
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep. Howard Hawks. 1946.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep. Howard Hawks. 1946.
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The 45th birthday cake presented to Preston Sturges on the set of Hail the Conquering Hero (which was still going by its working title, The Little Marine). 1943.
Posted in cinema, context, on the set of, Sturges
Posted in advertising, cinema, context, double feature

Eight years ago, on this day in Lohan history, all anyone wanted to talk about was the instantly infamous video that had emerged the day before* of a billionaire oil heir unleashing a lengthy, foul-mouthed tirade about Lindsay Lohan and her private parts for the amusement of Paris Hilton as they walked from one Los Angeles nightclub to another. This shocking video came after word of a Hilton/Lohan feud had hit the rumor mill a few days earlier, but were quickly doused by Paris’ PR rep Elliot Mintz.

Let’s talk about Elliot Mintz for a minute. This little weirdo seems to have been an ambitious 1960s LA radio DJ-turned publicist who went from associations with John Lennon and Bob Dylan in the 1970s, to representing 2000s-era show-biz flotsam and jetsam like Chris Brown and the aforementioned Paris Hilton. Even though the only source I have on this is poor at best, my gut reaction tells me that Lennon’s association with Mintz has been exaggerated. In the tepid tell-all that Fred Seaman wrote following Lennon’s death, he claimed that Mintz was a friend of Yoko’s whose company Lennon more tolerated than enjoyed. Anyway, Elliot Mintz’s odyssey through 6 decades of American show business has got to be fascinating. This New York Times profile written a few months after the firecrotch incident is far too short to encompass that, but it’s all we have for now.
Getting back to the video in question, a day after Elliot Mintz denied the rumors of a Lohan/Hilton feud, Paris was filmed manically false-cackling while her friend and fellow super-rich adult Brandon Davis made many an eyebrow-raising claim about Lindsay Lohan. His rant began as follows:
Lindsay Lohan has the stinkiest, fucking sweaty, orange vagina anyone has ever seen. I haven’t seen it. She wants me to see it but it shits out freckles, it’s orange and it fucking smells like diarrhea, so fuck off. And who would want to fuck her? Who? Wilmer? Is Wilmer in, like, a mariachi band? And she’s got a firecrotch that all you guys want to suck because you’re fucking desperate.
At this point our cameraman loses Davis for a second as other photogs and cameramen get between him and the Hiltons (Paris’ more camera shy sister Nicky is present as well). One of those cameramen seems to get gently hit by a car in his zeal to capture the scene. As this occurs, Davis briefly turns his attention to the car’s driver and says, “Fuck you, you dirty whore.” And then returns to Lohan:
It’s an embarrassing thing to say but Lindsay Lohan is a firecrotch.
After this pearl, Davis and the Hiltons and their crew all disappear into some nightspot. When they emerge from the club, now with Elliot Mintz in the mix, Davis, drawing heavily from a cigarette, picks up where he left off:
Ok, Lindsay Lohan, would you fuck her? Would you fuck her? Just tell me the truth. Her dad‘s hotter than her, alright. We think she’s a firecrotch. Or we know. I mean, we don’t think that, we know, it’s obvious. Red pubic hair comes from inside her. She’s like an orange freak.
At this point something incredible happens as Davis — who has clearly been drinking and there might have been some coke — begins to sort of bully Elliot Mintz by grabbing at his tie and spouting off some unintelligible bullshit about how the red tie looks like Lindsay’s vagina, to which Mintz responds by simply putting his tie back into place and gently reprimanding with a “Brandon, please.” While nearly every extra in this grand production warrants a second glance and causes one to wonder “what’s that guy’s story?”, Mintz really takes the cake as far as sticking out like a sore thumb goes. How did that guy end up there?
The scene ends with Davis dripping in sweat in the passenger seat of Paris’ car with the paparazzi still egging him on. He obliges them by saying “firecrotch” 3 more times and reveling in the fact that Lohan’s latest film didn’t trouble the box office much.
It was a pretty sour affair that would have gone largely unnoticed had TMZ‘s cameras not been there to capture the forced mirth of these entitled dimwits and bring it to the attention of anyone who was bored at work and sitting in front of a computer.

Lindsay never officially rebutted Davis’ claims so there may still be some question as to whether or not her vagina shits out freckles. We’ll never know. But Linds did make a point to hang out with both Davis’ ex-girlfriend and Paris’ ex-boyfriend in the days that followed. Finally, ten days later, Davis issued an apology to Page Six of the New York Post, “My behavior on May 16 was inexcusable. What started out as a joke got completely carried away and I am horrified at the words that came out of my mouth. I consider Lindsay a friend and I hope she accepts my sincere apology for my reprehensible actions last week.”
*I’m a day late in posting this, as usual.
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Jean-Luc Godard after getting a pie to the face at Cannes. 1985.
Posted in cinema, context, festival time!, jlg


Films and Filming. January 1969.
Posted in apple records, cinema, context, dig the critics, music, years after the event

George Kleine, the diplomat and peace-maker in the secret negotiations that ended the Biograph–Edison war and made the motion picture an industry.

Rolling Stones 45s from the Decca/London era. First up, a Dutch Come On. 1963.

French Come On reissue. 1973.

Dutch I Wanna Be Your Man. 1963.

German I Wanna Be Your Man.

French Not Fade Away EP. 1964.

Danish Not Fade Away.

Australian Not Fade Away.

UK You Better Move On EP. 1964.

French Carol EP. 1964.

French Carol reissue. 1973.

Tell Me. 1964.

Portuguese It’s All Over Now. 1964.

Dutch It’s All Over Now.

U.S. It’s All Over Now.

French It’s All Over Now EP.

