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BP Fallon Joins Boudoir Queen on stage May 11th at The Austin Music Hall

We are proud to announce that the one and only BP Fallon will be joining us on stage as a special guest for The Boudoir Queen Fashion show at the Austin Music Hall May 11th tickets on sale now! Click on the link below http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/focus-on/2011/07/bp-fallon

BOUDOIR QUEEN IN VOGUE ITALIA COUTURE SUPPLEMENT SEPTEMBER 2011

BOUDOIR QUEEN LACE an PEAR ROSETTE MASK made custom for this shoot in Vogue Italia w/credits

Vogue Italia’s September 2011 Couture supplement, appropriately called The Haute Couture. Lensed by the eminent photographer Paolo Roversi with styling by Lori Goldstein, the couture supplement

The Uninvited (1944)

Mark and I watched this last week and I loved it- It's on my must see list

LAZEEE DAZE

Today was beyond great. For the first time in I don't know how long I relaxed. I ate fabulous food and drank soy chai latte's while watching Casino. I'm ready for my busy week now.

CELEBRITY

This is one of my favorite movies. Mark and I pulled it out and watched it again last night and I laughed so hard. If you haven't seen this movie you must!!! This is on our list of movie favs! The scene with Leo is my favorite. I met him a few years back at the Chateau Marmont. I think it was around this time period. He's very nice. He's one of my favorite actors.

Milla/Chaplin

INSPIRATIONs OF A LOLITA

Feather Gardens

DIVINE DECADENCE

Gimme Danger Little Stranger

Inspirational Goldmine

Velvet Goldmine remake 1998 Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale

BOUDOIR QUEEN NEWS

For the last few months I've been hinting around about my "New Look" Well today I'm happy to announce that the fabulous Alexandra Valenti will be giving us just that. She's shooting our 2011 lookbook. You may know her from the fabulous photos from The gorgeous Sisters of The Black Moon site. Here are a few of her photos and you can see her gorge website here. I've been wanting to share but things have been a little hectic in case you haven't heard. http://alexandraintheforest.com/

We're Off to see the Wizard for Realz

Les Enfants du Paradis

Many fashion and costume designers will tell you that they were inspired by this movie. Steven Arnold told me about it years ago and it has been in my movie library since it came out on Cd. It's not my personal fav but it's a must see.

Les Enfants du Paradis, released as Children of Paradise in North America, is a 1945 film by French director Marcel Carné, made during the Nazi occupation of France. Set among the Parisian theatre scene of the 1820s and 30s, it tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat. A three-hour film divided into two halves, it was described in the original American trailer as the French answer to Gone with the Wind. The film was voted "Best French Film Ever" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in 1995

SILENT GEMS

 


 





 
          

Clues

  
 

Murder At The Vanities

This is a movie I have in my collection that is fabulous!!


   

BYE BYE PRETTIES

      

A FOREIGN AFFAIR

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BLACK MARKET (Frederick Hollander) Recorded by : Marlene Dietrich; Ute Lemper. Black Market Sneak around the corner Budapester Strasse Black Market Peek around the corner “La Police qui passe” Come! I’ll show you things you cannot get elsewhere Come! Make with the offers and you’ll get your share. Black Market Powdered milk for bikes Souls for Lucky Strikes Got some broken down ideals? Like wedding rings? Spoken: Sh! Tiptoe. Trade your things. Chorus: I’ll trade you for your candy Some georgeous merchandise My camera. It’s a dandy Six by nine - just your size You want my porcellain figure? A watch? A submarine? A Rembrandt? Salami? Black lingerie from Wien? I’ll sell my goods Behind the screen. No ceiling, no feeling. A very smooth routine You buy my goods, and boy my goods are keen. Black Market Coocoo clocks and treasures Thousand little pleasures Black Market Laces for the missis, chewing gum for kisses. Come! And see my big binoculars this week. Price? Only six cartons one puff a peek. Black Market Milk and microscope for liverwurst and soap. Browse around I’ve got so many toys. Spoken: Don’t be bashful Step up, boys. Chorus: You like my first edition? It’s yours, that’s how I am. A simple definition You take art, I take spam. To you for your “K” ration: my passion and maybe An inkling, a twinkling or real sympathy I’m selling out - take all I’ve got! Ambitions! Convictions! The works! Why not? Enjoy my goods, for boy my goods Are hot!

JEZEBEL

As many of my blog readers know Bette Davis is one of my all time favorite actresses. I have been seriously ill over the past week and I have had plenty of time to catch up on all my favorite movie classics. I love how she wore red to the ball. It reminds me of how I wore a long black Marchessa dress and large Bianca Jagger style black veil/hat to my wedding and some in attendance were agast. I had forgotten how many gorgeous dresses were in the movie. This movie was made the year before Gone with The Wind. If you like Southern Belle Style with a twist you will like this movie.


   


   


   

STONED the life of Brian Jones re-post

I've blogged about this favorite movie of mine awhile back but thought I'd give it another mention. I'm obsessed with the decore' and styling in this movie. I want my house like this minus the fur. Plus I love the Stones. Maybe someday I'll tell my Mick Story.

