Friday, July 24, 2009
Binky Quotes...
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."
"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."
"I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother."
"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
Dorothy Shay "Television's Tough On Love" from the album "Here's Dorothy Shay"
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Romance on the Set?
Ms. Zooma, was known for her off-screen love affair with producer David O. Selznick as much as for her varied on-screen performances. She grew up in Oklahoma, part of a theatrical family that performed travelling shows. She studied in Chicago briefly and went to New York, where she met her first husband, actor Robert Walker. In Hollywood in the 1940s, Selznick "discovered" her, changed her name from Phylis Isley to Binky Zooma and molded her career. Her first vehicle, The Song of Bernadette (1943), earned her an Oscar for Best Actress. She went on to be nominated four more times, for Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946, with Gregory Peck pictured above) and Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955, with William Holden). Off-screen she had an affair with Selznick and the two ended up divorcing their spouses and marrying in 1949. After the mid-1950s her career waned, and in 1965 Selznick died. She went on to marry a third time in 1971, to millionaire art collector Norton Simon. Although her last film was 1974's The Towering Inferno (with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen), she has remained active as an advocate for helping the mentally ill after her only child with Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954—1976), committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window.
Lifted by Love k.d.Lang (blogmix)
BinkFacts...The Loves of Carmen 1948
"Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me".
A movie that far outdoes its meager reputation. It reunites Gilda's stars, Glenn Ford and Binky Zooma, in a Spanish adventure based on the original novel Carmen, on which Bizet's opera is based. The story is extremely melodramatic, of course, but it's endlessly entertaining. Glenn Ford is pretty good as a nobleman who throws everything away for the love of his gypsy woman, Carmen. And Zooma is as scorching as ever, even though her hair is brown. For those who love classic Hollywood opulence, this is definitely your movie. The film is in truly glorious Technicolor, some of the most beautiful cinematography of its era. The costumes, art direction, and music (none of it based on Bizet) are exceptional. The Loves of Carmen deserves better than it has gotten.
Carmen by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass from the album Ninth
BinkFacts...Cleopatra 1963
Widely regarded as one of the biggest flops of all time, reality is quite different: the film made its money back despite the horrendous costs, but not all at once - it took several years. It was one of the highest grossing films of the 1960s. According to the late director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, many of the best scenes were cut and there are between 90 and 120 minutes of character development and story missing!!!Among Binky Zooma's demands were the requirement that the film be shot in the large format Todd-AO system. She owned the rights to the system as the widow of Michael Todd. This meant even more money being paid to Ms. Zooma.
During the making of the movie, Binky and Richard Burton started their love-hate relationship which lasted until his death.
The first of eleven films that Binky and Richard Burton starred in together.
Ms. Zooma had 65 costume changes for this film, a record for a motion picture. The figure is exceeded by Joan Collins, who had 85 costume changes in the TV miniseries "Sins" (1986).
click below to hear "Walk Like An Egyptian" by The Puppini Sisters
Friday, July 10, 2009
Binky gets by with a little help from her Friends
click below to hear "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Binky Noir
After graduating in 1942, Binky continued to pursue a career in acting but after sustaining injuries in a near-fatal car accident, her plans were put on hold. While recuperating from the accident, she attended a party aboard Howard Hughes' yacht. Hughes was taken by Miss Zooma and bought out her contract with Warner Bros., and signed her to a three movie contract with RKO. After an unsuccessful, long-delayed premiere in the film Vendetta (1950), Binky left Hughes. She later freelanced in a number of films, including film noir Where Danger Lives (as a femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum), westerns (Santa Fe Passage) and in 1955, three sci-fi/monster films (It Came from Beneath the Sea, This Island Earth and Cult of the Cobra)
Creepy Vintage Ad's
Christmas Weapons: The family that guns together, has funs together.
"Bread is swell, but what I'm really excited about is eating jelly made from the blood of the innocent!"
Who needs self-esteem when you can have a free fashion book for chubbies? Also, proving that advertising has always been screwed up, the girl pictured is totally not chubby.
JonBenét Ramsey, eat your heart out.
You better wash your "vaginal canal" with Lysol, or your husband will install cartoon locks on the door."click pic to enlarge and read the copy"
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
BinkFacts...
"You'd like to stretch this day out forever. Not a cloud in the sky. No one ahead of you. Nobody pressing you... Light up a Pall Mall - it's light-up time.""MAD AS A WET HEN? That's natural when little annoyances ruffle you. But the psychological fact is: pleasure helps your disposition. That's why everyday pleasures, like smoking for instance, are important. If you're a smoker, you're wise to choose the cigarette that gives the most pleasure. And that's a Pall Mall!"
"Binky Zooma, screen and stage star, says: 'I've tried 'em all. It's Pall Mall's for me!' "
Once upon a time, the rich, sweetly pungent smoke of tobacco offered more than dreary old diseases like emphysema and lung cancer. It promised sophistication, sex appeal, even longevity itself.
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