tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post6073144187877884907..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Bardot and the Philosophes - Now with Pics!George Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-34131233633432329182009-09-27T20:45:45.842+01:002009-09-27T20:45:45.842+01:00Yes, Snoop, I know. That is precisely why I used t...Yes, Snoop, I know. That is precisely why I used those expressions. The joke hadn't escaped me.: it was I who made the joke. Only <i>sotto voce, sotto voce</i>.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-68477662104201030972009-09-27T20:29:26.357+01:002009-09-27T20:29:26.357+01:00If I may: there is something common between two po...If I may: there is something common between two points of view presented:<br /><br />1. "she is a vivid, standing invitation"<br /><br />2. "but could never quite put my finger on it"<br /><br />Sorry, it was irresistible ;-)SnoopyTheGoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00920565522498918323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-18554532671947030362009-09-25T16:13:05.693+01:002009-09-25T16:13:05.693+01:00Certainly not! I It was Minnie Mouse. Who else?Certainly not! I It was Minnie Mouse. Who else?George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-30910007792060455332009-09-25T16:05:02.866+01:002009-09-25T16:05:02.866+01:00MM? Melinda Messinger? Well I never ...MM? Melinda Messinger? Well I never ...Tim Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-14105130227392642432009-09-24T21:45:53.651+01:002009-09-24T21:45:53.651+01:00That Ekberg clip is very much a classy attack of t...That Ekberg clip is very much a classy attack of the 50ft woman, Mark.<br /><br />As to Ann Diamond, hmm. <br /><br />But there's Michelle Pfeiffer and Katherine Hepburn and the great MM of course. And Ekberg in and out of the Trevi. So many, dear boys, so many that I have forgotten half.<br /><br />As a child I was deeply attracted to Fenella Fielding. The voice as much as the appearance. I liked dark fringes and the sound of smoking.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-88685927686004055602009-09-24T16:54:47.653+01:002009-09-24T16:54:47.653+01:00@Mark Granier: I don't think that Anne Diamond...@Mark Granier: I don't think that Anne Diamond rules out Kate Winslet by any means. But I wouldn't admit it here. And anyway: Lilian Gish.James Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-70874726678068546152009-09-24T14:13:35.960+01:002009-09-24T14:13:35.960+01:00BTW apologies for going off on a tangent again, fr...BTW apologies for going off on a tangent again, from Bardot to Ekberg, but James's Ann Diamond set me off, or 'perfume from a dress.'Mark Granierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-78709018070829456442009-09-24T14:07:14.585+01:002009-09-24T14:07:14.585+01:00Anne Diamond? Nah, Kate Winslet, any day.
Bardot...Anne Diamond? Nah, Kate Winslet, any day. <br /><br />Bardot belongs to another era; her early images are set in amber (sometimes almost literally: those glimpses of heavily saturated, Technicolor skin, as in that scene with the gawping boys in Cinema Paridiso). Those were the heydays of the 'sex kitten', the ridiculous faux-sophistication of Playboy bunnies. Monroe and Fonda played their parts, and rose above them in far better movies. Perhaps Bardot did too (I many of her films). I used to think Bardot and Raquel Welch were immensely sexy, and later Anita Ekberg, wetly dreamed by Fellini in her Trevi Fountain (a sex kitten holding a kitten: she even made it into a Bob Dylan song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKN1T3K1idg<br /><br />'Yes Sylvia, I'm coming too' (but what happened to the kitten, and the rest of the night?).<br /><br />And I always remembered this one, a rather less cuddly Ekberg in Boccaccio '70 (though of course she's still a figment of a very male dream): <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JaQqWYD3EI<br /><br />Poor Fellini: wildly sentimental and mad as a hatter, but I have a great affection for his films.Mark Granierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-52274731680492965042009-09-24T12:09:29.192+01:002009-09-24T12:09:29.192+01:00"My favourite is A.C.Grayling who seems to ha..."My favourite is A.C.Grayling who seems to have been caught during dinner.." - that's made my day. Coffee, nose, monitor etc.<br /><br />But whilst I'm here inhabiting my own lust - Bardot's always been one of those universally-fancied women who are so universally-fancied that they do no more for me than set me off in fits of giggles. <br /><br />Give me the young Anne Diamond any time (Will is in my head saying "terribly suburban, old boy")James Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-62867551454262596532009-09-24T06:51:46.415+01:002009-09-24T06:51:46.415+01:00Thanks for the slideshow. Lovely to see Picasso wi...Thanks for the slideshow. Lovely to see Picasso with her. But why was he sitting on a higher step?Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.com