The "Fight" of the Boobs

 

Nobody has ever suggested that the Italian actress Sophia Loren (born the 20th of September 1934) wasn't a busty lady. How could they when she in her looks came very, very close to embodying the main female ideal of the 1950-1960'ies? That ideal was to be "curvy": Big breasts and full hips with a tiny waist, and all of that she was able to boast. Everything was in its place, so to speak, but I'm not sure that she was right when she said she owed it all to spaghetti. 

 

 

Anyway, Sophia was a world-famous movie star even before she met her American colleague, Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), in Beverly Hills at the exclusive Romanoff's restaurant in 1957. 

 

 

 

That meeting gave rise to its own legends, when one of the photographers took a photo of these two busty ladies, and Sophia was caught glancing - or staring? - at the breasts of Jayne. 

 

 

Later on, she said that she was afraid that they might escape the dress of Jayne and thus give vent to a scandal, but the truth is that she looked utterly shocked which by many people was seen as envy as if she felt "out-busted" by the American star. As a bust being the key to a movie career in those days, it wasn't all that farfetched to interpret her side glance as a signal of envy, but what did she have to be envious about? Nothing!!!!

 

 

However, the peak time of the busty female stars was nearing its end with the birth of a new female beauty ideal. I think it started in 1953 when Audrey Hepburn gained fame with "Roman Holiday". She became the very first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. In that same year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance on "Ondine" without boasting a bust. On the contrary .... 

 

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-jealousy-5190471 

 

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Weird or Embarrasing Parents

 

 

Well, some parents are not just weird, but proud of being very, very strange. Also, they have a way of embarrassing their children, especially when they are with friends. As to the one above, I'm not sure that she did what she said. Actually, it's such a dumb ruse that I don't believe her - but still, it may have happened .... 

What are kids for? Right, they may come handy ....

Some poor children really have a hard time dealing with weird parents. Many stay weird even when moving to another country:  

Quora-question: "How can I deal with my parents being weird and strict? Honestly, they are so weird that they embarrass me in front of my friends. What can I do? By the way, my parents were both immigrants to the U.S. 20 years ago, but they still act Asian."

That's tough, as the only way to put an end to that situation will be to disown the Asian parents and start looking for some American ones. Hopefully, the frustrated Asian kid doesn't end up with someone like this:

In her opinion, a strangled baby may be better than no baby

Good times were once many years ago, and, sadly enough, many forget that they had such fun with a loving parent. They may even feel that they had an awful childhood.

Yup, the back of most grown-ups are built for piggy rides

 

Unfortunately, living in a patriarchy, some (mostly male) parents don't feel the same happiness at the birth of a daughter than of a son. For instance, king Henry VIII of England was very, very disappointed at the birth of his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Only Edward (VI) made him rejoice, as he needed a male heir to save the Tudor-dynasty. Actually, his daughters were of much more historical value ....

 

OK, I admit it's somewhat weird, but so what when it's also very, very loving?

A happy moment to remember when the time of old age comes for the big one, and adulthood for the small one, but, alas, many forget that it happened 

As long as we can't shop parents - or kids - we shall have to come to terms with "weirdness" while rejecting cruelty, abuse or murder. 

  

https://www.parents.com/ 

 

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Gender Role Playings And Spying

The Chinese soprano, Shi Pei Pu (1938–30 June 2009) was 70 years old when he/she died at the nursing home where he/she had lived for quite some time. He/She had been a librettist and soprano for the Beijing Opera and besides that he/she taught Chinese to foreign diplomat families.The fact that he/she, who was born a male, had been engaged in one of the craziest love affairs of the century makes him/her an early LGBT-individual, but not solely by choice. No, his/her female roles at the Beijing Opera gave him/her a false identity as a woman and the young French diplomat Bernard Boursicot became obsessed with him/her. He was convinced that the illustrious opera diva, Shi Pei Pu, really was a biological woman. 

The beautiful voice and studied female beauty of Shi Pei Pu enthralled Boursicot when he encountered the famous opera singer in 1964. Being very inexperienced he didn't expect foul play when his Chinese lover proclaimed that their love making - always in total darkness - had led to a pregnancy. In reality this Muslim boy had been bought from his poor mother by Shi Pei Pu.

