Sure, it's a Wednesday and ordinarily that'd be blech, but Thelma borrowed her dad's car, and although he thinks she's going to the library, she's actually picking us all up to go to the hamburger stand now. So let's have fun-fun-fun till her daddy takes the T-Bird away! Photo Credit: AK

Source: Backgrid Cristin Milioti was flying high after her Emmy win this Sunday. She scored the award for her role as Sofia Falcone in HBO Max's The Penguin. But unfortunately the actor tripped and fell on her way into an after party, dropping the award in the process! She was helped up quickly and her Emmy looked to be intact in photos taken after the fact. Phew. Here she is safe and sound inside the party, Emmy still firmly in-hand. Source: Getty

Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday. Today is a Monday in which all of Hollywood has yet to awaken and most of America has already forgotten about who won what last night at the Emmys. It's also a day when DJ Li'l Scratch is eager to introduce us to yet another forgotten Mademoiselle of Music™, this time a jazz crooner who was also a songwriter and a sharp-eyed businesswoman. Tonight, make sure to swing by the Manor's exclusive Muffin Puffin After Hours Lounge and you'll hear all about this smart 'n fiery sex-bomb songstress. Her name is Nancy Steele, a va-va-voom performer who began her career as a commercial artist in Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1940s and early 50s. At the same time, purely as a hobby, she was taking voice lessons, and her teacher was so impressed, he urged her to pursue a professional career. With that bit of encouragement, it didn't take long for our Nance to snag a prime gig at the ve...

"Swing" - Louis Icart, 1928 Look! It's me, fresh off the Express Coach to hell, blissfully swaying on the seat saved for me by my fellow merry miscreants! The heat? Oh, we don't mind her - we were BORN scorching hot. See you firey babes in due time! *kiss*

  If you're a David Lynch fan and have $15 million lying around, you're in luck! The late director's 2.3-acre hillside compound in the heart of Hollywood hills has hit the market. Recognized by Historic Places LA as "an excellent example of Mid-Century Modern architecture", the home was originally designed by Lloyd Wright in 1963. Lynch originally purchased the three-bedroom house (known as Beverley House) in 1987, and purchased two neigbhbouring properties on Senalda Drive, one of which he used to house his production company, and the other he used as part of the film Lost Highway in 1997.  In 1991, Lynch commission Wright's son, Eric Lloyd Wright, to design a pool and pool house on the property. He also added a guest house and other small dwellings.  With a total of 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and 11,000 square feet, the property is sure to be snatched off the market soon given its iconic late owner. Here are some more photos of the property from its Zillow l...

In today's post, we take a gander at a couple of stills from Sydney Sweeney's new movie, " C hristy"  -  a riveting tale of fug, derp, and what happens when  a crispy wig and a box of Ogilvie Precisely Right join hands with a power blouse in kitschy matrimony. Spoiler alert: you get Fashion Bug John Oates! 

 

Sure, it's a Wednesday and things seem kind of grim, but if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's haute couture. Women, gay men (and the occasional straight man) all approve of classy, sexily-appointed stars, and the costume designers of the Golden Age of Film did one hell of a job, like the designer of Ginger Rogers' wardrobe for "It Had To Be You." Or Grace Kelly's costumer for "To Catch A Thief." Courtesy Heritage Auctions Courtesy Heritage Auctions Or how about Dorothy Dandridge's wardrobe as the ultimate Femme Fatale in "Carmen Jones?" ©Twentieth Century Fox and Rogers and Hammerstein The wavishing Kay Fwancis (she had a speech impediment) isn't too well known anymore, but she was a box-office giant in the '30s and no matter what she wore she made it look effortless. https://www.icollector.com/Royer-costume-sketch-of-Dolores-Del-Rio_i169652 And then there's the glorious Dolores Del Rio (one of the most beautif...

Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Here are June Squibb and Scarlett Johansson on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival last night. 95-year old Squibb stars in Johansson's directorial debut,  Eleanor the Great.   The film is about a nonagenarian named Eleanor who decides to make the move from Florida to New York after the death of her best friend, Bessie. In a bid to meet new people, Eleanor finds herself in a support group for Holocaust survivors. She passes her late best friend's survival story off as her own, and garners the attention of a 19-year old journalism student who wants to write a piece on Eleanor. The two begin to form a close bond, but how long before the truth comes out? The movie has received mixed reviews, with Variety writer Owen Gleiberman calling it an "unconvincing crowd pleaser." Letterboxd reviewers praised Squibb's performance but found the film to be "pedestrian."  Are there any films from TIFF that have piqued ...

Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Music Manor Monday! Tonight at the Manor's exclusive Kweef Korner Lounge, DJ Li'l Scratch will introduce a forgotten artist who'll remind you of people nowadays that give their children names like Kathron or Mellowdee or Creeklyn or Amaziyah and other such fuckery. Back in the day, all you had do was an an extra letter to be dIfFeReNt. Like an extra "n." As in Annita. No, really. I'm not sure why this was done. It's like meeting someone named "Johnn" or Suue" or "Maaggy" (and how do even you pronounce Annita?) (do you stutter?). Regardless, the one and only Annita Ray had a unique career. In the 1960s, she and singer Diane Hall were known as "girl bookends" for bandleader Ray Anthony - or singing window-dressing for the more "important" Ray and his musicians. By that time, Annita was likely used to being undervalued. But she kept on keeping on, even reco...

