The Monstrous Movie Quote Of The Day: Lili Von Shtupp (Blazing Saddles 1974)

"Here I stand, the goddess of desire
Set men on fire
I have this power
Morning, noon, and night, it's dwink and dancing
Some quick womancing
And then a shower.
Stage door Johnnies constantly suwwound me
They always hound me, with one wequest
Who can satisfy their lustful habits?
I'm not a wabbit.
I need some we...
...est

I've been with thousands of men
again and again
they promise the moon
they're always coming and going and going and coming... and always too soon.

Right, girls?"

- Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn)(Blazing Saddles)(1974)

THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE - Do You Know?

Trivia Compiled By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: IMDB / Wikipedia

The Man Called Flintstone is a 1966 American animated musical comedy film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. It was the second Hanna-Barbera feature, after Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964). The film is a theatrical spin-off of the 1960-66 television series, The Flintstones, and is a swan song of the TV show, made immediately following the end of production on the series. The working title of the film was That Man Flintstone, with the film poster featuring Fred in the same pose of the Bob Peak poster for Our Man Flint. The film is a parody of the James Bond films.

This film was the first feature film voice role for Betty Rubble's voice actress Gerry Johnson. Additionally, it marked the first voice work of Henry Corden, who supplied Fred's singing voice, and would go on to fully assume the role of Fred after Alan Reed's death in 1977.

While the film includes numerous musical interludes, including one song performed by Louis Prima, the popular theme song from the show itself is not used. However, plots from several episodes of the TV series are used, including an episode in which Fred becomes involved in a spy caper spoofing Goldfinger, and another in which he encounters JL Gotrocks, the world's richest man, and his exact double.

During the "Teammates" musical number, when Fred and Barney's airplane falls apart, it becomes the "Flintstone Flyer", the pedal-powered contraption featured in the very first episode of the series.

Unusually, Wilma is seen wearing a blue dress in this film rather than her usual white.

The airplane The Flintstones take to get to Paris has "Qantas" - the name of a real-life airline - written on the side.

The DVD was released outside the United States only, because Columbia Pictures owned the rights to the songs used in the movie. Only after the rights to the songs cleared in August 2008 was the movie released in the United States of America.

After Fred's tie got ruined by Barney while trying to escape the Green Goose's tower, the tie reappears moments later after Fred and Barney got out from the door of the tower.

Rock Slag disappears in back of the desk at the pizza place (after he got knocked out by Barney), when The Chief makes a Phone call and Fred leaves with Tayna.

Variety gave The Man Called Flintstone a positive review on August 10, 1966, calling the production "excellent" and noting that the "stone-age scenery and machinery are mildly amusing and sometimes highly inventive". The review judges that the plot is a fast-moving and clever spoof of contemporary spy films.

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Hello there lovelies,

Yet another week draws to a close & yet another month begins. Sometimes it seems that not much happens in my world in a months time, and I'm glad that I can look back at my blog & remind myself of all the things I've done. I'm also glad that I can look back at your blogs & remind myself that there are lots of awesome people out there, doing lots of awesome things every month. Here's a few snippets of awesome from this week:

I am once again inspired to do fabulous nails by Syl & Sam's scalloped nails tutorial.

On that note, I really want to try this tutorial for a rainbow french tipped manicure as well.

How to buy good trousers (with a little help from menswear) offers some great advice, as well as commenting on how good quality is often more easily found in mens clothing.

True Story: I Have Crohns Disease was a very interesting read. I think I may have linked to almost this entire series, but I just love learning about different people's lives.

This letter from Stephen Fry to a fan who wrote to him in the midst of depression is beautiful. It will be sunny one day.

The Empowerment of a Self-Portrait is one of my favourite posts ever from Bella Q.

I went a little nutso for this tutorial for making a bag out of an old book. Very cool!

Do This Don't: Be a Fatty in Horizontal Stripes. Love this almost as much as I love horizontal stripes.

Love this Highlights Scrapbook DIY & Spring Art Journal! Reminds me that I need to start working on my Happy Book again.

The Baishhaki Mela parade in London looks completely awesome! Probably because of that insane owl costume. I would happily incorporate it into everyday wear.

Body Image, Body Bashing & Accepting Everyone As They Are. Word.

This Chevron Dresser Makeover totally rocks. And this dresser make over is awesome too!

