It’s 65 years of the bikini! Remember Phoebe Cates?
The unveiling of the newly named bikini was a spectacle that almost didn’t happen. It seemed designer Louis Réard had a hard time finding a woman willing to model the skimpy suit. Luckily for him — and millions of beachgoers to come — a 19-year-old French showgirl by the name of Micheline Bernardini rose to the challenge. Introducing the small suit to the world on July 5, 1946, Bernardini strutted in the newspaper-printed, G-string bikini for a fashion event at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Unsurprisingly, the suit was a headline-making success and Bernardini received over 50,000 fan letters.
How can we forget the famous Phoebe Cates’ Bikini in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Phoebe is Russian, Jewish, Filipino and Chinese descent.
A generation of boys know this scene because it was their ultimate fantasy. The hot girl in school Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates) emerges from a swimming pool in a tiny red bikini. No one is expecting her to take it off, but that’s exactly what she does, right after telling the uber-awkward Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold), “You know how cute I always thought you were,” and giving him a kiss. The only problem is, for Brad, it’s just a dream. And when Linda and her bikini go into the house for a towel, she finds Brad in the bathroom doing the No. 3.
There is an e-mail going around about a NYC bill called Intro 653. It asks people to sign a petition so the ASPCA will continue to provide oversight for the carriage horses.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=CarriageHorses&ThirdPartyClicks=ETA_092310_CarriageHorses_F
The bill is not viable and expired in December 2009. It was in December that the ASPCA section was removed from the bill anyway.
In April, Mayor Bloomberg signed Intro 35A into law. This was the new updated version of 653 – but it said nothing about the ASPCA. The bill gave the drivers a raise. See this Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpRoj6iYnkY
about the bogus new law.
This is no longer an issue.
Maybe the italian carriage driver tried to beat some sense into her for being such an ignoramus.
ohh doi…look at the scumbag commenting..what a genius! ah DUURRRR!
As a personal victim of being whipped by these drivers in Rome, I know the situation very well. The horses are sick, overworked and have no breaks. They get killed and injured. It is a horrible situation and the drivers in Rome would be equal to White Trash in America. Uneducated, cruel, idiots scumbags.
Speaking of SCUM BAGS – at it again, are you?
um yeah – In between my eating of cats and dogs. What? Did you post before you went on your merry way, abusing horses for a living? Scum!
I’m interested in this because of this group.
Please vote in this on line poll in the Italian Repubblica newspaper, which asks if you agree with the proposal of abolishing the botticelle (horse-drawn carriages) banned in Rome
Sei d’accordo con la proposta di cancellare il servizio a Roma?
Please click on Si
http://temi.repubblica.it/repubblicaroma-sondaggio/?pollId=2245
Right now, it’s 88% yes, 11% no, 1% don’t know.
It changed to 87% for me now.