Thursday, July 31, 2014

Caption contest

Robert Redford, 1972

Wonderful celebrity shots at Cannes through the years.

18 comments:

ricpic said...

Eat your heart out, Travolta.

Chip S. said...

Ow! My shoes are sunburned!

ndspinelli said...

"When do you think they'll see I can't act worth a shit?"

Amartel said...

Movie. Star.
He doesn't need to act - he's a movie star.
He can wear shoes with socks on the beach at Cannes - he's a movie star.
He doesn't have to make sense - he's a movie star. He can say painfully dumb stuff about the environment and politics (then fail to follow his own sanctimonious rules in his individual life) because he's a movie star.
That's just the way it is, America. We don't have royalty or dictators. (At least not openly acknowledged.) (Yet.) We've got celebrities. They're famous for being beautiful and being able to project their personalities in our increasingly audio and visual mass market world. Not for being smart or wise or learned or otherwise good. They say and do dumb stuff and get away with it. They're excused and exonerated before the outrage is even reported. Sure, the a/v delivery system may change, but the celebrating will not. We just have to remember they're not brilliant or wise, no matter how hard they project these qualities, and not elect them to political office.

ndspinelli said...

Amartel, Great rant.

deborah said...

"Abe Vigoda?"

deborah said...

Am, my theory about all this hoo-haw about celebs and politicians is a hold-over from when choosing a leader was an important decision. Getting stuff done, like winning a battle required good leadership. Now we've morphed into god-awful sycophants.

Lydia said...

Shoes...beach. Reminds me of another famous photo.

Amartel said...

Cool v. Wise.

Truthiness v. truth
(and mathiness v. math, artiness v. art etc.).

Perception v. reality.

Anonymous said...

Take note of Butch Cassidy here; suntanning is the leading cause of Droopy Hang-Dog Face later in life.

Amartel said...

That being said Brigitte Bardot is sex, Jane Birkin (who?) is cute, and Sean Connery is smokin' hot. Princess Di looks dowdy. Grace Kelly was a yacht girl.

And check out the chick in the second Schwarzenegger photo. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss 1977.

ndspinelli said...

Lydia, GREAT photo!

Amartel said...

You wanted a caption:

"The sun is inconvenient. Make it stop."

Rare photo of the exact day and location where 'global warming' came to be a thing of concern.

Where am I? The last thing I remember was partying with Hopper and Fonda.

Michael Haz said...

"Where's my Lear jet that's flying me to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun?"

deborah said...

lol Haz, you really nailed it.

deborah said...

adamsunderground, I realized how much sun damage he had when I saw the close-up in Spy Game, a good Middle East spy movie with Brad Pitt. I was struck how he didn't let the camera shy away from him. It's one of those, 'okay, let's get this over with' things. Now I don't even notice when I watch the movie.

Known Unknown said...

I do like those shoes.

deborah said...

Wing-tip man, eh?