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Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Flyin' High Now
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 21, 2013
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Ladies and gents - the Moranbong Band!
These charming ladies, it seems, are the new fave-raves of the moment of the cognoscenti in far-off Pyongyang. Leggy, energetic (and mystify read more
Two for the Road
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 19, 2013
One thing this photo tells me: it is unwise to attempt an Adrian look unless you actually have Adrian dressing you. This comes close - but Norma really should have known better.
This charming snap of Hollywood's happiest couple - from the look of it, taken while they were boarding or di read more
Two for the Road
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 19, 2013
One thing this photo tells me: it is unwise to attempt an Adrian look unless you actually have Adrian dressing you. This comes close - but Norma really should have known better.
This charming snap of Hollywood's happiest couple - from the look of it, taken while they were boarding or di read more
Birthday Boy: The Continental
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 18, 2013
On the 97th anniversary of his birth, let's spend a moment admiring the European charms of dear Signore Rossano Brazzi.
In an era of whitebread Troy Donahues and Tab Hunters, Brazzi led the pack of more exotic leading men who added spice and color to travel romps like Three Coins in a Fountain, squ read more
Birthday Boy: The Continental
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 18, 2013
On the 97th anniversary of his birth, let's spend a moment admiring the European charms of dear Signore Rossano Brazzi.
In an era of whitebread Troy Donahues and Tab Hunters, Brazzi led the pack of more exotic leading men who added spice and color to travel romps like Three Coins in a Fountain, squ read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Joey, Joey
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 14, 2013
Camp discloses innocence, but also, when it can, corrupts it.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Sometimes things become jokes that shouldn't; the career (and life) of Joey Heatherton is, I think, one of those things.
Admit it - you're surprised she can sing, aren't you? I kind of am, every read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Joey, Joey
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 14, 2013
Camp discloses innocence, but also, when it can, corrupts it.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Sometimes things become jokes that shouldn't; the career (and life) of Joey Heatherton is, I think, one of those things.
Admit it - you're surprised she can sing, aren't you? I kind of am, every read more
First, Last, and Always a Star
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 9, 2013
There's nothing like a ten-hour flight to plow through a good book, and that's exactly what I did yesterday, flying back from Vienna.
Remarkably, Stephen Michael Shearer's Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star is the first major biography of Swanson, or at least the first since her own (ghost read more
First, Last, and Always a Star
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Sep 9, 2013
There's nothing like a ten-hour flight to plow through a good book, and that's exactly what I did yesterday, flying back from Vienna.
Remarkably, Stephen Michael Shearer's Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star is the first major biography of Swanson, or at least the first since her own (ghost read more
File Under "Correspondents, Unlikely"
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 25, 2013
Consider my mind blown, courtesy of the endlessly fascinating Joan Crawford Best.
Oh, I know it's not really him, as it's surpassingly unlikely that he was living on Flatbush Avenue in 1958. Still, don't you adore the image of the 13-year-old future reggae superstar sitting there in the dark read more
File Under "Correspondents, Unlikely"
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 25, 2013
Consider my mind blown, courtesy of the endlessly fascinating Joan Crawford Best.
Oh, I know it's not really him, as it's surpassingly unlikely that he was living on Flatbush Avenue in 1958. Still, don't you adore the image of the 13-year-old future reggae superstar sitting there in the dark read more
And Now, a Word from Our [Birthday] Sponsor
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 18, 2013
It's a two-for-one birthday special today!
Yes, that one-woman Shameless Camp Explosion herself, Miss Shelley Winters, would have been 93 today, and here we see her shilling on behalf of birthday boy Max Factor, Jr., who ably shepherded his father's fabled firm into the second half of the last cent read more
And Now, a Word from Our [Birthday] Sponsor
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 18, 2013
It's a two-for-one birthday special today!
Yes, that one-woman Shameless Camp Explosion herself, Miss Shelley Winters, would have been 93 today, and here we see her shilling on behalf of birthday boy Max Factor, Jr., who ably shepherded his father's fabled firm into the second half of the last cent read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Tokyo Cha Cha!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 17, 2013
Okay - here's the deal: click here, then come right back!
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Thanks to the vagaries of YouTube, today's SSCE requires an extra step: our feature is, sadly, victim of the "embedd read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Tokyo Cha Cha!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 17, 2013
Okay - here's the deal: click here, then come right back!
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Thanks to the vagaries of YouTube, today's SSCE requires an extra step: our feature is, sadly, victim of the "embedd read more
Birthday Boy: Aged Beef
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 16, 2013
Many happy returns today to longtime Café bollycrush, the remarkable Mr. Upen Patel. Ever thoughtful of us, his cher publique, the dear boy has been careful to retweet evey single birthday wish he's gotten to date. Not the bashful type is he? Although I suppose his fashion choices shoul read more
Birthday Boy: Aged Beef
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 16, 2013
Many happy returns today to longtime Café bollycrush, the remarkable Mr. Upen Patel. Ever thoughtful of us, his cher publique, the dear boy has been careful to retweet evey single birthday wish he's gotten to date. Not the bashful type is he? Although I suppose his fashion choices shoul read more
Treat Her Rough... Please.
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 13, 2013
One of the joys of returning to the U.S. of A. is, without question, access to real, live Turner Classic Movies.
Oh, out in the Sandlands, as I once upon a time kvetched, we had something called TCM, but it was but a pale shadow of the real thing. Now that we're home, though, I've been read more
Treat Her Rough... Please.
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 13, 2013
One of the joys of returning to the U.S. of A. is, without question, access to real, live Turner Classic Movies.
Oh, out in the Sandlands, as I once upon a time kvetched, we had something called TCM, but it was but a pale shadow of the real thing. Now that we're home, though, I've been read more
O Eastern Star!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 12, 2013
A momentous day today, a couple of millennia ago - an event that if nothing else has provided fuel for myth, legend, and a string of movies that have provided some truly over the top moments.
Yes, August 12 marks the death of Cleopatra VII Philopater, the last ruler of what we now think of as anci read more