![“Paul Newman, Jim [Garner], and Steve and I went to the races at Riverside. On our way home, the men became annoyed because I had insisted on stopping at the next service station rest room. They had hoped to beat the traffic home. When they did stop I discovered to my dismay that there was a long line of women ahead of me. Unable to stand the delay any longer, I came up with a brilliant idea. I said to the girls standing there, ‘Hey, do you know there’s a car full of movie stars around the bend?’ 'Who?’ they cried in unison, 'Why, there’s Steve McQueen, there’s Paul Newman, and there’s James Garner!’ The girls looked at each other and ran like crazy, leaving me in sole possession of the facilities. I never did tell the fellas how a swarm of females suddenly discovered them!” -Neile Adams (Mrs. Steve McQueen)](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mcq.jpg)
‘Who?’ they cried in unison, ‘Why, there’s Steve McQueen, there’s Paul Newman, and there’s James Garner!’ The girls looked at each other and ran like crazy, leaving me in sole possession of the facilities. I never did tell the fellas how a swarm of females suddenly discovered them!”
-Neile Adams (Mrs. Steve McQueen)
Hollywood was once the dream capital of the world. Movies peddled glamour and fantasy. This was La-La Land where outrageous plots and larger than life characters allowed audiences to construct alternate realities — entertainment.
But La-La Land has relocated.
On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The mission of the Coast Guard is to protect America’s coasts. But according to this Commander-in-Chief the real threat to America comes not from enemies attacking the homeland, but from so-called global freezing/global warming/climate change — whatever they’re calling the weather this week.
Not a word from Obama about Islamic State who control half of Syria and are extending their grip on Iraq. Not a word about the thousands of women raped by Islamic State terrorists and then sold naked in slave markets. Not a word about the harrowing of the Yazidis. And what about those nasty IslamoNazis in Nigeria and Syria? According to Obama these Islamic génocidaires are exploiting drought, crop failures, and the high price of food caused by climate change.
This is preposterous.
Obama never mentions Islam. Never mentions sharia. Never discusses the evil that is at the core of Islamism.
In the world according to Obama, the graduates of the Coast Guard Academy need only convert every ship into a floating Prius and world peace will break out.
Obama, his administration, and the postmodern Democrat party live in a world detached from reality and common sense.
Welcome to the New La-La Land — not an entertainment.
Here are a few pictures to help us get through the next few days.












—Brigitte Bardot




—Hedy Lamarr




—Sandra Dee interview










The Degas reenactment is marvelous. Never seen that one.
As for the horse racing trio, Don Ameche looks elegant, Hedy Lamarr looks fashionable, and James Stewart looks just plain old comfortable, as he always seemed.
What a tremendous photo with Rathbone! I just watched “Mark of Zorro” and thought that if I also watched “Captain Blood” and “Court Jester” it would be a sword fighting film festival with the master. I do have all three on disk.
re: the IDF photo;
My dental hygienist is an Ethiopian Israeli. We have had a number of discussions of the pathology of American blacks. She is married to a white man (probably Jewish but I haven’t asked her) and tells me that she gets hate stares from black women in public when she is with her husband. The plight of American blacks is so sad but not all are infected with Rev Wright’s virus. I have black neighbors in “all white” Mission Viejo and they seem perfectly happy to be here. One is a little league coach. The team is all white.
Was the story with Bardot and the Degas? A reenactment? A coincidence?
Reenactment. Good Shabbos. Chag Sameach.
I would love to know the story behind the Joan Blondell publicity photo. She had another photo which pretty risque for 1932:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blondell#/media/File:Joan_Blondell_banned_1932_publicity_photo.jpg
I don’t know if this was colorized or if the photographer used a color process.
As for Obama’s speech, maybe he didn’t get the NASA memo…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/
Thanks again for all of the wonderful Art.
A strange photo, to be sure, but an attractive girl nonetheless.