In a move of pure class, I’ve dedicated all today’s posts to the concept of showing yer ass — figuratively and, as you will see below, literally.
After all, it seems to be all the fashion nowadays:
And on we go…
Category: Beauty
Modern Classic Beauty: Jill St. John
The worst thing about the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever is that Jill St. John puts in an appearance only about halfway through the damn thing.
That said, once she does she makes the rest of the silly movie worth watching.
…and then there’s Jill outside the Bond thing:
She may well be one of my favorite movie redheads of all time (along with Greer Garson, of course).
Champion Totty
European football’s “Champions League” competition is an annual event — a mini-World Cup, so to speak — which attempts to answer the burning question: “Ignoring national boundaries, which is the best football club in Europe?”
I know that in these parts, football (“soccer”) is about as popular as Underwater Australian Wrist Wrestling (Friday nights @ 3am on ESPN), but bear with me because I’m not going to talk about the game anyway.
The ECL’s main TV host is an Albanian named Eva Amati, and she makes all our U.S. female sports presenters look like male drag artists.
And her Valentine’s Day pic:
I want to lie on a bed and listen to her murmur sweet Italian* nothings in my ear.
*She speaks Italian and English fluently, as well as her native Albanian.
Random Totty
Today we’re going to look (in some detail) at Camila Giorgio, who in her early thirties has recently retired from an unremarkable career in tennis:
…and moved into a different kind of career altogether.
No, not music. While it is generally true that tennis totties have nice legs, Camila’s are sensational.
Tennis’s loss; our gain.
Classic Beauty: Pola Negri
What can you say about an actress who was independently famous in three countries? Well, Pola Negri first became a household name in her native Poland as a stage actress, then in Germany as a movie star, and then became the first foreign actress to be hired in Hollywood — before Dietrich, Banky and all the other, perhaps more famous names.
Today, she seems to have been largely forgotten, but in her time she was not only famous, but infamous — not the least because she was the lover of (among many) Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino.
She also popularized the fashion of painted toenails, which no one had ever done before (except maybe prostitutes, which may have been why she was regarded as scandalous).
She also became fabulously wealthy — in 1922, her personal fortune was estimated (in today’s dollars) at just under $100 million. Her house in Hollywood looked like the White House.
I don’t think the photos of the time did her justice, largely because of the clothing fashions of the 1920s were terrible. And her acting style would today be called “histrionic” or “over-dramatic”, but that was the style back then in the silent movie era — and in any event, she was very definitely a product of her Polish upbringing, being passionate and over-the-top.
So what did she look like?
Here she is, snogging Chaplin:
…and giving ol’ Rudi Valentino the glad eye:
And here’s what she looked like in the 1940s, when clothing styles were better and the makeup less stagey:
Exquisite.
Random Totty
This is Austro-Philipino totty Myleene Klass, who was a singer with some Britpop band back in the early 2000s, and is now something or other else in showbiz.
Not too bad for her late 40s…