#Meg wynn owen

[pretty-little-fools]

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[galathynius]

2023 reading log

the uncensored picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde / jan. 2-9 / 4 stars

buzz saw: the improbable story of how the washington nationals won the world series by jesse dougherty / jan. 9-11 / 4.5 stars

proposal by meg cabot / jan. 17 / 3 stars

sidelined: sports, culture, and being a woman in america by julie dicaro / jan. 12-17 / 4 stars

remembrance by meg cabot / jan. 18-19 / 3 stars

how sweet it is by dylan newton / jan. 19-20 / 3 stars

daughters of sparta by claire heywood / jan. 21-22 / 3 stars

highly suspicious and unfairly cute by talia hibbert / jan. 22 / 4 stars

gentlemen prefer blondes: the diary of a professional lady by anita loos / jan. 23-26 / 3 stars

hell bent by leigh bardugo / jan. 26-31 / 4 stars

all about love: new visions by bell hooks / jan. 22-31 / 4 stars

daisy jones & the six by taylor jenkins reid / jan. 31-feb. 2 / 4 stars

everything i know about love: a memoir by dolly alderton / feb. 2-9 / 4 stars

emma by jane austen / feb. 11-19 / 4 stars

fake it till you bake it by jamie wesley / feb 19-23 / 3.5 stars

my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell / feb. 23-26 / 4 stars

throttled by lauren asher / feb. 26-28/ 2 stars

the locker room by meghan quinn / mar. 1-5 / 1 star

come as you are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life by emily nagoski / feb. 17-mar. 5 / 4.5 stars

pucked by helena hunting / mar. 5-11 / 3 stars

legendborn by tracy deonn / mar 12-23 / 4.5 stars

unadulterated something by m.j. duncan / mar. 23-25 / 4 stars

the fifth season by n.k. jemisin / mar. 26-apr. 15 / 4 stars

how to fake it in hollywood by ava wilder / apr. 16-19 / 3.5 stars

sharp objects by gillian flynn / apr. 19-22 / 4 stars

the homewreckers by mary kay andrews / apr. 22-25 / 3.5 stars

the kiss curse by erin sterling / apr. 25-26 / 3.5 stars

the wedding crasher by mia sosa / apr. 26-27 / 3 stars

let’s get physical: how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world by danielle friedman / mar. 25-apr. 27 / 4 stars

mile high by liz tomforde / apr. 27-may 6 / 1.5 stars

happy place by emily henry / may 6-7 / 5 stars

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid / may 7 / 4 stars

the spanish love deception by elena armas / may 8 / 2 stars

neon gods by katee robert / may 8-9 / 1 star

love in the time of serial killers by alicia thompson / may 9-11 / 4 stars

the bodyguard by katherine center / may 11 / 4 stars

the intimacy experiment by rosie danan / may 11-12 / 3 stars

upgrade by blake crouch / may 12-13 / 4 stars

by any other name by lauren kate / may 13 / 3 stars

the dead romantics by ashley poston / may 15-17 / 4 stars

the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins / may 19-28 / 3.5 stars

so many ways to lose: the amazin’ true story of the new york mets—the best worst team in baseball by devin gordon / may 13-jun. 4 / 4 stars

iron widow by xiran jay zhao / jun. 5-7 / 3 stars

the grace year by kim liggett / jun. 7-8 / 4 stars

the last magician by lisa maxwell / jun. 9-11 / 4.5 stars

little fires everywhere by celeste ng / jun. 12-14 / 4 stars

not a happy family by shari lapena / jun. 14-17 / 2.5 stars

the familiars by stacey halls / jun. 17-21 / 3 stars

the girls i’ve been by tess sharpe / jun. 21-22 / 3.5 stars

once more with feeling by elissa sussman / jun. 23 / 3 stars

the cheat sheet by sarah adams / jun. 24-25 / 1 star

how to sell a haunted house by grady hendrix / jun. 26-29 / 3 stars

little thieves by margaret owen / jul. 1-3 / 4.5 stars

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone / jul. 3-6 / 3 stars

the very secret society of irregular witches by sangu mandanna / jul. 11-12 / 4 stars

the lies of locke lamora by scott lynch / jul. 13-27 / 4.5 stars

seven days in june by tia williams / jul. 28-30 / 4 stars

bloodmarked by tracy deonn / jul. 31-aug. 2 / 4 stars

something wilder by christina lauren / aug. 3-4 / 3 stars

howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones / aug. 4-5 / 4 stars

dark matter by blake crouch / aug. 12-13 / 3 stars

eat up! food, appetite, and eating what you want by ruby tandoh / jul. 30-aug. 14 / 4 stars

the silent companions by laura purcell / aug. 5-18 / 4 stars

mr. wrong number by lynn painter / aug. 19-20 / 2 stars

romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld / aug. 20-21 / 4 stars

the last tale of the flower bride by roshani chokshi / aug. 21-23 / 4 stars

the hating game by sally thorne / aug. 23-25 / 2 stars

lessons in chemistry by bonnie garmus / aug. 25-26 / 2.5 stars

the godparent trap by rachel van dyken / aug. 27 / 2 stars

i’m glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy / aug. 27-29 / 4 stars

the atlas six by olivie blake / aug. 29-sep. 9 / 3 stars

wordslut: a feminist guide to taking back the english language by amanda montell / sep. 1-9 / 4 stars

practice makes perfect by sarah adams / sep. 10-11 / 3 stars

all systems red by martha wells / sep. 13-14 / 3 stars

do i know you? by emily wibberly and austin siegemund-broka / sep. 14-16 / 4 stars

same time next summer by annabel monaghan / sep. 17 / 3.5 stars

Ounder the influence by noelle crooks / sep. 18-22 / 4 stars

burn for me by ilona andrews / sep. 22-23 / 4 stars

the littlest library by poppy alexander / sep. 24 / 3 stars

the neighbor favor by kristina forest / sep. 25-27 / 3 stars

satisfaction guaranteed by karelia stetz-waters / sep. 28-oct. 5 / 3 stars

the ex talk by rachel lynn solomon / oct. 5-7 / 4 stars

change of plans by dylan newton / oct. 8-9 / 2 stars

coraline by neil gaiman / oct. 9 / 4 stars

you, again by kate goldbeck / oct. 9-11 / 3 stars

mrs. caliban by rachel ingalls / oct. 12 / 3 stars

summer sons by lee mandelo / oct. 12-19 / 4 stars

the death of jane lawrence by caitlin starling / oct. 19-24 / 3 stars

house of hollow by krystal sutherland / oct. 25-29 / 4 stars

white hot by ilona andrews / oct. 28-nov. 2 / 4.5 stars

twice shy by sarah hogle / nov. 4-5 / 3 stars

sexed up: how society sexualizes us, and how we can fight back by julia serano / nov. 2-10 / 4 stars

artificial condition by martha wells / nov. 11-14 / 4 stars

wildfire by ilona andrews / nov. 14-16 / 4.5 stars

between a fox and a hard place by mary frame / nov. 18 / 3 stars

revolting prostitutes: the fight for sex workers’ rights by molly smith and juno mac / nov. 18-20 / 4 stars

emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett / nov. 21-24 / 4.5 stars

love and other words by christina lauren / nov. 24-25 / 3 stars

the boyfriend candidate by ashley winstead / nov. 26 / 3.5 stars

the seven year slip by ashley poston / nov. 27-28 / 5 stars

how to fall out of love madly by jana casale / dec. 3-10 / 3 stars

ordinary monsters by j.m. miro / dec. 10-21 / 3 stars

rogue protocol by martha wells / dec. 22-23 / 4 stars

what you wish for by katherine center / dec. 25 / 3 stars

the blonde identity by ally carter / dec. 25-26 / 2.5 stars

just my type by falon ballard / dec. 26-31 / 2 stars

[witches-unruly-heart]

