Fair warning . . .the video Hugh links to begins with rather inocuous images . . .but ends with an image that may not be considered 'work safe' or 'family safe'.

Thank you, Mr. Fitzgerald. That is truely a treasure.

Posted by: miira at November 3, 2007 8:57 AM

Trader Vicks in Tokyo used to have a drink called 'suffering bastard' that helped wonderfully against sleepless nights and the shamelessly tempting Japanese females.

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now....

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at November 3, 2007 9:09 AM

Beautiful video, very tasteful. Personally I don't feel the final image, a lovely art deco nude, merits any warning. Except maybe for muslims!

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at November 3, 2007 9:26 AM

"Trader Vicks in Tokyo used to have a drink called 'suffering bastard' that helped wonderfully against sleepless nights and the shamelessly tempting Japanese females.

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now...."

Not a drinker anymore, but I'd say many of these uptight cleric types in the islamic world would greatly benefit from an occasional beverage.

Posted by: RoobartSbunsar at November 3, 2007 10:28 AM

Is the url link Louise Brooks? - I've heard references about her throughout my readings for years, but I just discovered Brookie.

What a beautiful woman! What a gorgeous body - God's creation! The way a we, women should look - NOT the skinny things of today.

Posted by: allat at November 3, 2007 10:31 AM

That did it, Hugh!

Now I can't sleep and as for praying..............

Posted by: tanstaafl at November 3, 2007 10:35 AM

For more French video, look at this one of American-born Josephine Baker, singing as a scantily-dressed bird in a cage.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2AQYCSIns5g

I never heard of the woman until a friend made me sit through a biographical movie about her. The woman had great talent but couldn't handle men or money very well. Since she was black, America ignored or insulted her whenever possible.

Posted by: sceptico at November 3, 2007 11:33 AM

Here's a little something MORE that may cause some mental anguish

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JOBUVkCx5h4

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, SUE ME ALSO!

Posted by: allat at November 3, 2007 1:02 PM

sceptico, I had the pleasure of knowing her. The last time I saw Josephine Baker was in 1975 in Interlaken/Switzerland. She was great...

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at November 3, 2007 2:46 PM

That was a Lulu.

Posted by: Nick Danger at November 3, 2007 2:47 PM

ONE FOR BABY
ONE FOR HUBBIE
AND ONE FOR NIK ABDUL

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/05/no-burqas-here-may-23.html

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Posted by: sheik yer'mami

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now....

'suffering bastard'

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-burqas-here-oct-6.html

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Brave words from one very hot muslimah

I don’t want to believe
And i don’t want to live
By the excuses
Of your weakness
.
’cause a woman should do
What she wants to do
There is no reason
For your shallow aggravation
.
Nothing wrong with this dress I wear
Nothing wrong with this smile I dare
Nothing wrong with my long black hair
I’ts all in your mind, in your mind
.
Nothing wrong with this legs you see
Nothing wrong with this lean body
And nothing wrong with the woman in me
Its’ all in your mind, in your mind
.
I just want to be sure
Don’t want anymore
You’re calling out names
Oh what a shame
.
Just open your mind
Then maybe you’ll find
That there’s no reason
For your shallow aggravation
.
This is the time
To change your mind
There’s still a chance
To change your mind
.
It’s plain to see
From anywhere that the only thing wrong
Is your irritating mind
.

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/04/anggun-cipta-sasmi-just-could-not.html

Posted by: shiva at November 3, 2007 3:03 PM

Hugh-

I don't think they can handle Betty Boop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T_9UCTiI

much less the luscious Louise Brooks.

It's the cartoon factor, methinks.

(Since the militant Mohammedan lives in one.)

Posted by: profitsbeard at November 3, 2007 5:17 PM

Do not believe this lie. It is the animals that are suffering. All these aroused muslims are definitely vetting their lust on the domesticated kind in the household. The dogs are dancing in the streets while the goats are packing in the preparation H.

Posted by: vulcan at November 3, 2007 6:00 PM

"I don't think they can handle Betty Boop"
-- from a posting above, which then offers a later, made-for-TV version of Betty Boop

I prefer the earlierBetty Boop voice (despite the unsuccessful outcome of the lawsuit against Max Fleischer), that of the inimitable and also imitable Helen Kane, as in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VvQ48ulQ-A

Posted by: Hugh at November 3, 2007 6:02 PM

Hugh-

Au Contraire.

The Boop I linked to is from 1932, with just the opening frame added in the late 50's when they re-copyrighted them.

The illustrations are vintage.

And the voice, classique!

Where are the examples of Humor from the Muslim world?

******crickets******

"There is nothing funny in Islam."?

Or sexy.

Posted by: profitsbeard at November 3, 2007 6:10 PM

Aye Caramba! That Josephine Baker was a hot babe!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJGJ4lfl7A
Maybe they could arrange 24/7 screenings for the guests at Guantanamo? ;)

Posted by: DaninVan at November 3, 2007 6:25 PM

the problem with Muslim men is that they are raised to see women as nothing more than baby factory's for sons and a way for them to get their rocks off where in the West men are men are not raised with this atituded with the end result most of the time a woman can walk in any western city in perfect safety without a male escort can any muslim city in the middle east say the same

Posted by: mowasaperv at November 3, 2007 8:30 PM

That's why it was called the Roaring Twenties. Sexy women, miniskirts (they were called "flappers" back then) and free love. Not even the sixties were as decadent!

However, unlike the sixties, back in the 1920s my great-grandmother's generation did their decadence with class. Thanks Hugh.

Posted by: Provoslavni at November 3, 2007 9:49 PM

Mr. Fitzgerald,

I am (sniff) highly offended by this divergence from the usual high moral standards exemplified by this publication. The reference to such titillating material leads me to suspect, sir, that you are but a whited sepulchre and may have in the past (and particularly on this occasion) indulged in spirituous liquors.

I do hope (and will ask my pastor to pray) that you will reform and abandon these degenerate proclivities.

Very (in)sincerely yours,

U. S. Beast

Posted by: USBeast at November 3, 2007 11:16 PM

"NOT the skinny things of today. " Huh? The flappers, including Louise Brooks, were famous for being extremely thin. In contrast to the plumper fashions of before.

Anyway, thanks Hugh, she's wonderful.

Posted by: Lili at November 4, 2007 12:17 AM

A craving for diversion, Hugh? I'm with you there.

But a lawsuit in an infidel court? Naw. Where's the fun in that?

Now, when you get a stir out of Nik Nik and the fatwas hit the fan, maybe they try Robert/Hugh in abstentia in Kelatan Sharia Count--they put a bounty on you, see?--now THAT'S entertainment!

[Droll relief from tedium, that.]

Posted by: John C at November 4, 2007 12:31 AM

"famous for being extremely thin. In contrast to the plumper fashions of before"

They tried to be - but not all could be. Not all wanted to be. Take a look at Brookie's stomach and esp. her luscious thighs. Ay Caramba! (Sign of the cross).

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 12:58 AM

"I do hope (and will ask my pastor to pray) that you will reform and abandon these degenerate proclivities.”
-- from a posting above

Sorry, no can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6r_o3GQE4

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 1:13 AM

Well, as for me, I'd like to send these photos to all the imans in the world, see all the beautiful women of the West,maybe they'll have a rage so that they'll disappear from the world:

Lucy Lawless - in all her personas
http://www.crazycreeks.com/det/9024.html

(check 'er out in the Search Engine in all her sultriness - sorry Adult Content)

and Renee O'Connor

http://www.espritlibre.ws/celebrities/photos/343177/reneeoconnor.jpg

both from the Xena tv show.

And always a favorite, Bettie Page- a model from the 50s:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amcam/325464808/

(Adult content also- can't put any more photos here -- OOO la la !)

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 1:51 AM

Good God. Listen again to "J'attendrai" and study carefully the pictures of Louise Brooks that accompany it. Now look at the faces and attitudes of those you have linked to in your posting above. A hyperionnette to a bunch of female satyrs.

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 3:33 AM

Nice Hamlet reference, Hugh.

However, with women, as with everything, de gustibus non disputandum est.

Posted by: TheExpatriate at November 4, 2007 4:01 AM

A hyperionnette? (What's that?) Female satyrs?

Actually, while I think Brookie is luscious; like a blackberry - I do detect a core of darkness in the presentations she appeared in. Makes me uneasy. It gives me pause.

While, on the other hand, Page, was a cutie - playful and harmless.

And Xena was also comedic and a spoof on other shows on tv and the movies.

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 10:05 AM

Hamlet, I, ii, 140.

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 10:43 AM

You mean I'm going to have to look it up in my Sha-kes-pe-a-re?

We, in Latina America, have Brookies, too.

Dolores Del Rio (starred in "Flying Down To Rio")-

these could sing too:

Libertad Lamarque
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VIic8BQlZAc

and Sarita Montiel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uwvaa-qZVy4

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 1:13 PM

Hugh:

I match side by side - your "Luscious Louise" (pbuh) with Maria Felix (pbuh) of Mexican Cinema:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Le8A8YEoosw

What say you?

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 1:29 PM

I'm not changing my dance card. Not even if the orchestra is playing something south-of-the-borderish, if not necessarily down Mexico way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLfgT2CFC4Y

You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me.

But were I choosing someone to take on a visit to Veracruz to visit the museum dedicated to Venustiano Carranza, and then to go with me for a guanabana ice at La Parroquia, and then to settle down at that small hotel on the same street, practically just across, from that zapateria with the disturbing swastika-sign (probably as innocently, but still most intolerably, offensive, as the one that used to be outside the "Swastika and Bells" near St. Stephen's Green in Dublin), in a room where try as I might, I simply wouldn’t be able to concentrate for long on reading aloud to her from Visión de Anáhuac, but would be compelled to get on to other things, well then….

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 2:37 PM

"You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me"--
Are you sure you aren't Kenneth Tynan?
Sadly, Louise is famous for having said:
'I have never been in love.' but as Pauline Kael said of Brooks in Canary Murder Case: “The men she mistreats are lucky.”

Posted by: Nick Danger at November 4, 2007 3:58 PM

"You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me. "

Ooookaaayy!

---------

I'll throw my hat in the ring for Lucy and Bettie.

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 4:19 PM

But were I choosing someone to take on a visit to Veracruz to visit the museum dedicated to Venustiano Carranza, and then to go with me for a guanabana ice at La Parroquia, and then to settle down at that small hotel on the same street, practically just across, from that zapateria with the disturbing swastika-sign

(You do realize, of course, that the swastika legs were put backwards by the Nazis? It's a bastard sign in Europe (What's the percentage of these countries in the world?) and the U.S. and completely legitimate elsewhere? (Being an ancient symbol)

"(probably as innocently, but still most intolerably, offensive, as the one that used to be outside the "Swastika and Bells" near St. Stephen's Green in Dublin), in a room where try as I might, I simply wouldn’t be able to concentrate for long on reading aloud to her from Visión de Anáhuac, but would be compelled to get on to other things, well then…."

Anyway, your style of writing rivals Hemingway (it's true).

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 4:25 PM

Hemingway's "In Another Country:"

http://apo.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/villanova/hemingway/original.htm

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 4:30 PM

Chaqu'un a son gout. Here's mine:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyur_ZXMsc

Posted by: Marc at November 4, 2007 6:09 PM

And I forgot to add -- thanks to all the posters above for the great youtube musical links, from Betty on down -- all great stuff.

Posted by: Marc at November 4, 2007 6:16 PM

In the privacy of his (or for that matter, her) computer room, posters on the thread above, however their tastes may differ (and I'm sticking with Louise Brooks, the girl what brung me), may wish to listen to this and let their differences dissolve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-wRysF_gY8

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 6:35 PM

"Are you sure you aren't Kenneth Tynan?"

Yes.

In the first place, I never married Elaine Dundy, though I remember enjoying "The Dud Avocado."

In the second place, I am not a sadomasochist as Tynan was said to be, but am a perfectly healthy normal American boy, although possibly too promiscuous in my reading.

In the third place, why didn't you ask if I was by any chance Adolfo Bioy Casares? I'm more likely to be the author of the Brooks-haunted book called "The Invention of Morel" than I am to be the author of all those newspaper drama reviews. But don't worry. I'm just as sure that I am not Bioy Casares, as I am that I am not Kenneth Tynan.

Posted by: Hugh at November 4, 2007 9:16 PM

Hugh:

This one's for you:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls

Posted by: allat at November 4, 2007 11:33 PM

Tynan actually knew Brooks, so I was doing you the favor of the corporeal over the phantom Louise (even if she was 85 at the time). As for other aspects of Tynan, well, that probably wasn't doing you a favor. You didn't deny being married to Kathleen Tynan, however (even if you weren't Kenneth Tynan you might have been married to his second wife!). Furthermore, if you were Adolfo Biouy Casares you might be sure you weren't when you really were, like one of those recordings invented by Morel. How could we ever know for certain? Except that both of these authors are dead as doornails.

Louise Brooks said "I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away." Do you think she was reading Kierkegaard?

Posted by: Nick Danger at November 5, 2007 12:52 AM

No. That was my diary she got hold of.

Posted by: Hugh at November 5, 2007 7:28 AM

Warning! Muslims of the World!

Decadent western males are discussing semi-naked women!

Run for cover! Hide the kids and the Qur'an!

Oh, the horror!

Do not follow the links above! For your own good!

Posted by: tanstaafl at November 5, 2007 1:30 PM