J.G Ballard-The Atrocity Exhibition 1966
Elizabeth Taylor , the last of the old-style Hollywood actress, has retained her hold on the popular imagination in the two decades since this piece was written, a quality she shares (no thanks to myself) with almost all the public figures in this book…A unique collision of private and public fantasies took place in the 1960’s, and may have to wait some years to be repeated, if ever. The public dream of Hollywood for the first time merged with the private imagination of the hyper-stimulated 60’s TV viewer…our perception of the famous has changed-I can’t imagine writing about Meryl Streep or Princess Di, and Margaret Thatchter’s undoubted mystery seems to reflect design faults in her own self-constructed persona. One can mechanically spin sexual fantasies around all three, but the imagination soon flags. Unlike Taylor, they radiate no light.
Annotations-The Atrocity Exhibition 1990
lovely!
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Indeed she was…Ballard is right, she sheds light
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I am sure you will like Dreams of Desire 8…seems right up your street…i could be wrong though
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She was stunning, still one of my favorite actresses.
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She was, and J G definitely agreed with you in his own weird way. She is a character in another novel of his, I intend to post about that shortly.
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Great, can’t wait to read it! 🙂 She was a bit of a Hollywood goddess — they don’t (or perhaps can’t) make ’em like that anymore.
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Who wrote that annotation? Ballard? It’s an interesting observation but I don’t know that it’s true of today. Maybe because we have so many actors from all over the world in American movies…hmm…
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Hmmm…the annotation is by Ballard in the eighties…so do we have stars that radiate light now? The previous excerpt about Marilyn Monroe refers to a banalisation of celebrity, which is even more true today. Makes you think anyway.
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I’m not a good one to ask, lol. I don’t care about any of that I guess. Don’t really like or follow any celebrities but I bet there are others who would say there are stars like that now. We have more access to them now I guess. Twitter and the various Cons, etc. Before it was probably just exclusive interviews and scandals. So yeah, maybe it’s all banal now… hmmm(as you say) 😀
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Well the stars have been brought down to earth and that’s not a good thing for a star…means they are just strong lightbulbs
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Ha, you made me laugh out loud, Mr. Cake. 😂 Lightbulbs. Yes.
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I try Vic I try
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You can say that I try to vary it here… a bit of chocolate, a bit of vanilla and some quite strange stuff
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Which is the chocolate? The darker stuff? If so, where do the naked women fit in… 😋
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Oh…there has been no naked ladies for a while
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Are you done with that series?
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No not at all… I just have to find the right image that is interesting to write about.
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It’s a hard job, I bet. 😉 Looking through for the right image.
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You know I take the aesthetics very very seriously… I was just looking it actually has only being 4 posts since I featured a nude so it really isn’t that long
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I’m teasing you, Cake. Your posts are always well thought out and interesting for far more than the naked skin.
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Ahhh thank you. Though I do like the odd nude now and then
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well, who doesn’t…? 😀
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Indeed who doesn’t?
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stunning beauty!
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Indeed
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