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486038581/" title="Picture 418 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6486038581_e4b8ebf2da.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 418" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486038783/" title="Picture 425 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6486038783_9cbbb30cba.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 425" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6486034699/" title="Picture 253 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6486034699_36590fb76a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 253" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/APuLUq1k4Rs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-8192297145228809072011-12-08T23:45:00.000-08:002011-12-10T02:03:52.159-08:00Daily Outfit<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6480703725/" title="101_0190 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6480703725_2a37472460.jpg" width="330" height="500" alt="101_0190" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In continuation of my tradition of wearing seasonally inappropriate garments, I'm wearing an embroidered peasant top with split sleeves in December. Who cares if it's 2 below out and it gets dark in the middle of the afternoon, it's pretty damn it! And that's what tights and a fur coat are for, right ladies?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Outfit Details:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Top: thrifted</div><div style="text-align: center;">Skirt: vintage, the label says "Mister Leonard" and it has a hip pocket!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snood: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtheliasAttic">Arthelia's Attic</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hair Flower: I made it myself</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tights: Hue</div><div style="text-align: center;">Belt: thrifted</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shoes: Bloch, the perfect ballet flat!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday was my birthday. I'm now 23. I went to the staff holiday party last night and wore a fabulous black dress from Stop Staring! but alas, I forgot to take pictures. I will the next time that I wear it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've decided that this month's theme for Cinema Tuesdays shall be Cross Dressing Comedies. The first post will be up sometime tomorrow night.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm starting to prepare my themes for 2012 already. My, how the year has flown by. Are there any suggestions?</div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-31919591990224437592011-11-29T23:51:00.000-08:002011-12-06T01:17:07.992-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {An Affair to Remember}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458828335/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6458828335_4306413fdc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>An Affair To Remember</i> is Leo McCarey's 1957 remake of his 1939 film <i>Love Affair</i>, which starred Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne an is in public domain. In general, the only remakes that I find acceptable are ones in which the director is remaking their own work and this is an almost scene-by-scene remake. But in colour and with Cary Grant.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You probably already know the story, either from watching it or from <i>Sleepless in Seattle</i>. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner but both are involved with other people. The first half of the movie is a romantic comedy with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr falling in love amidst witty dialogue. They agree to sort their lives out and meet on the top of the Empire State Building in six months. The second half is more of a romantic drama, but with a happy ending.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458829015/" title="Picture 3 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6458829015_56ab3bf6ca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 3" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458829575/" title="Picture 23 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6458829575_6b2b333cdb.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 23" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458831429/" title="Picture 27 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6458831429_f79e3bcfc9.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 27" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458831889/" title="Picture 46 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6458831889_ee7993abbc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 46" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458834027/" title="Picture 54 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6458834027_f2fdcec64f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 54" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458834401/" title="Picture 57 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6458834401_5b6b734b02.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 57" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458834641/" title="Picture 79 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6458834641_074cdc7cfd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 79" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458834843/" title="Picture 86 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6458834843_bd7d8ced1e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 86" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458835075/" title="Picture 96 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6458835075_7993e19255.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 96" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458835323/" title="Picture 107 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6458835323_038bb4f36e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 107" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458835529/" title="Picture 124 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6458835529_e8e3889453.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 124" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458835755/" title="Picture 131 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6458835755_efaaa79f63.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 131" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love the Grandmother.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458835995/" title="Picture 140 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6458835995_23af1cebb0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 140" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cary Grant: Style Icon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458836429/" title="Picture 144 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6458836429_244f9c0531.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 144" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458836643/" title="Picture 150 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6458836643_5d25046fe7.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458837069/" title="Picture 156 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6458837069_379f6fcd48.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 156" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458837323/" title="Picture 161 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6458837323_fb0ba4cf06.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 161" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458837549/" title="Picture 189 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6458837549_66609acb40.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 189" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458837747/" title="Picture 205 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6458837747_5de507e8f8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 205" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458838047/" title="Picture 223 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6458838047_f06e9ae08e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458838277/" title="Picture 263 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6458838277_4d891c2b38.