Oh, hi there! You've just found me having my morning coffee, and I know what you're thinking, "Wow, Sebastian, did you wake up like this?" And the answer is YES, I always wake up like this! But please, don't be jealous. Glamour is in the eye of the beholder, and BEHOLD, what a sight you lovelies are indeed. Muah. Happy Sunday!

On September 7th, Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization mass. Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be granted sainthood during this ceremony. In his short life, Carlo learned computer coding and built websites to help share his faith. For this reason, he was called "God's influencer" - how Millennial-coded indeed! The teen was praised for prioritizing his faith and being compassionate toward others while also juggling the regular responsibilities of a young teen. In order to become canonized, the Catholic church requires that a person have at least two miracles attributed to them. And Carlo has met that threshold: in 2013 the mother of a 4-year old child suffering from a pancreatic birth defect prayed to Carlo and claims that her child subsequently experienced a full recovery. Then in 2022, a Costa Rican woman whose daughter had suffered from severe head trauma after a bicycle accident had made a pilgrima...

    Originally from Daily Mirror - September 1984 CUPS OF CHEER FROM THE BAND IMAGINE the problem. The birthday boy has everything under the sun. He’s world famous, he’s a millionaire, and he’s also a king-sized extrovert. He also loves a joke like the next man. He is rock superstar Freddie Mercury. And the only guys who can hold a candle to him are his mates in Queen, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and Brian May. Yesterday they presented him with a cake you probably wouldn’t see on display at the local bakery. Happy birthday, Freddie, and Happy Friday, hors! 

 

I love driving. It's the best way to clear my mind after a busy day at work. Radio on, windows rolled down, the wind rustling through my long luxurious locks late at night. "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac is a summer song, "Boys Of Summer" (of course) and "Ventura Highway" by America, too.  "Ventura Highway, in the suuuunshine, where the days are longer, the nights are stronger, than mooooonshine..." This isn't Ventura Highway, but I drove down to the beach earlier today, and it works for me. But you know what the most summer'y song I've ever heard is? It's this one, and I always seem to hear it when I'm driving and the windows are rolled down and it's breezy and warm, usually at dusk or after dark. It's somber and thoughtful and sad, but I love it so much (believe it or not, even more than "Boys of Summer") so this is my official pick. I chose this particular version bc I don't know what anyone in that band ...

Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried both attended the Venice Film Festival to promote their upcoming films, After the Hunt and The Testament of Ann Lee , respectively.  Roberts walked the red carpet on Friday evening wearing this jeans and blazer combo designed by Dario Vitale for Versace. Apparently Amanda Seyfried was so dazzled by this look that she asked her stylist, Elzabeth Stewart (who also styles Roberts) if she could wear the same outfit when she walked the red carpet on Monday. Seyfried's wish was granted and she wore the exact same ensemble. Seyfried shared a photo of her look on instagram, with a caption thanking Roberts for sharing, and used the hashtags #sustainable and #shareyourlooks. Outfit repeats have become a growing trend in Hollywood, with actors taking a more sustainable approach to fashion. Now that's all fine and good, but I do find it weird for Seyfried to have worn the exact same look as Roberts only two days after it was first shown. But, you know wha...

Greetings, music hors, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday - with a shout-out to those 'Muricans celebrating Labor Day. Are you doing a cook-out today, maybe going for a dip in the pool? More importantly, are you blasting festive music? Nothing accompanies festive music better than a side of cheesecake, dont'ya think? Speaking of, do you know the lithesome lass featured below? I bet you do, but only in her later incantation. Have you guessed yet? B et’cha haven't. Voila! It's Jaye P. Morgan. Surprised? If you only know her from her 1970s and 80s-era game show appearances - she was hilarious as a judge on "The Gong Show" (and stunned live audiences by flashing her breasts during commercial breaks) - that was just one teensy part of her career which started when she was only 3 years-old in her family's vaudeville act. Later, at age 18, she was hired as the primary vocalist for the Frank DeVol orchestra. Yet she was anything but the normal k...

When I first stumbled upon the comic strip, "Etta Kett," I was surprised to learn of its long run, from 1925 to 1974. Why? Because I'd never heard of it. At all. Not even a whiff. Originally, as you can probably guess from its pun-ish title, it was meant to teach teenagers about proper etiquette and appropriate, i.e. modest, fashion.  This must have gone over like a lead balloon, because with astonishing speed, its creator, Paul Robinson - an early-1900s railway clerk turned animator for the pioneering Bray Studios turned cartoonist - switched things up. No longer was "Etta Kett" a teaching tool, but a lighthearted, always clean-minded, comedy about teenagers and their families. Clean-minded at that time meant that it was hilarious to make sexy-times moves on an unwilling gal. But it was a "different time," as they say.  Again, this was all wildly popular, so much so that the likes of Harvey Kurtzman, of Mad magazine and "Little Annie Fanny"...