Musical Ask: Phantom of the Opera

MY BABY! MY LOVE!!! 😭😍 (I'd insert a crying heart eyes emoji if I had it)

Favorite song God there's so many to choose from 😩 But I'm gonna pick a few -- The Music Of The Night, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Down Once More 😍

Favorite character Raoul 👀 He may be an insolent boy and a slave of fashion -- but he never kidnapped Christine. I also love Madame Giry 🥰

Favorite pairing Raoul and Christine 🥰

Favorite costume Hannibal dress, Masquerade dress, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again dress, Erik's skeleton outfit, Raoul's whole look when he comes to save Christine (🥵) (I'll include a picture at the end)

Favorite actor/actress in it THERE ARE SO MANY!! Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Earl Carpenter, John Owen Jones, Scott Davies, Emmi Christensson, Liam Tamne, Killian Donnelly,

Least favorite character Carlotta and Piangi -- and unpopular opinion, but Meg Giry (I'm sorry)

Least favorite song Second half of Wandering Child / Bravo Bravo ... Gives me a headache every time 😅

Least favorite actor/actress in it THE ENTIRE 2004 movie cast! Don't get me wrong ... I love the actors, but I hate them in the movie!

If I've seen it live or not I HAVE! I saw it in London and it was amazing, not to mention it was lead by three understudies/alternates! (Erik/the Phantom, Christine and Raoul's understudies/alternates were on) 😍

Dream role (if I could actually sing) LORD! If I had the pipes for it I'd go for Christine 😅

A headcanon Simple -- Love Never Dies never happened (I'm sorry -- but it was a mess 😅 I do love Til I Hear You Sing, Love Never Dies, and Beneath The Moonless Sky)

Dream casting Oh dear, where do I start -- I gotta shorten it down to one or two per character 😅 Christine - Celinde Schoenmaker or Lucy St. Louis (they've played the role previously, but I've not gotten to see them) Erik/the Phantom - I'll take anyone who's previously played him on stage (No, not you Gerard Butler) ❤️ but maybe Ramin Karimloo ❤️ or Killian Donnelly ❤️ Raoul - HADLEY FRASER! But same as with the Phantom -- anyone who's played him on stage ❤️ Or Bradley Jaden, in Italy! 😍 Madame Giry - Liz Robertson from the 25th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall 😍 Or Emma Thompson ❤️ Meg Giry - Holly-Anne Hull, or Katie Hall ❤️ Monsieur Gilles André - Philip Griffiths (he either has to play André or Reyer 😅) Monsieur Richard Firmin - Scott Davies (My Phantom from when I saw the show) Carlotta Guidicelli - Honestly, Wendy Ferguson (25th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall) Ubaldo Piangi - Wynne Evans (25th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall)

(in the production I saw it was no vest, but suspenders, and I think the shirt was a little ripped (and more open to show his chest) but I cannot post about the Phantom of the Opera and not talk about my boy Hadley! 😅😍

Want to get my thoughts on a musical? Send it my way ❤️

[astridofraftel]

reading challenge #11 (wrap-up)

Just finished: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

Currently reading: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

Next on schedule: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

I just wanted to add for myself a little conclusion to the reading challenge I did last year! I went back to university, so I had a lot less time and motivation to read for the past six months. Because of that, I didn't achieve my goals in the end, but that's alright, I'm still very proud of all the dusting-off I did! My TBR pile is much more manageable now, so I will not be keeping up with this challenge in 2024 (I barely read anything not Percy Jackson-related since January, anyway).

