Weekend Fun: No. 35

Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier on the set of The Marathon Man (John Schlesinger, 1976).

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman on the set of All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976).


It looks like Dustin Hoffman had some severe facial tics in the 1970's. Does anyone know if he still has this problem? Poor guy...

Here's a fun article on why All the President's Men wasn't filmed in the offices of The Washington Post, where Redford's and Hoffman's characters work as reporters. Apparently Redford and The Washington Post has different accounts as to the reason of the locale...

The first paragraph of the wonderfully named article "When Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman behaved like groupies" by Judith Martin (Washington Post, Friday March 4, 2011):

On behalf of my 1970s Post colleagues, I take exception to actor Robert Redford's claim that "All the President's Men" was not filmed in the Post newsroom because "it was all giggling women and people doing their makeup and a general feeling of disorder".

Nicely put, Mr. Redford!

Weekend Fun: No. 33

Salvador Dalí and Alice Cooper.

... The circumstances to this photo? Anyone? I also want to know what brand of mustache wax Señor Dalí uses! Amazing.

From Awesome People Hanging Out Together.

Weekend Fun: No. 30

"In Soviet Russia, our dogs have twice as many heads as they do in the Capitalist West!"

Funny thing! Russians experimenting with dogs! I wonder what the reasoning was.

"Hmm, those Americans are winning this sciency spacey race-thingy... What to do, what to do...? Da, of course! We take a puppy head and put it on another doggy, and then we have a pet than can carry a newspaper in one mouth and a pair of slippers in the other! Na zdorovye, comrades!"

The Soviet scientist behind this and similar experiments was Sergei Brukhonenko. The following film is perhaps not for the faint of heart, but hugely fascinating for people with morbid interests like me. It's called Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (D.I. Yashin, 1940) and it's in public domain. The version below has English narration.

Of course, these kinds of experiments were executed mostly for propaganda reasons, showing Big Brother of the West how high tech the Dr. Frankensteins of Vodka County were. The dogs didn't live for long, and the reactions on external stimuli of the separated head are mostly reflexes. But yeah. Give me your opinions.

Happy Birthday, Amelia Earhart

As one can see from Google's search page, it's aviatrix Amelia Earhart's birthday (b. July 24 1897). Really cool lady. She disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, probably because of that guy she flew with (Fred Noonan) who chose to navigate after the stars. Kind of difficult when it's cloudy. But read the Wikipedia page for more accurate details concerning her disappearance. Or better yet, listen to the awesome podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks. The episode I'm referring to was posted July 16th. Go listen to it!

Marlene Dietrich and Amelia Earhart.

Harpo Marx and Amelia Earhart.

Cary Grant and Amelia Earhart.

Pictures from Awesome People Hanging Out Together.

Weekend Fun: No. 29

Sophia Loren is watchful. Jayne Mansfield's... delights... are about to escape and devour her, any minute now.

Weekend Fun: No. 28

Two worlds collide: Groucho Marx and Jack Nicholson hanging out together.

Well, I was kind of lazy this weekend. But since it (in Sweden anyway) rains cats and dogs and I slept to 2 PM, I consider it still a weekend. Feels like a hung over Sunday, know what I mean? Nudge, nudge! Know what I mean!? (Inkipinkie, klikken and knipogen, etc... Nice subtitled version I found.)

From Awesome People Hanging Out Together.

Picture Galore: Getting Close

Being in a mad mood, I tried cheering myself up by hunting for celebrity pictures of the more personal sort. I found a couple of new ones I had not seen before, some of them apparently shot by Yul Brynner. (I say "apparently", since I have trouble finding the sources of the photographs and I am damaged by university studies.)

Here are some of my finds. They actually got me into a slightly better mood.

Audrey Hepburn by Yul Brynner.

Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn.

Ava Gardner.

Buster Keaton.

Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven.

Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.

Deborah Kerr by Yul Brynner.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly.

Grace Kelly by Yul Brynner.

Gregory Peck.

Ingrid Bergman by Yul Brynner.

James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor.

Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando.

Marilyn Monroe.

Mia Farrow by Yul Brynner.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Rock Hudson and Doris Day.

Sophia Loren.

Pictures Galore: Paul Newman

Okay, back to safe old Hollywood. I guess far away countries like Senegal and Australia didn't make any interesting contributions to film history, so I will add some sexy photos of Paul Newman instead. Enjoy! All pictures except the first one have high resolution, so save on.

And congratulations to myself for 300 registered blog followers. Sweet!

And, sexiest of them all:

Elvis in '56

Damn it, I forgot. Yesterday was Elvis Presley's 75th birthday, and there is probably a gazillion photos and honor blog posts around that I can't beat. What I can do is to offer a few un-staged photos of the rock icon.

These pictures are taken by a photographer called Alfred Wertheimer in 1956. My favorites among these are the backstage kissing photos, but all them are beautifully natural and shows a relaxed (and oh-so-handsome) Elvis. I hope you'll enjoy.

A new decade and new wallpapers!

[Don't ask me why I haven't gone to bed at 6:30 AM. Awful hangover and slight ulcer is my own diagnosis.]

That was about how I looked on New Year's Eve. Add some absinthe, and later going home to clean up my boyfriend's vomit - there you have my 2010 celebrations! Okay, the New Year's party was actually pretty awesome. I hope the situation was at least quite similar for my dear readers (excluding the vomit part).

Since I am such a sweet, generous person I thought I could give you some new wallpapers for the new year. There should be something fitting for everyone I believe. As long as you have widescreen format (16:10).
(If you have either 5:4 or 4:3, just email me if you desperately want any of these - I have them in store.)

For the random classic film fan:

Alfred Hitchcock, looking suspicious.

Nick and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy and William Powell).

For the fan of Japanese cinema:

Director Akira Kurosawa.

For the fan of Japanese cinema or for every woman who wants a hot man filling their computer screen:

A young Toshirô Mifune (*drooling*).

And for all my dear male readers:

FBI agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson)