Things of beauty – Page 27 – Splendid Isolation

Confusion

September 23, 2022 Kim du Toit Gratuitous Chick Pics

I have mentioned before about the confusion I have with actors’ or starlets’ or celebrities; names which are either the same, or close enough for my senior-level brain to grind to a halt.

Did I ever mention the Foxes: Julia, Megan, Emilia and Samantha?

Truth be told, I’m a little more familiar with the last-named, but only because she’s been around forever, as a Page Three Girl, a singer and (more recently) a prominent lesbianist.

I’ve also seen Emilia (daughter of James and sister of Laurence) in a couple of good movies.

But the first two? No chance.

Couldn’t tell them apart with a crib note.

So whenever I see mention of “______ Fox”, my brain tries to identify which one’s the topic under discussion, and then says, “Fuck it, I’ll go and watch Othias and Mae instead.”

Actually, not a bad outcome, all things considered.

Random Totty

September 22, 2022 Kim du Toit Gratuitous Chick Pics

Longtime Readers will no doubt be aware of my fondness of statuesque / zaftig / full-figured women, so this discovery should come as no surprise to anybody.

Anyone heard of Rachel Bloom before? Neither had I.

Yummy. Also fairly intelligent, apparently.

Classic Beauty: Rosemarie Bowe

September 18, 2022 Kim du Toit Classic Beauty

She was once described as having “a face like Grace Kelly and a body like Marilyn Monroe”. I wouldn’t go as far as that, but Rosemarie Bowe was something else.

Unusually for Hollywood, she was married to only one man — Robert Stack — and she pretty much quit acting when the two kids came along, only going back once they had grown.

Lovely.

Classic Beauty: Constance Bennett

September 11, 2022 Kim du Toit Classic Beauty

We’ve already looked at her sister, but Constance Bennett was nothing to sneeze at, either:

And she aged pretty nicely, too. Here she is at 55, five years before her death:

My Touring Choice

August 30, 2022 Kim du Toit Drive Time, Gratuitous Chick Pics

In this little exercise of traveling along a couple of scenic U.S. roads accompanied by a beautiful woman, my choice was super-easy:

Are you kidding me? A gorgeous freckled redhead and a 60s-era Ferrari? Who were the others, again?

Classic Beauty: Marlene Dietrich

August 28, 2022 Kim du Toit Classic Beauty

In a world of Nazis, rapacious movie directors and lascivious producers (and it was worse here than in her native Germany), Marlene Dietrich gave the world that famous look, said: “Is dat the best vat you can do to me? Hah” and proceeded to take the world of show business by storm.

Being a bona fide product of Weimar Germany and Isherwood’s Cabaret Berlin, her sexuality swung both ways and her legs every way you could imagine; but even with all that, people still adored her. And so do I.

The problem for most American men, though, is that all they know of Marlene comes from Madeline Kahn’s exquisite parody of her in Blazing Saddles. But watch any two of her own movies, and you’ll see why this goddess was worshiped.

I recommend Morocco, and of course Blue Angel.