tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post425568548855556974..comments2024-03-28T18:32:38.243-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Fun Finds: Modern Screen Magazine, November 1965Poseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-68827332672394768062017-05-15T11:03:36.723-04:002017-05-15T11:03:36.723-04:00Gingerguy, I had some okay stuff, but I'm too ...Gingerguy, I had some okay stuff, but I'm too much of a kitsch hoarder to let go of anything too interesting! ;-) I have a true (and intimate!) story to tell you about Pretty Talk. One time, as a rather bullied, unhappy child, I was rooting through the bathroom closet and saw an old, old jar of Pretty Face cream of my mom's. I slathered it on, hoping it might make me less ugly!! LOL Maybe it was expired.... I also think Candice Bergan was eye-popping at that time, despite a slightly squared-off, almost manly face. She worked what she had very well. You are the one who broke the news to me of Daliah Lavi's passing... That's a shame. She was amazing! <br /><br />Hello Andrea! Thanks so much for your in-depth comments! I always think of Frank demanding that Mia return from "Rosemary's Baby" to work on his movie and she's over there painting flowers on the walls of her dressing room!! So disparate in their belief systems... Joanna Moore put forth just vulnerability and appeal on screen. So sad the way she ended up. O'Neal (adorable looking as he was) just never seemed to miss a chance to be a jerk...!! I didn't know that Troy was on Patty's show! That explains it for sure! Glad you offered up some more backstory on that and other things.<br /><br />Rick, you are so right!! I wonder what LizDick was up to that month...?!<br /><br />Narciso, wonderful to hear from you again. I was denied these slightly better magazines, though my mother was a faithful reader of The National Enquirer. And whatever they printed was treated as the gospel truth! Egads!! I can recall that mag being ALL black & white and then turning to partial color. Then it started to run a sort of hunk of the week photo in the center gossip section, often in a Speedo, but at least shirtless, and I lived for that! ha ha!Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-75906768234378741512017-05-14T21:11:03.775-04:002017-05-14T21:11:03.775-04:00Hello! I haven't posted in many a moon, but I ...Hello! I haven't posted in many a moon, but I have been a regular reader… I just love these movie magazine re-caps. These magazines were everywhere when I was a kid -- our living room, at relative's houses, the beauty parlors I was dragged to when I was quite small… <br /><br />Many years later, when I was a page designer and copy editor at a newspaper, I learned to appreciate their professionalism -- the photos, the layouts, the headlines, the first paragraph, all of which were designed to grab a reader and to hold that reader until the very last page. I miss such magazines.<br /><br />Today's supermarket tabloids fill that void marvelously (I'm a huge fan of them -- something for everybody in each issue…), and I often used them as visual models when designing local tabloid inserts for my newspaper employer: Did the material for an upcoming art and wine festival need a grabby layout? Let's consult The Enquirer and use their pages as a visual guide.Narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145756558278365203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-92112706237698910292017-05-14T09:05:33.352-04:002017-05-14T09:05:33.352-04:00What fun, Poseidon!
But I can't believe there...What fun, Poseidon!<br /><br />But I can't believe there was a movie magazine issue out in 1965 that didn't have SOME mention of Liz Taylor! That especially makes this issue a rare find : )<br /><br />Cheers, Rickhttp://ricksrealreel.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/14243899548141583461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-7200672190870792332017-05-13T05:10:31.148-04:002017-05-13T05:10:31.148-04:00Great post as usual, Poseidon. I live for these ol...Great post as usual, Poseidon. I live for these old rags! I especially love the "candids" of stars at premieres, etc. It's refreshing to see celebrities not professionally styled within an inch of their life like they are today. <br /><br />The Mia Farrow/Frank Sinatra union still leaves me confused while also giving me the heebie jeebies! I read (parts of) Farrow's autobio and it's pretty clear she was a naive and almost child like young woman despite having grown up in/around Hollywood. Lord knows she and Frank weren't having deep intellectual talks! I always think of what Ava Gardner said of their marriage, "I always knew Frank would end up in bed with boy." Ava could really throw some shade. Love it! <br /><br />The Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Moore story is a hoot! I can't imagine anyone, even in the glorious 60s, thinking that O'Neal or Moore was religious in any way! I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for that story pitch meeting! I'm pretty sure the O'Neal/Moore union was of the shotgun variety and O'Neal was notorious cad/all around asshole even before he was famous! I do like Moore though. She was throughly messed up, but was such a joy as an actress. Quite the looker too. I always wondered why she didn't become a regular on The Andy Griffith Show as his nurse girlfriend Peggy. <br /><br />Patty Duke and Troy Donahue?!? Good lord, that can't have happened! I can only imagine this story came about because he guest starred on an episode of The Patty Duke Show during the third and final season. I love me some La Duke, but Troy is like cold boiled potatoes. I just can't get into any movie or show he's in. He always looks slightly terrified and bored and about ten seconds away from walking off the set to take a power nap. Patty would have eaten him alive! <br /><br />Alain Deleon, now that's an interesting (i.e. Hot mess!) man. Nico, the German model turned singer turned raging heroin addict, claimed he fathered her son. He denied it but his parents believed her and raised the boy off and on for obvious reasons. I think he eventually stopped talking to his parents as a result and still denies he's the father. Mess!<br /><br />Anyway, good luck with your yard sale. I wish I lived nearby. I'd buy all your old magazines for sure! Have a good weekend! Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05423089468858744849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-91538338823485070072017-05-11T14:25:55.146-04:002017-05-11T14:25:55.146-04:00Good luck on your yard sale. I bet you have fun s...Good luck on your yard sale. I bet you have fun stuff. I will miss the best one in my neighborhood (I got a Lawrence Welk magazine for $2 once) due to travel. Glad you made time for this because 1965 was the year I was born, so this magazine is of special interest to me. Beginning with the movie review- "Darling" was quite a fave in my youth. Julie Christy is gorgeous in that movie and the decadence is quite appealing, though she doesn't end up very happy. Just pretty.<br />Love "Pretty Talk"! shameless product plugging but done with style. Knowing how to fix a floppy flip is practical stuff.<br />For my money Candice Bergen was one of the most gorgeous people of the 1960's. She straddled the line between youthquake and good taste gracefully. <br />I can't see Elke Sommer and not think of Zsa Zsa(calling Ryan Murphy). Those Bob Hope movies were always on tv when I was a kid. Pretty harmless farce usually.<br />The King Cousins! I was all over this. Just watched the Mother's Day special and I can attest that they wore ALOT of makeup. Those girls were also no strangers to peroxide.<br />Also love Mia's look. This is a few years before the career defining pixie cut, which she actually shed in the early 70's, but it's kind of how I always remember her.<br />Dorothy Malone suffered as much as Patricia Neal!<br />Ryan O'Neal has had a sad family life, so much addiction and tragedy. I have a hard time reconciling this religious article with what came later. I did recently see "Paper Moon" for the first time and Father and daughter are both terrific in it though.<br />Pattie Boyd is pretty and kind of a legendary rock girlfriend. I think she also dated Eric Clapton later.<br />Gila Golen is stunning. Another Israeli bombshell from that time, Daliah Lavi, just passed away this week. Also the new Wonder Woman Gal Gidot comes from that country. Must be something in the water.<br />Finally, loving the ads at the end. I study bouffant hairdos like architecture so love that they gave you a diagram of curlers.<br />Gingerguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989371210392669145noreply@blogger.com