So, if anyone is interested in random lists of books, in 2023 I checked off my program:

(FR) Le Prieuré de l'Oranger (The Priory of the Orange Tree) by Samantha Shannon

(FR) La voleuse de livres (The Book Thief) by Markus Zusak

(FR) L'École des femmes + Le Misanthrope by Molière

(EN) Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang

(EN) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

(EN) Daughter of Smoke and Bone + Days of Blood and Starlight + Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

(FR) Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) by Arthur Conan Doyle

(FR) Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

(FR) Le symbole perdu (The Lost Symbol) by Dan Brown

(FR) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

(FR) Il était une fois dans le Nord (Once Upon A Time In The North) by Philip Pullman

(FR) Le Roi Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare

(EN) The Conqueror’s Saga (And I Darken + Now I Rise + Bright We Burn) by Kiersten White

(FR) Le Flambeau + Témoin à charge by Agatha Christie

(FR) Boudicca by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro

(FR) Fantômes et kimonos by Kidō Okamoto

(FR) Dans l'ombre de Paris by Morgan of Glencoe

For a total of 23 books out of my goal of 30 that I had owned for years and never read!

Which means that my TBR pile now amounts to these 12 books (I acquired the last 4 last year so they were not included in my program):

(FR) L'Ultime Expérience by Bruce Benamran

(FR) Cinna by Corneille

(FR) Othello by Shakespeare

(EN) Three Dark Crowns (re-read) + One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

(EN) Iskari, the Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

(EN) The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

(FR) Le complot des corbeaux by Ariel Holzl

(FR) La mythologie viking (North Mythology) by Neil Gaiman

(FR) La métamorphose by Franz Kafka

(EN) A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

(EN) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In addition to all that, although disregarding anything fanfictitious, last year...

(and because I barely have any self-control when it comes to books)

...I also read these, which were not initially included in my program:

(EN) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

(EN) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

(FR) Le château de Hurle (Howl’s moving castle) by Diana Wynne Jones

(EN) The Princess Diaries vol. 1 by Meg Cabot

(EN) Strange the dreamer + Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

(EN) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(EN) Divergent vol. 1 by Veronica Roth

(EN) Legendborn + Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

(FR) Comme un vol d'étourneaux by Giorgio Parisi

(FR) Le meilleur des mondes (Brave New World) by Aldous Huxley

(EN) I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

(EN) Crooked House by Agatha Christie

(EN) Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

(FR) La guerre des clans (Warriors) - cycle I vol. 1-6 by Erin Hunter

(EN) Tallstar’s Revenge by Erin Hunter

(FR) Le mystère de Listerdale by Agatha Christie

After all these gruesome lists, I can finally put to rest my 2023 reading challenge. Maybe one day I'll renew it, but I probably won't have the time nor the energy to schedule my readings so seriously for the next two years. It's been very fun though, also it had been the first year in quite some time that I read that much in French, and I think it did me good.

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[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Little Thieves (Margaret Owen)

The Boneless Mercies by April Tucholke

aurora rising by aime kaufman

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Cold the night, fast the wolves by Meg Long

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim

Howl’s moving castle Diana Wynne Jones

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C Wrede

On it 🦘

[ozu-teapot]

Blueblood | Andrew Sinclair | 1974

AKA Blue Blood

[scenesandscreens]

The Duellists (1977)

Director - Ridley Scott, Cinematography - Frank Tidy

"You have kept me at your beck and call for fifteen years. I shall never again do what you demand of me. By every rule of single combat, from this moment your life belongs to me. Is that not correct? Then I shall simply declare you dead. In all of your dealings with me, you'll do me the courtesy to conduct yourself as a dead man. I have submitted to your notions of honor long enough. You will now submit to mine."

[motionpicturelover]

"Blue Blood" (1974) - Andrew Sinclair

Films I've watched in 2022 (200/210)

Full film on Archive.org

[mariocki]

Classic TV/Character Actors/Welsh/3

Meg Wynn Owen

David Davies

Victor Spinetti

Michael Forrest

Tim Wylton

[genevieveetguy]

- I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand. - Sir, I appreciate the struggle you have been through, and I am very sorry to have caused you pain. Believe me, it was unconsciously done. - Is this your reply? - Yes, sir. - Are you... are you laughing at me? - No. - Are you rejecting me? - I'm sure that the feelings which, as you've told me have hindered your regard, will help you in overcoming it. - Might I ask why, with so little endeavor at civility, I am thus repulsed? - And I might as well enquire why, with so evident a design of insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment.