DIY Dancing Owl - because who doesn't need more dancing birds in their life?

I found Gala Darling's Kill Your Television: An Idea For April very interesting, because for years The Boyfriend & I didn't have TV, and after moving back in with my parents it's weird to watch it again.

I went absolutely bonkers for this DIY detatachable peplum tutorial. So freakin' rad!

I'm dying to try out this tutorial for How To Style Flat Iron Curls. So pretty!

This video is probably the best thing that I have seen all week.

Enjoy!

Until next time, xo.

Snapshots of March

Hello there lovelies,

March has been one hell of a ride! We lost The Boyfriend's Nana, and both of us have been battling feeling pretty homesick for Brisbane, having trouble sleeping, getting sick, and feeling generally out of sorts. We also managed to pay off one of our long-standing debts, buy both of us a new camera, got to spend a week alone for the first time in a few months and went on a few nice photograghy outings.

I wore quite a few nice outfits that never quite made it to the blog. This dress I bought from Modcloth before Christmas was one of them. Here's a few that did make it.

We spent lots of time with our beautiful animals this month. Squeak, the little black cat has been harassing us for attention - and as any cat owners will know, when they harass, you listen. Homer, the big black and white dog always loves cuddles, and Bow (the little fluff ball) is a big sook.

Along with buying a Canon 50D for me, I also order a cute package of things from Modcloth, was shocked to discover that I now own three pairs of heels, and bought a few things from Jay Jays that unintentionally turned out to match perfectly.

Along with writing for the blog, I spend my spare time surprising people in my house hold & taking random photographs of them. Yes, this does include myself. How has your March been? Has it treated you well?

Until next time, xo.

P.S. Just in case you missed them, here are my favourite posts from this month: Fat Girls Can, How To Make A Statement Necklace From T-Shirt Scraps, Fictional Style Icon: Blair Waldorf, Hey It's Ok & How To Remix The Same Dress Five Times.

DIY Friday/Book Club: Little Green Dresses

Hello there lovelies,

I actually did have another wicked DIY tutorial cooked up for you this week, but with everything going on I didn't have time to bring the idea to fruition. Rest assured, I'll have it ready for you next week! In the meantime, here's another cool book for our blogging book club. One with a DIY edge, in the theme for DIY Friday - Little Green Dresses.

I bought this book as a birthday present to myself last year, along with a few style photography books & Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. I was browsing The Book Depository looking for a book to inspire me to get back into DIY, and this little number with it's cute, stylish cover caught my eye. I waited eagerly for it to arrive, and I wasn't disappointed when it did. Little Green Dresses is a gorgeously styled sewing book, and it is full of inspiration & ideas, which I think would be beneficial for both beginning & more experienced sewing.

Little Green Dresses contains six sections: two sections of sewing info, and then project instructions for tops, skirts, dresses and bottoms & rompers. The first info section is all about sewing techniques, and covers everything from fabric types to seams & hems, to interfacing, adding darts & inserting zippers. The second info section is about using & creating your own patterns, and it covers cutting patterns, taking your own measurements, style lines & altering patterns, as well as including detailed instructions for drafting your own "master" pattern. The project sections include instructions for refashioning of certain items, projects requiring simple pattern-making skills and more complex projects based on altering your master pattern in particular ways.

I really loved the bright, clear & beautifully polished images throughout Little Green Dresses. Seeing a finished project photographed well & styled in the context of an actual outfit always gives me an idea of whether it is something I would wear once I finished it. I found that the instructional sections were written in a manner that was easy to understand, easy to follow, and interesting! I think it is often the nail in the coffin of DIY books that their instructions are written so dryly that they send me to sleep, so this was a nice change. I think that some of the project instructions may be a little hard to understand depending on how much experience you have sewing with patterns, but the included diagrams really helped me visualise how the pieces of each garment come together. All-in-all, I loved this Little Green Dresses to bits!

The only (maybe slightly negative) note that I would like to make is that I don't believe that the cover is 100% accurate in saying that the book contains "50 original patterns for repurposed dresses, tops, skirts & more". If you are thinking of purchasing, keep in mind that the book itself does not actually contain any patterns . What it does have is detailed diagrams & instructions for making your own patterns, and how to tweak a master pattern to make a range of different designs. This doesn't actually bother me. I think that Little Green Dresses is a fun & easy to understand lesson in drafting your own patterns & repurposing. I just want to drive home the point that it does not come with any premade patterns - if you're not looking to start drafting your own patterns then this is probably not the book for you.

