(as always, please note my exceptionally professional job of obscuring  the license plate number) The year is 1965 and although the James Bond flick "Goldfinger" was released last year it was still #1 at the box-office (and at the end of '65 the follow-up "Thunderball" came out and also made a fortune). Similarly, Petula Clark's "Downtown" was released in 1964 but it also happened to be the first #1 song of 1965. And here is the luminous Ms. Clark singing it on the Dean Martin Show (accompanied by some of the gayest motherfuckin' chorus boys ever): So let's hot-wire a brand-new '65 Mercury Comet and head out--and maybe we'll see you there. We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares (sing with me) 'cause it's OP, things'll be great 'cause it's OP, no finer place for sure, OP, everyone's waiting for yo-o-u! Photo Credit: AK

Credit: The Daily Enquirer Poor Brandi Glanville just can't ever seem to catch a break. First, her husband publicly cheated on her with Falkor. Then she got some mysterious "parasite" in her face that has been causing her issues since 2023. And just this past Easter, she had to go to urgent care to remove garlic from her ear! In the latest episode of her Unfiltered podcast, the 53-year old shared how trying out a home remedy led to her needing to go to the emergency room. She had caught a head cold from her 18-year old son, Jake, and says that her other son, Mason, suggested the idea of sticking garlic in her nose to help clear her sinuses. Well poor Brandi had just gotten her face lasered so she says the garlic was burning her sensitive skin. So the next logical step was to stick the garlic in her ear! "Every time I tried to get it out, it really went down further," the reality star claims. Hey, it happens to the best of us. Now Brandi says that she has "...

Greetings, fellow prostitots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a bit of skiddly-doo, bop-bop-a-loo-bob and shoobee-doobee. These words were frequently accompanied by a wink, finger guns and tap dancing leaps, all prime words and moves from the early 1960s - just before jazz at last lost its popular hold to rock, which had been near-to-obliterating it years before. Now the job was done. Finito.  Also lost? Jazz babies, or femme jazz vocalists who were the star attraction at exclusive supper clubs, some of whom even got to cut an album or two. Like the hot-cha singing attraction, Peggy Connelly. And lucky you, tonight at the Manor's "Mack the Cat" nightclub and dinette, DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing Peggy till the early yawning hours.  At one time the wife of "Laugh-In's" Dick Martin, Peggy was a popular model, singer, dancer, and sometime TV and movie actress, in the 1950s and 60s - and a choice escort about to...

I couldn't come up with anything from memory because my radical bohemian anti-corporate weed-smoking hippie adjacent alternative living parents thought watching television subjected us to capitalist propaganda, and a narrow materialistic view of the world that excluded everyone but conformist white heterosexuals. So there are many, many gaps in my television watching career. Not to say I never watched it, but it was mostly PBS, movie rentals, or basic cable. Nothing much has ever changed. I don't think it makes me superior. It just means the pop culture television landscape and I rarely connect. A week ago, I sent an email to my friends and family asking for links to commercials they remember. I received many back with a lot of stories and anecdotes about that time in their lives or how the world was then. These are some from the UK and the US. I couldn't link them all because some people sent me a lot, and then kept sending them. Some weren't in English, and I have no ...

Credit: Getty The University of Massachusetts Lowell recently conducted a poll to see Americans' views on several topics, including public figures. With a net favourability rating of +65, Parton won the crown as America's most beloved public figure. Barack Obama distantly trailed her at +14 points and Taylor Swift was even lower at +3. Now you can only imagine who took the least favourable spots. I'll let you take some guesses.  Congratulations to Dolly! You can access the full poll here !

Hydrangeas (1880s-1900s) Ivan Aivazovsky

 

It's hot and breezy today (the same could be said for that tramp Janine in Home-Ec!) so let's jump in my dad's new LeSabre convertible, go cruisin' and turn on the radio. There's bound to be something good playing. Ooooh, the new Carpenters song is on! So let's relax and have fun--after all, it's sunny, it's 1970 and it's Open Post, darlings! Photo Credit: AK

After eight years, Jessica Lange will be returning for the 5,856th  13th season of American Horror Story . Ryan Murphy Productions' instagram page shared this photo announcing that filming for the latest season has begun this week. In response to one of the comments on the post, Murphy appeared to confirm that this season would be a continuation of the "Coven" storyline from season 3.  Will you be tuning in to this new season, Peckers?

