Cool Pic

[jeffg]

50 Bonus Points for anyone who can name both guys in this photo.

Hint: It was taken in 1944 at Columbia College campus.

 

[perc-o-prince]

I dunno, but I'm guessing from the tent in Left's pants, he likes Right!

Chuck
p.s.- Don't know if I can ask, but are they either actors or sports figures?

 

[perc-o-prince]

Come to think of it...

...what's that snakin' down Right's left leg???

C

 

[jeffg]

Chuck, no.

Major hint: They were famous journalists.

 

[112561]

Woodward and Bernstein?

 

[jeffg]

Actually one was a journalist, the other a novelist.

 

[jeffg]

Not Woodward & Bernstein.

Last hint: Think Beat

 

[hydralique]

I'm guessing . . .

Jack Kerouac on the left and Allen Ginsberg on the right . . .

 

[jeffg]

Jack Kerouac for the half-win!

Mr. Right is a much tougher guess.

 

[rp2813]

Maybe the guy who started City Lights on the right?

 

[jeffg]

Lucien Carr was the central figure in the small circle of friends that eventually became the "Beat Generation".

Some stories about his life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Carr

 

[toggleswitch2]

I got a brand-new pair of roller-skates, you got a brand new

oh Chuck, you big silly, those were his keys.

 

[hydralique]

Some Beat Generation music . . .

Mamie van Doren gives it to the Beat Generation!

 

[112561]

Those needle heels are too close to Ray Danton's crotch for my comfort! Mamie is the only one of four blonde bombshells left from the freaky fifties.

Here's a pic of Jayne, bless her heart.

 

[hydralique]

Nice pic of the late great Jayne Mansfield . . .

and on the trunklid of a '57 Lincoln Premiere, no less! Besides leaving us with some wonderful movies (especially Girl Can't Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter), Mansfield was a significant inspiration for John Waters' creation of Divine. In one of his books, Waters notes his thoughts on seeing the first footage of Divine: "I was thrilled beyond belief . . . Divine made Jayne Mansfield look like Grace Kelly!"

 

[spiceman1957]

The guy on the right

looks like Sam Donaldson. Am I right?

John

 

[bajaespuma]

Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac?

 

[jeffg]

Jack Kerouac (left) and Lucien Carr (right)

 

[112561]

I love John Waters movies

I saw the E Hollywood special about Divine once, and before he gained the excess weight, and done up in drag, looked like Diana Dors.

 

[hydralique]

Gotta love Diana Dors too!

Here's an unfortunately short vid of her looking a bit like Divine indeed . . .

 

[112561]

Loved her from the first time I ever saw her

Very underappreciated here. Great clip, BTW!

 

[hydralique]

Like Mamie van Doren, Diana Dors could both sing and act. Her last name, Dors, was a stage name: her birth name was Diana Mary Fluck. According to Dors, nobody wanted to contemplate what would happen if her real name was up in lights on a marquee and one of the letters burned out!

 

[112561]

Dors was a stage name, and a family name

Grandmother was Georgiana Dors. I believe the word dors is French for sleep. Hmmmmm......

How about Vera Palmer, Joan Olander, Norma Mortensen? Who are they?

 

[hydralique]

They are the birth names of Jayne Mansfield, Mamie van Doren, and Marilyn Monroe.

One funny irony about Mamie is that he mother was a big Joan Crawford fan, and named her daughter Joan as a result, but of course she dropped Joan when she bacame Mamie. Crawford herself was born Lucille LeSeuer, which to me sounds more like a movie star name than Joan Crawford.

 

[112561]

Lucille LeSeuer is definately more star oriented than Joan Crawford, which sounds like a real estate agent. How about these: Leonard Rosenberg, Tula Finklea, William Beedle, Edythe Marrener?

 

[hydralique]

Tony Randall (Mansfield's co-star in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter), Cyd Charisse, William Holden, and Susan Hayward.

I'd take Bill Beedle under any name so long as I could have him the way he looked in Sunset Boulevard!

I'm sure you know what big star was born Glenn Harris Milstead . . .

 

[112561]

Divine!! I want his collection of films, I only have two. Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble.