old to semi-old celebrities you would travel back in time to have lots of sex with.

All the talk of The Silent Partner on the obituary thread has me thinking about Celine Lomez, also in Réjeanne Padovani.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/celine1.jpg
https://phildellio.tripod.com/celine2.jpg

Not strictly speaking relevant to this thread, but my main memory of Réjeanne Padovani (the film) was that it had the ugliest costumes in any film ever (mid-70's Quebec politicians in garish polyester suits), utterly authentic to the time and place though.

I would play on TV in the mid/late-70s (CFTO, I think), and I'd watch it just so I could see Celine Lomez. None of it made the least bit of sense to me (not that my knowledge of Quebec politics is any greater today than it was at 16). I only realized years later--it screened once at Lightbox--that it was one of Denys Arcand's first films.

you're a saucy one, countess of somerset and enema-murderess frances howard

https://i0.wp.com/thehistoryjar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Frances-Howard.jpg

Louise Brooks, preferably at a seedy hotel in Berlin around 1926

https://i0.wp.com/26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgld61WXbl1qh8bkco1_400.jpg

no murdering anyone with a poisoned enema, no credibility

What a way to go, amirite?

Also a remarkable way to die.

Howard is an ancestor of Celia Imrie

Poisoned Enema is the name of my new album.

Imagine it's a hair metal platter

There's only one

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So many dead links

So many dead celebrities you would travel back in time to have lots of sex with.

honestly I'd have sex with a celebrity I didn't even find attractive if it meant I got to travel back in time. not really something you get to do every day, willing to bargain for it with my body if need be

now we're just quibbling over price, as the man said

Louise Brooks, preferably at a seedy hotel in Berlin around 1926

Yes to Louise Brooks, but a couple of years later in Pandora’s Box
https://classichollywood.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/pandoras-box/

whole thread is a great example of why men shouldn't write sci fi

sh

a friend of mine pointed this out, and it's also true for me, no doubt due to a combination of demographics, what type of social media accounts I follow, etc

but it's true: I see a picture of Debbie Harry every single day of my life

Ha, I think I do too… if you follow Chris Stein on Twitterx you’re already there. The crazy thing is there does not seem to be a bad picture of her, ever.

I've had a crush on her since I was 13.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHq9OEj4SvQ

Madeline Kahn

Bo and Luke Duke. (Don’t make me choose. That would be half the fun.)

Many years have passed but that Yvonne Craig picture is still sending me

Ooof

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Henry_Walter_Barnett_bw.jpg/898px-Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Henry_Walter_Barnett_bw.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_and_family.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Robert_Louis_Stevenson%2C_Knox_Series.jpg/440px-Robert_Louis_Stevenson%2C_Knox_Series.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Robert_Louis_Stevenson%2C_1885.jpg/340px-Robert_Louis_Stevenson%2C_1885.jpg

maria interviewed patricia neal once and she wouldn't shut up about gary cooper. the love of her life. who can blame her!!? yowza.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8b/5c/ba/8b5cba7d39892b7718e59af74a86b5ad.jpg

There's something appealingly vegetal about his features

Last year, I hung out in the ruins of Stevenson's villa in Bournemouth, where he wrote Jekyll & Hyde gripped by fevers and convulsions and nightmares. Bournemouth is this weird mix of extreme wealth and tawdry seaside cheapness; the town centre simmers with barely suppressed violence. But there's another aspect to it - of steep sandstone gullies and huge holm oaks that must be largely the same as when Stevenson was there. I was amazed at how many people were in the villa's grounds. I mean, it was me and two other people but that seems a lot for a minor(?) literary figure and a ruined old house. We were all kind of fevered ourselves: reading, pacing the floors of the old kitchen where he welcomed Henry James on cold winter evenings.

I saw the Shelley tomb as well. Weird day.

From all accounts RLS was also incredibly charming

I had never actually seen a picture of Gary Cooper and now I can't stop staring at his face trying to work out what makes it so weird and so pretty at the same time.

He looks like a drag king version of William S. Hart (an earlier Western star):

https://www.hutchnews.com/gcdn/authoring/2017/06/06/NDCD/ghows-KS-5061f325-4694-14a8-e053-0100007f55ed-b86ecae3.jpeg

https://media.tenor.com/images/29d2d9bf0fca07d5b854dc67af2d0a0f/tenor.gif

I had never actually seen a picture of Gary Cooper

What?

Lots of people never have, Tom! He doesn't have a Hitchcock collab or xmas favourite to keep him in the public consciousness, High Noon prob his most high profile role now and that's hardly ubiquitous.

god, 23-year-old Joan Fontaine was just astonishing.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTE5NDEyYjUtOGRiMS00MDFiLWJhZmItMTg4NmVkOGVkOTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTcyODY2NDQ@._V1_.jpg

I'm dying to know the backstory behind this costume and pose.

I always get Gary Cooper and Gary Cole confused

Gary Cole being #1 on my living would smash list

Gary Cooper had a reputation for swinging in his early years.

Orson Welles once said that Cooper reduced him to a stammering, blushing girl

F For Fuck

https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/cine-posters-carteles/tc/2020/05/21/12/205118371.jpg

gary cooper was god-like. and he aged like a fine sexy wine.

but that seems a lot for a minor(?) literary figure

Minor?? He wrote Treasure Island, Kidnapped!, Jekyll & Hyde... he's one of the great stylists of all time

Rather good poet too.

young kipling kinda hot. who knew? you always just see old man photos of him.

https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/kunst/_englishphotographer/rudyard_kipling.jpg

gary cooper was god-like. and he aged like a fine sexy wine.

If so, he was definitely corked by the time of Love In The Afternoon and Man of The West (both made in his late '50s!)

super dooper!

Dont smoke,kids