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If you haven’t seen Gay Carrington’s “Bates Motel,” here it is, on the second anniversary of its release.
More Gay.
The lost Gay Carrington screen test for “Double Indemnity.” Damn that Stanwyck!
Gay reminisces.
For more Gay Carrington, go to her YouTube. Follow Gay on Facebook. Visit her website.
for the brilliant Danny E.
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The image of Marilyn Monroe is everywhere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — it’s part of the themed graphic of the 65th anniversary.
Here she is being hung by workers (and who doesn’t love hung bi workers?) at the Festival Palace.
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The utterly stunning Lana Turner, rocking the turban in 1946′s “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
Chexy always posts Lana Turner twice.
The “Postman” costume was designed by Irene, who in 1962 slit her wrists (although that’s disputed) and jumped from the 14th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood (not disputed). She was reportedly distraught over the death of her true love, Gary Cooper, in 1961.
In 1948, legendary film director D.W. Griffith dropped dead in the hotel lobby of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73.
On March 3, 1966, William Frawley (best known as Fred Mertz) collapsed a half block away and was carried to the Knickerbocker lobby where they were unable to revive him.
He was 79.
Gay American poet Frank O’Hara wrote this lovely poem about Lana Turner.
O’Hara, 40, was killed when a dune buggy ran over him on Fire Island, July 24, 1966.
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“Fiesta comes from the old Spanish word, ‘fiesta,’ which means fiesta.” Great Technicolor from 1935.
Nat King Cole… en Espanol!
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. 1966.
Carmen Miranda’s outfits!
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If you’ve never seen Jane Fonda in 1968′s “Barbarella,” this would be a good weekend to watch it. A futuristic sex adventure comedy set in the 41st century, Jane slithers her way through encounters with various odd ducks. Even Marcel Marceau shows up.
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Uncompromising doofus Ashton Kutcher as he appeared in brownface in a now pulled PopChips ad, and the New Jersey tan mom, arrested for allegedly putting her 5-year-old daughter in a tanning bed.
One pales in comparison.
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It’s the new game that’s sweeping the nation! Let’s play “Who’s Not Dead?!”
Watch the trailer for “Airport 1975,” and be sure you have your airsickness bag handy!
See if you can guess how many aren’t dead!
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Here’s a fun game for a sunny Sunday! Let’s play “Who’s Not Dead?!”
Watch the below clip from the 1974 gala celebrating the premiere of “That’s Entertainment!”
See if you can guess how many aren’t dead!
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Audrey Totter in 1949′s “Tension.”
Nice furniture and drapes.
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Marilyn Monroe fakes being asleep as Joseph Cotton enters their cabin in Niagara Falls.
Nice furniture.
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
