Quotables: Marcello Mastroianni

"The day when everyone is very, very elegant…I will start to go around dressed like a tramp."

-Marcello Mastroanni speaking to GQ in 1964

"Ocean in view! O! The Joy!"

I'm off camping today to my beautiful Pacific Coast!

Ugh. It's so perfect. My heart is just happy there. haha

 {James and I in 2009. THIS WAS THE ONLY PHOTO OF ME + LONG BEACH SAVED ON MY COMPUTER. -_-}

No, but seriously. It's basically the coolest place on the entire Earth.

I'll see you on Friday...

-Millie


{The top and bottom photos were not taken by me.}

Happy Independence!

Every Fourth of July, besides drinking lots of pink lemonade and buying WAAAAY too many fireworks (personally, I only go for the smoke bombs -- it's my brothers who buy all the scary explosives ;-D), it is absolutely necessary to watch Fred Astaire dancing with firecrackers (embedding was disabled. SHEESH).

What are your favorite Fourth of July traditions?

-Millie, who is NOT going to get any of her limbs blown off this year...

Quotables: Dr. Goldfoot and The Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot, I love you. Vincent Price, I LOVE YOU.

{I'm also so gonna do an actual post on this movie's brilliance some day. ;-D}

Photo of the Day!

Audrey Hepburn and William Wyler.

P.S. I absolutely adored my Lost Weekend blog header, but I also thought it would be fun to have a summery one. However, have no fear, The Magnificent Mr. Milland shall return! ;-D

Is David Janssen Acting Drunk the Absolute Greatest Thing Ever?

JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE.

Note: This is where everyone gets together and stages an intervention and takes away my computer.

{From the film Hell to Eternity}

The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968): Allow me to introduce you to The Face of Pure Evil

The title of this movie a clear give-away to the horribly-made, low-budgeted awesomeness that it is.

AIP at their most classic. ;-D

I watched The Mini-Skirt Mob for Sherry Jackson, because she's one of my favorite TV actresses. And she was quite cool in this...even if she did get the pitiful character. The poor thing kept getting beaten up, gagged and tied, almost blown up with Molotov cocktails, forced to trek through the scorching desert on foot, AND basically run over with a motorcycle. The person responsible for this madness? The Face of Pure Evil.

{At this exact moment she is sitting on a motorcycle -- about to run over a poor, defenseless Sherry.}

Diane McBain is one of the great blondes of '60s television (and I do not hand out that title lightly), but herewith she will be known simply as The Face of Pure Evil. It's not that I didn't know that Diane had experience playing characters that lived off of their complete evilness (I have watched '60s TV), it's just that her playing a gleefully revengeful leader of a biker-gang is so bloody scary. I quite assuredly will have nightmares of her snake eating a mouse speech.

I was also rather amused because I had seen this Sherry vs. Diane battle play out before -- in an episode of Wild Wild West. In "The Night of the Vicious Valentine" there is also a good vs. evil showdown (three guesses who is good and who is evil). Of course, in WWW Sherry had James West and Artemus Gordon on her side (aka she easily defeats evil). In The Mini-Skirt Mob, she only had Ross Hagen (whoever that is) and he has the creepiest raspy voice ever, so I was pretty sure he was supposed to be a serial killer (until I finally realized he was supposed to be THE good guy).

Oh my! I certainly abused the parentheses in the preceding paragraph!



Anyway. I can't remember exactly what I wanted to say about this movie (I watched it like 5am this morning), but it was certainly interesting. It even had the Bad Seed all grown-up and being noble at the last minute. Of course, being noble at the last minute in AIP movies only means that your soul is saved -- you're still condemned to some sort of retributive (usually dramatic) death. So, if you want to survive an AIP movie, BE NOBLE ALWAYS (which usually just means, DON'T KILL PEOPLE).

That ending though. I was confused for a bit. According to the particular formula for this particular film (there is an art and science to Mind-Smushing Entertainment), I knew that Diane McBain was gonna have to die a gruesome, horrible death. And then Sherry RUSHED to save her from falling off a cliff. I mean, REALLY?!

Of course, then Sherry realized what she did and slowly released her fingers one-by-one and let Diane plumment to her death below!

Oh, um, SPOILER ALERT! ;-D

I mean, girl! I know that the formula told you that Diane needed to die. And I KNOW she knocked you unconscious a few times, and had you tied and gagged, and almost blew you up, and shot at you, and chased you around on her motorcycle, and almost killed your husband like 18 times. And, I know that this all took place on your honeymoon. But still, your face when you let her fall down the mountain -- that was harsh. ;-D

{Start at 6:50}

Well, in conclusion, this movie is crazy. And unless you're crazy -- don't watch it.

Just kidding you. You totally need to go watch it.

And, as luck would have it, it's available for free viewing on Hulu! haha

-Millie