Keeping You Post(er)ed

Big time computer troubles at the moment. My laptop is in diagnosis! So as to maintain your attention for a bit as we breathe through all this annoyance, I am keeping you posted - let's make that "postered"- with some (random as hell!) pin-ups from the French-Canadian celebrity magazine Lundi. For many years, they made a practice of offering full-page (or in some cases, centerfold) photos of stars from all walks of TV and the movies. You may be surprised to see how some of these people looked at the time their portraits appeared. As time goes by, we sometimes forget the way current stars once looked, for better or worse, though classic stars often remain captured in amber. It has to be said that many times these pictures are of questionable quality to begin with, due to either photography, printing or color. I've done my best to clean 'em up. Meanwhile, PRAY that I get my laptop back soon with all its contents.

This was probably Sly's best phase looks-wise, tan and fit, but not too huge (or craggy!)

Elizabeth is bewitchingly natural, but for some fairly heavy lashes.

This translates (roughly) to "The Heirs of the Dream." Is that what Knots Landing was called or is this another project of his?!

From a 1979 TV-movie called Women in White which, believe it or not was about a group of 1920s male college students who each love a woman who dresses in white. When she dies, they hide the body, but fifty years later they begin being picked off one at a time!

There simply was no comparison at all between Catherine and her sudden replacement Karen Cellini. They ought to have killed off Amanda in the La Mirage fire, especially since she was soon written out anyway with nary a backward glance!

I can only guess that this is from the miniseries Scruples? We all just loved Lindsay in the '70s and '80s!

"I'm Elizabeth Taylor and this is my cleavage."

Queen of the miniseries, Jane Seymour.

Again, at or near his prime as Conan the Barbarian. Fun costume!

This is an unusual shot of Miss Jackie when one is used to her hair being big and full. She did love those animal prints!

I know Morgan was on Dallas, but I scarcely remember her decked out in cowboy get-up!

Sweet Holy Mother of God...

For people of a certain generation, Johnny was the LAST WORD in late night chit-chat and entertainment.

Hmmm... the glasses. Not sure I'm feeling them.

Pierce was practically a baby on Remington Steele (okay... twenty-nine.)

Ed was on "The Hill Street Brigade" according to this. (I never watched it, or Hill St. Blues, though I did always like Mr. Marinaro.)

No matter how many times it happens, I'm always startled to see Mrs. Ingalls out of Prairie drag.

Wow, this is an early shot of J.R. Larry looks pretty young here compared to later seasons (not to mention the redux!)

I never think of fitness or working out without my mind landing on Dynasty's Pamela Bellwood.

Who can forget In Living Color's Men on Books discussing Daniel Defoe and his famed novel Robinson Crusoe, which featured his man Friday. One of the reviewers said, "If he's anything like that l'il Willem Dafoe, I'll be his Friday, Saturday AND Sunday!"

Who'd have ever dreamed that this young star on the rise would one day be the host of Match Game?!

No, Debbie was not starring in "The Dinah Shore Story..." Do you know without looking which TV series Ms. Reynolds was starring in when this snap was taken? It was very short-lived because the shows it aped (The Love Boat and Fantasy Island) were both still on the air and doing fine thankyouverymuch!

Brad Davis was such a dynamic actor and he was taken from us far too soon at age forty-one. It goes without saying how much I liked him in Midnight Express (1978), but raise your hand if you ever saw Querelle (1982)?!!

Hmmm... this red tank gives me a Wonder Girl vibe (and looks better than the get-up she wore when she played Lynda Carter's little sis on Wonder Woman.)

It took both Mae West's and Lucille Ball's lens filters to capture this portrait.

This was how murky it was before I cleaned it up enough to see who was sitting in a room that was filled with leftover 4th of July smoke bombs!

Some of us recall Mr. Curtis before he adopted one of Rip Taylor's discarded toupees and wore it around for the final chapter or two of his life. He doesn't look happy here, but he does look more real than he did with all that thick phony hair. They say age is hard on curvy sexpots, but it's no easy ride for the hot young hunks either and Tony was a very beautiful young man.

I don't know where I was when Jessica's hair was this long. Here's a gal who really came into her own with age, collecting award after award (and legions of new fans.)

This is a very elegant and flattering shot of Mr. Forsythe. What a head of hair he had (and kept!)

Tough cookie grape-meister Miss Jane Wyman of Falcon Crest.

I spent way too much time looking at this scarf and trying to figure out how she got it tied under her hair before deciding that she wrapped it around her head and then put a wig over it! Hot Stuff.

Lee Remick had really grown as an actress since her starlet days and surely would have given many further terrific performances had cancer not claimed her at only age fifty-five.

This is Michael making the transition from TV crime show star to serious moviemaker. I never think of his hair being this dark (or his skin this pale.)

Unmasked! From Beauty and the Beast. (Perlman was the beast... Ha!)

Nurse Bobbi has gone all Finola Hughes form Staying Alive in this picture!

She had her faults and foibles, but we hate to think of Ms. Gabor suffering a wide variety of ailments at age ninety-nine. (It's one thing when you're still as hearty and sharp as Olivia de Havilland, who just turned one-hundred!)

We didn't seem to see a great deal of Claudia at this stage in her life.

Yes, Susan did put in almost a dozen appearances on Dallas in 1981, but she was far more blonde and painted up (and thinner even!) than this.

Did any of us think this little guy (who started on TV in 1981) would continue on to such a successful and considerable career? I know I didn't. And I think he's even gotten more handsome with age, too.

Oh, I did a double-take at this pre-Beaches portrait of Miss Barbara. As the song goes, "There'll be some changes made..."

NO ONE could touch Farrah Fawcett as the sex symbol of the mid-'70s, but Susan Anton gave her a brief run for her money (and provided Rue McClanahan with a funny punchline or two during The Golden Girls.)

Fred is sporting an interesting shirt closer here. I guess it keeps his ascot tucked in and any gray chest hair from springing out?  LOL

When I was a child, every adult woman I knew was wild for Al Pacino. I never ever got it, but he does look pretty good here.

I don't think I'd ever seen this sultry shot of Miss Pamela.

I presume by now after looking at all of these you are close to being as dazed as Mia is in this telling portrait.  That's it for now, kids!  P.S. If you don't feel like looking it up, Debbie Reynolds' 1981 series was Aloha Paradise, cancelled after seven episodes.