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Eu te amo.**

tribute to joe strummer. los angeles. december 22.

bob was practicing his song last night...zander is playing. flea is playing. and many, many more. it will be a wonderful night.

harold & maude**

reading is fundamental

++anita loos++

Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author.

In 1912, she began writing scenarios and screenplays for pioneer movie director D.W. Griffith. Her first screenplay, The New York Hat, was produced for Biograph starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore.

With the advent of the talkies, she went from writing screenplays and subtitles for silent movies to screenplays with dialogue for such classics as Red-Headed Woman (1932) starring Jean Harlow; San Francisco (1936) starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy; The Women (1939), adapted from the play by Clare Booth Luce, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell; Susan and God (1940) starring Crawford, Fredric March and Ruth Hussey; and I Married an Angel (1942) starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

On her own, Loos wrote Happy Birthday, which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in 1946 starring Helen Hayes. She also dramatized two of the French writer Colette's novels, Gigi (1951), which opened at the Fulton Theatre starring Audrey Hepburn, and Chéri (1959), which opened at the Morosco Theatre starring Kim Stanley.

Loos is perhaps best known for her short novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925), originally serialized in Harper's Bazaar before publication in novel format. It was a satire of a "dumb blonde" showgirl from Arkansas out to get a rich husband. It was an overnight bestseller and was translated into fourteen languages, even serialized into Chinese. Her stage adaptation opened on Broadway in 1926 and later toured successfully. In 1949, a hit musical of Gentleman Prefer Blondes opened on Broadway, for which she and Joseph Fields wrote the book. A silent movie of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made in 1928 starring Ruth Taylor and Alice White, which Loos also wrote the subtitles for, and a sound version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made in 1953 starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, which was adapted by Charles Lederer and directed by Howard Hawks.

She wrote a sequel entitled But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928), which was also successful. Both of these Jazz Age classics are amusing period pieces, written as the diaries of a flapper who travels to Europe, meets everyone and returns to the United States to marry a millionaire. The movie version, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, was made in 1957 starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain.

(wikipedia)

~~*d.w. griffith's the new york hat starring mary pickford



~~*scene from the red headed woman starring jean harlow



~~*diamonds are a girl's best friend, carol channing, from original broadway production



~~*musical number from gentleman prefer brunettes

5, 6, 7, 8...

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
*~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

heinz hajek-halke*

Heinz Hajek-Halke was among the most important German photographers of the 20th Century. He was born in Berlin in 1898.

During his lifetime, and in the immediate years following his death, he was well-known in the arts community, but remained somewhat more obscure to the general public.

Among his most important works were his experimental Lichtgrafiken (light graphics), which were made without a camera. Instead, each image was created by applying a combination of chemical and mechanical techniques to photographic materials, such as negative film and light-sensitive paper. Additionally, Hajek-Halke used materials such as glass shards, glue, varnish, soot, wire, and fish bones in concert with darkroom techniques such as montage and double exposure, resulting in images of bizarre and fine structures and shapes, some resembling macro- and microscopic photographs.

He died in Berlin in 1983.

fashion of the future*

**~~***this one is fabulous*~*~*~

mirror, mirror....

crazy in love*

on november 27, 1974, linda riss and burt pugach were married after a 17-year "courtship." eight months earlier, burt had been released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence.

you see, on the morning of monday, june 15, 1959, a then 22-year-old linda answered her door hoping to find a gift from her new fiance. she saw a flash of cardboard, then felt burning liquid spray across her face. at first she thought it was hot water.

the scorching liquid was lye.

she did not recognize the attacker, but she immediately knew who was responsible -- burton pugach, her ex-boyfriend. after a year of dating the 30-year old successful bronx lawyer, she had broken it off with him, deciding that he had no plans to divorce his wife. over the next 6 months he became obsessed, then violent, finally hiring the man that knocked on linda's door that fateful morning.

on march 21, 1974, burt was released on parole. he was interviewed by reporters from two local television stations, and proposed to linda via the evening news. a few months later, a friend of hers arranged a double date, and in august 1974, the two met face to face for the first time since the trial. now married for over 30 years, the couple speak candidly about their bizarre love story in the intriguing documentary crazy love.