Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Actress Jana Marie Hupp

All of the actors who starred in the early-2000s television series "Ed" (about a lawyer with a bowling alley) were unknowns when that great show began. Since it went of the air in 2004, however, only Julie Bowen and perhaps Ginnifer Goodwin have really gone on to greater things among the show's female cast members. That's too bad, because I really miss Jana Marie Hupp.


Jana Marie Hupp played Nancy Burton, the wife of Ed's best friend Mike. Unlike Julie Bowen's free-spirited Carol, Nancy was grounded by a complicated domestic life made even more so by her goofy husband.

Ms. Hupp had minor roles in various television shows and movies before "Ed," but her Wikipedia entry doesn't show anything she's done since "Ed" was canceled, assuming she's done anything at all. Someone give this woman a acting job! :-O

Monday, August 29, 2011

Model Carol Gramm

Not Karen Graham. Carol Gramm. :-)



Carol Gramm is a model from the 1980s, and she was most mostly active in the earlier part of the decade, a time many consider to be a golden age for the modeling trade. And Carol Gramm certainly had the golden locks for that period. :-D

She was represented by the Elite agency.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Central Pennsylvania newswoman Tanya Foster

Tanya Foster is a chief anchorwoman at WHP-TV, the CBS affilaite in Harrisburg, Pennsylvnia. She anchors five newscasts every weekday.




Ms. Foster worked at different broadcast network affiliates in Texas before joining WHP-TV in 2008. She is also active in raising awareness of animal abuse and neglect, and she's done a lot of volunteer work with animal shelters in Texas and Pennsylvania.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Louisville TV news anchor Liz Everman

Liz Everman is a local legend in Louisville, Kentucky. She's been on Louisville's CBS affiliate WLKY-TV since 1980. :-)


Before that, she worked in nearby Lexington as a reporter for WLEX-TV and as an anchor for WTVQ-TV.

A Kentucky native, Ms. Everman has been involved in community affairs in Louisville for years. Her weekly news series "Wednesday's Child" focuses on children who are in need of adoption. Ms. Everman's efforts have enabled nearly 3,000 special-needs children to find homes.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

NBC News reporter Kristen Dahlgren

Kristen Dahlgren is a familiar face to NBC News and MSNBC viewers.



She reports on many major stories for both news outlets.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Actress Anna Camp

Anna Camp is a young actress who's just beginning to get a lot of attention.


She had a starring tole as Sarah Newlin in the HBO vampire series "True Blood", and she;s made guest appearances on several series from "The Office" to "Mad Men;" she played Don Draper's post-divorce girlfriend on the latter show. She's had less success with permanent television roles, though.


Ms. Camp has also done plenty of theater. In 2008, she portrayed played Jill Mason in a Broadway revival of Equus, and in the summer of 2011 she starred in "Scrubs" alumnus Zach Braff's play All New People, which was produced by Second Stage Theater.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Actress Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks has been an indelible presence in both movies and television.



She's had recurring roles both on "Scrubs," as Dr. Kim Briggs and on "30 Rock" (as Avery Jessup. Both characters were love interests for the shows' main male characters - Zach Braff's John Dorian on Scrubs and Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock."



Her movies have included The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Spider-Man 3, and, W., in which she played former First Lady Laura Bush.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Model/actress Marjorie Andrade

When she started out as a model in the early eighties, Brazilian beauty Marjorie Andrade had a lot going for her. Her height - 5'5" - seemed to pose a detriment in a profession that favored taller women. But Ms. Andrade had an exotic look and a lot of spunk to go with it.



Soon she was appearing in beauty ads for magazines and television that capitalized on her adorable face.



Eventually she made the transition to acting, but while Ms. Andrade could have easily gone big time, she chose instead to pursue small Off Broadway roles in America and soap opera roles in her native Brazil, avoiding the charge that she was not an actress but rather a model who acted.



Ms. Andrade is also a graduate of the Hollywood Film Institute, and she's taken on an active role in producing movies as well through her own production company.


Oh yeah, she's also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Ms. Andrade is the Ambassador of the International Foundation For Human Rights and Tolerance, a Los Angeles based group that promotes human rights education worldwide.

More Beautiful Women!

Having presented 484 women on this blog so far, and having just concluded another weeklong tribute to Karen Graham (write me at vwgolfman2000@comcast.net if you think I should start a Karen Graham blog or site!), I'm now ready to present even more women for your viewing pleasure.

Well, then, what are waiting for? Let's go! :-)

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Seven: Vogue, February 1974

My tenth and last photo of Karen Graham from her Vogue magazine editorial work is this picture, from a Francesco Scavullo session.

Wow, she worked with everyone! :-D


The dress is from Gene Berk, a designer I've never heard of.

That's it for our weeklong journey through Ms. Graham's Vogue editorial assignments. But bear in mind that this is just a sampling of her work for that magazine in the early seventies; there are several more pictures of her that I haven't included here. Best to leave it that way . . . so I can leave you wanting more. 

Don't worry, I 'll get to those other pictures at a later date. Because Karen Graham is a woman I always return to on this blog. She sort of inspired its creation. :-)

Friday, August 12, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Six: Vogue, November 1973

These color pictures of Karen Graham are part of a huge editorial spread in the November 1973 issue of Vogue (all of the pictures you see this week are from U.S. editions) on how to look at what to wear, how to style hair, and how to accessorize for the coming winter of 1973-74. Ironically, this issue was published just before an oil crisis hit and made fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like less of a priority. But then, no one has ever bought a copy of Vogue for practical reasons. :-D




This feature is one of our heroine's biggest assignments for the magazine. Bill Blass clothes, Norell dresses, and Cartier jewelry dominate here.



