luka said:oh my god! who is the woman with the horn?
she's chet baker's girlfriend, i think..confucius said:it's embarrasing... I should know who it is... Ive seen the picture in many places... wait... could it be... a young Alice???
oliver craner said:It's a conversation I have every day, usually with myself.
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Ava loved to shock people with crude outbursts and crude deeds. Among the latter, her favourite exploit was urinating in public in hotel lobbies (a taste she shared with other female performers, like Edith Piaf and Rachel Roberts).
Among the former, her best-known bon mot came when a reporter asked her what she saw in a 119-pound weakling like Sinatra. Referring to the crooner's notorious physical endowment, she coolly replied: 'Well, I'll tell you - nineteen pounds is cock.'
Men seem to have taken the opposite route. Everyone is skinny to the bone in old movies, the cheekbones bulging like alps.just noticed this survey of babeishness since the renaissance:
http://healthbolt.net/2006/12/27/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/