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 263" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458838511/" title="Picture 269 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6458838511_f477d67080.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458838693/" title="Picture 285 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6458838693_cb7afc3f2c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 285" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458838837/" title="Picture 290 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6458838837_e770320dbc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 290" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458839057/" title="Picture 296 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6458839057_0bed000e3b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 296" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458839277/" title="Picture 302 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6458839277_1d5d13f27a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 302" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458839477/" title="Picture 306 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6458839477_608ff775ce.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 306" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458839685/" title="Picture 332 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6458839685_74a50f1652.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 332" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458839881/" title="Picture 335 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6458839881_b97aca5571.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 335" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458840281/" title="Picture 362 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6458840281_cec3c808a8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 362" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458840075/" title="Picture 351 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6458840075_e653c5a2ca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 351" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6458840467/" title="Picture 375 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6458840467_4d201689a2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 375" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dD41ea1M3bY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-68225034728597485762011-11-26T23:30:00.000-08:002011-12-03T03:01:06.226-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Harold and Maude}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445857053/" title="Picture 2 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6445857053_2a982329fd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I once got talking to one of the shop assistants in my favourite vintage store about <i>Harold and Maude</i> and we both agreed that it was one of the most optimistic films ever made and that the daisies speech is quite profound. If you haven't seen this 1971 cult classic, then you are truly missing out on a cinematic treat.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Framed by a fantastic soundtrack by Cat Stevens, <i>Harold and Maude</i> tells the story of two funeral crashers who form an unlikely bond. Harold is an 18-year-old who is obsessed with death and is looking to gain some form of meaning and purpose in his life. Maude is a wise, carefree and quirky 79-year-old who lives a life rich with meaning and purpose. Harold is part of a generation that can see no purpose in life and therefore cannot see the meaning of life. Maude contrasts Harold's nihilism by having endured and survive the horrors of the first half of the century and sees the meaning and purpose of her life is to enjoy each and every day and to seek out new experiences in the short time that we all have on earth.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Did I also mention that Maude lives in an old train carriage? Wouldn't that be an awesome place to live in?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445857411/" title="Picture 11 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6445857411_ceb4fff6ca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 11" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445857851/" title="Picture 39 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6445857851_96fd27e337.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 39" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445858047/" title="Picture 52 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6445858047_cceeb45a0c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 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center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445859755/" title="Picture 141 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6445859755_d8577dc5ab.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 141" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445860165/" title="Picture 160 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6445860165_30cdeddfce.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 160" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445860411/" title="Picture 167 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6445860411_68bb730689.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 167" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div 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center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445861179/" title="Picture 206 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6445861179_730bd70811.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 206" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445861431/" title="Picture 209 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6445861431_7f08237e09.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 209" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445861779/" title="Picture 225 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6445861779_a47638fc51.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445862015/" title="Picture 231 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6445862015_4518112f9a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 231" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445862237/" title="Picture 247 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6445862237_787ab4c636.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 247" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445862641/" title="Picture 255 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6445862641_5457978dc0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 255" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445862867/" title="Picture 263 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6445862867_27474eac54.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 263" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445863107/" title="Picture 270 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6445863107_89e501665a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 270" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445863335/" title="Picture 285 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6445863335_646aaa4021.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 285" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445863613/" title="Picture 287 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6445863613_14a5042deb.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 287" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445863841/" title="Picture 303 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6445863841_a628b9090c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 303" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445864065/" title="Picture 314 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6445864065_50bb0f6eb3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 314" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445864261/" title="Picture 322 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6445864261_e6114cf0ca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445864597/" title="Picture 323 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6445864597_8a3090a954.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 323" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445864853/" title="Picture 330 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6445864853_d497f93be9.