Here’s an interesting exercise. Let’s assume that you were looking to buy a new residence and had, say, about $950,000 to splash on it.
Do you go for Place A:
…or Place B:
Okay, maybe it’s a trick question. While both places are listed for $950k, Place A is in Texas, USA and Place B is in Wales, UK.
Your choice in Comments, with reasons.
So, I ask myself: how did a Hungarian-born British actress / fashion model / war journalist end up being Anna Thynn, the Dowager Marchioness of Bath and Viscountess Weymouth, who lived for most of her marriage in Paris and not with her husband the Marquess? And who was initially his mistress while still married to some French guy, and only later married him to produce some heirs? (We’re not even going to talk about Alex, the 7th Marquess of Bath, who over time surrounded himself with about seventy mistresses (“wifelets”) at the family estate of Longleath. No wonder Anna went to live in Paris.)
“Wait, what was that middle bit again, Kim?”
Never mind. Here’s a short pictorial of said Anna Abigail Gyarmathy:
And in color:
Just in case you needed more, our Anna also posed for Penthouse Magazine, but managed to ruthlessly prevent those pics from being re-published after their initial appearance in print.
When she died in 2022, the world became a far less interesting place.
“How did you discover this lovely creature, Kim?”
I saw her in a bit part in the 1969 movie The Bridge At Remagen, as Anna Gaël.
Okay, these may have been NSFW in 1931, maybe.
I’ll try to do better next year.
Like so many of that age, La Bardot has moved on and joined her world of happy bunnies and kittens, so to speak. And few embodied those two species (sex kittens and copulating bunnies) as well as she:
So let us pause, and pay tribute to some other French kissers from the days of yore:
Anouk Aimee
Capucine
Corinne Calvet
Catherine Deneuve
Michèle Morgan
Françoise Hardy
Claudine Auger
Dominique Sanda
…etc.
Apart from being a really good actress, Kate Winslet has been around for a while. Here she is at age 17, in her first movie:
I should point out that at this time she was bonking one of her co-stars, who was a dozen years her senior. (Before anyone starts harrumphing, allow me to remind you that in Britishland, the age of consent is 16 so she was practically an old maid, by their standards.) Here’s another couple, from the same period:
Then she grew up:
Then there was that regrettable appearance in the Movie We Should Not Name:
And on we go:
I’ll revisit the subject in black and white, some other time.
And I should point out that as I write this, she’s 50 years old.
Reader Mike L. sends me this astounding list of booze consumption:
Wait… we Texans spent more on booze per capita than Floriduh? Musht be shome mishtake.
Anyway, I can see why the states at the top are where they are, viz. a) it’s fucking cold there, and b) there’s not much else to do when the snow is fourteen feet deep, and you can only have sex so many times a day until your cousin starts complaining. Then again…
