Day: July 9, 2022
Barbara Parkins in 1982’S Breakfast in Paris.
I had no idea there was such a scene. While I know that she did do some posed nudes back in the day, I thought the only time her breasts ever made it into a film was that fuzzy side-boob shot in The Mephisto Waltz. Now we have these VHS captures of a clear topless scene, thanks to the man, the legend, Johnny Moronic.
Here’s what Johnny Moronic had to say about the film:
“Breakfast in Paris is a 1982 romantic comedy/drama where Jackie (Barbara Parkins from Valley of the Dolls) comes home early from her high-powered job in fashion to find her husband cheating on her with the excuse that he doesn’t find her feminine enough any more. She gets an offer to join her friend Marcel (Jeremy Higgins) in Paris to help with some fashion shows and decides to get away from it all for a little while. At the airport, Jackie bumps into photographer Michael (Rod Mullinar) who becomes instantly smitten with her but she’s not having anything to do with men. Then Michael sits next to her in first class on the plane and she is livid with having to deal with a lovestruck Michael for the entire trip. She survives but then Michael keeps popping up wherever she goes and becomes a constant nuisance to her until Jackie finally relents and goes on a date with him. And it all goes well and they fall for one another. Then their relationship becomes complicated as Michael doesn’t fit into her lifestyle and Jackie becomes alarmed when he proposes a future marriage. A to-and-fro occurs between them and it ends in a stalemate where Jackie goes back to Melbourne leaving Michael lovestruck in Paris. But she can’t take her mind off of Michael and decides to make a dash back to Paris to be with him – but can they really get it together?
From John D. Lamond, more accustomed to sleazy/erotic movies like Felicity, Pacific Banana and Nightmares, this is strange mix of comedy and drama that doesn’t really get it right. Michael basically stalks Jackie until she relents and goes on a date with him and it’s played comically but isn’t all that funny. Then the movie becomes a full blown melodrama, ditching the comedy completely for a “will they/won’t they” romantic drama that becomes so tortured that the inevitable happy ending almost doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. The movie is a mess, although both Parkins and Mullinar work well together. With a better script and, let’s face it, director, they might’ve salvaged something more than a funded trip to Paris for a few nice shots. If only most of the movie didn’t seem like it was shot in Melbourne. The lack of French actors is also glaring. The movie isn’t terrible like some of Lamond’s other movies but he’s clearly out of his depth here.”
“20% of Americans now say the Bible is the literal word of God, half of what it was at its high point in 1984.”
What if it IS the word of God verbatim, but God was speaking figuratively? Or maybe God was kidding. He’s known for his humor.
Humor was his main weapon. Well humor and smiting were his two main weapons. Wait. Humor, smiting and … never mind. I’ll come in again.
Kidding aside, does it seem that fundamentalism is declining?
“A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could cause the collapse of the solar system”
The good news: you have about the next 100 billion years to relax and sip your coffee.
(Headline is misleading. It kinda-sorta implies that there is such a thing on the horizon, while the actual study is just a hypothetical calculation.)
“CHANEL WEST COAST’S STUNNING BIKINI BODY AND OTHER CELEBRITIES IN A WEEKLY INSTAGRAM/TWITTER ROUNDUP“
Click on the pic to get a gallery of her performance at the Wireless Festival and an after party.
If the photo is not doctored or otherwise misleading, she seems to have toned up a lot.
It is from an Instagram post
Now THAT is a great athlete. Sure Jim Brown and Ted Williams were good at their sports, but could they do THIS? No. None of the so-called great athletes could.
(OK, maybe Bruce Jenner would have been an exception.)
Here’s another look from another day:
But Twitter tells Musk that he’s buying it whether he wants to or not.
“‘Twitter is likely to ask the court for two things in its litigation against Musk,’ said Brian Quinn, a law professor at Boston College. ‘Twitter is expected to seek a ruling that it has not violated its contract with Musk, and it will likely seek a judicial order requiring Musk to complete the acquisition.'”
I believe that Musk is probably correct when he says that Twitter has far more bots and false accounts than they have always claimed. When I had a Twitter account, I knew that many of my followers were bogus. The counterfeits were kind of obvious, because my account would muddle along for weeks with a certain number of followers, more or less unchanged, then one day the number would double for no apparent reason. My account may have been unusual, and I’m not claiming that Twitter’s overall numbers are like that, but I suppose this had to have happened to many accounts, not just mine. I assume the holders of those accounts just accepted it, as I did, because the number of followers is a matter of pride. Who’s going to write to Twitter to complain about having too many followers?
Twitter is an unusual business phenomenon. It is not especially large or profitable, but it exercises a powerful impact on the public, in both discourse and action, in the USA and elsewhere. That impact is far disproportionate to its financial success. Twitter’s annual revenues are only about $5 billion – about the same size as Harley Davidson, DoorDash or Abercrombie and Fitch. But DoorDash doesn’t have the power to get Presidents elected, or foment revolutions. Moreover, Twitter’s revenues are minimal compared to those of the other big internet powerhouses and it has only a tiny fraction of Facebook’s user numbers. It seems that Twitter could be much more if the company could find (1) the route to better user numbers, and/or (2) the right business model. Elon Musk is obviously no dummy. He can see that. But he’s not happy with what he’s seeing, or not seeing, so far in Twitter’s data. Twitter claims that the number of spam accounts and bots is now “well under” 5% of its users. Musk seems skeptical, to say the least.
Or maybe he just got buyer’s remorse and is using the data as his pretext, or just as a negotiation ploy. That is also possible. As of this moment, he is stuck with a bid of $54 a share for a company trading at $37. (It was trading at about $52 in late April). He can’t be that thrilled with the situation.
Bloomberg did a thorough (and surprisingly funny) analysis of the issue.
These were taken today, July 8, 2022 in Rome, at the Valentino Haute Couture Fall-Winter 22-23 fashion show, which sounds even swankier and shallower than usual!
As everyone suspected, the first pictures to emerge were merely the tip of the iceberg
New collages here
When we talked about the sexiest women in their 60s, she slipped under our radar. I have to say she wins hands down. Here’s her Twitter feed. I think she could pass for 35.
In comparison, every other woman over 60 seems like one of those other horses trying to compete with Secretariat at Belmont, when Big Red finished 250 feet ahead of the field
Kind of interesting sidebar: Secretariat ran at a faster average speed (37.5 mph) in the longest Triple Crown race (Belmont) than in the shortest (37.4 in the Preakness). That’s one reason why he won the Belmont so easily. He simply had almost no fatigue factor, and was still pulling away in the last quarter mile.