All I want to know is, when did Christina Hendricks turn into Kathy Griffin?

At least the important bits stayed put.
All I want to know is, when did Christina Hendricks turn into Kathy Griffin?

At least the important bits stayed put.
I see that 60s icon Jane Birkin has died. Of course, to many she’s best remembered as the other half of the duet with Serge Gainsbourg on Je T’Aime, Moi Non Plus (which could never be released today, and is only SFW if you work at Playboy or Penthouse). Here’s the duo:

…and here she is, solo:


Classic Sixties, she was.
R.I.P.
Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College. Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:


And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:




I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts. A fitting end, I think, to this series.
Here’s the lovely TV actress Samia Longchambon, who first appeared on Britsoap Coronation Street back in 2000 at age 18, and twenty-three years later, is still at it. Here she is as a youngin:


And now, at around age 40:


…this one was taken last week:

Lovely.
In this, the penultimate of the series for now, we look at another two examples of teenage boys’ boner-starters of a bygone era. First, the 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT 350:



…and as their contemporaneous companion piece, so to speak, the pouty Brigitte Bardot:






What a pair.
The latest in this series features the Ferrari F110 Testarossa:





…and one of their likely accompaniments on the wall, the All-American Cheryl Tiegs:


And of course:

Little skinny for my taste, but millions of teenage boys working their bedtime pup-tents would probably disagree with me.