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Odd Facts, Trivial Delights 💫

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—Success is Nonlinear—

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Claudia Cardinale in the 1971 French crime adventure Popsy Pop, aka The 21 Carat Snatch.

Popsy Pop reached the U.S. in 1974 and was retitled The Butterfly Affair.

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1970 Danish poster for ‘Beat-Pigen’ (released as ‘Groupie Girl’ in the UK + ‘I Am A Groupie’ in the U.S.)

Bored teenager Sally escapes her humdrum life by stowing away in the van of a touring rock band.

After being passed between members and experiencing a series of degrading and chaotic situations—including an upper-class orgy and a dangerous highway game—the narrative culminates in tragedy and leaves Sally just as isolated as when she started.

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Rub-a-dub-dub…

Ursula Andress in a tub!

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Ann-Margret posing on a 700cc Moto Guzzi motorcycle taken during the filming of the 1968 Italian comedy movie Il Profeta (The Prophet).

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Actress Yvonne Craig posing for a modeling shot, circa 1967.

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German actress Gisela Hahn posing in a cheeky promo shot [1966]

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Sophia Loren rehearsing the legendary striptease from Vittorio De Sica’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 1963, with choreographer Jacques Riot.

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[1957] Pin-up model and actress Jeanne Carmen posing humorously with classic superstitions (an open umbrella indoors, a ladder, a black cat, and a calendar page marked "13").

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Actress and pin-up model Martha Vickers, best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the 1946 film noir classic The Big Sleep.

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Bardot’s iconic dance scene in the 1956 film And God Created Woman.

Bardot’s character, Juliette, takes refuge in a local Saint-Tropez bar. Driven purely by emotion and live percussive music, she delivers a raw, frantic "tam-tam mambo" on a tabletop.

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Glynis Johns as a Mermaid in “Miranda” (1948)

Miranda keeps her tail for the entire film. To sneak her into a London household, the characters disguise her as a wheelchair-bound invalid named Miss Treeweller.

She balanced the absurdity of the plot by acting like an endearing, slightly mischievous “fish out of water” who demanded a strict diet of raw fish and loved to lounge in water-filled bathtubs.

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Actress Tallulah Bankhead, captured by photographer Florence Vandamm. 1927.

Bankhead was well-known for her uninhibited personality, and exhibitionist tendencies, which included parading around in the nude at parties and frequently opting not to wear underwear.

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Actress Carla Laemmle in a theatrical harlequin-inspired costume during the late 1920s.

She appeared in silent classics like 1925's The Phantom of the Opera and 1931's Dracula. In Dracula, she delivered the film's memorable opening spoken lines.

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A trio of New York showgirls from circa 1921 posing in elaborate, theatrical costumes.

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#WordOfTheDay
SHIBBOLETH
Any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.

The word comes from the Hebrew shibbōleth, which translates to "ear of corn" (or grain) or "stream/flood".

The term comes from a story in the Hebrew Bible. After the Gileadites defeated the Ephraimites, they guarded the Jordan River crossings to catch fleeing enemies.

Because the Ephraimites could not pronounce the initial sh sound the same way (saying sibboleth instead of shibboleth), anyone who failed the test was identified as an outsider and killed.

“Lollapalooza” was a shibboleth used by US soldiers to identify Japanese spies, who used to mispronounce it as "rorrarooza"

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"A Wanton Lust-Cult Taught Karen About Plug-In Passion"

Vintage sleaze paperback by John Dexter, published in 1967. Cover Art by Robert Bonfils.

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The exotic dancer Regina Lynne poses with a statue of Buddha and a hookah pipe for the men’s magazine Sheik. c.1959

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Purr-Fect! 😻 Poster for the 1976 adult film French Kittens, starring Gloria Leonard, Tina Russell, Terri Hall, and Susan McBain (along with Jaimie Gillis and Crystal Sync).

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The second issue of the notorious underground comic Bizarre Sex, published by Kitchen Sink Press (Oct. 1972). Cover by Tim Boxell.

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The N.U.D.E. Caper (Greenleaf Classics, 1967) by Dean Hudson. Art by Robert Bonfils. Hudson was a house pseudonym for Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain.