#about glamour

[alessandro55]

About Glamour Len Prince

Introduction by Dominick Dunne

Simon & Schuster, New York 1997, 160 pages, 28,5x31cm, Hardcover, ISBN 06- 84-83623-8

euro 45,00

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Len Prince has photographed 1990s Hollywood stars in the manner of the glamorous legends of the 1930S & 1940s & 1950s. He used a vintage Deardorff 8 x 10 camera and took the shots in Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Hotel. A collection of quadratone photographs of stars--including Drew Barrymore, Aidan Quinn, and Sarah Jessica Parker--evoke the elegant style of Hollywood's Golden Age

Evoking the allure of this retro glamour era of Prince's photographs, Dominick Dunne recounts his early fascination with movie stars like Paulette Goddard and Jean Harlow; his firsthand account of Hollywood parties with Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Spencer Tracy; the end of the studio system and the decline of Hollywood royalty; and his 1996 photo shoot for Vanity Fair in Len Prince's studio.

22/08/24

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Laszlo Willinger, 1950.

[vaguely-concerned]

nothing makes me roll my eyes quite like people making a big deal out of lucanis being 'the magekiller' while mostly being perfectly chill with mages in his personal life as if that's some huge objective flaw in the writing. like yeah it's his professional specialization not his personality or strongly held ideological conviction or anything. mages are tricky to kill and he's real good at it. that's why they pay him the big bucks. it's like saying a pest exterminator can only do his job if he's motivated by a deep personal vendetta waged against the entirety of rodentkind. the fact that he genuinely treats assassination like his 9-5 is, y'know. half of the whole guy, and this tracks with that wonderfully.

(honestly it's so perfect that the reason he specialized in that is, literally and canonically, that caterina looked over the books and went 'huh. we should diversify our murder portfolio, there's an untapped market here' and assigned it to him. he didn't even get to choose his own murder major, his grandmother decided that for him largely for straightforward economic reasons. dunno what to tell you, crows gonna crow. they're just merchant princes with extra knives at the end of the day, that is exactly why they'd make a choice like that, they're providing a service not going on crusades, even though lucanis manages to carve out some personal satisfaction in taking down especially shitty targets within that. I'm sorry you guys didn't get your angsty enemies to lovers arc or whatever but please understand that that only existed in your head to begin with and also that what we actually get here is infinitely funnier and MUCH more interesting, once you actually engage with the text earnestly. ssssh I didn't say that)

[sookurt]

Bette Davis & Marilyn Monroe - All About Eve (1950)

[canisalbus]

Yeah sorry I drew this.

Hope you feel better soon ♡

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[happyheidi]

♡ x - x / x - x / x - x ♡

[kedreeva]

Hi friends!

I recently saw the cover of this book posted to a group on FB, with a LOT of vitriol aimed at it there. I ambled over to the Amazon page to see it (and have a look through the reviews) and it's LARGELY reviews by bigots (as I suspected it would be). I just spent half an hour going down the list reporting inauthentic and/or hateful and/or off-topic (not about the product) reviews, and ticking the "helpful" box on the 5-star kind reviews (and as a warning, not all the 5 stars ARE kind, I saw at least one that was vitriolic sarcasm).

If you have a few spare minutes and an amazon account, it would be nice, I think, if you could pop over and select "helpful" for the kinder reviews. I don't think reporting the bad ones a second time will be helpful (it may just slog the queue down), but boosting the positive reviews to appear toward the top of the list may be. If you have purchased/read/otherwise own or will own this book now, feel free to leave an authentic review of it. Be kind, do not get yourself in trouble trying to be mean to other reviews. The point is to add some support to the page that will actually stick around.

Here's the link!

[soft-homestyle]

Marilyn Monroe as Miss Casswell

All About Eve (1950)

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Stay cozy.

@soft-homestyle

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

Excerpts from Simone Ashley’s speech for winning Game Changing Actor at the Glamour UK Woman of the Year Awards

[lavampira]

d'alia + her turali outfits

[questintheskies]

[vultures-and-scavengers]

all the soldiers he trains. the army he builds. the keep he fortifies. all the work and sweat and blood he put into the inquisition. none of it matters. all cullen can do is watch the inquisitor disappear into the mountains and wonder if he'll see them again.

[effemar]

Danger to her own person was the first thing she had learned to see, back when she was still half a child, a slave girl bound for life to the great red temple. It was still the first thing she looked for whenever she gazed into a fire.

[toastydumpster]

me and the abomination I pulled by being madly in love with life. 

[aquanutart]

Nyaha~! Caught in my electroweb! ♡