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 330" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445865071/" title="Picture 344 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6445865071_68d6095965.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 344" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445865491/" title="Picture 369 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6445865491_a9358f3058.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 369" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445865687/" title="Picture 395 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6445865687_9aa7fcafbd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 395" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445865983/" title="Picture 410 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6445865983_75940e507f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6445865249/" title="Picture 360 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6445865249_33eaf20ae2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Despite it being a cult movie, <i>Harold and Maude</i> is quite hard to find. There is a torrent out there. The Region 1 DVD appears to be out of print and therefore expensive. However, the Region 2 is quite cheap. But I really think that it deserves to be re-mastered and issued by Critereon. I'd buy it, wouldn't you?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="500" height="284" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7Y4vdH_JZvU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-85303155303346442492011-11-25T23:08:00.000-08:002011-11-30T02:51:56.163-08:00Classic Television {Maverick}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6409986077/" title="Maverick_-_Title_Card by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6409986077_4de06320ae.jpg" width="500" height="365" alt="Maverick_-_Title_Card" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As I'm sure you're aware, the most popular American television shows in the '50's and '60's were Westerns. I'd never been a big fan of the classic period of Western films from the '30's-'50's until I took a course in the Appreciation of Westerns, which was my favourite class in university. However, I've never liked Westerns as a TV genre. I find them to be dull and predictable as they always seem to involve the self-righteous cowboy/lawman having a shoot out at the end with the guys in the black hats.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But there is one Western show that I love, mostly because it has as it's basis the one aspect that is sorely lacking in Westerns -a sense of humour.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Maverick</i> (1957-1962) tells the story of two wandering poker players/occasional con men/jack-of-all-trades named Bret and Bart Maverick, played by James Garner and Jack Kelly. The Maverick brothers, more so Bret rather than Bart, are not the typical Western protagonists. They aren't heroes, nor are they anti-heroes and they certainly aren't villains, although they occasionally break the law. They are very definitely reluctant heroes. They usually save the day for someone, even though they were just in the random town because they were looking for a poker game.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6409986127/" title="MV5BMTU1MDU4MTA2MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTQ3NTQ2._V1._SX300_SY450_ by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6409986127_3cefc461e5.jpg" width="300" height="450" alt="MV5BMTU1MDU4MTA2MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTQ3NTQ2._V1._SX300_SY450_" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bret and Bart do not look or act like typical Western heroes. They wear snazzy waistcoats, clean suits and ruffled shirts. They rarely sport a gun because both are terrible shots and it would ruin the line of their suits. And Bret always wears a black hat, and we all know that's what the bad guy usually wears. They actively avoid getting into fisticuffs wherever possible, because they're cautious rather than cowardly. Plus, it's dashed difficult to get a suit cleaned and pressed in the Wild West. Not to mention a frilly shirt!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6409986171/" title="west2_maverick_bret2 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6111/6409986171_37bf4aeeb7.jpg" width="287" height="365" alt="west2_maverick_bret2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Maverick</i> was originally supposed to be about Bret, who is the funnier brother. Remember when I did Comic Western month and I said that the characters that James Garner played in <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.com/2010/10/cinema-tuesdays-support-your-local.html">Support Your Local Sheriff</a></i> and <i><a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.com/2010/10/cinema-tuesdays-support-your-local_19.html">Support Your Local Gunfighter</a></i> were Bret Maverick, but with different names? Well, that's because James Garner has brilliant comedic timing and facial expressions and is so good at playing this character that he kept reviving it. Anyway, <i>Maverick</i> proved to be instantly popular as soon as it aired and since filming a TV Western episode every week is so gruelling on an actor, the producers decided to give Bret a brother named Bart so that production could alternate between James Garner episodes and Jack Kelly episodes every week.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6409986019/" title="jackkelly1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6409986019_97a2584a25.jpg" width="333" height="432" alt="jackkelly1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bart is the slightly more serious brother and acts a bit more like the traditional Western hero, especially when it comes to women. The best episodes are when both Bret and Bart are both on screen, either working together or in competition with each other and you can see just how marvellous and funny the chemistry between James Garner and Jack Kelly is.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Every week, Bret or Bart usually find themselves in a situation where either their money has been stolen or they feel obligated to help someone (usually a pretty, but troubled young lady) or they find themselves stranded in a random town and need to come up with a scheme in or to raise some money to play in a high stakes poker game. The funniest episodes are when all three occur in the first act. Bret and Bart often find themselves in a moral dilemma where their desire to help someone with a worthy cause (or who's blackmailing them) gets in the way of their plans to a) make a profit and b) not get killed. They try to ensure that both will be the outcome of their plan, but they will always put part b ahead of part a. They aren't cowards, but "As my Pappy always said 'A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one. A thousand to one is pretty good odds'".</div><div style="text-align: center;">Out of all of the reoccurring characters on <i>Maverick</i>, the most famous but least seen is Pappy, Bret and Bart's father Beau Maverick, the original wandering professional poker player. He taught his sons everything he knew about life and they are always quoting his aphorisms at opportune moments, "As my Pappy used to say..." For example: "faint heart never filled a flush" or "work is fine for killing time, but it's a shaky way to make a living" or "never play in a rigged game, unless you rig it yourself" or my favourite, "never cry over spilled milk... it could've been whiskey". </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6409985919/" title="brettandbart-1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6055/6409985919_469bd77a97.jpg" width="400" height="500" alt="brettandbart-1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Maverick</i> hasn't been released on DVD, but there are a few episodes floating around on legal DVDs. There are some episodes available on YouTube and as torrents, if you dig hard enough. And you can see it on repeats on certain channels. If you've heard of or seen the 1994 movie, James Garner is playing the exact same character of Bret Maverick, only older.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are some of the best episodes:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" -the most famous and most ripped off episode in which all of the reoccurring characters appear. The first half of <i>The Sting</i> is a reworking of this episode.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Pappy" -in which we meet the famous Beau Maverick, who looks an awful lots like James Garner.