Tuesday 24 March 2020

You and I in a little toy shop



The gorgeous, pouting Steve McQueen would have been 90 today.

Every "gay icon"'s favourite costume designer Bob Mackie - see here and here - blows out 80 candles on his cake today.

But here's the shocker!

That waif-like German popstrel "one-hit-wonder" - she of the unshaven armpits that generated banner headlines in the trashy tabloids - with the worldwide smash hit about the Cold War, Nena is 60 years old!

Now I feel old...


Correction. I am old.

10 comments:

  1. bob mackie created such wonderful gowns for cher and carol burnett, didn't he?

    and I have ALWAYS h8ed "99 luftbalons".

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    1. Love Mr Mackie! Not over-keen on Fräulein Gabriele Susanne Kerner, however - certainly not at the time. But nostalgia is as nostalgia does.

      And I could have done some very naughty things with Mr McQueen...

      Jx

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  2. Haven't heard this song in years. (She wouldn't be releasing 99 red balloons into the summer sky anymore I hope!) Bob Mackie, brilliant talent and humor. Steve McQueen... ahhhhhh.

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    1. If she released all those balloons these days she'd be done under some environmental pollution law, no doubt. Jx

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  3. OMG! Steve McQueen!!! *fannin mahself* Sugar, you do know how to jump start an afternoon! xoxox

    By the by, LOVE Bob Mackie, and as mentioned above "h8ted 99 luftbalons"

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    1. I do hope you are fanning yourself with something suitably sequinned, as Mr Mackie might have designed...

      And, yes! Steve McQueen in his heyday. Sigh. Jx

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  4. Lovely photo but I never liked 99 Red Balloons.

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    1. Thought you'd appreciate the "McQueen nipple"... Jx

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  5. Steve McQueen, so moody, yet accessible.
    I loved 99 Red Balloons! Happy days!! Despite the cold war; strikes; unemployment; and all that shit.
    Sx

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    1. It's like Marmite, that song. But yes, it seems odd to think back upon the Cold War days as being somehow better than today - at least they didn't have curfews and lockdowns. Jx

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