Friday, 6 November 2009

Coop

Allow Iconista to indulge her passion for a long dead gent. According to Clara Bow he "was hung like a horse and could go all night."

Iconista's interest is merely aesthetic.


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Thursday, 5 November 2009

Bebe Daniels

Iconista has always liked the name, though it must sound stupid in real life. Not a name you'd call a cat for the shame of yodelling it down the garden last thing at night. But for a film star, it's ok.
I googled Bebe today. Dullest life I ever researched. Don't bother typing it into your search box. Just look at the snaps. Iconista leica.


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Monday, 2 November 2009

Great Disapproving Looks #3

Iconista has survived Halloween. Dispensing candy to mendicant urchins is not my idea of fun. But any excuse to wear black is welcome, though I'd rather be marking the death of a rich husband than playing jellybean dispenser.

Enough chitchat.


OK, Kirk is more menacing than disapproving here. But the whole is-he-gonna-slap-her-or-kiss-her look always sizzles. At least it's more honest than patronising "tut-tut" sexual aggression...


...which is frankly condescending.

Of course, sometimes it's just plain cute.


Iconista is ambivalent about the battle of the sexes.

(Don't you just love how everyone is disapproving on that one?)



At the end of the day, for all their pouting, you know Lana and Joan could sock it to them easy.
They simply choose not to.

Mind you, I think Kirk's dame had better join in or get out before she gets hurt.


Too late, darling.



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Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Shy, They Ain't








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Friday, 23 October 2009

In Lieu of Great Disapproving Looks

I wanted to give you some more Disapproving Looks, but Disapproving Looks should be accompanied by withering comments. So my dears, you will simply have to wait. Iconista's diary is heaving.



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Friday, 16 October 2009

Joan Crawford

Damn fine.
You want words?
Read a book.
Iconista is indisposed.



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Thursday, 15 October 2009

Directors

More cattle herders

Stanley Kubrick


Sam Peckinpah and William Holden

Hitchcock

John Huston, Roberto Rossellini and Jean Negulesco


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