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-"According to Hoyle" -in which we meet a strong female gambler named Samantha, who is reoccurring and an equal match for Bret and Bart.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Duel at Sundown" -see a young Clint Eastwood fight with James Garner</div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Two Beggars on Horseback" -Jack Kelly's favourite and a superb Bret and Bart episode.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Gun-Shy" -a hilarious spoof of <i>Gunsmoke</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">-"Maverick and Juliet" -in which Bret and Bart act out Romeo and Juliet over a poker game.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I found it very hard to find some clips of <i>Maverick</i>, so here are the best ones that I could find.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DTHKqOY2ZVg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a clip from a new PBS documentary series that I forgot to watch called <i>Pioneers of Television: Westerns</i> where it talks about James Garner and <i>Maverick</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/v5gLgHQ8_sk">Here is a clip of Bret getting information in his own style.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R8e92JRiTi0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is one of Bart being forced to look for someone in "Hadley's Hunters" where the stars of other Westerns make cameo appearances.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4FqjMlbd0yw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is Bart and a lady friend/con woman trying to work together in "The Jewelled Gun"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-WBiHkAGVNQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is James Garner getting into a fight with Clint Eastwood.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mwWydhDsXO4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the only clip that I could find with Bret and Bart together.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-25181605536522822802011-11-19T22:57:00.000-08:002011-11-22T23:50:28.680-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {All That Heaven Allows}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382036239/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6223/6382036239_865368b36a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">From 1955 and directed by Douglas Sirk, <i>All That Heaven Allows</i> tells the story of a widow with two grown children who finds romance with a handsome, younger gardener, despite the objections of her two dull children and the gossip and bitchiness of her small, New England town, which is ruled by the country club.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was a bit surprised to find that Criterion had restored and released this film on DVD. It is, after all, a romantic melodrama and not an award winner. After watching it, I understand why. As with most of Douglas Sirk's films, the sets are fantastic and the colours are stunning. However, it also encapsulates the 1950's obsession (particularly among the suburban, WASP-y, upper middle class communities) with conforming to the status quo, despite personal desires. Jane Wyman breaks off her romance with Rock Hudson because of the rumours spread by the town gossip and her friends, and by him not "fitting in" with the country club set, even though that is what first attracted her to him. And of course, by her dull, small-minded children, who wanted everything to stay just as it was, even though they now live in New York and are building their own lives, away from a mother and a hometown they rarely visit. And of course, Rock Hudson is not interested in making money (shocking!), he just wants to do what he loves and he's younger than Jane Wyman. Actually, Rock Hudson was only eight years younger, but still, shocking for 1955.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382036841/" title="Picture 5 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6230/6382036841_407959010d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 5" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382037417/" title="Picture 26 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6099/6382037417_ab6ed4bba7.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 26" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382038057/" title="Picture 46 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6045/6382038057_38dd8e9176.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 46" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382038553/" title="Picture 76 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6034/6382038553_f945aa8876.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 76" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382039061/" title="Picture 84 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6040/6382039061_37c7556a64.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 84" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382039595/" title="Picture 85 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6104/6382039595_f0055b3e99.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 85" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382040385/" title="Picture 88 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6222/6382040385_fbd2da4f43.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 88" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382040841/" title="Picture 96 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6108/6382040841_43604d630e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 96" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382041303/" title="Picture 99 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6114/6382041303_55e432f854.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 99" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382041931/" title="Picture 118 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6116/6382041931_9a0dfc16d4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 118" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382042631/" title="Picture 126 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6049/6382042631_ba49416061.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 126" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382043099/" title="Picture 134 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/6382043099_03571bcb15.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 134" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382043519/" title="Picture 143 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6213/6382043519_9628c396b2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 143" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382044011/" title="Picture 155 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6113/6382044011_5f5c73531d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 155" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382044293/" title="Picture 163 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6236/6382044293_181a8185c3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 163" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382044621/" title="Picture 168 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6231/6382044621_5c5e68346f.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 168" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382045277/" title="Picture 175 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6053/6382045277_c7c345b5cd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 175" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382045601/" title="Picture 186 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6096/6382045601_102a4c7b4c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 186" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382045885/" title="Picture 193 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/6382045885_78c5512128.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 193" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382046295/" title="Picture 206 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6044/6382046295_901272b410.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 206" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382046655/" title="Picture 208 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6382046655_f1ebe0f183.