Jayne Mansfield and Sophia Loren

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During a 1957 party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills to officially welcome Sophia Loren to Hollywood an infamous encounter with Jayne Mansfield occurred ...

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Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield & Louella Parson
   
left: Mansfield, Mike Romanoff & Sophia Loren
middle: Mansfield, Romanoff, Loren & Louella Parson

Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield & Clifton Webb

Loren, Mansfield and Clifton Webb

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield & Clifton Webb

OMG!

Jayne Mansfield exposed

Sophia & Jayne seated at Romanoff's
What happened to Clifton Webb?
photographed by Joe Shere | b&w image

color image

IMAGES:
. Romanoff, Loren, Mansfield & Clifton Webb
. Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield | 2
. Sophia Loren looking at Jayne Mansfield

LINKS:
. IMDb: 236 photos of Sophia Loren
. Blog: Sophia Loren @ Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist
. . When Trouble Begins to Brew...
. Notorious cleavage . . .
. Java's Bachelor Pad
• Jayne Mansfield
• Sophia Loren | more
• Sophia Loren | Cleopatra
• The Sophia Loren Archives | Chronicles 1955

• Gold of Naples/L'oro di Napoli
• Abbracci e pop corn | L'oro di Napoli
• L'oro di Napoli - film clip
. image from Night's of Cleo...

A NEW DAY

THE 44th PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President ~ Barack "Barry" Hussein Obama, Jr.
• Born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Barack means "one who is blessed" in Swahili.
• Raised in Hawaii and Indonesia.

First Lady ~ Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
• Born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois.

MORE HERE

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FORMER VEEP DICK CHENEY

EXITS WASHINGTON IN A WHEELCHAIR!




IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHAINS & LEG SHACKLES!

"Miss B: The Dancing Bird Figure"

Miss B: The Dancing Bird Figure marionette was made from piano mechanisms, cabinet parts, wire and felt by The Pianistas, a very busy people who were also adept at utilizing their free time. During the long winter months, activities were created to pass the time and entertain... Children would use whatever scraps of materials leftover to make their own figurines, dolls, games and other amusements... like the Dancing Bird Figure... During the turn of the 20th Century, at a road-side general store in New Jersey, Cyrus Braintree acquired the Dancing Bird Figure from a member of the Pianistas tribe... Braintree gave the bird figure the name: Miss 'B', the Incredible Dancing Bird and created one of the most popular Vaudeville shows of its time. With the help of a friend who was a bicycle repairman, he made a coin operated juke box outfitted with a mechanism that would cause the small bird figurine to dance to the music... Miss "B" reached the height of popularity in 1927... Tragically, the bird figurine was destroyed in a hotel fire on East 42nd Street in Manhattan during November of 1929, where Braintree, down on his luck, was trying to stage a comeback tour. Braintree survived the fire, but never recovered from the loss. He made several attempts to create new versions of the bird figure (of which the 10 inch tall "Dancing Bird Figure" is an example), but with no success...

Thanks to M. Frassinelli, for information on this video clip

SELECTED LINKS:

• Dancing Bird Figure marionette
  
• History of Miss B: The Drancing Bird Figure
  
• Myth of History: Legend of the Pianistas
  
• Michael Frassinelli-PianoSculptures
  

The People have spoken

 

          1st panel:   Obama     (image by Shepard Fairey)
          2nd panel: McCain/Palin     (image by Scattergood-Moore)
          3rd palel:   Fist     (based on 1960s Black Panther poster)

 

The Imperial President

GEORGE W. BUSH

based on the Ingres painting
Napoleon on His Imperial Throne, 1806
image created by PantherProUSA, © 2008

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. By Andrew Bacevich. Published by Metropolitan Books. "...identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism..." - The American Empire Project

LINKS:

• Dept. of International Relations: Faculty: Andrew J. Bacevich
  
• The American Empire Project
  
• Bill Moyers Rournal - PBS

remembering art: R B Kitaj

remembering art: R B Kitaj

TODAY IS OCTOBER 1st

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful radiant things. - Emma Goldman

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