Greetings, sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a sunny visit to "The Pearl of the Antilles," as it was once called, or "El Cocodrilo," which translates to "The Crocodile," since viewed from above, this is the country's shape on a map. I speak of Cuba, of course, from yesteryear to today, where, if its achingly slow rebirth isn't quashed by El Jefe de Covfefe, distinctive music has and will hopefully continue to flourish. Since my delicious, squeezable hubs is from Cuba, I've long known about the country's culture, food and music, all of which are practically inseparable. And lucky for all of us, DJ Li'l Scratch is bringing home the Cubano tonight at "Mamar Pinga," the Manor's popular after hours bar, club and Lechon Asado eatery. Plus there'll be lots of barn-burning music. Of course. When people think Cuban music, they invariably think of Gloria Estefan.  Which is understandable, e...

I am at the end range of Xennials (1977-1984), which means I experienced a mix of Generation X and Millennial (1981-1986) years, and I definitely have some characteristics of both. I am a hybrid. I am like an X-er because I do remember playing outside in the analog years. I remember freedom, boredom, call waiting, no digital world, toughing it out, being independent, self-reliant, non-conformist, and prize individuality.  I have no respect for corporations, and I don't expect special treatment or trophies for just being me. But I am like a Millennial in that I place a high value on experiences over material things, I am optimistic, social, fiscally cautious, like being in mentorships and fostering community workplace atmospheres, and driven by values such as sustainability, transparency, work/life balance, and social responsibility. My parents were very involved with me, cared a lot about my inner world, and I wasn't a latchkey kid.  Generation X is often referred to as The Fo...

Credit: Getty Here's Selena Gomez at the "Rare Beauty: True to Myself" foundation launch yesterday in Hollywood. The 33-year old singer and cosmetics magnate sported a pink minidress from Prada's Spring & Summer 2026 collection.  Well, it certainly looks airy and comfortable. What do you think of this look, Peckers?

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Seen here in a fetching eyelet-embroidered gown, La Lana's life had much turmoil: her father's premature passing, seven tumultuous marriages as well as innumerable affairs (one of them ending with a dreadful finality on Good Friday, 1958). But far more devastating to her than any of those misfortunes were the critic's assessments of her performances. In her first technicolor feature, 1948's "The Three Musketeers," Pauline Kael wrote, "As Lady de Winter, Lana Turner sounds like a drive-in waitress exchanging quips with hot-rodders." And 20 years later, Kael was even more damning in her opinion of Turner in "Madame X": "She's not Madame X, she's brand X." Let's not even get into what some blogger had to say about Lana in "Portrait In Black" (my favorite of her films): "Indeed, Lana Turner takes all the prizes for making 'Portrait in Black' so watchable for me because hers is one of those truly awf...

Credit: Jordi Linares Riveras Here are Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway at the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico as promo for  The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The two are looking very chic in their outfits and sunglasses, conspicuously not wearing florals for Spring. Groundbreaking! The movie is set for release in May. Will you be checking it out?

Let's see if we're good this time... Hey there, music sloots and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with an extra blast of fun from the 1970s. Which means disco, of course, but also adult entertainment, two things that were inescapable back in the day when attending them was considered the perfect movie for a chic night out. What does that all mean? What the hell am I talking about? I ask myself these questions daily, but tonight, at least, we can all learn the adults-only answers from DJ Li'l Scratch, who'll be bringing the sizzling disco tunes at the Manor's "Fapping Fodder" lounge and late night pizzeria.  That's when we'll meet a luminary who went from trained classical pianist to porn legend to unstoppable disco queen. "Scooby-wha?" you say. There's only one Andrea True, or Andrea Marie Truden as she was first known. Back in the late-1960s and 70s, when adult movies where cultural events, Andrea was a star, b...

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Credit: MTV Lauren Conrad recently reunited with her Laguna Beach cast-mates, Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti, 20 years after their reality TV show first aired. The three filmed a Roku special to reflect on their experiences with each other and reality TV when it was first becoming popular.  While Cavallari and Colletti created a podcast where they discuss episodes of the show, Conrad seems happier to leave that experience in the past. The 40-year old shared that she thinks this is "the last time she'll interact with cameras" despite saying she did miss the people from the show. After Laguna Beach , Conrad starred in spinoff show, The Hills , which showcased Conrad and her friends including Heidi Montag, Ceiling Eyes Audrina Patridge and Lo Bosworth. The Hills ended in 2010 and we've not seen Conrad on TV since, so it seems the last 16 years have prepared us all for the devastating news that she doesn't plan to return to our screens. Since her time on MT...

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