Tuesday, November 13, 2012

from Bluebeard with Richard Burton

Raquel Welch

Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton, who seems to sleepwalk through the film), a European aristocrat of vaguely Germanic heritage, marries and murders a succession of international lovelies (among them Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, and Marilù Tolo) before his seventh bride, peppy but coy showgirl Joey Heatherton, discovers his secret in a frozen basement museum. Would you believe the Baron is just a nice guy who's a poor judge of character? A man who loves deeply but perhaps not too wisely? Or that he harbors a deep, troubling psychosexual secret? Director Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny), who also cowrote this Euro-pudding coproduction, tosses in a bit of all three as he barrels through his reign of terror. He even attempts to milk laughs from a few of the executions, but despite its upbeat pace it drags through unnecessary exposition and dull, dead patches of life-size kewpie doll Heatherton padding around his castle. Richard Burton struggles with a hoary stage beard and a dull screenplay that labors under the pretense of wit to deliver a bored performance. This 1972 production gets some mileage from its guest cast (most of whom offer a tantalizing flash of flesh before succumbing to the Baron's homicidal impulses), but winds up as lifeless as Burton's vacant, weary stare. --Sean Axmaker

Monday, November 12, 2012

Sarah Jessica Parker in Halston Heritage

Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci - you know the song.....

Sharon Stone

Only 53 - such style!

2012 Marks the Year for the Mature Female Model According to Wisanow

Mature women are gracing glossy spreads in some of the most high profile publications due to the demand for elegance and experience that can't be found in the more traditional younger pool of talent.

..the bulk of life exists beyond 50..

(PRWEB) October 29, 2012

Ari Seth Cohen’s hugely successful blog Advanced Style has been flying the flag for older beauty since 2008 and Cohen’s street-style shots of beautifully dressed octogenarians have graced the pages of several well-known fashion magazines and other glossies. Since then, Cohen’s eye for older style has gone global. Lanvin used 62 year-old Tziporah Salamon to model its autumn/winter 2012 collection as part of a ‘real people’ campaign and M.A.C. Cosmetics sold out of the makeup range worn by 91 year-old Iris Apfel in an advertising campaign earlier this year. The word is out! Older women rock, and advertisers and retailers can no longer ignore these intelligent, financially independent and discerning shoppers.

Hipster high-street label American Apparel usually causes a stir because its models look too young, but earlier this year an entire campaign for the brand was fronted by a grey-haired model of 60, Jacky O-Shaughnessy, living proof that the trend towards the veneration of older women is no gimmick. This trend has helped redefine what society defines as beautiful, underscoring the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50, because demographically, the vast population is over 50.

To make a case in point, octogenarian supermodel Carmen Dell’Orefice proved that she still has what it takes as she took the catwalk twice in one day at New York Fashion Week. The 81 year-old New Yorker, who is known within the fashion industry for being the world’s oldest working model, looked effortlessly chic as she showcased gowns for designer Norisol Ferrari and by Finnish label Marimekko. She was joined at both shows by 51 year-old American actress and model Carol Alt and together they had a combined age of 133 years!

Proving that women do not have to be fabulously beautiful to grace the pages of a glossy magazine is 86 year-old Angela Lansbury, the star of ‘Murder She Wrote’. Lansbury is on the cover of the latest issue of cult magazine The Gentlewoman, a publication that has previously featured Adele, Christy Turlington and Celine designer Phoebe Philo on its front page. Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman wants the trend for older women in fashion to become a permanent shift. “It’s great when women who are not ordinarily included in mainstream media are featured purely because they’re great, rather than representing some awful theme, like the ‘Age Issue’, she says. And the message being sent out there is, sit up and take notice as you seek to attract this demographic slice of ageless divinity.

Wisanow is an Online Female Support website catering for the mature woman with a variety of age specific information and resources for its older and midlife women community.

Friday, November 9, 2012

"Adult" mature model sticks to the classics - Classy never Tarty

Although one of the best known UK pornographic performers, Lady Sonia is also a business woman who carefully controls her output and has created a sizeable business. She is always impeccably dressed (!) preferring classic dresses, blouses, expensive seamed stockings (of course), tight sweaters (a la 1950's sweater girls) and skirts of leather, silk and satin and always with heels.

