if you could be any swinging-60s celeb for a day, say via a BEING JOHN MALKOVICH type scenario, who would you be?
See now this is the kind of question that causes me to make a list and break it up geographically:
London
David Bailey (mod photographer. Basis for David Hemmings character in Blow Up, and also the archetype for Austin Powers cover)
Andrew Loog Oldham (a madman, but a very hip one)
Keith Moon (particularly for his birthday when he drove a car into a pool)
Terence Stamp (pulled more birds than anybody in the sixties - including Julie Christie)
New York
Candy Darling (just to be that glam)
Edie Sedgwick (let's just presume the one day would have a particularly fabulous cocktail of drugs and drama and I wouldn't have to be around for the hangover and the self-loathing later)
Gerard Malanga (I'd need the whip)
West Coast
Jimmy O'Neil (host of Shindig)
Russ Tamblyn (after he'd stopped making exploitation movies, and become an artist out in Laurel Canyon)
Bruce Conner (when he was shooting Breakaway with Toni Basil)
Gene Clark
South
Either Dan Penn or Spooner Oldham during some great session in Memphis. Dusty or Aretha.
Since it is fun for all ages, but can be expensive and/or hard to find, I've gone ahead and sent Louis Armstrong's
Disney Songs The Satchmo Way
to buffistarawk.
And msbelle, note the inclusion of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"!
Terence Stamp
Tangentially again, S worked with him on a movie and has nothing but very, very nice things to say about Terrance.
Terence Stamp (pulled more birds than anybody in the sixties - including Julie Christie)
This was who was going to top my list, given the stories I've heard.
Although that paren reads like Julie Christie pulled almost as many birds as Terrence Stamp. Mmmmm. Happy place.
Tangentially again, S worked with him on a movie and has nothing but very, very nice things to say about Terrance.
Wow, that's just the kind of thing I love to hear. If anyone had earned "arrogant shit" privilages on looks alone, it would have been TS.
I uploaded (to Buffistarawk) perhaps the only version of "Roundabout" (yes, the Yes tune) that I shall ever like. Imagine me marching around my room at home with a big smile on my face....
OK. You can be Terence Stamp. I'll be Rock Hudson.
Who may not have been part of the swingin' scene, but still....
See, I'd be Julie Christie--with the Stamp and Beatty-having and the working with so many great directors and just being so dang beautiful. Yeah, Christie for me.
Although that paren reads like Julie Christie pulled almost as many birds as Terrence Stamp. Mmmmm. Happy place.
Heh. Marianne's story has many lesbian liaisons to contemplate. She had a particular thing for women in the Audrey Hepburn mode. Fine boned, short dark hair, stylish and hip and a little androgynous.
To which I say, "Hell yeah!"
See, I'd be Julie Christie--with the Stamp and Beatty-having and the working with so many great directors and just being so dang beautiful. Yeah, Christie for me.
Yeah, I gotta figure Julie had her fair share of fun in the sixties.
Heh. Marianne's story has many lesbian liaisons to contemplate. She had a particular thing for women in the Audrey Hepburn mode. Fine boned, short dark hair, stylish and hip and a little androgynous.
To which I say, "Hell yeah!"
Well, duh! She had good taste in women.
Yeah, I gotta figure Julie had her fair share of fun in the sixties.
The one who intrigues that I've heard had a lot of fun back in the day was Grace Kelly. Oooh. Happy place again.
And I'd also like to be Roberto Rossellini at the right place and time.
