Sometimes watching a film about someone you love is like eating a big bag of sweets. Such a treat, pleasure, a welcome indulgence. It’s divoon, darlings! Jayne Mansfield is one of those stars who is more famous for her image (and death) than she is for her work. As is stated in the spectacular new […]
If you’ve paid attention then you know by now that Loverboy adores Jayne Mansfield. Rival blonde bombshell to Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate dumb blonde who had a genius IQ, a muscleman hubby who built her a pink palace, mother of Detective Olivia Benson (no, not Taylor Swift’s cat but rather actress Mariska Hargitay), embraced […]
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 […]
Camp, titty shakers and cult cinema: Loverboy’s Fallon Gold enters the mondo trasho world of Lobotomy Room for some sleazy classics of the screen and turntable. Because we mainly consume our cinema these days from our laptop, tablet or phone screens, going to the pictures becomes more of an event. And there is something just joyously special […]
When Loverboy was fourteen/fifteen, we became obsessed with buying photos of celebrities, you know, promo stills or paparazzi shots. They were always advertised in the back of Sky magazine. Then we moved on to posters – filling every inch of our bedroom walls with images. Then when we were eighteen we discovered the world of […]
