Screenplay by Steve Fisher, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Story by Gerald Grayson Adams, Sidney Biddell
Woman with a Pearl Necklace
c. 1662
oil on canvas
Height: 21.7inches, Width: 17.7 inches
East Chicago 1977
Digital chromogenic print
20 x 24 inches
—Louise Brooks
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
1664-65
oil on canvas
45.7 X 40.6 cm
Blankets, New York
1986
Digital chromogenic print
24 x 20 inches
The Yellow Curtain
oil on canvas
1915
57 1/2″ X 38 1/4 “
—Elsa Lanchester on her role in Bride of Frankenstein, 1935
The Lacemaker
1669-70
oil on canvas transferred to panel
23.9 X 20.5 cm
Night in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket
1874
oil on canvas
23.8 × 18.5 in
In 1877 Whistler sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned this painting. Ruskin accused Whistler of “ask[ing] two hundred guineas for throwing a pot of paint in the public’s face.”
BTW I do not understand the Hepburn quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYD-b9KqQKc
She means, do not intellectualize the moment.
Robert – get a Morgan! They have a cult following and any year will do. Although the older you get the more time it will spend in the shop. In the future I don’t want you in the hospital an old man wishing you had gotten one.
The Mae Clark photo – 2 thoughts came to mind – how beautiful she was, and in Hollywood fame is fleetinkg. She was the talk of the town and now remembered only by movie aficionados.
The Tiffany Watch – for $17K they’d have to tell me more than the fact thjat it has “a mechanical movement”. For all I know irt is a $100 Seiko movement but the Tiffany name adds $16.9K?
I have an old Rolex – 48 years old – and I have told people that a precise mechanical movement is like jewelry for men – It is the only nice thinkg I wear that is metallic
I like the Tiffany watch, but for $17,000 you’d think you get all 12 numbers…
The Morgan Plus 8 is beautiful, but their web site says it only gets 17 mpg in town. Of course, the web site is listing it with a BMW V8, so your mileage may vary.
Either way, Robert, you seem to have a good grasp on my holiday wish list. I’ll send you an email with my address.
Have a wonderful Shabbat!
The trouble with beautiful women, in my experience, is that you’re smitten, then they start talking and they suddenly become so ugly that you honestly can’t remember why you thought differently to start with. Hepburn validated the first impression.
The watch is nice, but if you’re into that sort of thing, and you follow the Chicago school of economics, a watch that costs less than a car is just not worth having. Reasonable people can disagree on which cars comprise the spectrum, but the threshold is a car.
Do you mean more than a car?
I think Michael Kennedy put it beautifully. “…going full Veblen.”
We’re living in a time of plenty. Although many are not sharing the blessing, those that are need to up their game.
Mae Clark still looks like Jean Arthur.
I love Morgans and that is a pretty one.
I gave my wife a watch that looks almost exactly like that Tiffany but it was a Concord and I bought it on eBay. It’s very small, probably much smaller than that Tiffany and she loves it. It was a good Christmas present and cost about 1/34th of the Tiffany. Tiffany is going full Veblen.
“Poem by a Perfectly Furious Academician” (Punch, 1856):
“I paints and paints,
Hears no complaints,
And sells before I’m dry,
Till savage Ruskin
Sticks his tusk in,
And nobody will buy.”
A smirking Ariel is pleased with his creation after discovering a bag of corn candy and a box of parve chocolate cupcakes inside the yellow shopping bag in the background.
That’s not a smirk. It’s a shy smile.
K. Hepburn has always been my favorite actor. My daughter lived in Cochin for awhile about 5 years ago.