Bernard Boursicot with his so-called "son" by his Chinese lover

The ability to pull off this stunt is a tribute to the talent of the opera singer and performer, but why did Shi Pei Pu commit this fraud? Well, he/she was not only a star at the Beijing scene, but also a dedicated Chinese spy who wanted to extract as much information from his/her French lover as possible.

The former lovers, Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, in the French court where they were sentenced for espionage 

In 1983 both Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu were arrested on charges of espionage and in 1986 they were convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. By then it was revealed how the young Frenchman had been deluded by the Chinese spy and opera singer. However, Shi Pei Pu refused to say that he had deluded anyone about his true gender, because, as he said: "I never stated it." This strange love affair was turned into a Broadway production, "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang which later also was to be filmed by David Cronenberg.

What I find extremely interesting in this "love affair" is the ability of Shi Pei Pu to play act as the opposite sex, to know how to engage in sexual acts of the opposite sex while hiding his own.

 

https://china-underground.com/2022/05/02/the-incredible-story-of-the-chinese-spy-shi-pei-pu/ 

 

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1946448_1948269,00.html 

 

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When One's STOLEN IDENTITY Commits Crimes

From this total baby cuteness to this not so cute??? 

Well, havoc of all kinds may also bring extreme changes into the life and looks of cute child actors like e.g. Brian Bonsall, but this special case is more weird than a case of "what may happen in the life of somebody": The grown-up man in the above photo simply stole the name and fame of the former child star, calling himself "Brian Bonsall", but in reality being the serial rapist Nathan Loebe. When brought to court, he was sentenced to 274 years in prison, which means that he shall never be released, no matter what. 

The rapist "borrowed" the name of the former child actor to make an impact on his female victims, and it seemed to work, because Brian Bonsall had been extremely popular when a child.

I suppose he is best known for his childhood role in the sitcom "Family Ties", but he also had success in grown-up roles, e.g. as Alexander Rozhenko in "Star Trek". 

 

He has made all right as a rock musician, singer and guitarist, but he may still be best remembered as the cute child actor. However, some may also know him as the drunken hooligan who was indicted over partner violence and the use of narcotics. Actually, that happened several times, and that's when he met Nathan Loebe, who decided to steal his identity. Brian Bonsall has told reporters that he quite often met people who asked him whether he was the "real Bonsall" or not, which was a question he found very weird, as he was whom he had always been, namely the former child actor who had made an impact on many fans when he was very young. Not until the arrest of Nathan Loebe did he understand that he had been played by an ID-thief who committed crimes, (mis-)using his name. 

 

https://6abc.com/serial-rapist-sentenced-to-274-years-tiscon-arizona-nathan-loebe/5311220/ 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14548533/family-ties-brian-bonsall-rapist-stole-identity-attack-women-jail.html 

 

https://moviedelic.com/nathan-loebe/ 

 

https://6abc.com/post/man-gets-274-years-in-prison-for-raping-7-women/5311220/ 

 

https://www.denverpost.com/2010/04/08/former-child-star-bonsall-pleads-guilty-in-assault-probation-violation/ 

 

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The Handsome Corpse

This is the extremely well-preserved corpse of an old Dane who died from hanging before being dumped into a bog, and that burial place did a lot to keep his serene looks from The Iron Age to the present day. In my opinion, he is beautiful because of that serenity. Being found in Tollund he is a Dane, but these bog bodies also appeared somewhere else in Europe: Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, Poland, and Ireland. As to the Tollund Man then it's still possible to discern fingerprints, beard stubbles, as well as amazing facial features and expression. Actually, that's what makes him so stunning.

Was he sacrificed to a god or goddess from the time of his death? That's likely, but there is no indication of his position in the society he lived in. Was he a king or a thrall? Nobody knows for sure, but whoever he was, he must have been brave, as there is no indication that he fought his harsh destiny. Some of the other bog people do exhibit marks of fightings, but those may have been misunderstood, as the sheer pressure of the bogs could injure a corpse. 
 

The Grauballe Man had his throat cut, and he has not kept his looks like the Tollund Man, even though he is considered to be the very best preserved bog corpse in the world. Well, all I can say is that he doesn't have that touching capacity that I find in the Tollund Man. 

