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Hello to all my faithful readers, in case your wondering why things appear to be dark over here on my blog it's due to the fact that i am still currently working on set, LOVE'S CHRISTMAS JOURNEY a sweet little mini series about well, love, Christmas and a journey......and the days in the hot, humid heat take it out of me, In fact it's a struggle to write this.....No really, I have been ubber busy and happy to be so. So keep an eye open for new post.... I will be at the keyboards this weekend.... 
Have great day and thanks!


mykie xoxo

Peeka-boo look behind the scenes : NARCISO RODRIGUEZ SPRING 2012

BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: 

NARCISO RODRIGUEZ SPRING 2012

I di thing this  look is interesting from a performance POV, but I don't see regular girls
working this look on the streets.

Photographed by Elisa Hyman 

Notes From FASHION WEEK!

grace bol-shines-in first-runway-show

OUTSHINE! BROOKE BURNS @ Warrior Film Premiere Sept 6th.

Hey Guys, so fun! Check out dailymail.co.uk for the full article on Brooke Burns Outshinng at the LA Premiere Of WARRIOR!

Beauty Icon Of The Month: PIER ANGELI

Beauty Icon: PIER ANGELI

Pier Angeli (19 June 1932 – 10 September 1971)  was an Italian-born television and film actress. Her American cinematographic debut was in the starring role of the 1951 film Teresa, in which she won a Golden Globe Award. Twenty years later, she had been chosen to play a part in The Godfather, but died before filming began. She had romantic relationships with actors Kirk Douglas and James Dean before going on to marry Vic Damone.

Early life and career

Born Anna Maria Pierangeli in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Her twin sister is the actress Marisa Pavan. Angeli made her film debut with Vittorio de Sica in Domani è troppo tardi (1950), after being spotted by director Léonide Moguy and Vittorio de Sica. She was discovered by Hollywood, and MGM launched her in her first American film, Teresa (1951). Directed by Fred Zinnemann, this film also saw the joint debuts of Rod Steiger and John Ericson. Reviews for her performance in the film compared her to Greta Garbo, and she won theGolden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year – Actress. Under contract with MGM throughout the 1950s, she appeared in a series of films, including The Light Touch with Stewart Granger. Plans for a film of Romeo and Juliet with her and Marlon Brando fell through when a British-Italian production was announced.

Her next few films were respectable but unexciting: The Story of Three Loves (1953) with Kirk Douglas; Sombrero, in which she replaced an indisposed Ava Gardner; and Flame and the Flesh (1954), in which she lost her man to Lana Turner. After discovering Leslie Caron, another continental ingénue, MGM lent Angeli out to other studios. She went to Warner Bros. for The Silver Chalice, which marked the debut of Paul Newman, and she made Mam'zelle Nitouche with the French comic actor Fernandel. For Paramount, she should have had the role of Anna Magnani's daughter in The Rose Tattoo, but because motherhood interfered, the role went to her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, who was nominated for an Academy Awardfor Best Supporting Actress for the role. Angeli was lent out again, to Columbia, for Port Afrique (1956). She returned to MGM for Somebody Up There Likes Me as Paul Newman's long-suffering wife (James Dean had originally been expected to play the starring role, which went to Newman after Dean's death). She then appeared in The Vintage (1957) with Mel Ferrer and John Kerr, and finished her contract in Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye.

During the 1960s and until 1970, Angeli returned to live and work in Britain and Europe. Few of her films during that period were notable, despite a strong performance opposite Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence (1960). She was reunited with Stewart Granger for Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), in which she played Lot's wife. She had a brief role in the war epicBattle of the Bulge (1965). 1968 found Angeli in Israel, top billed in Every Bastard a King, about events during that nation's recent war, but steady work was eluding her. It seemed as if her acting career might revive when she was picked to play a role in The Godfather, but she died soon before filming.

Personal life and death

According to Kirk Douglas' autobiography, he and Angeli were engaged in the 1950s after meeting on the set of the 1953 film The Story of Three Loves. For a short time, Angeli also had a romantic relationship with James Dean; however, under pressure from her domineering mother, she broke off the relationship and went on to marry singer and actor Vic Damone(1954–1958). Her marriage to Damone ended in divorce, followed by highly publicized court battles for the custody of their one son, Perry Farinola. Her second marriage was to Italian composer Armando Trovaioli (1962–1969), with whom she had another son (Andrew).

At the age of 39, despondent and lonely, Angeli was found dead of an accidental barbiturate overdose. She is interred in the Cimetière des Bulvis, in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

She was later portrayed by Valentina Cervi in the 2001 TV movie James Dean, which depicted her relationship with Dean.

Trivia

Reportedly, Pier and James Dean were very much in love and wanted to marry, but her mother was against the union because of Dean's behavior, and helped arrange Pier's marriage to Vic Damone. Three years before she died, the National Inquirer magazine published an interview in which Pier would have said that Dean was the only man she had ever really loved.

Twin sister of actress Marisa Pavan.

Screen, stage, and television actress.

Dated James Dean while he was filming East of Eden (1955).

Had one son with Vic Damone, Perry, who works as a radio DJ and owns an entertainers representation in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kirk Douglas, in his autobiography "The Ragman's Son", states that he was engaged to Pier in the early 1950s.

In different situations but almost simultaneously, Léonide Moguy and Vittorio De Sica' chose her for her first role.

