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“Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.” (David Guterson): the late Marilyn Dean & Kathy Valentine, drummer & guitarist of The Violators, Austin's 1st (?) punk band, here at Randy's Rodeo for The Sex Pistols show in San Antonio on Jan. 8, 1978, as captured by Tom McMahon.

austinchronicle.com/ :"When The Violators and the Skunks invade Raul's, fourteen days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar…", [before a crowd of no more than maybe 50 or 60, since a 100 was a big crowd at Raul's at those first shows.] "The Violators were very young kids," says [The Skunks'] Blackmon. "Marilyn was like 16, Kathy was 16, Carla was probably 21. Jesse was probably the best musician in that band, off the top of my head. Carla was good. They were just kids playing fast English punk music. Those were our influences at that time." "It was mainly people who didn't seem to know what to make of cute girls playing guitars and drums," remembers Valentine. "More than the music, it was the fact that we were female that they had no reference for. The only females in Austin doing this played fiddle – Marcia Ball was the only real musician in a band. Everybody else played fiddle or sang or were folk people." "…More than anything, it was the shock of the new. The Violators were mostly young, attractive women playing loud, fast, Sex Pistols-meets-Ramones punk. And they were doing this in a Tejano bar on the Drag, in a town musically ruled by Cosmic Cowboys and white bluesmen. Everything was changing. You either changed with it, or you opposed it. There was no room for the lukewarm…."

Marilyn & Kathy met in high school & quickly became best friends, the teen kind that does everything together: as Kathy Valentine recalls, they started bands, went to clubs, met boys and dreamt of big things in life, even moved out to LA together in 1978 but as it so often happens in life, they drifted apart after a falling out. Kathy later went on to play bass in The Go-Go's and sadly Marylin Dean passed away in recent years.

Photo & info via Tim Stegall's 'Austin Punk Chronicles' at austinchronicle.com.

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JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as JOE DIMAGGIO The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe S01E02

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Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Redbook Awards, 1953.

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Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin and Milton Berle at the Friars Club Testimonial Dinner - March 1955.

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Eartha Kitt

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by Dean Karr

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james dean clone high oc ?!

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Join V&A senior conservator Rachael Lee behind the scenes at the Textile Conservation Studio as she takes us through the 'invisible' mount process.

While complex and time-consuming, this method gives the garment fullness of figure without the foundation mannequin being on show, giving the appearance of the outfit floating.

A key look from the 90s supermodel era was this Versace 'Warhol' dress modelled by Naomi Campbell, as she hit the runway at the Versace Spring/ Summer 1991 show.

On display now in NAOMI: In Fashion at V&A South Kensington.

Courtesy of @Versace

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I happen to be in LA for a few days, so I paid a quick visit to one of the most star-studded cemeteries, Westwood Village Memorial Park.

By the way, the sod over John Cassavetes' and Lady Rowlands' side-by-side graves was obviously different than the rest of the lawn, as if their plot had recently been opened and then re-covered. So I'm positive that Gena Rowlands is buried there next to her husband and her mother, even though there's no marker for her yet.

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Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin on the set of Something's Got To Give, 1962.

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Old Hollywood gay and bisexual icons

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(via Martin, Sinatra, Monroe - photo by Jimmy Van Heusen, 1962 - all things amazing —)