Like Velcro, this one… I’m tossing & turning.
And it’s relevant to today’s Beauty.
Author: Kim du Toit
Modern Classic Beauty: Charlotte Rampling
Probably one of the better examples of the femme fatale in the movies, Charlotte Rampling evoked the Swinging Sixties — the last few years thereof at any rate — as much as anyone.
It helped that she was, and still is, a brilliant actress — equally fluent in French and English — and so has never had to get by just by showing off her body.
Although she was never shy about that, either:
And in color:
Add to that a glorious, sexy contralto like Lauren Bacall’s…
…which means (like Bacall) pure sex appeal at any age.
And then there’s that “showing off the body” thing:
Meal Planning
This article got me thinking:
Two-time Masters winner Scottie Scheffler is taking the opportunity to plan a Texas-style menu for this year’s Masters Tournament dinner, according to reports. Scheffler has the honor of arranging the menu for the “Masters Club” dinner, which was first held in 1952 in honor of golf legend Ben Hogan.
The tradition has carried over to today, when the current Green Jacket winner is given the task of planning next year’s dinner.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to set your menu for such an event. Assume that you’d have excellent chefs (like they have at Augusta National) who could create pretty much anything you specified. You should have four courses: a soup and/or starter, antipasto/fish, main course and dessert.
Mine is below the fold, to give you an idea.
Weekend Viewing
Judgement At Nuremburg (1961).
Timeless concepts, eternal questions of legality and morality. All discussed, weighed and then answered in the final scene of the movie, with devastating clarity and simplicity.
And for a bonus, a movie with not a single bad — or even mediocre — performance: all brilliant, and worthy of every accolade that has come by since.
Quote Of The Day
From our old buddy Senator Schmuckie Schumer (Soc-NY), talking about taxes:
“You know what their attitude is? ‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?’ “
Couldn’t have put it better myself, asshole. And it’s not just “greedy business owners” who feel that way, either — something your Party Of Thieves is going to discover soon enough.
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
…that this little event took place:
‘Scissor Sisters’ cut off mum’s boyfriend’s head and penis in ‘most grotesque killing ever’
And yes, I agree that at first glance, it sounds bad.
However, when you read some of the details of the corpus delicti’s previous behavior, it does kinda sound like he had it coming:
The murder happened around St Patrick’s weekend in March 2005 after a drugs and booze binge involving the sisters. Noor, who was married with two kids and reportedly had a history of violence against women including allegations of rape, was also involved in the partying.
He was living with Linda and Charlotte’s mum Kathleen in Dublin at the time, with the mum reportedly ending up in hospital on multiple occasions, including once with fractured ribs, the Irish Mirror reports. The depraved murder, believed to have taken place on March 20, was sparked by Charlotte and Linda claiming Noor tried to rape one of them.
So they reported him to the Garda did they hell:
They reportedly spent the day drinking and taking ecstasy before Charlotte stabbed the man 27 times with a Stanley knife, while Linda struck him with a claw hammer. The dead man’s head and penis were then chopped off and never found. The siblings reportedly spent hours on the bathroom floor cutting up Noor’s body into chunks before placing them in plastic bags.
They then dumped his limbs and torso into the canal before boarding a bus to Tallaght in southwest Dublin, with the victim’s head concealed and reportedly hidden before it was moved again. Kathleen meanwhile helped clean the crime scene. Ten days later, Noor’s leg, with a sock still attached, was seen floating in the canal.
Horrifying? Yes. Did The Late Amputee “need killing”? Also yes.
Anyway, Sister Charlotte seems to have had quite the time of it in prison:
A chilling image of Charlotte smiling while holding a large knife to a male inmate’s throat was leaked in 2008, sparking questions about why male and female prisoners were mixing, and how Charlotte got access to the large blade.
In 2014, she was accused of being in an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with a male staff member, and was reportedly found with alcohol in her cell. Just one year later, it was reported she was put in segregation after using heated hair tongs to burn the back of a fellow inmate, as reported in the Irish Independent.
Charlotte also reportedly teamed up with Linda to run a hair and beauty salon called Head And Shoulders – believed to be a warped reference to how they hacked their victim’s body.
Okay, I need to stop now because I’m starting to giggle. And that’s just wrong.
#WhenIrishEyesAreDeadpan