Tuesday Weld shot by Dennis Hopper from the passenger seat.
Set your Tivo (or as my cable company calls it DVR) for Friday night, 2:15 AM (actually, Saturday morning), Turner Classic Movies are running Noel Black's classic Pretty Poison starring Tuesday Weld in one of her best roles, also starring Anthony Perkins as an oddly Anthony Perkins like cretin. If you have never seen it, you will thank me. It's also a good excuse to run gratuitous photos of Tuesday Weld, one of my all time favorites. I blogged a little bit about her last December (here). Her complete filmography can be found here. She's in an amazing amount of fine films, some of my favorites are Thief (1981, with James Caan), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Cincinnati Kid (1965, with Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Margret), Rock, Rock, Rock (1956, with Alan Freed and the Johnny Burnette Trio), and keep an eye out for her on various episodes of the Ozzie and Harriet Show, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip and of course the Dobie Gillis Show.
~sigh~... always loved this gal, and hard. I do confess, though, that for many years, my infatuation for her was seriously weakened after hearing her 45, "Are You The Boy?". I think it was Poison Ivy Rorschach that said, "how could someone that pretty sing that badly?", or something like that. As I've gotten older, I've become more forgiving, and I can now accept the record as a humanizing, kinda charming misstep that's kinda horrendously cute... and the glow of infatuation has returned to my lovely Tuesday...
"Brigitte Bardot's records suck too, doesn't bother me a bit..."
Actually, I LIKE 'em! She can do no wrong in my book.
BTW, it confuses me the way the French, who grant artistes latitude in their personal behavior (witness Polanski and Genet), are so quick to clobber her for mouthing off about this or that. Maybe the special dispensations aren't granted to women?
" it confuses me the way the French, who grant artistes latitude in their personal behavior (witness Polanski and Genet), are so quick to clobber her for mouthing off about this or that. Maybe the special dispensations aren't granted to women?"
I think maybe special dispensations are not granted to right wing rants (unlike here were they are celebrated with multi-million dollar TV and radio contracts). The press started turning on her when she married (briefly) the head of France's version of the National Front. My but you're an early riser...
"Hey guys, you all should go check out the new iPHONE APP for "
The above comment is obviously an advertisement, but I wasn't paid for it, in case you're wondering, Apple just hires some poor fuck from Bangladesh (see the guy's profile) to hit all the blogs and mention their product. Very sleazy if you ask me. I remember once, two not quite model looking girls came in my bar and hung around letting guys chat them up and after observing them for a bit I got them to admit they were paid to come into "hip" joints and drop the name of a certain vodka (which I didn't carry, and won't just because of their dishonest way of plugging their swill). So don't buy that stupid app, no matter how crummy a voice you have, hell, singing off key didn't hurt Herbie Duncan's career a bit.
Re BB's politics, there's some pretty awful stuff associated with Nico. But I love her, too. It's just the way I'm wired. Beautiful women get a reprieve from just about anything. I guess the exception would be cruelty to animals.
Yeah, I'm an early riser.
Re corporations and advertising, if I could push a button and have every CEO in the world writhe in mortal agony with blood pouring out their ears and nostrils for a year before dying, I'd push the button, happily.
James "The Hound" Marshall is a former WFMU deejay (1985-97), music writer and bar owner (Lakeside Lounge NYC, Circle Bar, New Orleans). He has contributed articles to dozens of mags and newspapers including the Village Voice, NY Times, LA Weekly, Spin, Penthouse Forum, New York Rocker, Newark Star-Ledger, East Village Eye, High Times (columnist for ten years), Kicks, and worse.
He also wrote liner notes to CD re-issues by Larry Williams and Johnny Guitar Watson, Ray Price, Eric Ambel, Challenge Records,The Okeh R&B Box, and others as well as compiling three volumes of the early rock'n'roll compilations Jook Block Busters (Valmor). At age 17 he edited two issues of the punk fanzine New Order (1977) He was born in Paterson, N.J. and raised mostly in Broward County, Florida, moving to New York City at age 18 in 1977 and has resided there ever since except for 1998-2002 when he split his time between New York and New Orleans. He has been acclaimed in print in the New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out New York, New York Magazine,The Manhattan Catalogue, and other publications you wouldn't be caught dead reading.
