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Oct. 27th, 2012
Rudolph Valentino
Oct. 27th, 2012 01:32 pm
Rudolph Valentino as Ramon Laredo, Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
Moran of the Lady Letty is a 1922 silent film adventure produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The picture reunited director George Melford and star Rudolph Valentino after their monumental success with The Sheik in 1921. Though Valentino is the assumed star today, the actual star of the film is the female lead Dorothy Dalton an actress popular during World War I and whose star was waning when this film was made. [Plot] A young Spaniard is shanghaied(forced to sail on ship) by the Captain of the ship. While on board he meets and falls in love with a female member of the crew who is initially dressed as a man.
-- Wikipedia
Rudolph Valentino
Oct. 27th, 2012 01:32 pmRudolph Valentino as Ramon Laredo, Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
Moran of the Lady Letty is a 1922 silent film adventure produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The picture reunited director George Melford and star Rudolph Valentino after their monumental success with The Sheik in 1921. Though Valentino is the assumed star today, the actual star of the film is the female lead Dorothy Dalton an actress popular during World War I and whose star was waning when this film was made. [Plot] A young Spaniard is shanghaied(forced to sail on ship) by the Captain of the ship. While on board he meets and falls in love with a female member of the crew who is initially dressed as a man.
-- Wikipedia
"Taming the Beast"
Oct. 27th, 2012 06:35 pmAfter Sarah’s affair with her teacher, after he leaves the school to save his marriage, she becomes an insatiable sex kitten, or an addict if you prefer, and it dominates her life. Jamie is a classmate and her best friend, a guy who always had a serious crush on her, seeing her as the love of his life. The excerpt below comes after high school; she is in college with a life that is always threatening to run off the rails. Jamie tries to settle her down and give her some security.
_ _ _
“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
_ _ _
“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
"Taming the Beast"
Oct. 27th, 2012 06:35 pmAfter Sarah’s affair with her teacher, after he leaves the school to save his marriage, she becomes an insatiable sex kitten, or an addict if you prefer, and it dominates her life. Jamie is a classmate and her best friend, a guy who always had a serious crush on her, seeing her as the love of his life. The excerpt below comes after high school; she is in college with a life that is always threatening to run off the rails. Jamie tries to settle her down and give her some security.
_ _ _
“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
_ _ _
“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
Men & Women: Just Friends?
Oct. 27th, 2012 09:25 pmA new study confirms old wisdom: men and women cannot really be just friends. Men are naturally attracted to those gals with whom they accept the gelded status of 'just friends', all the while fancying that she is attracted to them as well, and that it is just a matter of biding one's time until they get to ring her bell on bouncing bedsprings. It is the male curse to be so single-track minded when it comes to feminine charms.
(Source: Sully's Dish)
(Source: Sully's Dish)
Men & Women: Just Friends?
Oct. 27th, 2012 09:25 pmA new study confirms old wisdom: men and women cannot really be just friends. Men are naturally attracted to those gals with whom they accept the gelded status of 'just friends', all the while fancying that she is attracted to them as well, and that it is just a matter of biding one's time until they get to ring her bell on bouncing bedsprings. It is the male curse to be so single-track minded when it comes to feminine charms.
(Source: Sully's Dish)
(Source: Sully's Dish)