This is how the Grauballe Man looked when found, and this is how he is going to look forever, as nobody wants to change that. However, someone made a sculpture from the measurements of his face to reconstruct his looks when alive: 

He looks like someone whom one might see in the streets of the present day Denmark. Not bad for an old guy who have been dead for a very long time. The Tollund Man is supposed to have died 500 B.C., but the Grauballe Man is a bit younger and may have died around 200-300 B.C.. 

The Huldremose Woman also is considered quite well-preserved, and she must have had some kind of status in her society, as she wore a suit of skin and woven wool, which can't have been cheap. Anyway, a rope around her neck indicates that she too was hanged or strangled, although some see it as a kind of necklace. Also, she had severe injuries, especially to an arm, but they seem to stem from before her death.

Actually, cremation was in use at this time period, so the bog corpses must have held special qualities - bad or good - to end up in the bogs. Ideas and suggestions have flourished, but still, there is no real solution to the question: What led to the special burial practice of the bog people?

https://academic.oup.com/book/40283/chapter-abstract/346768615?redirectedFrom=fulltext

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CQE4c8UJkM&feature=player_embedded 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHPYmfwUxA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodies 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/ 

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Poem By Else Cederborg: "A Bear In My Kitchen"

 

A Bear In My Kitchen 

 

A bear in my kitchen?! Wow!!!!

Calls himself Paul, loves coffee

writes daggert-like articles in newspapers

still, a bear he is

 

Actually, a big Teddy Bear with a demonic beard 

determined both to have his cookies and eat them

I'm impressed, few men know the skill of consuming while keeping 

 

But what else do bears eat, but cookies?

Honey? Oh yes, that's his favorite food

 

I love his big paws and sensitive snout

Wanting to make snuggling an art

I'm intending to wrap myself in this live bear-carpet

Practicing all the time 

 

© Copyright 2025 Else Cederborg - All rights reserved 

 

 

 

 

 

The One-Night-Stand-REVENGE

Apparently Wayne Robinson, 24 years old, is considered extremely handsome, yes, a ditch and thus a magnet with an irresistible power over women. Well, that may be as it is, but one thing is for sure, now he has met someone who didn't bow down in admiration and awe just to let him go unscathed. 

Pretty, 22 years old, Dominique Fisher decided to "do something" about his bloated ego as the perpetual Don Juan he considered himself to be, but what she did isn't recommendable: When he woke up after what he saw as a one-night-stand, he found himself covered in blood from numerous wounds. Dominique had carved her name into his arm and also left a lot of slash marks on his arms and shoulders.

No doubt about, Dominique branded him, like some farmers brand live stock

To me, it's quite weird that Wayne didn't wake up when Dominique slashed him savagely, leaving many wounds. The reason for this was that he was drunk and maybe more. Did he take drugs? Yes, Valium, but maybe not anything stronger than that. Anyway, strangely enough, he didn't wake up from an ordeal that might have awoken a corpse.

Stunned by this sight, he didn't wake Dominique up as she lay sleeping by his side, but at once he went straight to the police and told them what had happened. He said that he had drunk vodka and taken Valium so that he wasn't awake during this incident and had no idea of why and how it had happened. Well, I may tell Mr. Very Handsome that he may have been too obvious in his wishes for a one-night-stand and nothing but that. What would he feel if he was told that he - handsome, otherwise well-mannered, nice, popular and bright as he is - was nothing but e.g. a "scratching stick" to Pretty Dominique? Most probably that would offend him no matter what he felt for her. He - being a man - wouldn't like being used the way he obviously wanted to use her.

I don't think Dominique was right in doing what she did, no, on the contrary, but I take it that he was too obvious in his turning her into some kind of an inanimate sex-doll. Needless to say, one isn't allowed to carve up one's faithless lovers - even though one may be tempted now and then as some smug ones really seem to need it - just as one isn't allowed to mistreat them in other ways. However, new rules for love also makes the new rules for behavior so, unless one wants to learn it the hard way: Don't insult or offend each other. 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1136287/One-night-stand-man-wakes-lover-carved-arm.html 

 

https://www.jezebel.com/carving-your-name-on-someones-skin-while-they-sleep-a-5176982 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163483/Woman-carved-lovers-arm-drug-fuelled-fling-walks-free-court.html

 

https://www.oneindia.com/2009/02/05/brit-woman-slashes-lovers-arm-with-her-name-after-one-night.html