Thursday, January 30, 2014

Blondes vs. Brunettes #15 - Some administrative comments ...


A few remarks about the blog.
First, thanks for looking.  The blog averages about 300 hits per day; I wouldn't bother doing any of this if it wasn't for you.

Second, it doesn’t really jump out at you when you look at the blog entry, but if you want to make comments, all you have to do is click on the “No comments” hyperlink below.  When you do that, a comment box will appear. 

I cut and pasted a blown up image so you can see what I'm referring to.
Drop a cursor in the box and enter your comments. Once you finish entering comments use the drop down box to log in or simply click on “Anonymous” if you don’t want to use an existing account.  Keep in mind you can always type in a screen name or nick name in the comment box if you want to.

Third, I've started a mirror site on Wordpress.  My intent is to slowly migrate some of the older BlogSpot entries over to Wordpress and determine which site is easier to use and / or offers improved capabilities.  Your opinion is important.

The Wordpress URL is:

http://blondesvsbrunettesblog.wordpress.com/

Thanks once again for looking

Vortex

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Blondes vs. Brunettes #14 - False Advertising and Breaking News

First the breaking news, to me at least.



Linda Evans, one of TV's
classic blondes
Maybe everybody knows this already, but the question has been posed before regarding the catfight between Stefanie Powers and Linda Evans in the 1974 McCloud episode “Butch Cassidy Rides Again”, the question being:  did the dialogue indicate that the catfight would continue after Dennis Weaver left the scene? 

Since that episode of McCloud isn’t available on DVD and, until recently, the show had not been seen in re-runs for nearly a quarter of a century, it was one of those questions that seemed to remain forever unanswered, especially since the one clip bandied about on the internet stopped when the fight was interrupted by Weaver.

But then came along Cozi-TV, a digital over-the-air TV network.

I first heard of it this summer.  Like “Retro-TV” Cozi-TV, owned by NBC, features a lot of old programming and some of that old programming, like “Mr. and Mrs. North”, features catfights.   For me though, the issue was that I couldn’t figure out how to record the shows and if I couldn’t record the shows, then Cozi-TV wasn’t doing much for me.



The fantastic Stefanie Powers
My specific problem was that I couldn’t solve the riddle of the digital antenna, the WinTV card sitting in my computer, and the Windows Media Center that comes with the Windows operating system.  Media Center alone has driven me to near insanity just getting it to work my DirecTV box.

After fiddling with the unholy alliance of the antenna, the card, and the dreaded windows application over the course of a few different weekends, I gave trying to make it work a couple of months ago.  That is, until this weekend, when I notice that the McCloud episode featuring the Powers-Evans fight was scheduled for today, Sunday 3PM EST.  So I was back to fiddling.  Finally, about 15 minutes into the program I figured out what I was doing wrong. It was a real “D’oh, I can’t believe I screwed this up moment.” and, *presto* just like that, McCloud was on my computer screen. I hit the record button and captured (almost) the entire episode.  Most importantly, I recorded the fight scene and yes, after Dennis Weaver leaves, Powers explains what he did to her (locked her up in a bathroom) and instead of expressing sympathy, Evans, who thought that Weaver was cheating on her, says “How sweet.” Powers, now angry again at Evans, appears to start the fight again as the scene cuts back to the city of New York. So that, I believe, answers the question.




Uploaded to You Tube, DailyMotion of course!!
 
 
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1e3qqd_mccloud-cozi_shortfilms

Or if you want to download, go to the Media Fire link here
https://www.mediafire.com/?yg3tpxd3f28vi0u


False Advertising


So everybody knows it’s against the law to advertise a product that clearly does not live up to its claim.  Which leads me to some great movie posters advertising scenes that never occurred and then wondering why the producers weren’t tossed into the clink.


The first and maybe the most infamous is “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” which is one of the dumbest films of all time.  I’ve watched it forward, backward, and upside down and haven’t got the faintest clue what it was about.  Here is how Wikipedia explained the plot:

“A space faring crew from an advanced civilization is preparing to return home after an extended voyage. The crew includes "humans" (represented in the film by Caucasian actors and actresses) and "Centaurians" (represented in the film by Asian actors and actresses). The Centaurians have been rescued from their home planet after a catastrophic event, not explained in the movie, has devastated their planet. They are being brought back with the space faring explorers with an expectation that they will be assimilated into their new parent culture. One of the ships in the fleet is hijacked by a few of its Centaurian passengers and crash-lands on a prehistoric planet in the "Solaris" system. Countermanding orders, the rest of the fleet returns to search for survivors after the crash. In the film's "twist", by the time that the rescuers (traveling at fast sublight speeds) are able to return to the planet, they are encountering the descendants of the original crash survivors - explained in a simplified version of time dilation. Linda, a Centaurian from the rescue ship, falls in love with Tang after he saves her from drowning. After fighting with the planet's indigenous species (1960s-era special effects including giant iguanas meant to represent dinosaurs), Tang and Linda are marooned on the prehistoric planet - the latter revealed to be the captain's own daughter. In the film's coda, this savage and primitive planet is revealed to be the Earth.”
Got that?  I didn’t think so.