My Home: We have a large holiday home in La Mairena on the Costa del Sol in Spain in the hills over Marbella and I have a lovely apartment in the city centre of Nottingham but the place that my husband and I regard as home is our house on the outskirts of the village of Mayfield in East Sussex. We had the Sussex house built back in 2004 and its set in five acres of the beautiful Sussex countryside. My stable buildings are set at the rear of the property and although a few friends and a couple of ladies from the village stable their horses here and we do give riding lessons twice a week I prefer to run the place as a hobby.

Occupation: I am a company director (I have several business interests both with and without my husband) but my real passion is my website www.Lady-Sonia.com and I have been very lucky over the years in having a very large audience watch me while I have my fun.

Age: I was born on 21st of January 1964.

Hobbies: Riding, shopping, keeping fit, shopping, swimming, shopping, and ice skating, shopping and of course having fun.

Likes: Good food, Champagne, my horses, travel and of course LOTS of sex.

Dislikes: Fast food, bad wine, and people with bad personal hygiene, prudes and rude and/or pushy people.

Height: 5ft 11in (in spike heels).

Bra Size: 34 "F".

Panty Size: 8 (or small).

Waist: 24.

Hips: 34.

Hair: Brunette.

Eyes: Blue.

Dress Size: <laughing> I am very difficult to buy dresses for though as I am a UK dress size "8" from the hips down but a UK dress size "12" across my bust.

Shoe Size: UK 5.

Jeans Size: UK 8.

Favourite Place To Buy Shoes: Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin and I have all of my spike heeled shoes and boots made to measure for me at Leatherworks in Islington. http://www.leatherworks.org.uk/

Favourite Stockings: I only ever wear "genuine" fully fashioned nylons.

Favourite Stocking Colour: Barely Black or Nude with black contrast seams.

Favourite Pantyhose: Wolford pantyhose and Aristoc

Favourite Pantyhose Colour: Barely Black, Nude or Opaque.

Favourite Perfume: Agent Provocateur.

Favourite Food: Sushi, salads, Fish.

Favourite Drink: Louis Roederer Cristal, G&T (sometimes), cocktails (sometimes) and the odd bottle of Peroni too (sometimes).

Do I Have a “Wish List”? No, I never accept presents of any kind at all. If I had got to this point and couldn’t afford every last thing that I wanted in life then I must have been doing it wrong…

Favourite Colour: Gold

Favourite Film: Emmanuelle

Favourite Book: Anything by Jackie Collins.

Favourite Television Program: Spooks, Films, anything ice dancing.

Favourite Music: James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Lady Gaga and far too many others to list. I am a HUGE music fan of all types.

Favourite Place To Visit: London, Rome or Madrid

Do I Smoke: No.

Favourite Sexual Position: Depends on who the guy is and my mood at the time.

What Most People Don't Know: Well I started modelling with camera clubs back in the early 80s and quite quickly moved on to professional modelling for magazines and things. Back then it was still rather frowned upon to be a professional "adult" model I suppose and the camera clubs had a list of girls who would model so long as things were kept discreet. Being quite the exhibitionist I really enjoyed modelling and showing myself off so I modelled for just about all of the fetish and S&M magazines of the time as well as several of the "top shelf" mainstream adult magazines as well and it was a LOT of fun BUT right back at the beginning I was briefly a "leg model" for Pretty Polly and a couple of other hosiery companies and had huge posters of my legs everywhere but I was really more interested in the adult side so turned my back upon mainstream fashion modelling quite quickly.

Sexual Preference: I am bisexual but I prefer male sexual partners. Nothing can make a lady cum harder than a REAL man with a REALLY big and perfectly shaped cock!

Sexual fantasies: I make *all* of my sexual fantasies reality. You only live once and I don't intend to miss anything at all!

Marilyn Monroe was Not Even Close to a Size 12-16

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Myth: Marilyn Monroe was a size 12-16.

