End Of An Era

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.

Modern Classic Beauty: Kate Winslet (1)

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.

Under-Achieving

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…

Classic Beauty: France Anglade

She probably has the shortest online biography of any actress, but uniquely, France Anglade actually had three careers:  actress, model and singer — except that her four albums were recorded under her birth name Marie-France Anglade.

Whatever she called herself, she was lovely.

Wait… did somebody say “color”?

Let’s talk about her bearing arms for a moment:

Exquisite.