Charlton Heston, Marilyn Monroe, and Rock Hudson.
You know, even from that angle (which is disastrous for 99.99999% of the population – especially the female population) Marilyn looks ravishing.
Which reminds me – I finished the third book on my From the Stacks challenge: The Making of the Misfits.
It was a quick read – a reporter’s first-hand journal about being on the “set” in Reno for The Misfits, one of the more notoriously difficult shoots in cinematic history. This is the story of that shoot, from the ground up, no retrospect … it’s all in present-tense: “Today we moved out to the dry lake for the wild horses scene …” etc.
Man, she looks ravishing. You look at me from that angle and all you get are fillings and nosehair…
Ha!!!!
I know – and the whole double-chin no-neck thing … she even has a little bit of that going on in the photo – and she still looks amazing.
Beeyotch. :)
She looks like a WOMAN, praise be, and not like those scrawny things with cantelopes glued on that we’re told are beauties today. Raise a glass for zaftig!
Rock Hudson’s smile in that photo is incredible.
That’s ‘cos he’s gazing at Charleton’s pecs.
Bingley – But we also have Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, and many other va-va-voom women to admire. Those chicks make magazine covers as well. More so than Nicole Richie does, actually. So not everybody thinks the Lollipop-Head-Pipe-Cleaner-Body brigade is pretty. (I mean, I don’t know ANYONE who thinks they’re pretty, actually – but obviously SOMEBODY does otherwise why would they all be encouraged to look like that??)
Emily – and I also love how each of their faces are so different – like what is Charlton Heston saying? Why is Marilyn laughing? It looks so candid, I love it.
That’s true to an extent, red; there certainly are more ‘real’ women appearing on mag covers these days (based on the rather few covers I see, at least). But as the father of a beautiful 13 year old I have to say that it frightens me when she talks about all the peer pressure to be thin and waify. And she’s 5’8 and, well, I don’t know what she weighs but ‘beanpole’ sums it up, so my bride and I are jumping with joy when she chows out.
But what exactly is he saying that is cracking them up? From his expression it looks like something juicy and under-his-breath…
One of my pet peeves is statements about what REAL women should look like. Like: REAL women have curves … Yeah, but some women DON’T have curves … so they aren’t real? It’s just another way of someone trying to tell women what SHAPES their bodies should take, which is insane, when you think about it. I can get in shape, I can work on my thighs … but my actual shape? What’s a skinny girl to do? I get that eating disorders are a big deal, and believe me – I know the pressure to be skinny, I feel it myself – but I have friends who are just plain old skinny, like Shelley Duvall beanpole skinny -and they eat, they aren’t neurotic eating disorder people, that’s just how their metabolism is and their SHAPE is – and women who are skinny are often made to feel like they aren’t “real” women and, you know, it’s hard enough to have a good body image as a woman without THAT on top of it.
No such thing as a REAL woman. If you have a “vajayjay” then you’re a woman.
Bingley – it looks like he might be making some crack about the statue itself. It seems like it is Heston who has made the funny comment.
OR – Rock Hudson has made a snarky comment about Charlton Heston – and Marilyn and Rock are laughing AT heston. Openly. Or – SHE is laughing openly, and Hudson is trying to hide it. And Heston remains oblivious.
Hmmmm … the possibilities are endless!!
I’m just thinking that when Bingley’s daughter and my son marry (Oh, you didn’t know that marriage was arranged? Well, it was!) they’re going to have some taaaaalll kids. Son is already 5’9″, pushing 5’10”, at age 13.
With a size 11 shoe. God help me.
hahaha Marriages arranged thru blog comments. Love it.
size 11!! You mentioned seeing the hair on his arms in church and having a surreal: “wait a minute … THOSE ARE MAN’S HANDS” moment.
and man feet. Ye gads. Do you even KNOW how much shoes are these days? And we have to get new ones, like, EVERY THREE MONTHS!
I swear, sometimes you can just sit and watch him grow.
Oh, it’s been a done deal for awhile, red.
Our grandchildren will hopefully get full basketball scholarships, Lisa!
Does it HURT to grow that fast? Do his legs ache? I mean honestly – it’s an insane growth spurt!
It’s like bamboo; you can hear the seems split as they keep stretching out.
Oh man!! Ouch.
Poor daughter; she’s the tallest kid in her grade by a solid head. One of her good friends is a good foot shorter than her, and it cracks me up to see the two of them walking around trying to talk to eachother.
You know, he did have “growing pains” in his legs when he was about 10 or 11. That was his first big growth spurt, and he would wake up in the night clutching his knees and crying. But our doctor said just to give him Advil and it worked.
He hasn’t complained about them in a year or so. I think their bodies just get used to growing, maybe?
Twinkies and RingDings have well-known analgesic properties, Lisa :)
Wow – to actually feel yourself growing. That’s like Alice in Wonderland, you know?
Like his mama, he loathes the Twinky. We’re a Ding-Dong/Hostess Cupcake family. And yes, they are a cure for what ails ya.
I am on the brink of my desk, waiting like a madwoman for that Misfits post! ;) No pressure, take your time… but I haven’t read that book and am dying to know what your impressions are!
And yes, the angle of the photograph is the least flattering for any normal human being, but still Marilyn looks astonishingly beautiful.
Speaking of skinny, at that point in her life (March ’62) Marilyn was very, very thin, she had lost a lot of weight after having gallbladder surgery in mid-’61. But obviously, though being skinny, she still looked beautiful.
Ceci –
I love you. You know it’s in March 62 and you know all of the extenuating circumstances. I LOVE THAT.
Yeah – I definitely need to write The Misfits post!! – the book is not really Marilyn-juicy – I mean, she was hospitalized and all that – but in general, she comes off as sweet, prepared, and also sad- because her marriage is breaking up. There are extensive interviews with Clark Gable in the book (the writer was trying to interview everyone involved with the shoot) … and I was RAELLY fascinated reading Gable’s take on things – how he reads scripts, how he knew what was good – what needed to be cut – how he had script approval – The book gives a really great picture of location shooting, and Paula Strasberg (not surprisingly) comes off pretty badly.
I enjoyed it … but I’ll do a big post about it in the next couple days.
I had a comment when I clicked the link, now for the life of me I can’t get over the sudden craving for a Hostess cupcake. Thanks Lisa.