Category Archives: Bombshells

I’m With Yma — A Blast from the Past

I fell hard for Yma Sumac — born on this day 99 years ago — when I went off to college in cosmopolitan Chicago, where I was able to browse LEGIT used record stores near my Hyde Park dorm. I saw her 1950 Voice of the Xtabay album and was enchanted. I bought it and…

‘Star Trek’ Sour Grapes, Belmondo Remembered, ABBA’s Next 2 Top 10s & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: NYP: The family of the late Gene Roddenberry is still steamed over William Shatner's anti-fan SNL sketch from ... 1986! Phil Hartman & William Shatner in the infamous 1986 sketch (Image via video still) VARIETY: A remembrance of Jean-Paul Belmondo. DO YOU REMEMBER?: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart's…

ABBA Is Back, Fran Drescher: That’s How She Became the President, Silent History & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: The ABBA members suited up to pose for "ABBA-tars" (Image by Bailee Walsh/Capitol) BOY CULTURE: ABBA is back! The '70s mega-success, a band that was steadily revived from the '90s on by the cover band Björn Again, by Erasure, by the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of…

More Than Lily Munster: Celebrating Yvonne De Carlo

Trodding the boards in Follies (Image via Playbill) In honor of the great Yvonne De Carlo's birth anniversary (she would be turning 99 — five months younger than Betty White is), check out these videos, which illuminate some of the breadth of her talent beyond her charming and iconic performance as Lily on The Munsters. First…

Stamos’s Cure for Trigger Finger, Sirhan Sirhan to Be Freed?, Enos Envy & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Full House-pital (Image via Instagram) PEOPLE: Even ailing, John Stamos, 58, looks good. He posted a selfie from a hospital bed following surgery for a condition known as "trigger finger." HUFF POST: Sirhan Sirhan, the 77-year-old convicted assassin of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), has been granted…

‘Nevermind’ Child-Porn Suit, Capone’s Family Vault Opened, Josephine Baker to Be Interred at Panthéon & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: The most cynical lawsuit ever? (Image via Reddit) VARIETY: Now you've heard everything — Spencer Elden, the man who as an infant was immortalized on the 1991 album cover for Nirvana's Nevermind — is suing the band and various others for ... child pornography. Because showing him nude and…

Nichelle Nichols’ Conservatorship Battle, Madonna’s Warner Deal & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Star war (GIF via GIPHY) L.A. TIMES: A deep dive into the battle to control Nichelle Nichols, 88, via a conservatorship. The aging legend is suffering from dementia, and has her only child as her conservator; a former manager and a friend object. He won't always love them…

Dorothy Parker Q&A Discovered, Hayley Mills on ‘Parent Trap,’ Aretha Sang for J-Hud & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Lamparski in a handout photo, Parker by Vandamm DOROTHY PARKER SOCIETY: You really have to listen to this hourlong interview from 1966 with the legendary Dorothy Parker, as conducted by Richard Lamparski. Until today, this recording was unknown, and it is the longest sit-down with Parker in existence.…

He Likes Ike (Eisenmann): New Doc Fulfills Teen Dream

Dion Labriola wanted to be a fresh, young filmmaker for the '80s, and he envisioned his sci-fi creation as an animated feature starring Ike Eisenmann of the Witch Mountain flicks. In order to make this happen, he sent Ike an official offer (on lined essay paper) or two (or 100), but couldn't get through. Seeing…

Christina Dearest, The Marcia Chronicles, ‘Addams’ Casting News & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Christina gets schooled. (Image via eBay) EBAY: Here's a humdinger of a letter from 1952 — Joan Crawford writing a not-too-subtly bitchy note to her daughter Christina, chastising her for not writing more. Christina would have been 12 when she received it. VULTURE: Queen's Brian May speaks out…

Category Archives: Bombshells

I’m With Yma — A Blast from the Past

‘Star Trek’ Sour Grapes, Belmondo Remembered, ABBA’s Next 2 Top 10s & More

ABBA Is Back, Fran Drescher: That’s How She Became the President, Silent History & More

More Than Lily Munster: Celebrating Yvonne De Carlo

Stamos’s Cure for Trigger Finger, Sirhan Sirhan to Be Freed?, Enos Envy & More

‘Nevermind’ Child-Porn Suit, Capone’s Family Vault Opened, Josephine Baker to Be Interred at Panthéon & More

Nichelle Nichols’ Conservatorship Battle, Madonna’s Warner Deal & More

Dorothy Parker Q&A Discovered, Hayley Mills on ‘Parent Trap,’ Aretha Sang for J-Hud & More

He Likes Ike (Eisenmann): New Doc Fulfills Teen Dream

Christina Dearest, The Marcia Chronicles, ‘Addams’ Casting News & More

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