Creating a Look

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Costume designs by Theadora Van Runkle (pictured above), the award-winning, self-taught costume designer who died Friday at the age of 83.

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie & Clyde

Jacqueline Bisset and Steve McQueen in Bullitt

A Theadora Van Runkle sketch for The Godfather Part II

Marisa Berensen in S.O.B.

Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair

Raquel Welch in Myra Breckinridge

Leigh Taylor-Young and Peter Sellers in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas


I Love You Alice B. Toklas trailer

Peace & Love

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Happy 71st birthday to Ringo Starr, pictured above with Raquel Welch in The Magic Christian (1969), which has been on our queue for way too long.


Must watch soon.

We Break Hustlers Hard

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When I went to Parsons I used to purposely go an hour early on trash pick-up days so I could stroll through the West Village and see what cast-off treasures people would leave on the sidewalk. Furniture, books, clothes, an amazing selection of vintage magazines... some of the spoils of those expeditions are my prized possessions. You don't see as much of that in Seattle (which I guess is fine, I have too much stuff) but this morning when I walked out of our apartment, someone had left a pretty good stash on the corner. I picked up a vintage Indian-made pith helmet like the one TR is wearing in the photo above, and a big stash of worthwhile VHS tapes including Blow Up, Weird Science, Scarface, and the one I'm most looking forward to watching:


Fuzz (1972) starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jack Weston, Yul Brynner, and Seattle's own Tom Skerritt.

Finding good junk is the best way to start a day.

Luck be a Lady

The other day I discovered something cool about cable TV in Seattle: there's a free on-demand channel, and many of the selections are actually worthwhile. Last weekend we caught Lady in Cement, a totally enjoyable, extremely campy offering from that campiest of years, 1968. I picked up the soundtrack a few years ago and it's great, like just about everything Hugo Montenegro ever touched.

Hugo Montenegro Again mp3




Hugo Montenegro The Shark mp3

Pick up Lady in Cement on DVD or VHS for as low as $4.50 at Amazon, get it from Netflix, or check it out for free if you are a lucky cable-subscribing Seattle resident.