I also must admit to suffering delusions of glamour and an insatiable passion for vintage clothes and styles...it's kinda difficult assimilating to the clothes, the styles, the values of 2008. Who wants to live in 2008?!
I also must admit to suffering delusions of glamour and an insatiable passion for vintage clothes and styles...it's kinda difficult assimilating to the clothes, the styles, the values of 2008. Who wants to live in 2008?!
chocolate, sunshine, dinner with friends, scouring antique stores and thrift shops for glorious finds, listening to records, late mornings, making esoteric allusions, books so absorbing you can't put them down, margaritas, old Photoplay magazines, wearing eye makeup like That Girl, dance parties, Gene Kelly, vintage fashion, good red wine, Cadbury Eggs, sleeping in, perfecting my flirting (I'm not very good), circle skirts with crinoline, Turner Classic Movies, psychology, Europe, cheap champagne, Peggy Lee, sunshine, etymology and linguistics, Freed Unit musicals, making sweet sweet purchases on eBay, classic Hollywood, history, eating lots of chocolate, Henry Fonda, summer vacation, Marlo Thomas, That Girl on dvd (a true Godsend), the bbs, dark-haired men
All my faves from bygone eras...Moss Hart, John and Robert Kennedy, Marlo Thomas, Betty Grable, Katie Hep, Perry Como so I can marry him, Henry Fonda & Missy Stanwyck, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dinah Shore, Betty Hutton, Jimmy Stewart, Steve & Eydie, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Bill Powell (super crush), Amy Winehouse so I can ask how she does her hair, Blake Edwards, Red Skelton, Michael K.... I used to say Debbie Reynolds because I adore her, but...yah, met her. She's as fab as they come.
I also love friend requests from people of all ages who share my interests, be they music, movies, reads, mutual friends, or fab retro finds. And vintage clothing stores, oooh - the more circa-1966 Courreges, the better, baby!
I would be nothing if not for The Beatles...I listen most frequently to Amy Winehouse, Perry Como, Glenn Miller, Paul McCartney, Peggy Lee, Eydie Gorme, Lauryn Hill, and Jay-Z. I also dig Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Helen Forrest, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Steve and Eydie (and okay, Steve solo), Bobby Darin, lots of '60s, Donovan, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Herman's Hermits, Diana Ross & the Supremes, anything Motown, Bread, Cornelius Bros & Sister Rose, Paul McCartney & Wings, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, The Carpenters, James Taylor, The Chi-Lites, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller Band, Hall and Oates, Journey, Styx, Foreigner, Teitur, Death Cab for Cutie, DJ Danger Mouse, Talib Kweli, Weezer, Kanye West, Beyonce, Gnarls Barkley, Damien Rice, Nelly Furtado....basically everything.
When I do get the tv...That Girl, Gidget, I Love Lucy, What Not to Wear, Arrested Development, Will & Grace, TCM, Family Guy, To Catch A Predator, Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and all those old variety shows like Ed Sullivan, To Tell the Truth, Perry Como and Red Skelton
A Star is Born, An Affair to Remember, The Apartment, Ball of Fire, The Band Wagon, The Best Years of Our Lives, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Bride Goes Wild, Brigadoon, Bundle of Joy, Casablanca, The Glenn Miller Story, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Grumpy Old Men, Harold and Maude, HELP!, How Green Was My Valley, It's A Wonderful Life, The Lady Eve, Little Women (1949), The Lion in Winter, The Long Hot Summer, The Mating Game, Music for Millions, Out to Sea, Penny Serenade, The Philadelphia Story, Psycho, Singin in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, The Stratton Story, Suddenly Last Summer, Sunset Boulevard, Susan Slept Here, Swing Time, The Tender Trap, The Thin Man, The Three Musketeers with Gene Kelly & June Allyson, To Catch A Thief, To Have and Have Not, Twelve Angry Men, Vivacious Lady, West Side Story, White Christmas, Without Love, The Women, You Can't Run Away From It, Yours, Mine and Ours (the Henry Fonda one!), anything with June Allyson or Debbie Reynolds
Little Women, Moss Hart's Act One (possibly my fave ever), The Grapes of Wrath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Jane Eyre, The Feminine Mystique, Sex and the Single Girl, To Kill A Mockingbird, lots of biographies and non-fiction, like Lauren Bacall's By Myself, Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, and My Life So Far by Jane Fonda (waaaay more scholarly than you'd think); books on the Kennedy family and the JFK administration and assassination.
Marlo Thomas as That Girl is everything I am, will, and could ever want to be. I am totally serious.