French It’s All Over Now reissue. 1973.

UK It’s All Over Now reissue.

Dutch Time Is On My Side. 1964.

German Time Is On My Side.

U.S. Time Is On My Side.

Greek Time Is On My Side in a nice-looking generic Decca sleeve.

A different Dutch Time Is On My Side.

Dutch reissue of Time Is On My Side. 1972.

Swedish Time Is On My Side EP.

French Time Is On My Side EP.

Japanese Time Is On My Side.

Belgian Little Red Rooster. 1964.

Australian Little Red Rooster.

Danish Little Red Rooster.

French Little Red Rooster reissue. 1973.

Dutch Little Red Rooster.

French Heart of Stone. 1964.

French Heart of Stone EP.

Japanese Heart of Stone.

Another Japanese Heart of Stone.

French Route 66.

French Route 66 reissue. 1973.

U.S. The Last Time/Play With Fire. 1965.

German The Last Time.

Dutch The Last Time.

Japanese The Last Time.

Swedish The Last Time.

French The Last Time reissue. 1973.

U.S. Satisfaction. 1965.

French Satisfaction.

Another French Satisfaction. Ha! Look at Mick!

German Satisfaction.

Dutch Satisfaction.

Portuguese Satisfaction EP.

Japanese Satisfaction.

German Satisfaction reissue. 1972.

Japanese Satisfaction reissue.

Yugoslavian Satisfaction reissue.

Dutch Satisfaction with misprinted title. Turns out they can get no satisfaction!

Hideous Japanese Satisfaction reissue.

U.S. Get Off of My Cloud. 1965.

French Get Off Of My Cloud.

Dutch Get Off Of My Cloud.

Swedish Get Off Of My Cloud.

Japanese Get Off Of My Cloud.

Brazilian Get Off Of My Cloud.

French Get Off Of My Cloud reissue. 1973.

U.S. As Tears Go By. 1965.

Japanese As Tears Go By.

French As Tears Go By.

Another Japanese As Tears Go By.

Portuguese 19th Nervous Breakdown. 1966.

Australian 19th Nervous Breakdown.

U.S. 19th Nervous Breakdown.

French 19th Nervous Breakdown reissue. 1973.

Danish 19th Nervous Breakdown.

German 19th Nervous Breakdown.

U.S. Paint It Black. Oh I hate that comma so much.

Dutch Paint It Black. 1966.

Japanese Paint It Black.

German Paint It Black.

What is up with this Spanish Paint It Black?!

French Paint It Black reissue.

Japanese Paint It Black reissue. 1973.

U.S. Paint It Black reissue with a tie-in to the almost completely forgotten CBS drama Tour of Duty, which seems weird. 1990.

U.S. Mother’s Little Helper. 1966.

Australian Mother’s Little Helper.

French Mother’s Little Helper EP.

German Mother’s Little Helper.

Japanese Mother’s Little Helper.

Dutch Mother’s Little Helper.

Belgian Lady Jane reissue. 1971.

French Lady Jane reissue. 1973.

Gorgeous rear of the U.S. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?. 1966.

U.K. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

Australian Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

Japanese Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

South African Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

German Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

Italian Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

French Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? reissue. 1973.

U.S. Let’s Spend The Night Together. 1967.

UK Let’s Spend The Night Together.

French Let’s Spend The Night Together reissue. 1973.

Mexican Ruby Tuesday EP

Japanese Ruby Tuesday reissue with a Coming Home soundtrack tie-in. 1978.

Italian We Love You. 1967.

Spanish We Love You.

German We Love You.

Swedish We Love You. While the rest of the world was embracing the new psychedelic Stones, the Swedes were keepin’-on with an image of them from 1963.

Belgian We Love You. We might have a winner.

Japanese We Love You.

Danish We Love You.

Dutch We Love You.

French We Love You.

Another Japanese We Love You.

Whoa, the other Stones were really distancing themselves from this one. U.S. In Another Land. Bill Wyman. 1967.

U.S. She’s a Rainbow. 1967.

French She’s A Rainbow reissue. 1973.

Dutch 2000 Light Years from Home. 1967.

German 2000 Light Years From Home.

Another kind of Dutch 2000 Light Years From Home (the other one was from the Netherlands). Please forgive the bad photo.

French 2000 Light Years From Home.

Large Print German 2000 Light Years From Home.

Belgian 2000 Light Years From Home.

Japanese 2000 Light Years From Home.

Italian 2000 Light Years From Home.

French 2000 Light Years From Home reissue. 1973.

U.S. Jumpin’ Jack Flash. 1968.

Japanese Jumpin’ Jack Flash reissue. 1973.

Another Japanese Coming Home tie-in Jumpin’ Jack Flash reissue. 1978.

Japanese Jumpin’ Jack Flash reissue. 1983.

Japanese Jumpin’ Jack Flash reissue with a different tie-in movie. 1986.

Danish Street Fighting Man. 1968.

German Street Fighting Man.

Another German Street Fighting Man.

Italian Street Fighting Man.

Dutch Sympathy For The Devil. 1969.

Japanese Sympathy For The Devil.

French Sympathy For The Devil reissue. 1973.

Japanese Sympathy For The Devil.

U.S. Honky Tonk Women. 1969.

Belgian Honky Tonk Women.

Dutch Honky Tonk Women.

Yugoslavian Honky Tonk Women.

German Honky Tonk Women.

Japanese Honky Tonk Women.

Another Dutch Honky Tonk Women.

Another Dutch Honky Tonk Women.

Japanese Honky Tonk Women reissue. 1973.

French Honky Tonk Women.
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Billy Wilder directs Shirley MacLaine while trying not to wake Jack Lemmon in Irma la Douce. 1963.