This Week: Back to the Movies! More Bread-and-Butter in the Back of the Book; we do very nicely with a Leger, but not enough to quit the day job. Dennis Hopper!
Even Vogue has to pay the bills - throwing some meager little bones to the advertisers. . . let's move on.
Well, someone was having fun. First a lot of dresses horizontal, then a lot of dresses vertical. And there isn't much more to say about them. Junior ready-to-wear at major department stores, many of which we are already following on Twitter. $20 watch. Ho hum.
This week's art -
"$200.00 ($1,635.00) Fernand Leger: 'The Well'; color lithograph. This 1943 lithograph, second in an edition of seventy-five, is by a French master who died in 1955. With mat and gold-leaf frame." New Gallery, which is where we got the Gottlieb, but know nothing else about.
Well, here it is, exactly as described in 1959:
Looking very nice indeed and yours for $7,500.00. (Several place online.)
Let's go to the movies!
Oh, my God - they're too young to vote!
* Non-actors Pat Wayne - son of John - and Yvonne Craig front this oddity that appears to be a public service announcement for the American jury system in comedy (?) drama set in California 1848.
* Oscar nominee - Best Song - "Strange Is the Way of Love." Just awful. Same producer as the terrific North West Territories of the same year. What happened here?
* Mexico plays part of California; in an early featured role, Dennis Hopper plays punk gunslinger. Dennis Hopper is terrific. It's hard to even watch him in this sludge of mediocrity.
This is free on YouTube - here is the first 15 minutes of it. I confess that I've paid a good four months' of DVD rental for it to sit in my kitchen until I figured out if I would go on with this. Shameful.
Dennis Hopper in 1959:
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| Dennis Hopper at Musso & Frank in 1959, presumably before he was fired from Warner Brothers and took off for New York. |
According to the very nice Dennis Hopper website, upon the suggestion of his late friend James Dean, he began taking photos of people on the streets of New York. A few years back, I saw the Dennis Hopper show at MoCa in Los Angeles and liked it very much. And if I'm not very much mistaken, I read about it in Vogue. (I won't go into the Hopper/Vogue axis here; we are sure to run into him again.) There were a lot of pictures of our friend Jane Fonda, not wearing a hamster fur skirt:
My favorite Hopper photo:
Hopper selfie:
Next time: another Western, more art, Italian evening gowns.
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