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Showing posts with label 1980's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980's. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Talisa Soto
Talisa Soto struck me to the core when I saw her in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. I love the late 80's wardrobe (basically obsessed with the once dreaded 80's), I love Talisa's short hair and extra thick eyeborows and those eyes that could burn holes right through you. Never before have I seen a more feline face (with the exception of Michelle Phillips, and even then they would be of differing pedigree/breeds), and with her striking part Italian/part Puerto Rican genetics, Talisa is one exotic mamacita.
Talisa features in Licence to Kill as Lupe Lamora, the mistress of South American drug lord Franz Sanchez. You get Lupe's bad ass vibe from the start when Franz walks in on her with another man in bed; and to play up on a psycho like Franz Sanchez this lady would have to have some serious audacity. I still don't understand why James Bond TURNS HER DOWN at the end of the film for Carey Lowell?!?
But anyway.
My boyfriend would be devastated if I didn't mention the fact Talisa also starred as Princess Kitana in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, a la ...
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And just for some bonus trivia, Talisa is now married to Benjamin Bratt of Demolition Man, Miss Congeniality and 1990's Law and Order fame (and former long-term boyfriend of Julia Roberts fame). It has to be said, the tanned and pretty pair of them do make a very cute couple (and I haven't Google-stalked their kids out of respect but I bet they are mighty cute too), as seen in 2004:
Yet I highly doubt anything could be much prettier than Talisa herself back in her hey-day as Lupe Lamora and a highly in demand 80's model:
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall)
Anthony Michael Hall was sooooooo cute in the 80's! I only discovered this when I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time the other day. I'd heard people crapping on about it before but I didn't think I'd like it.. too 80's (although I'm beginning to think that I may have been too quick to judge the 80's. I misunderestimated the COLOUR and the beautiful girls with thick eyebrows and incredible cheekbone highlighting make-up. I was wrong about you, 80's.) and once you've seen one 90's John-Hughes-rip-off teen film, you've seen them all.
Now I must swallow my own words. The difference with this film is, it is actually a John Hughes film, and the difference between this and a rip-off is incomparable. This was also one of the first of its genre, one of the first teen films to kick the whole trend off, and you can see so many themes that would later be repeated at a way inferior standard in billions of teen dramas to come.
Apparently Judd Nelson became really cool after this movie, but I don't see how Anthony Michael Hall didn't. His character, Brian (the "geek"), is so lovable it's insane. He's just a sweet, nerdy, funny, adorable geek with a heart of gold. I love the way he looks with his frulletty hair and his round-neck green "sweater" and his skinny physique and his comical facial expressions. He made me melt, especially when he cried, and I wanted to die for him when Bender was making fun of his family. My heart broke.
I wish someone would invent a time machine so I could go back to 1984 and marry the Anthony Michael Hall who existed during that time, because look at what he became!
Where are the cheekbones? The curls? The cute, awkward gait? Gone to be forgotten in the sands of time. DEVASTATING. Also, apparently his ex-girlfriend got a restraining order against him when he tried to kick down her door, and then when she let him inside he bashed her head against a wall. This is not the Brian I fell in love with!
But at least, thank God, the phenomenon that is film will ensure that the memory of Brian Johnson lives on forever, as well as in my heart's memory, which shall never forget!
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