Now you might be wondering why, if the movie sucked so bad, did I watch it so many times. 

At this point, let me introduce you to the movie’s poster.
Not one, but two catfights are shown.
Two!! And one of them is a tough looking brunette, tearing a blondes head off.  Wow! What a fight that must be in the movie.
Not.
There is not a single fight in this movie. In fact, the women, Merry Anders and Irene Tsu don't even argue with each other. 
Savage planet women battle space invaders?
Bull-shit.

And now you know why it's false advertising.


And then sometimes it's just misleading...

 

 

 

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Blondes vs. Brunettes #13 - Ships at Sea

Delores Hart, former blonde babe
now a Catholic nun (seriously)
Many years ago, this would be back in the late 70s or early 80s, I was lazily watching an early 1960s Ernie Kovacs movie on an independent station in the Boston area. Must have been the summer because I recall lounging on the sofa in shorts and a t-shirt.
The movie, Sail a Crooked Ship, featured a cast that included Robert Wagner, Frankie Avalon and Frank Gorshin. The females stars were blonde Delores Hart and brunette Carolyn Jones who later became famous for her TV role as Morticia Addams. My interest wasn't with the women but rather in Kovacs and Gorshin two of the great comedic actors of all time. I figured it had to be a funny movie and as it turned out, it was pretty funny.  But the point here and I know what you're all thinking "Enough of the bullshit, just get to the catfight" was that my intended interest soon took a turn when one of the opening scenes featured Hart in a bathing suit.  Whoa!! And then there was a scene with Jones showing all sorts of leg, double Whoa!!  By then I was thinking ... "What if these two ..."

This was about 10 years before VHS became widely popular so the only way to see a catfight was by

a.  Knowing what movies or TV shows to watch, and that was no easy task.

b.  Actually being in a position (time, location) to watch the show. Since there was no way to record anything, if you were at work or school, you were out of luck.

Occasionally, a catfight would pop up seemingly from nowhere; gosh, what a thrill when that occurred.

Carolyn, later Morticia, in heels,
presumably posing as she goes
upstairs to the Captain's quarters
Which brings us back to Crooked Ship. My recollection over the years was one of a knock down drag out blonde vs. brunette battle between the two women.  Funny though, I never saw anything about on either Ed Stips' Yahoo Group or Runboard's Classic Catfight site.

How could they both miss this fantastic clash?

After years of waiting I finally gave in and bought the DVD.  Hart and Jones looked a gorgeous as I remember them but when we finally got to the scene on  the ship where they lunged at each other, it was a major let down. A quick, blink-and-you'll-miss-it tussle with the girls grabbing each other's hair.

This is pretty typical, isn't it?  We always remember the fights from long ago as being better than they actually were.
 

 
Hey, wake up, out there!!

Speaking of blondes, I'm sitting here at home (called in sick today (this would be the 14th of January as I'm writing but realizing that I probably won't publish this blog entry until Sunday the 19th)) watching Fox News.  Now, I don't care what your politics are, you simply have to hand it Fox for having the hottest blondes on TV and if you spend any time watching, you now they always show plenty of leg.

Yup, there's blonde Gretchen Carlson sitting at a desk with her mid-thigh hemline.

As one might say, "Look at the legs on that blonde!!"

Being fair and balanced, Fox also has a show called "The Five" that features a couple of hot brunettes: Kimberly Guilfoyle and Andrea Tantaros, also both showing lots of leg.  But they don't come close to either Gretchen or the queen of Fox and you know who I'm talking about: Megyn Kelly.

Ah, oh, wait, ahhhhh .... there she goes again, Gretchen just crossed her legs on camera!

By the way, did you know that Megyn Kelly got into a catfight in high school? Yup, and apparently beat up the other girl. Hair color of the loser? She won't say.

Megyn Kelly talks about her catfight

Another boat slapping scene

This is from the 1980 Italian women-in-prison flick titled "Hotel Paradise." Despite the movie poster and DVD cover's promise of a stunning catfight (more about that in a later blog entry) this lame face slapping scene was about the extent of the confrontation.

 


It could have been inside a home trailer for all we know

It's not especially nautical, but the legendary blonde, blue-eyed beauty Ann Francis, in her greatest role as Honey West, fought Diane Foster in what was supposed to be the inside of a boat's cabin. Now the truth of the matter is that I haven't seen the entire episode, I've only read about it, so I'm taking it on good faith that it was inside of a boat. If I can find a DVD set of Honey West, el cheapo, I'll buy and watch the whole thing. 

