Fallon Gold looks beyond the comedy, glitz and tutti frutti hats to reveal why we’ve chosen uber-camp icon Carmen Miranda as July’s Tragic Diva. Most know Carmen Miranda as the over-the-top Latin movie star with a pile of fruit on her head. However, she was no South American caricature, there was a whole 3D […]
Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash 49 years ago today. It is an urban myth that she was decapitated – that is her wig you see on the windscreen and beside the dead chihuahua in the death scene pictures. Neither was she ‘scalped’ as some would argue. The coroner who examined her says her […]
IKON: This week Fallon Gold writes about her love for Doris Day and reveals that for America’s Miss Apple Pie life wasn’t always so sweet Say the name Doris Day and for most of us it will bring to mind a massive toothy smile, ultrablonde bubble-bobbed hair and the most glowing, happy girl-next-door Hollywood ever saw. […]
