Monthly Archives: April 2009

la chinoise

Anne Wiazemsky in Jean-Luc Godard’s La chinoise. 1967.

vintage jam (one-off edition)

This was some hot stuff just over a decade ago: a one-off Daft Punk side project single that went by the ultracamp name Stardust. This track was a hit, particularly in the UK where it went to number two in the charts. (Yes, kids, this kind of goofball shit was at one time taken seriously.) To my knowledge, Stardust went out on top and thankfully didn’t throw together a quicky LP to capitalize on their single song success.

nine eight shit

novecento

Dominique Sanda in 1900. 1976.

f for fields

(above) Fields and son. c. 1909.

“letter from Maggie” (fragmentary script. January 10, 1940.)

Mr. Bill Grady
9877 Carmelita Ave.
Beverly Hills, Calif.

Dear Catholic:
I am sending you a little shillaly so whenever you get out of line Margaret can tap you on the sconce with it. Protestants are the best people.

I have purposely left the price tag on the shillaly so that you will not use it for firewood.
Love and kisses from

Your Uncle Willie

P.S. Your Aunt Maggie from Ireland, who has informed me that more Protestant churches have been burned to the ground, sends her love.

in stereo

broken vows

New feature on stereographs!

J. Elliott, photographer. c. 1856.

advertising

October 1969.

years after the event (john and yoko june 1970)

june photo

“You Are Here” a show for Yoko from John. and you are still here and you were there and. “gallery show at Robert Frazer” Photograph: Associated Press

june 1970

june detail

Here‘s a little bit of nonsense based around the opening of “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” It’s nothing special though so don’t get your hopes up.

cover art

kazan directs

Elia Kazan directs Faye Dunaway in The Arrangement. 1969.

on this day in lohan history

lohan accepts

The title of this post should actually read “yesterday in lohan history”. I missed this then but it’s a pretty good one and I haven’t done one of these Lohan posts in a while. So three years ago yesterday, then, photos emerged from Lindsay’s appearance on the previous night’s Nickelodeon 2006 Kids’ Choice Awards where she accepted perhaps the highest honor bestowed on her during her entire career. Linds beat out the likes of Drew Barrymore (in Fever Pitch), Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four) and Dakota Fanning (in something called Dreamer) to win the award for Favorite Movie Actress! She won for her performance in Herbie Fully Loaded, the first in a what would eventually become a pile-up of box office disappointments. The production of this film also led to the souring of the relationship between Linds and Disney.

Check this clip of Linds’s acceptance. It involves a screaming Bruce Willis, Avril Lavigne, two static nerds (probably contest winners) and a contortionist. What one can’t notice from watching the video is that it took place during that time when it was a trend for desperate starlets to not wear underwear! The Kids’ Choice Awards hardly seems like an appropriate forum for that particular brand of attention-seeking but obviously, you can’t tell that to Lindsay! Kids rule!
lohan at kid's choice awards 2006