Pride & Prejudice, Joe Wright (2005)

[kwebtv]

A Woman of Substance -  Channel 4  -  January 2 - 4, 1985

Drama (3 episodes)

Running Time:  290 minutes total

Stars:

Jenny Seagrove as Young Emma Harte

Deborah Kerr as Emma Harte

Barry Bostwick as Major Paul McGill

Diane Baker as Laura O'Neill

Liam Neeson as Blackie O'Neill

Miranda Richardson as Paula McGill Amory

Peter Chelsom as Edwin Fairley

John Duttine as Joe Lowther

Peter Egan as Adam Fairley

George Baker as Bruce McGill

Mick Ford as Frank Harte

Christopher Gable as Arthur Ainsley

Christopher Guard as Gerald Fairley

Dominic Guard as Winston Harte

Del Henney as Jack Harte

Gayle Hunnicutt as Olivia Wainwright

Nicola Pagett as Adele Fairley

Joris Stuyck as David Kallinski

Meg Wynn Owen as Elizabeth Harte

Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Turner

Harry Landis as Abraham Kallinski

John Mills as Henry Rossiter

Barry Morse as Murgatroyd

[moviesandmania]

Blue Blood - UK, 1973 - reviews and now with movie free online

Blue Blood – UK, 1973 – reviews and now with movie free online

‘Who was possessed by the Devil at Longleat?’

Blue Blood – also known as Blueblood – is a 1973 British psychological drama film directed by Andrew Sinclair. The movie stars Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis (Dr. Phibes Rises Again; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Strange Behavior), Derek Jacobi, Anna Gaël (Dracula and Son) and Meg Wynn Owen.

The film is based on the novel The Carry-Cot by Alexander Thynn –…

[simpstyle]

The Billionaire List Is Out , Guess Who Made It ?

Gucci Is Striking Back for Women

This week, Gucci showed it’s Spring 2020 Resort Collection and lets just say that they are standing up. As many already know, Alabama passed a ridiculous law that made abortion illegal. The collection showed pieces like the one to the right that stated “My Body My Choice”. In the wake of these times, it is nice to see that brands aren’t closing their eyes and forgetting.

Besides this, the collection was heavily 70s inspired with flowy dresses, bold printed suiting and oversized eyewear pieces - something Gucci has been doing for some time.

The New Marc Jacobs

If you grew up in New York City, early 2000s, you remember the Marc by Marc Jacobs brand. Why ? Because every teenager had the colored bags going out on the weekends or going to school in the week. It was a thing. Back in 2015, Jacobs closed the lower priced brand because even thou it was extremely successful, he believed that it no longer went alongside the brand image of Marc Jacobs.

After the closing, the brand slowly started introducing more lower priced items within his RTW collection, which makes way for the current collection “The Marc Jacobs”. Launching this past Thursday, he used his old archives and inspirations to create this new modern look.

What do you think?

The 2019 CFDA Awards

This past Monday, the CFDA hosted the annual award show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Here are the winners and looks:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Brandon Maxwell 

Menswear Designer of the Year: Rick Owens

Accessories Designer of the Year: Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row

Emerging Designer of the Year: Emily Adams Bode for Bode

Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti International Award: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen

Positive Change Award: Eileen Fisher

Founder's Award: Carine Roitfeld

Media Award: Lynn Yaeger

Fashion Icon: Jennifer Lopez

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Mackie

Board of Directors’ Tribute Award: Barbie

For more, click here

Who Run the World? Billionaires!

