» Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 by admin
Captain Action TV Ad
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by adminHopefully I’ll be able to post more Christmas catalog pages tomorrow.
‘The Birds’ Barbie
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by adminI absolutely love it when pop culture spins back in on itself. A great example of that is here:
http://www.barbiecollector.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=L9633
It’s a Barbie-themed, um, well, sort of a little playset - Barbie in a nice Tippi Hedron outfit with avian menaces swooping about her head - in honor of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film The Birds.
This is perfectly cool and nice and everything, but I’m wondering: why The Birds? Sure, it’s a classic horror film, one that’s creeped me out ever since I was a little kid (especially the scene where the old man’s corpse is discovered with its eyes pecked out). Is it an anniversary of the film or something?
And, one wonders: what’s next? Barbie as Norman Bates’s mom in Psycho? Barbie in The Exorcist, with a button on her back that spins her head around? Barbie as Barbarella - Barbiarella? The mind reels.
Last of the 1975 JCPenney Christmas Catalog
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 by admin
More Christmas 1975
Friday, December 12th, 2008 by admin
R.I.P. Beverly Garland
Friday, December 12th, 2008 by adminJust learned that this other beautiful woman died a week ago today. She was fantastic in It Conquered the World and other films & TV shows, and was by all accounts a super person.
http://www.beverlygarland.com/bgbio.asp
R.I.P. Bettie Page
Friday, December 12th, 2008 by adminSo long to one of the most beautiful and bodacious women in history.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_en_ot/obit_bettie_page;_ylt=AsBtonrLuTXUa_mcQlxECTYDW7oF
All right now… enough of these obituaries for a while, okay?
More Christmas Catalog Pages from ‘75
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 by admin