GET THE ROSEMARY LOOK

THE PINK PANTHER

Tallulah and the Gazing Ball- I think she's seen a glimpse of her future

I think Tallulah looked into the gazing ball and found a little blue Aby kitten and she's pissed!! The lady from Houston contacted me this weekend and is bringing the kitten next Sunday for me to see. I get this strange feeling that the cats know. I've been thinking about names. I love the name Theodora. Mark isn't crazy about it. I was also liking the name Marchesa but I don't want it to sound like the clothing line. Any ideas?

FYI- the photo on the buffet is of my grandmother Alverna Bloodworth was her maiden name. I always thought that was an interesting last name.

OH HEATHCLIFF

I have a crying fit every time I watch this movie. Wuthering Heights is one of the greats!

Georgy Girl

Another BQ fav- Auntie Mame

I think I know every line in this movie! This character reminds me of a dear friend Barbara Groegor. She had the same taste and personality. That being said you will understand why she is greatly missed!

THE WOMEN

One of my all time favorite movies EVAH!

Up in Xanadu Where Diamonds fell like Rain

Several years ago I had a mad obsession with Marion Davies and Hearst Castle in San Simeon. I would go every few weeks and make the tour- Watching Citizen Kane the other day reminded me of the rooms in this gorgeous place. Boudoir Dolls can also be found in the movie. If you come to Boudoir Queen studio's in Austin we have displayed prominatley a huge photo from MGM of Marion Davies in our foyer. If you have time somewhere in my blog archives I have several blogs and books on the subject. For now-enjoy

THE HUNGER

With the recent Vampire craze THE HUNGER is a must see!

Inglourious Basterds

Dylan,Mark and I went to see this moving over the weekend. I loved the red dress scene. It was especially cool that our best friend and best man co-wrote the David Bowie song "putting out the fire with gasoline" That song was originally from the movie Cat People. The wardrobe design was great!

STONED the life of Brian Jones

I've blogged about this favorite movie of mine awhile back but thought I'd give it another mention. I'm obsessed with the decore' and styling in this movie. I want my house like this minus the fur. Plus I love the Stones. Maybe someday I'll tell my Mick Story.

"Nothing exceeds like excess"

Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy night!!

This Saturday Night!!

I can't wait for the new Grey Garden's premiere on HBO!!

Deliciously Decadent Flicks

The Brain That wouldn't Die....I watched this the other night. I know this is a horror classic but I haven't watched it since I was a child. It has some pretty seedy decadent scenes. I'm not usually into these types of movies but the pin-up stuff was faboo! I have to admit I laughed at the monster man at the end. I remember thinking it was so scary....not!

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

More decadent movies we love........

1930s Costume Spectacle

The master showman Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) is a modernistic 1930s costume spectacle that reshapes the Cleopatra story - the kind of film for which DeMille was best known. Unarguably, the Paramount Studios film is campy, grandiose and unreal and ludicrous historically - filled with DeMille's usual mixture of sin and sex. Sexually-suggestive costumes adorn most of the female characters. The film's screenplay by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence was based on an adaptation of historical material by Barlett Cormack. The 20th Century Fox extravagant, four-hour version of the same film, Cleopatra (1963) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, nearly bankrupted the studio. Claudette Colbert had previously starred in DeMille's historical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932) as the depraved emperor Nero's lascivious, vixenish wife Poppaea. It was unusual that in the same year that Colbert starred as the legendary Egyptian love goddess, she also starred as the female lead in Frank Capra's romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934) and in John Stahl's soapy drama Imitation of Life (1934). DeMille's film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording, Best Assistant Director, and Best Film Editing (a new category) - it won a single Oscar for Best Cinematography (Victor Milner).

The legendary Egyptian Queen of the Nile princess/seductress, Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) becomes the Queen and ruler of Egypt by her manipulative, wily, and seductive ways with the Roman men in her life: Julius Caesar (Warren William) (who is assassinated) and Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon).

This kitsch film is well-known for three scenes:

• In its infamous barge scene on a set with silky draperies, falling rose petals, and dancing girls, Cleopatra is reclining on a massive dias aboard her mammoth floating bordello on the sea. After Julius Caesar's death, vengeance-seeking Marc Antony confronts the temptress queen to meet him in the public square - she defuses the situation by admitting that she had hoped to seduce him with an exotic display of decadence by her handmaidens aboard her imperial barge:

Cleopatra: Well, I guess I must confess everything. I must tell you why I wanted to meet you here instead of the square...Do you see the way I'm dressed? Antony: What about it? Cleopatra: I'm dressed to lure you, Antony...You see all this? It was all a plan - and you know why? Because it was my only chance. Don't you think I know you're my enemy - you and your hungry Rome? But I suppose it was the most stupid thing I could have done. What do you know - I had show after show with which to dazzle you. But Antony is not a man to be dazzled if he doesn't please, no. What do you care for this, for instance? Watch! (She claps and a gong sounds) Near-naked dancing-girls lead a procession that brings a garlanded ox into view. Alcohol is offered to the host. The dancer who rides the ox strokes its sides. The scene cuts repeatedly to the visage of Antony as his entranced face softens. The girls writhe and spin during the display:

