I didn't get any further than the picture of Olivia Newton-John in spray-on leggings but I'm told Scarlet-Blue tagged me on a meme "to share three classic movie moments that have, in some shape or form, made me buy things/do things/think things that perhaps I shouldn't have."
I'm not proposing to open a debate about whether or not I should have been having *those* thoughts about Fay Wray and Louise Brooks and Jacqueline Bissett in a wet t-shirt. Though I do feel kind of guilty about fancying Anita Harris in "Carry on Doctor"...
Being a failed romantic at heart I always fancied getting myself a white jacket so that I could do that brooding, mysterious "Casablanca" look. I was streets ahead already, after all. Well, I could do brooding and utterly baffling, which is pretty close.
The time came when I could go for it. I bought myself a white jacket. It looked great on the hanger. It looked great when I put the dark grey hankie in the top pocket. Honest. It did. I don't know quite what went wrong when I put it on.
We'll draw a veil over the white flannel trousers. If it worked for Basil Radford... Well, it didn't for either of us really.
I hate umbrellas. I loathe and detest umbrellas. I once bought an umbrella. Because...
And if you imagine I'm going to explain this one you're off your head...
I should be nominating a few people to follow this meme. Consider yourself tagged if you fancy a crack at it.
With you all the way on umbrellas. So did you buy a plywood chair after seeing Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel??
ReplyDeleteNo Gadj, I reckon it was the hat...?
ReplyDeleteI'm right aren't I?
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white jackets are great as long as you don't need to eat anything.
ReplyDeleteAnd Marlene well...
I just picked up a set five Marlene Dietrich movies at the library.
ReplyDeleteGadjo: umbrellas are buggers, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteScarly: not saying. (-:
Lulu: this is another truth.
Willow: ooh.. what did you get?
I see you more as George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Quite why I'm not sure. Me, I'd be a munchkin in the Wizard of Oz. But I'd love to be Margaret Lockwood in the Wicked Lady
ReplyDeleteMadame deF: such flattery! (the postal order's in the mail)
ReplyDeleteI'm a stranger here myself. Why have I never been here before?
ReplyDeleteTell me you didn't end up in black silk stockings?
And so Marlene was the original sitter on a chair backwards - not Christine Keeler.
Welcome Pat!
ReplyDeleteThat was definitely the wrong kind of a white jacket, Kevin. But you know it, of course.
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