The only question left for me is this: which of these projects should I attempt first?

Weigh in! Do you own Little Green Dresses? What did you think of it? And should I make the Ambiguous T Dress, or the Nip-Waist dress first?

Nicolas Cage | Actor With Wife New Photos 2012

Nicolas Cage | The most famous Actor in Hollywood. He has many awesome movies to watch. Nicolas Cage is married with a Chinese girl. Here we have some of Nicolas Cage and his wife most recent taken photos-images given below. Hope you would like to see Nicolas Cage and his wife together in photos for 2012.

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Nicolas Cage | Actor Profile and Photos-Images 2012

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Birth Name: Nicholas Kim Coppola

Birth Date: January 7, 1964

Birth Place: Long Beach, California, USA

Height: 6'

Sex: Male

Nationality: American

Profession: Actor, Producer, Composer, Director

Claim to fame: As punk rocker Randy in Valley Girl (1983)

Nicolas Cage  was born in Los Angeles. His mother suffered bouts of depression and was hospitalized during his childhood. Nevertheless, he was close to her and later used his understanding of her mental illness to help create his film characters. His parents divorced when he was twelve. Cage left high school early to pursue acting studies at the American Conservatory Theater. He made his film debut in Valley Girl (1983) and began portraying a series of characters that were loopy, underhanded and borderline psychotic.

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Carly Rae Jepsen + Jay-Z + Scott Melker + Friendly Greg

All three or four of my friends kept hollering at me on Google Chat yesterday. And I'm all, "Chill dudes, I'm working." And they're like, "You don't have a job, what are you so darned busy with?" What am I busy with? First I have to go to Scottie's. Then we have to slow down the "Call Me Maybe" instrumental. And pitch adjust it. Or whatever. We have to find the perfect drums to slide under it. And the perfect "boom" to go with those drums. Etc. We have to figure out how to blend Jay-Z's "99 Problems" with all of that. Blah, blah, etc. And on and on and on. These Carly Rae Jepsen v. Jay-Z edits don't make themselves, people. This is a real job, damnit. This is hard work and it requires our undivided attention. Shoo!

Call Me Jay-Z (Scott Melker + Friendly Greg Popped And Screwed Remix) - Carly Rae Jepsen + Jay-Z by scottmelker

Eye Candy: Yang Du AW12 Collection

Images from here & here.

It's been a while since I featured the work of any designers on my blog, and honestly I think that's because designer collections don't blow me away very often. Yang Du's AW12 collection completely freakin' blew me away. Bright colours & owl prints combined with bold crazy makeup & cute hair? Yes please. I'm even ok with the nude pumps, because they don't detract from the amazing dresses.

"Yang Du’s collection for AW12 featured quirky designs inspired by the animal kingdom, seen through the colourful eyes of a child. Apart from the drawings of animals the collection featured different styles of dresses; short and tight and loose with wide sleeves. Black and white owls, flamingos with blue beeks, green-eyed owls, giraffe or hippopotamus backpacks, purple red and yellow tigers, colourful zebras, crocodile-faced scarf, and blue hippopotamus beanie, were some outfits shown in Du’s playful show." - FASHION156

I know that some of you are probably sitting there thinking "But, what would you wear them with?", and my answer is simple - everything! You could wear these dresses exactly as they are, or you could wear them with colourful tights & a pair of bright Dr Martens. You could wear them as tunics over leggings, or jeans. You could wear the floatier designs as cover-ups at the beach, or layer the slim-fitted versions under skirts. I think these pieces would be amazing dressed up or down, understated, or totally out there, casual or formal.

I think it's safe to say that if I could get my hands on one of these Yang Du designs, it would never come off. I would probably sleep in it, and refuse to remove it until the entire town started to complain about the smell & threaten to have me committed. What do you think of these unique designs?

Iconic Hollywood Studio To Be Demolished Unless Fans Step In!

Written By: Terri Pressley / Ken Hulsey

Does it seem feasible that the city of West Hollywood would condone the demolition of a historical landmark?