Come to think of it, I really need to devote an entire blog to Ann because she's such a classic blonde and had a number of confrontations with brunettes in Honey West, or so I'm led to the believe, since the series predates me by more than a few years I don't know for sure.

In the meantime, dig the poster. I mean isn't this what you imagine when you think of the term blonde vs. brunette? A classic battle awaits.  Not that I want to see anybody get hurt.  Just one woman to beat the other and when the fight is over, they both put their heels back on and the loser gets down on her knees in front of the winner and says ... ummmm something like, and this is just an example   "I'm sorry for telling dumb blonde jokes and promise to never do it again so you don't beat me up." 

 

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Honey West

Hotel Paradise

Sail a Crooked Ship

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Blondes vs. Brunettes #12 - Planet Earth #2

After a slow start, the blog is now closing in on 10,000 page views, most of which have occurred in the past few weeks since I had the URL added to several “catfight” sites.  Makes perfect sense, and to me “blonde vs. brunette” is about mostly about confrontations, emotional and physical.  Of those two, I think you’d agree the latter is more exciting!!
But the blog is more than a bunch of catfight clips.  You can get that stuff at other blog and web sites and they do it much better than me.

A slender flat chested brunette.  That pretty much summed up Jacky
except Jacky had a serious attitude.  Especially about blondes.
My point here is that, if you go back to my original posts, this blog is 50 year blonde vs. brunette journey that started with my babysitter turning me on to this and then continued mostly with my girlfriend of almost 20 years, an attractive brunette named Jacky who couldn’t stand blondes.  Positively despised them.
Although she did get into a couple of minor scrapes with blonde girls, plus one knock down drag out with a brunette that she lost, I wasn’t lucky enough to see saw any of them. 
 She did have a few  **close encounters** with blondes, that I did witness, that could developed into something better, but the only physical event was an arm wrestling match where the blonde easily dominated, much to Jacky’s dismay.
Now you might be thinking, a girlfriend for almost 20 years?  How did that work? Easy.  We started at about 10, shared a first kiss about 12, had sex at 17 and then dated on and off, until we were about 30.  As adults we were mostly rendezvous lovers separated by a few hundred miles.  She finally moved to the same city where I worked for a year and that was the end of the relationship. Not that we didn’t get along, but because I wouldn’t marry her.  A dark brunette, she was my dream, we got along fabulously, were perfectly matched lovers, and pretty much looked at life the same way.

I thought of myself as the John Saxon type.
Dark brunette with rugged good looks. 
No wonder why all the chicks dug me.
Unfortunately she was my first cousin. 
First cuz with a twist: she was adopted.  For Jacky, that made the whole cousin issue a moot point since we didn’t have any more blood relationship than two strangers meeting in a bar. 
Moot point, or a scandal that would rip into the family? That was the one thing, the big thing, that we could never agree on.
You'll get to know her over the next few months, in the meantime. if you want to know what she looked like, assuming that you actually give a shit about what she looked like – I suspect the vast majority of you are just looking for a catfight clip – I’d ask that you go back to the October 27th entry titled “Planet Earth.”
Jacky and Harper Smythe were about a 90% match: slim, slender, dark eyed, no-tits-to-speak-of  brunettes … mmmm … but slightly different hair styles, though, and the faces weren’t the same, well let me be honest, obviously Jacky wasn’t a movie star, but pretty enough for me. All in all, she and Harper Smyth were a pretty close match and they both fancied themselves as tough women, after all Harper Smythe did beat up two blondes in the movie!!

As for Jacky and we’ll get into this in a few months, when she was a high school senior, she pushed around a blonde who simply refused to fight.  Jacky’s take on that was that blondes were a bunch of wimps.

Another brunette that comes to mind, and one that you might be interested in, was the Apartment House Wrestler named “Debbie” featured in SRW’s February 1978 issue.  Wow! When I saw that in the newsstands back in the day, I thought “Holy shit, Jacky is posing an apartment house wrestler!”
I mean the faces were nearly n identical match!  Unfortunately the tits weren’t even close. 
The hell with all that first cousin crap, I would have married Jacky if she had tits that fuckin’ big.   


Another Jacky look-alike, except for the boobs.
Not nearly as athletic as Debbie, about 10-15 pounds lighter, and definitely flatter of chest, they were still a close match.  So if you can interpolate between Harper Smyth and Debbie, you get the idea of what I was sleeping with and really and truly, enjoying life with, on and off for the better part of two decades.
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OK, let's switch gears.