I don't know which outfit is from which designer, but, again, do you think I care? I'm here to pay tribute to the woman who's wearing them. :-)




The pictures in this editorial feature were taken by Kourken Pakchanian, a photographer I'd never heard of before. These are just three of the many photos of Ms. Graham from this issue. :-)

They're some of the lovelist pictures of her that I've found. :-)

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Five: Vogue, July 1973

This Richard Avedon photo of Karen Graham from 1973 (the year Vogue went from bi-monthly to monthly in America) is from an editorial assignment she did for Vogue called "The Big Preview," which involved her in a collaboration with another iconic model you might have heard of, Lauren Hutton. :-)




This particular picture has a makeup credit to Estée Lauder, indicating that she couldn't compartmentalize her modeling career entirely. ;-)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Four: Vogue, October 1, 1972

An entire fashion spread focusing entirely on Karen Graham - the model, the woman, the legend in the making - appeared in the October 1, 1972 edition of Vogue. (Vogue, as you may have already figured out, was a twice-monthly publication back in the early seventies.)

This feature, photographed by Richard Avedon, profiled Ms. Graham as the modern incarnation of beauty. It was a revealing look into the sensibilities of a woman too many people simply think of as "the Estée Lauder model." The two pictures here are just a sampling of this feature. :-)




This picture (above), depicting her in a white cardigan sweater with marabou sleeves, displays her penchant for understatement. "I like to be noticed -what woman doesn't? - but I don't like being in the obviously eye-catching thing," she told Vogue. "It's not what I look for in clothes."




She looks absolutely stunning and understated in this black cardigan dress with white bands. Of this outfit, she said: "When you have a million things to do in one day, this is the perfect dress; you get into it in the morning and go. It just works."

I've never seen any look for Karen Graham that didn't work. :-)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Three: Vogue, September 1, 1972

Karen Graham could easily have been the "long cool woman in a black dress" the Hollies sang about in their 1972 single, as this Irving Penn picture from the same year shows.



For those who want to know, this is an Adolfo crochet dress. It was described in Vogue as "absolutely nothing to it but a low neckline and a little glitter . . . and nothing more needed."

Karen Graham didn't even need a little glitter; she's a model who provides her own. :-)

Monday, August 8, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part Two: Vogue, September 15, 1971

I'm stepping back a couple of months from the previous photo to offer this picture of Karen Graham in this apricot Dior coat. The irregularity of her nose is quite evident here. it was her uniquely shaped nose, in fact, that made her so distinctively beautiful.



This picture was taken by David Bailey, best known as the only man Catherine Deneuve ever married, but also known for his Beatles and Rolling Stones photographs.

This picture was part of a fashion editorial called "Great Year For Coats." Ponder this over-the-top description of Ms. Graham's look:

"The color of the coat, the collar of the coat, the coloring of the eye against the skin - everything that is Dior is here. Even the way the hair is arranged - simply drawn back, twisted, and caught with an apricot comb - even that is part of the total feeling. Luxurious. feminine. Pure. Perfect calm without interruption or distraction. And all so beautiful you could die . . .."

Not exactly a soft sell. :-D

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Karen Graham Week 2, Part One: Vogue, November 15, 1971

So off we go on our weeklong Karen Graham retrospective!
 

This photo was taken by Irving Penn for an Vogue editorial feature highlighting accessories, and Ms. Graham certainly wears a lot of them here.

The caftan is by Halston, a credit I only include for the sake of thoroughness. Do you think I really care who designed the outfit that Karen Graham is wearing? The only thing that matters to me is that . . . it's Karen Graham! :-)

I've never been very savvy on the fashion end of fashion modeling . . .. ;-)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Karen Graham Week, Mark Two!

In February 2010 I revisited Estée Lauder spokesmodel Karen Graham, a favorite topic of mine here, for a week by posting some pictures of her that were taken by Victor Skrebnseki for the Lauder campaign. Now, once again, I'm revisiting the iconic model by posting another week's worth of pictures!

This time, there's a twist. None of these pictures are from Estée Lauder ads, and none of them are Skrebneski photographs. These are pictures are from fashion editorials that appeared in editions of Vogue in the early seventies. They were taken by some very recognizable names - Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, et. al. - and they depict a woman somewhat different from the one you saw in Lauder ads. You might say that these photos depict Karen Graham, model, before she became Karen Graham, legend. :-)

So, eh, where did a heterosexual male like myself find these Vogue pictures? Let's just say I have my sources! ;-)

I start offering them here tomorrow.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Beauty of Retrospect, American Actress Edition: Cybill Shepherd, 1972

I only paid tribute to Cybill Shepherd here once, with a recent picture. Here's a picture of Ms. Shepherd in her younger years, photographed by Irving Penn.



This is from 1972, when she was the hottest ingenue of the Hollywood New Wave, having wowed audiences with her performance in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show the year before.

And like a fine wine, she's only gotten better with age. :-)

I don't know if I can say the same thing for Bogdanovich . . ..