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Marilyn Monroe-style 50s bras making comeback

4 November 2009 6:11 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

And here we were thinking the 80s was the in vogue fashion. Nope, the big news in style circles is the comeback of an unlikely item – the pointy bra. More conical and structured than their current squishier counterparts, these examples of old school underwear were popularised in the 50s by Hollywood sirens such as Marilyn Monroe and her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes co-star, Jane Russell and again were brought into the limelight when Madonna (who has often styled herself after her idol, Monroe) donned Jean-Paul Gaultier designed versions for her Blonde Ambition world tour in 1990. And now, it’s 19 years later and they’re back with a number of UK shops reporting surges in sales of pointy bras. Who’d have thunk it? »

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Progress Report

28 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Mad Men recap is coming, promise. Around 2 Am last night the wi-fi connection dropped and many words (though not as many as in a Thomas Pynchon novel, say) vanished into the white limbo of blank space, or were sucked up an anteater's snout, or something. Point is, I am reconstructing the skeleton and will put the post up around midday. What the episode established is that Duck, my my, he's quite the "goer." If I know how to embed a sound effect, I would imitate Bob Hope's wolfish grawwhhhlllls whenever Hedy Lamarr or Jane Russell hove into view to illustrate my point about Duck, but I don't, such you'll just have to imagine it, assuming you know who Bob Hope is. These days I assume nothing. Check out: Bachelor in Paradise: late Hope, but very underrated as a sociological snapshot of Sixties suburbia (California division), desperate housewives, and »

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James Cameron’s Avatar: Can it really change film?

9 September 2009 6:56 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

3D has had many heydays through out the history of cinema. The early fifties saw Rko running with the new process and Universal taking punts on many films, some successes and some flat out failures. The ship finally sank after it was deemed too expensive to upkeep dual projectors and panned after terrible syncing issues with running two strips of film simultaneously. The delivering technology simply couldn't keep up with the "fad" and it wasn't until 1954 when single strip 3D was perfected. After that, everyone got into it, even Hitchcock, famously releasing Dial M for Murder in the third dimension. Shlock classic The Creature From the Black Lagoon and Howard Hawks' hit The French Line, which managed to fit Jane Russell in all her glory, into 3D saw the format finally with a steady footing. Or so it seemed until once again cinema finances crumbled when wide-screen formatted screens »

- Neil Innes

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Talkin' Westerns with A.C. Lyles

14 May 2009 4:29 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(A.C. Lyles, below)

by Jon Zelazny

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on February 27, 2009

There’s an A.C. Lyles Building at the Paramount Pictures main lot, but you won’t find A.C. Lyles there; his office is on the fourth floor of the William S. Hart Building.

When I arrived for our interview, Mr. Lyles was chatting with some visitors in his outer office. He bid me into his main office, and asked his assistant Pam to put in a video… a short promo reel that opens with a six minute tribute by then-President Ronald Reagan, who warmly recalls his and Nancy’s many years of friendship with A.C. and his wife Martha, and congratulates A.C. on his fifty years at the studio. The President’s intro is followed by taped congratulations from President Carter, President Ford, and Vice President Bush, then assorted clips celebrating Mr. »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Jane Russell Added To Feinstein's Salute To MGM Stars 3/26

20 March 2009 12:48 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Michael Feinstein's Salute to the Stars of MGM scheduled for Thursday, March 26 adds Jane Russell with Arlene Dahl and host Robert Osborne (Turner Classic Movies) for a joyous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals and the stars that made them great. Due to scheduling conflicts Vic Damone will not be able to attend this performance. Tickets to the 7:30 show are $50-$80. »

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2009 | 2003 | 2001

5 articles from 2009

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