A couple of weeks back, we looked at part 1 of the California Supreme wrestling match where these two evenly matched girls fought.  The brunette, I think, was stronger than the blonde, but the blonde was a much smarter wrestler, by which I mean she was constantly in motion, using both her arms and legs and seemed to be two or three steps ahead of her opponent.

Can I say that blondes, more often than not, outthink, outsmart, and out maneuver brunettes when they fight?  Seems that way.

And that brunette with her jet black hair and olive complexion?  Reminds me of Jacky.

Except that Jacky wasn’t as athletically built as the brunette in the video.

And Jacky had smaller tits.
Want to download the video?  Go to Media Fire and download by clicking on this link:

MediaFire Link

or watch it here

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1e2key_vintage-backyard-wrestling-blonde-vs-brunette-part-2_sport







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Switching gears once again, this is a draft sked for the one year or so this blog will exist.  Hopefully (!!) we will get to all of this.

Jan19 -- Ships at Sea
26 -- False advertisements

Feb
2-- 20th anniversary
9 -- The Real Deal, Ensure Your Radar is Turned On
16 -- The Fantastic Mimi
23 -- Olympic Summary

Mar
2 -- Kissin' cousins
9 -- The Real Deal, The Girl across the Street
16 -- NO POST - SPRING VACATION
23 -- Checkmate
30 -- Head scissors

Apr
6 -- The Real Deal, once again
13 -- Ron & Jeff
20 -- Athleticism
27 -- Cruising around Wikipedia

May
4 -- The Real Deal, revisited
11 -- Westerns, part 1
18 -- The Warring Tribes
25 -- Who were these people in the photo?

Jun
1 -- Foreign Movies

8 -- The Real Deal, part ?
15 -- Kansas City Here I Cum, part 1
22 -- Kansas City Here I Cum, part 2
29 -- Kansas City Here I Cum, part 3

July
6 -- Foreign movies, various spy flicks
13 -- The Real Deal yet again
20 -- The Awesome Martine Beswick
27 -- SUMMER BREAK

Aug
3 -- SUMMER BREAK
10 -- SUMMER BREAK
17 -- Secretaries
24 -- Classic B&W
31 -- Don't Get into a Knife Fight with a blonde

Sep
7 -- Total Recall
14 -- The Real Deal again
21 -- Various peplum
28 -- Dr. Woodruff

Oct -- it's been a year now
6 -- Action flicks
13 -- More oaters
20 -- Don't Get Into a Swordfight with a blonde

27 -- The survey

Nov
9 -- The Real Deal once more
23 -- Football rematch

Dec
7 -- The Real Deal in a Ring
21 -- Scissors

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Blondes vs. Brunettes #11- Words of Encouragement

Words of encouragement or how come we always root for you know who?  I mean, you don't hear folks saying, "C'mon brunette, let's go!"  It's always the blonde that gets the words of encouragement.
Blonde Marion Martin ready to smack the brunette whose
name may always remain a mystery. 

For example, take this brief clip from the 1940 movie "Boom Town" starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.  The scene has them both at a gambling table and before long, this pushy blonde played by Marion Martin shows up and starts harassing Gable and Colbert, as if it's any of her business who Clark is gambling with, even though I'm pretty sure Gable was poking Martin earlier in the movie, well you know how women get. 

Then this level headed brunette steps in and tries to defuse the situation and winds up getting  slapped in the face for her efforts by you know who. Of course her response is to go straight for that head full of blonde hair and off they go in a classic catfight.

OK, no problem, let's all sit back and enjoy the show except that one guy gets our attention when he yells "Give it to her blondie!"

Say what?

Why is this dude rooting for the blonde?

Too bad the scene cuts back to Gable and Colbert so we don't know who won the fight (but blondie looked pretty tough) but I did like Colbert's line "Tell me when you've had enough."

I have no idea who played the role of the brunette, but Martin was in a number of movies over the years and fought a different gal in a movie called "Penthouse Rhythm".  I have no idea if it was a blonde or a brunette she fought. I'll let y'all know if I find out.

Watch it here


or download the video from MediaFire here

Shift gears completely to a ring full of mud in Sturgis and here we go again with that classic matchup where a blonde and a brunette are battling each other. 

And, yes, the little blonde did take down
 the bigger brunette

And the guy in the background yells, "Take her down little blondie!" 

So there we are, rooting for the blondes again.

Why I ask, why?

Why?

Because

... wait for it ...

WE'RE ALL FASCINATED WITH BLONDES, THAT'S WHY!!  THEY DRIVE US CRAZY AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE CHECKING OUT THIS BLOG ISN'T IT??


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Speaking of rooting for blondes, check out the little pervert in this episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. 



He's in heaven  ... and by the time he's middle age, he'll be running his own blog site!!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/edit/x1e3lr0_walker-texas-ranger?urlback=%2Fuser%2FRedLeg600%2F1