Tuesday Weld shot by Dennis Hopper from the passenger seat.
Set your Tivo (or as my cable company calls it DVR) for Friday night, 2:15 AM (actually, Saturday morning), Turner Classic Movies are running Noel Black's classic Pretty Poison starring Tuesday Weld in one of her best roles, also starring Anthony Perkins as an oddly Anthony Perkins like cretin. If you have never seen it, you will thank me. It's also a good excuse to run gratuitous photos of Tuesday Weld, one of my all time favorites. I blogged a little bit about her last December (here). Her complete filmography can be found here. She's in an amazing amount of fine films, some of my favorites are Thief (1981, with James Caan), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Cincinnati Kid (1965, with Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Margret), Rock, Rock, Rock (1956, with Alan Freed and the Johnny Burnette Trio), and keep an eye out for her on various episodes of the Ozzie and Harriet Show, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip and of course the Dobie Gillis Show.
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12 comments:
Great movie!
I second that emotion - don't miss! Tuesday never got her due.
Looks great! A definite tivo pick!
~sigh~... always loved this gal, and hard. I do confess, though, that for many years, my infatuation for her was seriously weakened after hearing her 45, "Are You The Boy?". I think it was Poison Ivy Rorschach that said, "how could someone that pretty sing that badly?", or something like that. As I've gotten older, I've become more forgiving, and I can now accept the record as a humanizing, kinda charming misstep that's kinda horrendously cute... and the glow of infatuation has returned to my lovely Tuesday...
""how could someone that pretty sing that badly?""
Brigitte Bardot's records suck too, doesn't bother me a bit....we can't all be Clyde McPhatter.
"Brigitte Bardot's records suck too, doesn't bother me a bit..."
Actually, I LIKE 'em! She can do no wrong in my book.
BTW, it confuses me the way the French, who grant artistes latitude in their personal behavior (witness Polanski and Genet), are so quick to clobber her for mouthing off about this or that. Maybe the special dispensations aren't granted to women?
" it confuses me the way the French, who grant artistes latitude in their personal behavior (witness Polanski and Genet), are so quick to clobber her for mouthing off about this or that. Maybe the special dispensations aren't granted to women?"
I think maybe special dispensations are not granted to right wing rants (unlike here were they are celebrated with multi-million dollar TV and radio contracts). The press started turning on her when she married (briefly) the head of France's version of the National Front.
My but you're an early riser...
"Hey guys, you all should go check out the new iPHONE APP for "
The above comment is obviously an advertisement, but I wasn't paid for it, in case you're wondering, Apple just hires some poor fuck from Bangladesh (see the guy's profile) to hit all the blogs and mention their product. Very sleazy if you ask me. I remember once, two not quite model looking girls came in my bar and hung around letting guys chat them up and after observing them for a bit I got them to admit they were paid to come into "hip" joints and drop the name of a certain vodka (which I didn't carry, and won't just
because of their dishonest way of plugging their swill). So don't buy that stupid app, no matter how crummy a voice you have, hell, singing off key
didn't hurt Herbie Duncan's career a bit.
Re BB's politics, there's some pretty awful stuff associated with Nico. But I love her, too. It's just the way I'm wired. Beautiful women get a reprieve from just about anything. I guess the exception would be cruelty to animals.
Yeah, I'm an early riser.
Re corporations and advertising, if I could push a button and have every CEO in the world writhe in mortal agony with blood pouring out their ears and nostrils for a year before dying, I'd push the button, happily.
Am I on an FBI list now?
"Am I on an FBI list now?"
If you ask for your FBI file and don't have one, they start one.
"If you ask for your FBI file and don't have one, they start one."
You're a nobody until you have your very own FBI file.
Hey stop giving away the plot!
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