Burt Reynolds (to Eddie Albert's secretary in Mean Machine/Longest Yard: "You have lovely hair.... Do you ever find any spiders in it?" A line ive used many a time on girls with big hair to break the ice in clubs!
Jim, being a Baby Boomer, I loved the Cleopatra look. I enjoyed slathering on bright blue eye shadow topped off with thick black eyeliner. What I didn't like were teens and women ratting their hair into giant beehives and then using enough hairspray on the hives to make their hair as solid as dried concrete. Eewww. I think spiders and other critters nested in those hives.
hey joanie - twenty five years ago we coulda had "cleopatra" nights - as long as your husband didnt mind my roman armour hanging up against his side of the wardrobe!! Ha ha.
One of the ones that tried, thanks to a huge marketing push, was the Cleopatra Look from the eternal cinematic epic...you guessed it, Cleopatra. I wonder how many Baby Boomers' "June Cleavers" wore a getup like this one when running down to the supermarket.
I do believe that's Suzy Parker doing the modeling shot there.
Jim, being a Baby Boomer, I loved the Cleopatra look. I enjoyed slathering on bright blue eye shadow topped off with thick black eyeliner. What I didn't like were teens and women ratting their hair into giant beehives and then using enough hairspray on the hives to make their hair as solid as dried concrete. Eewww. I think spiders and other critters nested in those hives.
That over-sprayed beehive look lasted into the mid 1970s, did it not? I think some parts of the U.S. still embrace that style. I remember senior citizens from the late '70s-early '80s sort of "frozen in time" because they stopped changing their style and continued to wear the last en vogue look that was new when they were in late middle age.
Yes, that does look like Suzy Parker in the Cleopatra ad, doesn't it?
"Now, 51 years after the Beehive was invented, the woman who first created the classic hairdo is to be honoured by the beauty industry. Margaret Vinci Heldt, now 92, came up with the towering style in 1960 after she was asked to create a look to mark the new decade by Modern Beauty Salon magazine."
It mainly is a product of the 60's and started to die out (thank goodness) in the 70's.
Two hair styles for men that I never liked were the crew cut and the slicked back ducktail hairdo.
"'As time went on it became really very funny. They did this particular Cleopatra ad and shot it with ten or twelve different black-haired girls, at great expense. It wasn't the photographer's fault; it was just that they couldn't choose the model. So they had to keep paying Avedon for the pictures. It was a disaster. Finally, at the last minute, they brought me in and put a black wig on me and they never let Revson know it was me in the ad. He never realized.' (He doubtless realized full well. Out of pride he may have pretended he didn't.)
BTW, over in the movie dialogue thread, I mentioned a Lawrence of Arabia retrospective book which featured pop culture and contemporaneous fashion ads of that film. Would you happen to know which book I'm referring to? It must have been published around Lawrence's 25th anniversary...
To this day, I am saddened that this spacy way of "future dancing" from the German 1960s TV series RAUMPATROUILLE (means: "Space Patrol") never caught on. I’d go to night clubs just to watch people dance like that. And they may dress like that, too!
BTW, over in the movie dialogue thread, I mentioned a Lawrence of Arabia retrospective book which featured pop culture and contemporaneous fashion ads of that film. Would you happen to know which book I'm referring to? It must have been published around Lawrence's 25th anniversary...
This one? I know this is in my upstairs closet somewhere in softcover though I haven't looked at in a while.
Oh, so it was the thirtieth anniversary. Makes sense, since my interest in classic cinema wouldn't have kicked in yet had it been the 25th anniversary. Yes, that's the book.
How does some get to the age of fifty and not have ever seen Lawrence of Arabia? But I once had a co-worker in his thirties who claimed he'd never seen The Wizard of Oz.
Yeh if you get a chance, great, but dont use it as an excuse not to see it for another ten years. Perfectly ok to see dvd restoration or bluray on a 40inch or 50inch t.v with your feet up!