The idea that a city that normally prides itself on the preservation of of historic structures would turn a blind eye when a developer plans to bulldoze a complex that houses one of Hollywood's earliest and most acclaimed studios seems on the outside to be preposterous, but that is exactly what is about to happen.

At the heart of a growing controversy in the land where dreams are created as fast as they are destroyed is the famed Pickford-Fairbanks Studios where such movies as Some Like It Hot, The Thief of Bagdad, Guys and Dolls, and even select scenes from Star Wars (Episode 4: A New Hope) were filmed.



“This is a sacrilege – do the greedy people threatening this not have any pride in the history of Hollywood? Do they not have any respect and pride for the founders of motion pictures, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford ? The Save Pickford-Fairbanks studios must stop this from happening – it is obliterating history and the legacy that Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford left.” — Daphne Fairbanks

The City of West Hollywood and the CIM Group have plans to demolish the legendary Pickfair Studios, founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Together they formed the first major independent film studio, United Artist. All four of these historic and revolutionary filmmakers spent the remainder of their careers (with a brief exception for Chaplin) making their films with UA. To accommodate their filmmaking, they built the Pickford-Fairbanks studio on Santa Monica Boulevard at the corner of Santa Monica and Formosa, the former Jesse Hampton Studio lot. In addition to silent film classics like Son of the Sheik, Sparrows, and Thief of Bagdad, films like Wuthering Heights (1939), Guys and Dolls, Some Like It Hot (1959), and West Side Story (1959) were also shot there. When George Lucas returned from England, he reshot some of the original Star War scenes at the Pickfair Studio. The Pickfair Studio saw the likes of not only those greats but stars including Rudolph Valentino, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Myrna Loy, Natalie Wood, Marlon Brando, Susan Hayward, Greer Garson, Jack Lemmon, Danny Kaye, Eddie Cantor and Laurence Olivier making some of their most memorable films on the historic lot. This studio, located at Highland and Santa Monica on the border of West Hollywood, CA, stands...but not for much longer.


In the early 50s, against Pickford's will (Griffith and Fairbanks were by then deceased), the studio and company were sold. It passed hands several times before being purchased by Sky Partners in 1999 and renaming it’ The Lot’. Since then Sky Partners has been doing all they can to facilitate the demolition of the historic studio. Skye has sold to CIM Group who plans to raze all historic buildings, with of course, the approval of the West Hollywood City Council. Even though these are historical buildings and legally protected as such, the Los Angeles City Council does not care. Land is valuable in this big and overcrowded town; and they want it. As of April 2012 CIM plans to destroy all the historic buildings. It is history they mean to destroy film lovers, we must band together and let them know that we will not stand by idly; they should not be allowed to destroy film history without a fight.

Sign the online petition - Save Pickfair Studios!

There is a growing online movement to save the studio being pushed forward through blogs, classic movie groups and websites. Though this movement is gaining steam very quickly it may not be enough to beat the clock before CIM can move forward with their plans. As it stands now the once iconic studio will begin to be demolished as soon as the first week of April. That's why things need to move and move as fast as possible or one of Hollywood's historic sites will be no more!

How can you help? Well you need to make your voice heard by contacting the powers behind this travesty. Who should you contact? Well we have a list for you:

CIM Group

http://www.cimgroup.com/

6922 Hollywood Blvd. 9th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90028

P.323.860.4900

F.323.860.4901

Karen Diehl

Casey & Sayre

11835 W. Olympic Blvd.

Suite 1285

Los Angeles, CA 90064

p 310.473.8090

f 310.473.8291

kdiehl@cswpr.com

Bill Mendel

Mendel Communications

1841 Broadway

Suite 1009

New York, NY 10023

p 212.397.1030

f 212.974.0705

bill@mendelcommunications.com

City of West Hollywood City Council

8300 Santa Monica Boulevard

Hours of Operation: Mon-Thurs 8am - 6pm; Fridays 8am - 5pm.

Telephone: (323) 848-6400 (323) 848-6400

Phone: (323) 848-6460

Email: ccouncil@weho.org

Mayor John J Duran: jduran@weho.org

Mayor Elect Jefferey Prang: jprang@weho.org

Councilmember John D’Amico: jdamico@weho.org

John Heilmen: jheilman@weho.org

Councilmember Abby Land: aland@weho.org

Sr Planner Contreras: fcontreras@weho.org

Sr Planner Degrazia: ddegrazia@weho.org