After her recent success of tending to Sonny Angel while his alpha mom was working on a big project, Grace Slick has been called in again to watch over the wee one of America's leading all female couple -- Julia Morgan and Edith Head. Here we see Grace hovering over both Sonny Angel and his buddy Bunny Angel. All seems to be going well.
LEFT: Junk Thief in a rare Andean albino vicuna collar coat - 2008
RIGHT: Orson Welles in traditional vicuna collar coat - 1962
Not even a full 48 hours into 2008, and I was about to head off to what I knew would prove to be one of the most glorious, glittering cultural events of the year. Yes, I'm talking about the screening of The V.I.P.s at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Homosexual District, an arrondissement that I visit maybe three times a year. And, puh-leeze, it's The V.I.P.s not The VIPs or even worse The V.I.P.'s or The VIP's.
I recall seeing this as a tiny tot in the mid-1960s on late night TV much against my mother's wishes because it was an M-rated movie that featured (gasp) adultery. But she knew that I was a pretty cosmopolitan tot even then and caved in and let me watch. Would it hold up more than 40 years on? Would I wow the crowd arriving in the hat I had nabbed from Orson Welles (shown above in a traditional vicuna collar next to me in my rare albino vicuna collar that I picked up while touring with my flamenco dance troupe losLadronesde Bilbao in Cochabamba back in the mid-1990s.)? Would my fellow V.I.P.s Friendatella and Bryce Digdug be able to contain their excitement at such an event? Would the paparazzi glare diminish the experience as we rattled our jewelry and waved from our opera box? Would I be mistaken for the character Welles himself played in the film, Mr. Max Buda?
Just as I was about to overheat in a quandary as these questions filled my head, Friendatella called to share devastating news -- the print was damaged, and the Castro had cancelled the screening. It is available in installments on YouTube, but it's just not the same as seeing it on the big screen in the company of fellow V.I.P.s. Friendatella and I still connected for grub at Chow and a bit of scintillating dish over our plates, but it still wasn't the same. I opted not to wear my Max Buda hat and went in my more sedate pork pie hat. It just felt like the right thing to do considering the circumstances.
JTTV - Season 2, Episode 9 - The Holiday Spectacular
Hard as it may be to believe, just a year ago Junk Thief TV went live on YouTube. Thanks for watching, all the great comments and support. Did you miss that kick off last year? You can check it out here.
And now we're thrilled to celebrate our first year and the holidays with a star-studded, action-packed musical spectacular. You think Sweeney Todd is about revenge? Wait 'til you see our show!
Okay, I'm more than a little pissed that my Lauren Bacall/Hank Hyena post has been up for nearly 48 hours with absolutely zero comments. Like Gwenyth Paltrow, this celebrity may just retreat to Europe and never come back to the crass, clueless Etats Unis.
Regardless, looking at it don't you get just a certain feel of your beloved Junk Thief's Sbalzi de Amore? And while I tip the fedora to his nabbing both Sharon and Karen, I don't think he's yet to capture Cantinflas and Ruth Buzzi. Anyways, I'm off to watch John Phillip Law as the scantily clad blind angel in Barbarella and them I'm out of here.
I hate to name drop, but sometimes I am forced to when friends of mine like Bryce Digdug makes outrageous claims such as the one he made today suggesting that he has met both Lauren Bacall and Hank Hyena. I, of course, have a photo to prove my connection with these two. I implied on Bryce's site that I have lived in buildings with both of them. This is 50% accurate. I wonder if Lauren was living at the Dakota when it became a movie set for Roman Polanski and Mrs. Frank Sinatra. Look closely for me in the crib rocking scene. How many buildings have the distinction of appearing in both Roemary's Baby and The Age of Innocence? I wonder if John Wayne is the only star who has appeared opposite Louise Brooks and Lauren Bacall? I'd check it out, but Bunter has put a no-Google ban after 9 p.m. here at the JunkPlex. I have walked past Lauren in first class as I made my way to steerage on flights from Will Rogers World Airport to New York. She has a daughter married to a prominent surgeon in Oklahoma City and used to do voice overs for animal shows on the local PBS affiliate. "Though once quite plentiful on the plains, the Bison today is as rare as good Basque cuisine in New Rochelle..."
Therefore, I'll leave it up to you to confirm the validity of a comment I left over on Bryce's site claiming that I was once sat in the center seat in between Rodney Allen Rippy and Monti Rock III. Midway through the flight Rodney handed me his bag of peanuts, saying "They too big to eat." Which parts of this story did or did not happen?
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
JunkThief is your typical Gallic Jew boy born on the Great Plains, went to Gotham and Ouagadougou and Kathmandu before settling in San Francisco's Mission District. Now he searches the dark alleys of that city to find good conversation, Weimar culture and (but of course) the perfect door knob.
After her recent success of tending to Sonny Angel while his alpha mom was working on a big project, Grace Slick has been called in again to watch over the wee one of America's leading all female couple -- Julia Morgan and Edith Head. Here we see Grace hovering over both Sonny Angel and his buddy Bunny Angel. All seems to be going well.
