> sirblob1@hotmail.com wrote:

>> in the last 100 years of movie making, how many have you made yourself
>> in homage to these curvatious curves? paulette goddard? you had a
>> poster of claudia la cardinal in your room and go off to it? or gynger
>> lynn? samantha fox? uma thurman? lindsey lohan? or before you became a
>> transvestite you had a catherine deneuvesque period? any you silently
>> wank off to em from the silent era? lilian gish you? constance talmadge
>> make you smudge? just like lindsey makes us go loohaa? helena bonham
>> get your carter sticky? marlene dietrich make you go eek? barbara
>> stanwyck make you go ack? hayworth make you go oooogh?

>
> Well, if one were to be bluntly candid-which I am not entirely sure is
> advisable-one could admit to having had lustful & passionate thought
> about several women of the silent screen. Thirty-five seems to me a
> most attractive age. London society is full of women of the very
> highest birth who have of their own free will remained thirty-five for
> years. Lady Dumpleton is an instance in point. From my own knowledge
> she has remained thirty-five ever since arriving at the age of
> forty-which is many years ago now. To be born-or at least bred-in a
> handbag, whether it had handles or not seems to me to display a
> contempt for the basic decencies of family life that reminds one of the
> worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what
> THAT unfortunate movement led to!
>
> Oh yes, "stroking-off to the silent queens"...I would mention Jean
> Arthur(who started in silents), whose distinctive voice had me so vexed
> that every part about me quivered. In my teens & twenties I had always
> thought her incredibly sexy & delectable. Her last film was
> "Shane"-boy, was Van Heflin ever lucky in THAT picture! Of course, when
> she died in 1991, well into her nineties, there were hints of her
> possessing a lesbianic attitude, which caused some 'wilting' of the
> dream. But oh well, nobody's perfect. Another delicious presence of the
> silent screen to me was Jobyna Ralston, whom I understand Harold Lloyd
> developed a carnal knowledge of during the many pictures they did
> together in the 1920s. Alas, Lillian Gish never affected me in quite
> the same way-too pure & virginal by far. Had she only flung up her
> crinolines & thrust her torso forward a few times whilst doing the
> "Toddle-O" a la Blossom Seeley, I perhaps might have had a change of
> heart. Well, I'm off to be baptised, and so must leave. Miss Prism
> approaches.
>
> Dennis "Earnest" Forkel