RIP Peter Falk

One of my all-time favorite actors is dead at 83. Rest in Peace, Lieutenant Columbo!

A Milestone

500 Followers! Yipeeee!

My apologies for the self-referential post, which I generally try to confine to my "other" blog, but I just couldn't resist noting the milestone. Thanks to all my faithful followers. What the hell, thanks to all you adulterous followers as well. :)

Still More Glamorous Gaps

So, a number of my erstwhile followers have made clear that they are unimpressed with my nascent diastemia fetish, so this is the last time I'll inflict it on you. You are on notice that I will not be abandoning any of my other fetishes, however!

Model Abby Lee Kershaw (above and below)

Model Ashley Smith (above and below)

Actress Beatrice Dalle (above and below)

Model Jessica Hart (above and below)

Actress Jorja Fox (above and below)

More Glamorous Gaps

Singer Natalie Cole (above and below)

Ever since my original 'Glamorous Gaps' post (which you can see here) I'm seeing the gap-toothed ladies everywhere. Obviously, they were always around, but I suppose I just never really paid that much attention. (typical) Anyway, here's some more of that diastemic goodness.

Model Ruth Crilly (above and below)

Model Lindsey Wixson (above and below)

Actress Laura San Giacomo (above and below)

Glamorous Gaps

As my faithful followers will have, doubtless, noticed, I spend much time and energy cruising the digital byways. A lot of this time is spent on vintage sites, but I don't neglect sites with a more contemporary focus. Lately I have been seeing a lot of this attractive young lady, (shown above and below) who is the latest hot thing in fashion models, Georgia Jagger.

The most noticeable thing to me about this young lady's face is the gap between her front teeth. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not ragging on her. I think it's cute. Very attractive, actually.

It's just that it reminded me that there is another gap-toothed young lady I've been seeing a lot of lately. Her name is Lara Stone, (above and below) and she is also a, recently very popular, fashion model.

Is there something about having the cute gap-toothed-ness thing going which has, of late, become de rigueur in the world of modelling?

Lauren Hutton

Of course, the original gap-toothed model was Lauren Hutton in the 1970s. She famously refused to have her teeth "fixed," even after she could afford it, and is today a delightful and attractively gap-toothed 66 year old.

Lauren Hutton

Other notable gap-toothed lovelies include singer/actress/model (and longtime squeeze of Johnny Depp) Vanessa Paradis (above) and model Omahyra Mota. (below)

Actress Jane Birkin has some of the gap-toothed goodness going on too.

Anna Paquin of HBO's "True Blood." Nuff said!

Now, I'm a relatively normal, post-middle-aged heterosexual American male, which is just another way of saying that I don't know or care anything at all about women's fashion, so I offer all this just as an observation. I don't pretend to understand any of it. I just enjoy looking. Heck, I don't even understand why, if those girls are supposed to be fashion models, I see so many pictures of them not wearing much of anything at all, but live and let live. I'm not here to criticize! :)

Jalousies

Katherine Hepburn

Joan Fontaine Ivy (1947)

Audrey Hepburn

Janet Leigh and John Gavin Psycho (1960)

A Wink and a Nod

Audrey Hepburn

Ann Dvorak

Diana Dors

Clara Bow

Joan Crawford

Terry Moore

For the Boys: Onesies

Loretta Young visiting wounded WWII sailors at the

Philadelphia Naval Hospital, 1943

Hedy Lamarr waiting to be kissed by soldier who has

winning roulette number while bandleader Kay Kyser

holds $25 War Bond the soldier has just won.

Betty Hutton visits a mess hall with sailors and

Marines in the Marshall Islands, Dec 1944.

Ann Savage

Lena Horne

Reflections: Onesies

Leonor Varela

Florine McKinney

Doris Dudley

Virginia Snyder

Nell O'Day

Luli Deste

Lil Dagover

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Barbara Gould, 1934

Lucille Pinson, 1925