Thanks, Erin! I can't do the gold, but the titanium is a possibility.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Did you get a piercing? Or is it ears?
ita! Stop frightening the children!
Kristin, I don't know about surgical steel, but I plate my platinum wedding set with rhodium every couple of years. It's the only way.
Erin, I now have a vision of you, holsters full of glads. "Ka-CHING! Draw, pardner!"
Fours pages written. It's a start.
I am not looking at that other link.
Hee. That belt would look lovely which my stocking cap, sarong and fuzzy slippers, which is what I'm currently wearing.
If hurling flowers doesn't work, I can pelt people with my space heater.
Deb--I don't know anything about budgets, sorry. I am sure there were still lots of WWII jeeps floating around Africa in 1954. Here's a link of movies released that year from IMDB:
Once again, the wife reminds me I write too slowly.
Robin, you know what's weird, about the leftover Jeeps? They featured fairly prominently in the prologue to my fourth series books, as well. All this research for about four lines and a mental image...
I wonder what movies on location actually cost back in the when old days?
Did you get a piercing? Or is it ears?
Erin, I've had my belly pierced for ten years, but I took it out about 5 years ago because "it kept getting infected". What I later found out was really happening was a wicked nickel allergy...I knew I had this issue with earrings, but I thought surgical steel was nickel-free. Turns out nsm.
I just got it re-tapered and am now in search of pretty new ones.
African Queen had a 1.5 mil budget. Impressive for those days, but 2 big stars.
I'd love to get my hands on that thng about Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan, that Erin found
Deb, I think I've seen Champagne Safari at Le Video. Only takes a phone call to check. Also, I know I've seen home movies shot during the making of The African Queen. Maybe on a Biography special on John Huston or Kate Hepburn? Maybe on a special edition of AQ?
A step further out, there's also the movie White Hunter, Black Heart which is a fictionalized account of the movie shoot for The African Queen.