From Roseanne Barr stating, “I’m more sexy than Pamela Lee or whoever else they’ve got out there these days. Marilyn Monroe was a size 16. That says it all”, to Elizabeth Hurley stating, “I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big”, you’ll often hear people saying Marilyn Monroe was around the same size as the average American woman today (12-16). In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, at least by today’s sizing systems.

How this myth got started isn’t exactly known. One possible contributing factor to this myth was Marilyn Monroe’s atypical extreme hour glass shape. More directly, it probably partially stems from the fact that women’s sizes today are not at all equivalent to women’s sizes in the 1950s. In the 1980s, in order to accommodate people’s vanity and ever expanding girth, the U.S. Department of Commerce got rid of the uniform sizing system and instead allowed for more ego stroking sizes. As a result of this, today, a size 8 would have been roughly equivalent to a size 16-18 in the 1950s, obviously though this varies a shocking amount from brand to brand.

So what size was Marilyn Monroe actually? Luckily, many of her dresses, carefully preserved, are still around to measure off of. Further, one of her dress makers also chimed in with exact measurements he took. Those measurements were 5 ft. 5.5 inches tall; 35 inch bust; 22 inch waist (approximately 2-3 inches less than the average American woman in the 1950s and 12 inches less than average today); and 35 inch hips, with a bra size of 36D. Her weight fluctuated a bit through her career, usually rising in times of depression and falling back to her normal thereafter, but her dressmaker listed her as 118 pounds and the Hollywood studios tended to list her between 115-120 lbs.

As to what size Marilyn Monroe would be in women’s sizes today, that’s not an easy thing to answer due to the differing sizes from brand to brand, country to country, and the fact that her extreme hour glass shape would have made it difficult for her to find the perfect size while clothes shopping. Lucky for her, she could afford to have her clothing custom made, which she usually did.

As a direct example of her size, the white dress she wore in The Seven Year Itch was recently auctioned off and was put on a mannequin that was a size 2, but they were still unable to zip up the dress as the mannequin was too big. Many of her other dresses that exist from throughout her career match up to about the same, give or take an inch or two. That being said, Marilyn Monroe at times would have her dresses so tight they’d have to be sown onto her, so something more comfortable in a size 4-ish (American) and something like an 8 in the U.K. is probably more accurate with most brands, though it should be noted that a 22 inch waist in many popular American jean sizes today would be below a 0. So, again, the exact size is difficult to nail down thanks to the non-standardized sizing system we have today.

If you’re curious as to how that compares to modern contemporary fashion models, according to BluFire Model Registry, models are generally in the vicinity of a 34 bust; 24 waist; and 34 hips, which is very close to Monroe’s measurements of 35-22-35. They list the average model today at 5 ft. 8 inches, to Monroe’s 5 ft 5.5 inches. Elizabeth Hurley, who in the above quote called Marilyn Monroe “fat”, actually has around the same dimensions: 34-24-34, though is about 5 inches taller than Monroe was.

So while it’s often lamented (rightly so) that female models and actresses today set a standard that no normal woman can realistically live up to, the same was true in the Marilyn Monroe era, minus Photoshop, even though she’s often used today as an example of how things were different “back in the day”. Probably the perception of the difference between then and now lies more in the fact that the average American is a lot bigger today. To this point, the average American woman in the 1950s had a 25 inch waist compared to Monroe’s 22 inches. Whereas today, the average American woman has a waist size of 34 inches, so the gap between the models and “average” was much less pronounced then. And, of course, today we have more advanced means of photo and video editing to make the gap seem even larger, with the edited results being truly unattainable. At least a 22-24 inch waist is do-able for some with a significant amount of work via a great fitness routine and healthy diet. A 22 inch waist that is then Photoshopped to look smaller, on the other hand, just isn’t healthily attainable, not to mention that any blemishes are also removed from pictures and film quite easily today via these modern editing techniques.

Mad Woman! Christina Hendricks hides her curves under deeply unflattering high-neck dress at Ginger & Rosa screening

(according to the Daily Mail in the UK)

But we disagree - the dress enhances her amazing shape and sets the imagination to work - more than a hint of femdom

Sassy Sensuality Magazine