This week, Forbes released the billion dollar list of women in the world. This list just goes to remind us that women are kickass and when given opportunities, they will prosper. Working Girls get inspired because this WILL be you soon

Diane Hendricks - $7 Billion - Roofing

Meg Whitman - $3.8 Billion - EBAY

Marian Ilitch - $3.7 Billion - Little Caesars

Judy Faulkner - $3.6 Billion - Health IT

Thai Lee - $3 Billion - IT Provider

Judy Love - $2.9 Billion - Retail and Gas Stations

Lynda Resnick - $2.8 Billion - Agriculture

Doris Fisher - $2.7 Billion - GAP

Johnelle Hunt$2.7 Billion Trucking

Oprah Winfrey - $2.6 Billion - TV Shows

Elaine Wynn $2.4 Billion - Casinos

Peggy Cherng $1.7 Billion - Panda Express

The Summer Mules You Need

[bluebeards-wife]

Movies

An ever expanding list of Bluebeard movies.

1901: Barbe-bleue (Georges Méliès, 1901)

1923: Bluebeard’s 8th Wife, starring Gloria Swanson (Sam Wood, 1923)

1925: Miss Bluebeard, starring Bebe Daniels (Frank Tuttle, 1925)

1936: Barbe-bleue (Jean Painlevé, 1936)

1938: Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938)

1940: Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

1941: Suspicion, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)

1944: Bluebeard, starring John Carradine (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1944) 

1944: Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman (George Cukor, 1944)

1947: Monsieur Verdoux, starring Charles Chaplin (Charles Chaplin, 1947) 

1948: Secret Beyond the Door, starring Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett (Fritz Lang, 1948)

1950: Bluebeard’s Six Wives, starring Totò (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1950) 

1951: Barbe-Bleue, starring Hans Albers (Christian-Jaque, 1951)

1951: Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Marcel Carné, 1951)

1955: Los lios de Barba Azul, staring Germán Valdés, Amanda del Llano & Verónica Loyo (Gilberto Martínez Solares,1955)

1960: Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons, starring George Sanders (W. Lee Wilder, 1960) 

1963: Herzog Blaubarts Burg, (Michael Powell, 1963) 

1963: Landru, starring Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, and Danielle Darrieux (Claude Chabrol, 1963) 

1966: Bluebeard's Last Wife staring Luciana Arrighi, Meg Wynn Owen &  John Preston (John Stoddart, 1966)

1972: Bluebeard, starring Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch, and Virna Lisia (Edward Dmytryk, 1972) 

1979: Ochen’ siniya boroda (Very Blue Beard) (Vladimir Samsonov, 1979) 

1986: La Barbe-bleue, (Alain Ferrari, 1986)

1988: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, staring Robert Lloyd, Elizabeth Laurence & John Woodvine (Leslie Megahey, 1988)

1993: The Piano, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill (Jane Campion, 1993)

2005: Bluebeard's Wife, staring Joan Barber, Norm Golden & Isabel Irene Bass (Bobby Webster, 2005)

2008: Blue Beard, starring Anatoly Kotenev, Oleg Kharitonov, Anna Miklosh and Dmitry Isaev (Roman Fokin, 2008)

2009: Barbe Bleue, starring Dominique Thomas and Lola Créton (Catherine Breillat, 2009)

2013: Barbazul, starring Jac Avila, Mila Joya, Amy Hesketh and Veronica Paintoux (Amy Hesketh, 2013)

2015: Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain (Guillermo del Toro, 2015) 

2015: Ex Machina, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac (Alex Garland, 2015)

2018: Elizabeth Harvest, starring Abbey Lee and Matthew Beard (Sebastian Gutierrez, 2018)

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‘Love Actually’ actress wore dead people’s clothes after friend stole nearly $80K

‘Love Actually’ actress wore dead people’s clothes after friend stole nearly $80K

Actress Meg Wynn Owen, best known for appearing in “Love Actually” and “Pride & Prejudice,” was forced to wear clothes belonging to deceased residents of her care home after her carer stole thousands from her. Owen, whose real name was Margaret Wright, suffered from dementia and appointed her friend, costume designer Brian Malam, as power of attorney prior to her death in July at the age of…