MURPHY'S LAW

ACTING! Part 2

 Pretending you're a Champion Runner...

...one minute before you get charley's horse!

ACTING!

With the Academy Awards Ceremony coming up next month, it is with great joy and pride that I submit my nomination for acting in a real life drama.

THE PEACOCK EFFECT

 Watching the girls jog by.

THE GIRLS' WAITING ROOM

The Weight of Your Own Thoughts

 MORE LESSONS IN LIFE 

RAQUEL WELCH and the Star and Stripes!

I had a crush on Raquel Welch back in the 60s, ever since I got a glimpse of her wearing that famous furry skin bikini in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C. 

 

Raquel will be 81 this year and two things haven't changed: her wonderful looks...and my crush on her.

From WIKIPEDIA: 

 Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress and singer. 

 She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970) and Hannie Caulder (1971). She made several television variety specials.

Welch's unique film persona made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s, due to her portrayal of strong female characters and breaking the mold of the archetypal sex symbol. Because of this, her rise to stardom in the mid 1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell. 

These wonderful Star and Stripes bikini shots are from her 1970 film MYRA BRECKINRIDGE.

And this is where it all started:

Her complete filmography on IMDb:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000079/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody!

 A SALUTE TO THE SEXY GIRLS OF ENTERTAINMENT!

Someone said : "If we all had the same taste in women, we'd all be married to the same girl!"

Whether that's true or even possible, it is a fact that we all have different tastes in almost everything, including women. 

And as years roll along, I find myself reminiscing about all those beautiful girls of films and television that captured my imagination and became the subject of many a daydream, not only during my youth but well into my autumn years.

So here's a toast to some of those magnificent women and the wonderful dreams they provided me over the years...

(There were a lot more but I won't go into that right now.)

Jean Harlow

                                                                                                                                   Thelma Todd

                                                                        Jane Russell

Lauren Bacall  Rita Hayworth

Ann Sheridan

 Ava Gardner    

 Yvonne de Carlo

Marilyn Monroe

Anne Francis

 

Sophia Loren

Anita Ekberg

 

Kim Novak

Virna Lisi

                                                                           Elke Sommer

Ursula Andress

Daniela Bianchi

 Stella Stevens

Honor Blackman

Claudine Auger

Barbara Feldon

Natalie Wood

                                                                                                                          Suzanne Pleshette

Catherine Deneuve

Raquel Welch

Jacqueline Bisset

Jill St. John

Farrah Fawcett

Lynda Carter

Michelle Pfeiffer                                            Barbara Bach 

Caroline Munro

Diane Lane

Bo Derek

Charlize Theron

Angelina Jolie

Sharon Stone

Kim Cattrall

Christina Applegate                                                             Kate Upton

Amy Adams                                                                Brooklyn Decker

Catherine Zeta Jones                                                                     Uma Thurman

Margot Robbie

Jennifer Lopez