Bronxgirl48 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Darn Reply thingie's not working... YES JACKIE, I LOVE THAT LAST PHOTO OF RUDY TOO, SO ADORABLE! You can really see his sweetness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I saw Mongo's picture of a smiling Georgie Raft with Lombard. How dapper. But I do love my tall dark and handsome leading men gangster/gigolo-types scowling and frowning. FRANK McHUGH'S ARMS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 SansFin, LOL, "vultures, vultures everywhere!" In Mallorca as well as Casablanca, huh? About Robert Preston, maybe you've watched VICTOR, VICTORIA too many times, ha! Gee I love the fairy-tale facade of that villa, looks more like a mini-castle. I don't know why, but The Black Sea frightens me. It just sounds so forbidding, like death or something, lol. I never thought much about the Mediterranean until my passion for the French and Italian Riviera came into full obsessive bloom. What is that photo you uploaded? I got scared! I see claws and creepy stuff...looks lie an old boyfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Introducing A TICKLISH AFFAIR, Bob Wagner called Red Buttons "Rouge Bouton" LOL! I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I have watched *Victor/Victoria* many times and I think Robert Preston was truly wonderful in the role. I am told I have seen him in another movie but I do not remember him. My feeling is that the Mediterranean sea only sits there much like an oversized swimming pool. It is only how the sky touches it and how the sun sparkles off of it and how the moon dances across it that gives it any semblance of change. The Black Sea is alive. There are days it welcomes you and laughs as you play in it. There are days when it wishes to be left alone and it will tolerate you but neither of you will enjoy it. There are days when it rages and makes you feel so wonderful to be snuggling in a blanket beside the fireplace in your living room. At deep night you look out and there is no horizon. It as if sky and waters are lovers pressed so tightly together they become one. You feel as if you are small child and you know it is magnificent and powerful and glorious all at the same time but you do not know how you know this. You just feel it. The Mediterranean is a pretty picture. The Black Sea is a fierce lover. The picture I posted is a sleeping lion at Vorontsov's Palace. A marble lion is a classic symbol in the region. This one is at the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka not the Vorontsov Palace in Odessa. It must have been nice to have been a Prince and you could throw up a palace here and a palace there as the whim took you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 My favorite new candid of Rudy. He looks like a cute guy you'd see at the Y. http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/rudolph-valentino-picture-12198351.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Sansfin, your description of the Black Sea was beautiful. I think the lion is cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Seriously. He has cute arms. The poor guy has to have something going for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Ha. Yeah you're right. And I'm trying to figure that out. SANS FIN: that was so very lovingly poetic. And sounds like you've had very intimate experience with the Black Sea. Fierce lover...Girl you almost had me swooning. Then I thought of Frank McHugh's and Wallace Ford's armpits. I'm teasing. I'm teasing you Jackaaay. Your description WAS beautiful, S.F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 SansFin, your description of The Black Sea was positively haunting. Fierce lover vs. pretty picture -- I want both! (if by "fierce" is meant ardent, not brutal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 So nobody likes Rudy in his cutie-pie athlete YMCA outfit with the medicine ball, lol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Oh yes...I like. I like, The Medecine Man. Rudolph Valentino is The Man With A Thousand Looks. He is quite the chameleon. He looks good. And he looks so friendly. Now....bring on the ( ardent ) Black Sea!!!!! Whooosh!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 It's true -- Valentino changes from picture to picture. Here he is in the infamous goatee that fans wanted him to shave off. I actually don't mind it. He still looks sweet. I'll take the superficial charms of the Mediterranean. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jul 15, 2011 1:42 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 Profeel with the goatee. I'm beginning to think he actually looks BETTER with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SansFin Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 > JackFavell inscribed: > I think the lion is cute. It is often hard to define but I have found that it is the small bit of chin whiskers which make me think he is ticklish. He reminds me of my grandfather who was tall and broad and stern and had many scars and medals from old battles and who would wink and slip me a sweet when no one was looking. It was our most precious secret that he was ticklish under his chin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 After several vodka shots, I could probably get up on stage and join in. I love this song! Everybody dance! Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jul 15, 2011 3:12 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 > Bronxgirl48 sayeth: > Fierce lover vs. pretty picture -- I want both! (if by "fierce" is meant ardent, not brutal) There are pleasures so great they are surely wicked and carry a heavy punishment. That is what Magali Noel sang of in *Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes* where her penance was to be in the hands of brutal men. I believe I will always remember the line in the episode 'The Doctor's Wife' of the series 'Doctor Who' where Idris is learning of all things of the flesh and she says: "Biting's excellent. It's like kissing. Only there's a winner." Where is the exhilaration in seducing a hare? Playing with a lion is much more fun. Knowing he could destroy you with ease and knowing you are the only one he is gentle with add much to the experience. Adrenalin is the ultimate aphrodisiac. No suave man can compete with a man newly from battle with sweat steaming from him and his veins throbbing and he is senseless with passion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 Wow, SansFin, I think I need a cigarette after your incredible post. And I stopped smoking years ago, lol. Can you translate that Russian wedding song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 > Bronxgirl48 speaketh: > I think I need a cigarette after your incredible post. And I stopped smoking years ago, lol. Have you heard of vaping? A long puff of dark cherry mixed with cinnabomb is quite refreshing at such times. > Can you translate that Russian wedding song? I am very sorry to say that translating songs is very difficult and it is often not accurate. Songs use many idioms which do not translate well in word-for-word and translating into English is not my forte. There is also a danger that it may be far off if I do not know the song well because of a Lady Mondegreen or a soramimi. A Lady Mondegreen is as when people think a line in a popular song is: 'Excuse me while I kiss this guy' when it should be 'Excuse me while I kiss the sky'. It is also why some children start their school day by placing their hand over their heart and saying: 'I led the pigeons to the flag' and 'One nation in a dirigible'. I am sure you can see how such a mis-hearing of a word or phrase could change the song far beyond anything the writer meant. Other examples of Lady Mondegreens: 'Gladly the cross I'd bear' becomes 'Gladly, the cross-eyed bear' 'There's a bad moon on the rise' becomes 'There's a bathroom on the right' 'If you see Kay' is sometimes thought to be letters spelling a word. 'The girl with kaleidoscope eyes' becomes 'The girl with colitis goes by' 'I was born a rebel' becomes 'I was Barney Rubble' I am now off to work. They have promised this will be my last shift of twelve hours! I very much hope that this time they keep their word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Besame Mucho! Favorited. :x Sansfin - there's a girlfriend of my daughter's who used to insist that the pledge of allegiance was really the pledge of Egypt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I love Lady Mondegreens. A friend once mentioned admiring the Beatles lyric "Happy as a rafter beam," which we finally figured out was "Happy ever after in the marketplace." Another friend misheard "Just touch my cheek before you leave me" from "Angel of the Morning" as "Just brush my teeth before you leave me." But I shouldn't laugh, because I first heard it as "Just wash my sheets before you leave me." Hope all of you are happy as a rafter beam today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 One of my favorite songs growing up was "Billie Jean", and I always thought Michael Jackson was singing "The chair is not my son..." It still sounds like that to me! I didn't know these were called "Lady Mondegreens", how cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 "Just brush my teeth before you leave me." My daughter just had to ask me why I almost choked on my lunch......lol!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hi All. Sans Fin:: Your prose is pure poetry. The imagery is very strong. It sounds like a romance novel. But truly...with so much much more depth. You're a great writer. B-Girl: I like Rudy with the goatee. I think I also see the slight effects of his spaghetti meals. I can envision him as an older man from the shot you posted. I've mis-heard so many lyrics in my time...that I've created whole new songs. < Sigh! > I'm out and about and am about to miss Rita do her deadly fatal dance in "Salome." But I'd like to give Steve Cochran a whirl. He'll be on at 1:45 in a film called "SCANDAL." Moira suggested it..so you know it's probably worth a looksee. :x All. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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