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 208" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382046967/" title="Picture 215 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6240/6382046967_bf10c258b2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 215" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382047209/" title="Picture 219 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6055/6382047209_b52d1246ed.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 219" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382047451/" title="Picture 223 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6040/6382047451_89fca614c3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382047661/" title="Picture 231 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6382047661_b9bb2c758b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 231" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382047967/" title="Picture 233 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6382047967_60a8c45ecc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 233" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382048239/" title="Picture 262 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6382048239_e2512c7e19.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 262" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382048559/" title="Picture 276 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6104/6382048559_7a7734323a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 276" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382048931/" title="Picture 288 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6058/6382048931_32f3a11d3a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 288" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382049197/" title="Picture 293 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6382049197_131bca5064.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 293" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382049663/" title="Picture 310 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6231/6382049663_06be37b34b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 310" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382050045/" title="Picture 321 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6382050045_b33a30d268.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 321" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382050277/" title="Picture 329 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6103/6382050277_d565e63010.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 329" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382050677/" title="Picture 333 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6234/6382050677_85752888ab.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 333" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6382051093/" title="Picture 361 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/6382051093_5d014129fc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 361" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NqJkCHMWw40" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-59967531683189162422011-11-18T23:25:00.000-08:002011-11-19T00:20:39.158-08:00Classic Scents {Shalimar}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6361826877/" title="9d0zv4m4ftqb16 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><blockquote></blockquote><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6227/6361826877_c3ff57c695.jpg" width="420" height="458" alt="9d0zv4m4ftqb16" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/perfume-ads-1950s/9">(source)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Given the number of articles I've been reading of late about the regrettable change that the perfume world is undertaking by replacing natural notes in timeless fragrances with synthetic substitutions and thereby destroying the complex blend of the symphony of notes that make up classic perfumes (and by perfumes, I mean actual perfumes not those candy scented "celebrity" perfumes that you see advertised today) I thought it was high time that I start a series on Classic Scents, before they are forever altered.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love vintage perfumes. Yes, I did start wearing a scent daily in high school. A classic perfume is the easiest way to embrace a bit of vintage style everyday, regardless of what you might be doing. Yes, I still do wear perfume everyday, even at the grocery store where I work. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Although you should own a wide variety of perfumes in order to mix it up everyday (whether you buy them yourself or you get them as gifts -a bottle of eau de toilette makes a timeless and much loved gift) you will, as I have done, gravitate to one in particular as a signature scent, because you should have a favourite perfume.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shalimar is not a daily perfume. Although, if you are brave enough to wear it everyday, I applaud you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6361826821/" title="6a010535dc5a78970b0120a75a95d5970b-800wi by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6051/6361826821_e6dcce0596.jpg" width="297" height="400" alt="6a010535dc5a78970b0120a75a95d5970b-800wi" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yesterdaysperfume.typepad.com/yesterdays_perfume/2009/12/shalimar-by-guerlain-1925.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(source)</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Shalimar was created in 1925 by Jacques Guerlain for the House of Guerlain. The name "Shalimar" means "abode of love" in Sanskrit and was inspired by the gardens of the Taj Mahal.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shalimar is described as an Oriental and exotic fragrance. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The three notes that make it what it is are the zesty bergamot, the unexpected civet and the sensual base note of vanilla.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Famous wearers of Shalimar include Gina Lollobrigida and Rita Hayworth.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shalimar is a complex, powerful and yet warm scent. It's feminine, powdery, opulent, soft, striking, sweet, spicy and above all, mysterious. It smells overwhelming at first, but as it's symphony is revealed as it is exposed to skin and air overtime, it becomes warm and inviting, while still maintaining it's complexity. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the perfume one should wear for a night out on the town. Or to spice up an ordinary day of running errands.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6361826973/" title="tumblr_lnf8jhKsF61qh9qlg by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6045/6361826973_8072c3fc36.jpg" width="353" height="480" alt="tumblr_lnf8jhKsF61qh9qlg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://princessdianevonbrainisfried.tumblr.com/post/6953081244/shalimar-fit-for-a-princess-pungence"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(source)</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What are you're thoughts on perfume, vintage or otherwise?</div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-16587625362672972282011-11-12T23:21:00.000-08:002011-11-14T01:26:41.498-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Now, Voyager}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906061/" title="Picture 1 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6216/6342906061_dbff408131.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ Walt Whitman</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This 1942 romantic drama (which I'm sure you've already seen or at least heard of) was the biggest hit of Bette Davis' career. She plays a spinster who's life has been dominated by her wealthy mother, who's a real bitch. She had Charlotte in her forties and never wanted her in the first place, reminding her of this fact at every opportunity, and has treated her like a servant for her entire life. Not surprisingly, poor Charlotte finally has a nervous breakdown and is sent to recover at Claude Rains' (and his velvet voice) sanatorium. Away from the control of her mother, Charlotte loses weight and gets a makeover. As a final test of her new found independence, she goes on a cruise to South America, where she meets her fellow passenger, Paul Henreid, who's married to a manipulative, jealous and a real bitch of a wife. He can't get a divorce because of his devotion to his two daughters, the younger of whom is also an unwanted child and has some serious emotional issues from being unwanted and unloved by her mother.