Cleopatra: I wish you could see your face. I'd have more chance with a stone wall. Will you forgive me for being such a fool? I should have known that Antony is not Antony for nothing. Antony: Well, uh, shall we go now? Cleopatra: (submissively) Yes, we'll go. My wits have failed and I'm in your hands. But what could I do? Now, what would you have done? Pretend you're me and I'm you. She humors him enough so that he laughs at her foolishness, as she admits her intentions to get him drunk:

Cleopatra: That was part of the plan too. I was going to get you so - irresponsible. Antony: You didn't think one goblet would do it, did you? Cleopatra: Yes, wouldn't it? Antony: (He bursts out laughing) Well, that does amuse me! (He drinks from the goblet) Cleopatra: But it's such a large goblet. Antony: Yes, isn't it. (He finishes the entire goblet's contents and pours a second one) A large tray of exotic foods is laid before them for dinner, with skewered reed birds from the Nile, roasted chickens and freshly-caught clams from the sea. The 'clams' that are hauled up in a net are revealed to be more dancing-girls wrapped in seaweed - they sprawl prostrate on the barge's deck, crawl to Antony's feet and offer him jewel-filled seashells:

Antony: Jewels! You are a good fisherman. Cleopatra: The golden streams of Egypt never run dry. (She tosses the jewels to her subjects) (To Antony) Throw them! Leopard-skinned animals/girls in a circus-like show are subdued by a whip-wielding slave master. Music is played on lyres and harps. The cat-women leap through burning hoops of flames. Later on, under a moonlit night as they are serenaded, Cleopatra proposes a union of forces:

Cleopatra: The sound to the stars. They must think we're funny people, scheming to destroy each other as if we had forever to live. They must wonder - why don't Egypt and Rome meet in the public square to plan union instead of conquest? Yes, it's very funny. Antony: I've said things to Caesar I wish I hadn't. There's beauty in the Egyptian Queen besides her face. Do you miss him? Cleopatra: No, he didn't love me. Antony: Is that really the reason? Cleopatra: No, not really. I admire men who don't love women. Antony: What do you mean by that? Cleopatra: Oh, I don't know. Women should be but toys for the great. It becomes them both. Antony: To you for that. (He toasts her) Cleopatra: (reciprocating) And to you for that. After more entertainment and drinks, Cleopatra develops the hiccups, which he eliminates by slapping her on the back. The scheming queen realizes she has him in her clutches and has saved her throne when he leans over her and confesses his affection:

Antony: You're charming. Cleopatra: All right. I'm ready to go now. Antony: Why? Oh, you don't find me charming. Cleopatra: Yes, I do. I could fall in love with you, but I don't intend to. What for? Antony: Do you mean that? Cleopatra: There's no one like you. (They embrace and kiss, reclined on her dias) She signals for her floating barge to move out to sea as she seduces him. Silk curtains are brought out by dancing-girls to cover their love-making. The camera tracks back, revealing dozens more dancing-girls, offering giant shells filled with burning incense. What orgasmic, carnal excess! Garlands are strung from above, as a writhing, slave girl dances in the center and rose petals fall from above. The enormous royal barge is being rowed by long ranks of enslaved oarsmen propelling the two lovers into the darkened sea (toward paradise?) to the suggestive, seductive, cadenced beat and rhythm of the drummer.

• Cleopatra's love for Antony is re-kindled when he assembles the troops to do battle with Octavian, Caesar's nephew and heir. Cleopatra falls dramatically at Antony's feet to pledge herself to him, and he vows to fight with her, disavowing his allegiance to Rome:

Cleopatra: I've seen a god come to life. I'm no longer a queen. I'm a woman. Antony: You choose me, Cleopatra, against the world. Cleopatra: Against the world. Antony: Then we'll meet it. We'll smash it to pieces, put it together again, and call it ours! War!... Cleopatra: So Rome would forgive and take you back. And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky? Antony: Yes, we'll fight them. We'll fight them all, if we have to fight alone. Stock footage from DeMille's own The Ten Commandments (1923) comprises some of the montage's action of attacking chariots, footsoldiers with shields and swords, flames catapulted from one ship to another, and exciting hand-to-hand combat. The elaborately-staged sea battle, especially the Battle of Actium, the greatest sea battle ever up to that time, is fought between Octavian's legions in Rome and Egypt.

• Later, in the film's finale, after Cleopatra has unsuccessfully attempted to have Octavian spare Antony's life in exchange for Egypt's crown, she witnesses Antony's death (he has fallen on his own sword, believing that she has betrayed him): "I am dying Egypt, dying." Realizing that she will be quickly conquered, Cleopatra is attended to by her loyal handmaidens - she is dressed in black with a low-cut decolletage. She requests a basket to be extended to her on the throne: "It holds victory." She removes a real, one-foot long snake/asp and applies it to her breast in one of the most memorable suicidal death scenes in film history. She sits immobile and defeated on her throne as her kingdom is conquered.

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