Booze, cigs, stereos, 8-tracks, nylons, home arcade games, steering wheel grips, and antacids. If these items aren’t on your Black Friday shopping list then what kind of shopper are you, anyway? Sheesh. Good luck out there or online today.
Author: Starfire Lounge
Still wake up the same old Susie
If you’ve read everything I’ve ever written here since I started this blog in the spring of 2020, I thank you. If you only drop by once every few months and cherry pick articles of interest to you, I thank you. If this post is the first time you’re reading this blog, I thank you. … Continue reading Still wake up the same old Susie
Random Image Dump #2
Still random, only this time all black and white. Captions included at the end. Now let’s allow these photographs to speak for themselves. 1. Marilyn Monroe publicity shot for How to Mary A Millionaire (1953). 2. Elvis Presley and Susan Henning, The 1968 Comeback Special. 3. Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke in Rumble Fish (1983). … Continue reading Random Image Dump #2
Thrill Me: Happy Birthday, Tom Atkins
A lot of Gen Xers grew up consuming a steady diet of the following: Kool Aid, Pixie Stix, humor magazines and comic books, and as many horror, fantasy, action, and other gritty and/or goofy genre movies as we could get our hands on. From Kurt Russell being the ultimate cool antihero in Escape from New … Continue reading Thrill Me: Happy Birthday, Tom Atkins
Random Image Dump #1
As I mentioned previously, I’m an artist, so my visual senses are like antenna, always perked and ready to discover art, photographs, or graphic design pieces that are bold and beautiful, challenge us to see things in a new light, or are just plain cool. Pop that collar, Stephanie! Although, sadly, it didn’t generate many … Continue reading Random Image Dump #1
More Cheryl Ladd with Booze: A Charlie’s Angels Pictorial
Last time I graced your lives with one of the greatest ad campaigns ever produced: Cheryl Ladd for Japanese Suntory Brandy. Interestingly, at the same time Cheryl was sipping some smooth Suntory, she was costarring as the intrepid, sexy, and all-around awesome Kris Munroe on Charlie’s Angels, where she was also known to knock back … Continue reading More Cheryl Ladd with Booze: A Charlie’s Angels Pictorial
The Art of the Ad: Cheryl Ladd for Suntory Brandy
Decades before Bill Murray’s character in Lost in Translation (2003) went to Japan to star in commercials for Suntory whiskey, Cheryl Ladd did it first. At the peak of her Charlie’s Angels fame, around 1980-81, Cheryl donned several sexy outfits, grabbed a brandy snifter, and became the spokesperson for Suntory Brandy in a series of … Continue reading The Art of the Ad: Cheryl Ladd for Suntory Brandy