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Naturally, Bette Davis and Paul Henreid bond and fall in love and have one of the sexiest sex scenes where Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes on a moonlit balcony and gives one to Bette Davis. Fade Out. Cut to the next morning.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of course they can't be together, but Bette Davis does expertly develop Charlotte as a character throughout the movie, gaining her independence, going against her tyrannical mother's will and eventually "adopting" Paul Henreid's daughter and by the end of the picture, they finally reach an understanding regarding the state of their relationship.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906223/" title="Picture 8 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6038/6342906223_ac254720f6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 8" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906355/" title="Picture 16 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/6342906355_78845066c0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 16" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343656550/" title="Picture 33 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6343656550_4ba4d1b46a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 33" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906641/" title="Picture 45 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/6342906641_6485fcae73.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 45" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906741/" title="Picture 59 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6035/6342906741_d7197a4014.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 59" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343657272/" title="Picture 79 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6116/6343657272_9783b36897.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 79" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342906843/" title="Picture 67 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6215/6342906843_b352693797.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 67" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343657004/" title="Picture 69 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6343657004_7013040492.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 69" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343657162/" title="Picture 76 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6091/6343657162_0a4bbac595.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 76" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342907349/" title="Picture 81 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6107/6342907349_3c8707d0b3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 81" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342907453/" title="Picture 88 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/6342907453_89b2d34959.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 88" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343657670/" title="Picture 98 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6117/6343657670_af2bbcfac3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 98" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342907679/" title="Picture 103 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/6342907679_80250e23a2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 103" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343657884/" title="Picture 108 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6343657884_6d403e5e95.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 108" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342907855/" title="Picture 112 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6342907855_50658fe027.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 112" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342907995/" title="Picture 118 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6117/6342907995_c5d64d00c3.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 118" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658194/" title="Picture 128 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6343658194_8d29fe6514.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 128" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342908227/" title="Picture 152 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6342908227_7052180006.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 152" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658396/" title="Picture 161 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6227/6343658396_0d89cc5694.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 161" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658546/" title="Picture 164 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6343658546_ed4f1a0312.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 164" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658650/" title="Picture 172 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6034/6343658650_447d789ff9.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 172" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342908689/" title="Picture 176 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6342908689_9cbc2b763e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 176" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658816/" title="Picture 179 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/6343658816_843cc4dedf.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 179" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343658928/" title="Picture 193 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6231/6343658928_c25e600447.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 193" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343659020/" title="Picture 197 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/6343659020_c7b5793f19.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 197" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342909095/" title="Picture 204 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6120/6342909095_fb0f0ca59a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 204" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342909381/" title="Picture 229 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6342909381_66b7a8545b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 229" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343659550/" title="Picture 244 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/6343659550_efa870a8a8.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 244" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343659698/" title="Picture 257 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6236/6343659698_920f9b69c0.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343659832/" title="Picture 269 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6219/6343659832_b3cc1aa3e5.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343659934/" title="Picture 271 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6343659934_f1b8663a45.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 271" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342910069/" title="Picture 272 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6342910069_996f02f82a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 272" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6342910177/" title="Picture 273 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6035/6342910177_b941b697a4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 273" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6343660220/" title="Picture 278 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/6343660220_4e2f16b30a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 278" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZUp3Kv8zAvs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-36692205306511942662011-11-08T23:36:00.000-08:002011-11-09T20:44:41.163-08:00The Man Who Never Was<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6330380583/" title="400000000000000226875_s4 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6091/6330380583_3428084473.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="400000000000000226875_s4" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let me tell you a tale.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In April 1943, a body of a young Royal Marines officer washed up on the coast of Spain. Amongst his possessions were two letters from two very high up commanders, hand written and on authentic stationary, casually mentioning the cleaver rouge that they would pretend that they would invade Sicily from Africa, but they would really be sending the Allied forces into Greece and Sardinia. The body was properly buried by the "neutral" Spanish and the letters were carefully copied by the Spanish and passed onto the Nazis before the corpse's personal effects were returned to the British.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sounds like someone majorly fucked up in allowing such sensitive information to be placed in the hands of Nazis. Or like something out of a work of fiction.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wrong.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This was actually a very careful and methodic plan, concocted by the Department of Spying and Cleverness in order to deliberately mislead the Nazis into thinking that the Allies would not attack so obvious a target as Sicily.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was called Operation Mincemeat and it was the single most successful act of deception in the entire war. It made Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) a success and saved thousands of lives and is one of the major factors that helped us to win the war.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sixty years after the plan was thought up of in the secret Rooms 13 and 39 of the Admiralty, the whole truth and the extent of preparation for Operation Mincemeat was carried out successfully, not to mention how much Churchill was relaying on it, has finally been revealed through declassified documents and meticulous research by Ben McIntyre in last year's book <i>Operation Mincemeat</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The book itself is a fascinating and thrilling read and I do highly recommend that you read it. On several occasions as I was reading it at work, coworkers would ask me what the book was about. When I told them, they either said "Oh, so it's fiction, eh?". But it's not. Or, at least, not entirely.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Operation Mincemeat was the brain child of an intelligence officer called Cholmondeley (who went off the hunt locusts in Arabia after the war) and he got the idea from a memo by Ian Fleming (who did intelligence work during the war and got the idea for creating James Bond there) who in turn got the idea from a forgotten 1930's detective novel. So, you see, Operation Mincemeat is not a work of fiction. It is a deliberate work of fiction, to cover up reality, and was based on a work of fiction.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cholomondeley and his colleague Ewan Montagu (who's brother was the top British spy working for the Soviets) worked deligently for months in order to create "Major William Martin" and make him into a real person. Their work included obtaining a suitable body from a coroner named Bentley Purchase (that's his real name), planting false personal letters, bills and theatre stubs on him (all real and authentic), giving him a personality, girlfriend, photographs and a stuffy father. They also outfitted him with a uniform that had been broken in by Montagu and some underwear that had belonged to a dead Oxford don and finding a submarine to transport the body to a specific point off the coast of Spain where a major Nazi spy just happened to be living and they then announced the death of "Major William Martin" in the Times, ironically in the same edition that also carried the news of the tragic death of Leslie Howard.</div><div style="text-align: center;">All they had to do was sit back and wait to see if the Germans had bought the story and letters hook, line and sinker.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Which they did.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Operation Mincemeat was a success for two reasons.</div><div style="text-align: center;">First, it just so happened that the head of German Intelligence Analysis was a secret anti-Nazi and he probably did see through the web of deception but supported it in his report.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Second, and most importantly, the Nazis did not have a sense of humour. They simply were unable to see the fact that a dead body with some very important information about the Allies' next move had so conveniently dropped into their laps was really a macabre joke told by the British. Indeed, it was the Nazis not having a sense of humour that played a major part in us winning the war.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">After the war, Ewan Montagu wrote a book called <i>The Man Who Never Was</i> about the parts of Operation Mincemeat that the government would let him reveal. It was made into a film, which has a few added subplots to make it more entertaining.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/41EsdWzO-4M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is also a documentary made to tie in with the book <i>Operation Mincemeat</i>. I haven't seen it yet, but it was done by the BBC, so it must be good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="480" height="274" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/leN0rg0asxo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-349592956899908722011-11-04T23:52:00.000-07:002011-11-07T02:29:00.998-08:00Cinema Tuesdays {Indiscreet}<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321913366/" title="Picture 2 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6321913366_1b995ba7f6.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This 1958 Stanley Donen film stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in their second pairing together as two older and somewhat wiser lovers. She is a famous stage actress, who is depressed over the thought that she might be alone for the rest of her life. Enter her sister and brother-in-law, who introduce her to a successful businessman turned diplomat. It's love at first sight.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Only Cary Grant says that he's separated and can't possibly get a divorce.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But no matter, and the couple enter into a few months of happy romance, while being careful to retain their reputations. He takes the flat downstairs and uses the services stairs rather than the elevator. Isn't that nice of him.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But then the brother-in-law reveals that Cary Grant is not married at all! In fact, he's determined to be a lifelong bachelor!</div><div style="text-align: center;">"How dare he make love to me and NOT be a married man!"</div><div style="text-align: center;">What will Ingrid Bergman do to get back at Cary Grant?</div><div style="text-align: center;">I think that Cary Grant is at his most charming and understated comedic best in this role and according to the IMDb trivia section, this was his favourite film of his, which is reason enough to watch it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321913614/" title="Picture 13 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6108/6321913614_2edebb4b42.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 13" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321913844/" title="Picture 18 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6321913844_d570224113.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 18" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321391509/" title="Picture 40 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6237/6321391509_4de9174938.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 40" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321391379/" title="Picture 35 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6035/6321391379_a0c6d14c29.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 35" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321391653/" title="Picture 76 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6223/6321391653_7aa2b3529d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 76" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321914632/" title="Picture 107 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6321914632_c927e54b17.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 107" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321914776/" title="Picture 128 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6231/6321914776_912464e732.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 128" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321392233/" title="Picture 138 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6321392233_fe57c484bd.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 138" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321915208/" title="Picture 152 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6216/6321915208_d05f6cef4a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 152" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321915634/" title="Picture 170 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6321915634_370224d0ed.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 170" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321393157/" title="Picture 176 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/6321393157_cfb3a8a40b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 176" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321393313/" title="Picture 182 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6321393313_f8882c6fb2.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 182" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321393493/" title="Picture 185 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6057/6321393493_30aa87b655.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 185" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321916332/" title="Picture 190 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/6321916332_472ddfa282.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 190" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321916470/" title="Picture 192 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6321916470_2f4fdf7432.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 192" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321394371/" title="Picture 200 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6321394371_869a29ff5a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321917046/" title="Picture 211 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6321917046_22ca03a5ca.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321917322/" title="Picture 257 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6321917322_80b24cfb54.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">See Cary Grant do the Duck Walk</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321395253/" title="Picture 271 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6041/6321395253_07d89145dc.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 271" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321395371/" title="Picture 279 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6321395371_e0795e717e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 279" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321395853/" title="Picture 286 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6038/6321395853_fa46b0df5e.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 286" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321396147/" title="Picture 301 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6321396147_fec2a1e98b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 301" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321914432/" title="Picture 91 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6114/6321914432_d066a3de06.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 91" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My favourite part of this film (aside from Cary Grant) is Ingrid Bergman's absolutely gorgeous apartment! Just look at the design, the mix of old and new and the colours. And the doors. I love the doors!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321915028/" title="Picture 146 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6321915028_0668e81304.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 146" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321392887/" title="Picture 162 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6219/6321392887_4e108356c4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 162" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321916592/" title="Picture 196 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6236/6321916592_11605c6154.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 196" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321917184/" title="Picture 239 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/6321917184_34466373ac.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321917570/" title="Picture 265 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6117/6321917570_3825d75bf4.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321395549/" title="Picture 280 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6321395549_a36a3c292b.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 280" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6321396003/" title="Picture 292 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6221/6321396003_38f537281a.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Picture 292" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a clip of the famous bed scene to get around the censors. What is odd for a Code film is that it's made completely obvious and referred to multiple times that the characters were sleeping together but there were no consequences that came of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oygaiCoA6x0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832955676935161986.post-16626696018274522972011-11-02T22:05:00.000-07:002011-11-02T23:59:17.229-07:00All Hallows' Eve<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogseyebrows/6305436788/" title="DSCF0094 by the frog's eyebrows, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6112/6305436788_3fb381829f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCF0094" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope that everyone had a happy and safe Hallowe'en this past weekend.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This being the first year since I got too old to go trick or treating (or rather I didn't get too old, my brother got too tall) that I didn't have a paper to write, I thought that I simply must do something.</div><div style="text-align: center;">So, on Friday, I went out to the Halloween Special of the Taboo Revue, which is Vancouver's longest running burlesque show. It was beyond brilliant! So many great performances, a lot of them featuring zombies and voodoo, because zombies are just so much awesomer than sparkly vampires. Can't wait for next year's show.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As for Hallowe'en itself, I went to work and I did wear a costume. And by costume, I mean I went for a Land Girl look and wore my snood and new wool trousers from Heyday. And by costume, I mean I wore my normal clothes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I then changed into my fabulous record skirt and biggest petticoat, which is the only day of the year where I don't get strange looks while wearing it, actually a lot of people wanted to have their picture taken with me as I was waiting in the train station downtown. I only wore it because it was warm enough to not wear a coat over top and I was refusing to spend any money on a costume this year. Why buy a costume when I can wear my normal clothes? I went with my friend Courtney on the Haunted Trolley Tour, which is a tour on a trolley that goes around downtown, through Stanley Park, then up to <a href="http://thefrogseyebrows.blogspot.com/2011/08/dont-blink.html">this cemetery</a> and then back to downtown, finishing off at the Police Museum (which used to be the morgue and the coroner's court) and pointing out houses were hauntings and gruesome murders have taken place. Because hanging out in a graveyard and an old morgue on Hallowe'en night is what cool people do.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Apart from a couple of snaps for the Facebook, I don't have any pictures to share on the old blog. But I should probably go back during the day sometime and take some photos of the Police Museum with my proper camera, since it is my favourite museum in Vancouver.</div><div style="text-align: center;">What did you do for Hallowe'en?</div><div style="text-align: center;">The theme for this month's Cinema Tuesdays shall be An Affair to Remember. Expect the first movie pick shortly.</div>The Frog's Eyebrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10284234521424753051noreply@blogger.com1