When shooting a central scene with Michael Craig in The Angry Silence (1960), she was so immersed into her character that she left the script and started to shout in Italian. The scene was so impressive that it remained in the film.

Sister-in-law of Jean-Pierre Aumont.

She gave birth to her second child Howard Andrew Rugantino on January 8, 1963 by her second husband Armando Trovajoli.

I have loved one person in my whole life, and that was James Dean.

[about her first role as Mirella in Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950)] When the scenes begin, I change completely. I was not Anna. Like when you drink cold, cold water and feel it run like ice inside. I felt I was another girl, not me.

[about Debbie Reynolds] I don't know what I would have done without Debbie. Debbie was, is and always will be my very dearest and best friend - we are like sisters.

[about her relationship with actor James Dean] He wanted me to love him unconditionally, but Jimmy was not able to love someone else in return . . . it was the troubled boy that wanted to be loved very badly. I loved Jimmy as I have loved no one else in my life, but I could not give him the enormous amount that he needed. Loving Jimmy was something that could empty a person.

Mykie Note: I really don't know that much about Pier Angeli other than that she was madly in love with JAMES DEAN and I mean Who wouldn't have been right? The Press states that cause of death was a accidental overdose of barbiturates, but who accidentally takes a bottle of pills? It's tragic really she was a shinning light on the screen and you where totally involved with her while she was on the screen, I have not seen many of her films, but the one's that Have been made available to me I adore. It is so sad really to think that she didn't have the chance to shine bigger and brighter than her star would allow her. As usual here is my favorite films of hers, short list sorry , but these are worthy of a screening.......cheers!
Mykie xoxo


FILMS OF PIER ANGELI~

1951- TERESA
1954- FLAME AND THE FLESH
1954- THE SILVER CHALICE
1956- SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
1962- SODOM & GAMORAH
1965- BATTLE OF THE BULGE

Mother's Little Helpers~ Homemade Skin Products From Your Own Fidge!

~Mother's Little Helper~ 

We all know that beauty is costly or at least the pursuit of it is costly. And with all the various skin creams and potions out there for this and that issue, it can be a tad doubting knowing what to use and to spend all your hard earned cash on a product your going to give to a Friend or little sister just sucks. So i suggest looking to your mom, not the one that raised you, but Mother nature her self...Some of the most effective and inexpensive beauty products to tone, lighten dark circles and even add some oomph to your hair. Its as easy as a few simple steps and fresh ingredients are all you really need

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  EGG YOLKS

   Whip up some egg yolks. Next time you are dividing an egg to use just the whites, don’t throw the yolks down the drain. Egg yolk makes for a firming and refreshing face mask. Simply whip up a yolk and then lightly spread it on your face. Leave it in place for at least 15 minutes or until it hardens then rinse with cool water.

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  Strawberry

  Mash a strawberry mask. Another fine face mask can be made with strawberries. Cut off the stems and chop the strawberries into tiny pieces. Use a flat object, such as a potato masher lined with foil, to mush the strawberries into a paste. Apply a layer to your face for at least 15 minutes. Rinse with cool water.    

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  CUCUMBERS

  Slice some cucumbers. Cucumbers make very refreshing eye pads. Simply slice up the cukes into medium width, chill long enough to make them cold and apply to your eyes. You will want to lie on your back, close your eyes and balance the cucumber slices right over your eye sockets. Relax with the eye masks for 10 minutes or as long as you wish.
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  GRAPEFRUIT

  Squeeze out a grapefruit or two. Fresh grapefruit juice works wonders on tense, tired feet. Fill a bucket with warm water and squeeze out the juice from a grapefruit or two. Soak your feet in the grapefruit juice and water for 30 minutes or more for a fine, softening agent on your tired tootsies. This works great in the summer with cold water instead of warm. The scent is simply delicious.

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  TEA BAGS

  Steep a tea bag. Tea bags work wonders on tired eyes or even for getting rid of horrible things like cysts. For the eyes, prepare a cup of tea as usual then remove the tea bag and allow to cool. Make sure the tea bags are squeezed dry then chill and place on your eyes. For cysts, prepare the tea, squeeze out the bag and apply to the cyst with the tea bag as hot as you can possibly stand. Leave both in place for at least 10 minutes. Reheat the cyst tea bags as necessary.

  
  

  So here's a few little homemade natural cleanser recipe for you all....talk about pure & raw!

  
  
  Homemade facial cleanser
  with Milk & Honey 
  
  The classic milk & honey cleanser; a very basic natural cleanser that has been in use for thousands of years. The milk cleans and soothes while the honey also cleans but also acts as a natural humectant, meaning it attracts moisture and keeps it where it belongs: under your skin
  What do you need:
  
  

  • 1 teaspoon dark organic Honey
  • 1 tablespoon whole Milk (or cream)

  
  How to do it:
  Warm up the honey until it becomes runny (not too hot!) by putting it in a small glass or metal bowl which is immersed in hot water (or a few seconds in the microwave)Mix the honey and milk well
  Prepare fresh each time you use it
  
  Homemade facial cleanser 
  with Grapes, Milk & Olive oil 
  
  This natural cleanser both cleanses and moisturizes your skin
  What do you need:
  
  

  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin Olive oil
  • 5 fresh Grapes
  • 1 teaspoon Milk

  
  How to do it:
  Put all the ingredients in a food processor and whizz them until you have a smooth watery substance