Monk

I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

-- Brigitte Bardot

I guess she liked the dick.

Another nice double-oh-seven piece, this one examining the spy-hero for psychotic markers. Hey, he is a lover of danger and women, what do you think?

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While Doug and Courtney were filming Couples Therapy she spoke openly about her high school boyfriend with whom she is still talking and show insiders say they are concerned about how her husband is handling his wife’s relationship with her ex.

“Doug seems like he is worried about Courtney leaving him, and he gets really upset whenever he thinks about the possibility of his marriage ending,” the source says.

-- ONTD

Well, I can certainly appreciate his fear, but, hell, you have to be thankful that you got that in your bed for a good year or so. It was a wonderful dream; most of us don't get that when we are awake.

I can’t play a loser - I don’t look like one.

-- Rock Hudson (photo 1951)

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

Having gone retro in our celebrity news lately, thanks to some newly discovered Tumblrs, I have come across an old, sensational crime story from 1948 Los Angeles, though celebrities are not involved in it. The crime and the news, I suppose, rose to the level of celebritihood.

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So many lurid and appalling books have been written about Burton and Taylor that it’s hard to see them plain. “The Richard Burton Diaries” is, however, true to why tabloid writers flocked to them: It’s a love story so robust you can nearly warm your hands on its flames.

Taylor is in her late 30s in most of these entries; he is in his mid-40s. “E is my only ism,” Burton writes. “Elizabethism.” While she was away, he noted, “I miss her like food.” He calls Taylor “an eternal one-night stand” and “beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography.” He declares, “She is a prospectus that can never be entirely cataloged, an almanac for Poor Richard.”

-- Dwight Garner at The New York Times

At first I was excited about this new book, but looking through the excerpts at Amazon, I am reminded that if you have any literay ambitions for your journal, you really do have to put in a little time and oomph into it and give the reader a little something to ride on. On the other hand, if you are famous like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, you will still find readers eager to turn the pages, and although I was never a fan of these two, I am not entirely cold on the prospect of reading these diaries, but it is on my 'pile' list and I am not sure that I will ever get around to it. You see, this is why I would not mind an extra couple of hundred years of life, because I would like to read it someday, if I had time enough and there were not so many other goodies to read.

I don’t understand why these Americans have to suffer so much to identify with their characters. Me, I just get up there and act. It’s great fun. There’s no suffering in it.

-- Marcello Mastroianni

For anyone who's been wondering why Courtney Stodden dresses so provocatively, the answer was provided on this week's episode of "Couples Therapy." It all came out when a new decree was passed that would implement a dress code. Apparently, Stodden's barely-there outfits were distracting to her castmates.

But Stodden was not going to take this lightly. "I do it for people who are different, and I’m their voice," she explained, adding, "I have saved many lives." This last note was so important she brought it up again later.

-- ONTD

People mock and laugh, but I know it can save my life. But, seriously, why would a show want to tone down the hotness and throw away ratings?? Are we supposed to be fascinated by their conversation and wit?? As it is, I am sure that it is too tame for me to tune in, and now, with this dress-code business, I see there is no need to bother looking for the VH1 channel on the dial in whatever TV-Siberia that might be found in.