‘While preparing for his role as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, De Niro obtained a cab driver’s license, and when on break would pick up a cab and drive around New York for a couple of weeks’ – Wikipedia
You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head…
What are the Swiss known for? Beautiful skiing and great chocolate? Handy pocket knives and offshore accounts? Founding the Red Cross and being the only country in the heart of Europe to resist fascism? All good points. But did you know that Switzerland was also the birthplace of an extreme rebel youth subculture, based on an…
It’s come that time for me in Paris when the charm of the metro has been replaced by lingering unpleasant smells, usually coming from the crazy people trying to approach me almost every time I use it. I think it’s a rite of passage that comes after living in Paris for over a year. And…
Now you may think I’m compromising the integrity of my blog by doing a mindless celebrity post like this but you’d be wrong. This is just the kind of post that makes the internet great. So sit back and enjoy, minimal brain-power required… Cary Grant – George Clooney … Helena Christensen – Cameron Diaz ……
Nope, sorry, I refuse to stop imagining that I live in the sixties. Let me introduce my style icons du jour who will be getting us in the mood for summer vacation today… That’s right. Be one with nature. Until the soles of your feet could light a match. ::: If you can’t find a…
Easy reading today folks. Call me creepy– actually, don’t call me that please, but I spend a strange amount of time on the internet looking at old photographs of famous people from the 60s and 70s. That era is just so darn cool, I just couldn’t help but find another excuse to blog about it,…
I know I go on a lot about Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin– if I’m not attempting something feminine and Bardot-iste one day, I’m probably alternating in something boyish and Birkin-esque instead. It has occurred to me however, that living in France, I’m teetering very close to the edge of sounding cliché if I can’t come…
Vanessa, designer, Métro Fourche, 18th arrondissement, Parisienne “Paris wouldn’t be Paris without it’s parisians” says celebrated Franco/Anglo photographer Baudouin, who captures Parisians in their homes all over Paris, along with all their little quirks– or rather, their “je ne sais quoi”. Yann, art director, 10th Arrondissement, Parisien Emmanuelle (no occupation listed), 16th arrondissement, Parisienne Pier Paolo,…