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20 Nostalgia-Inducing Photo Booth Snaps of Famous People

By Emily Temple on

[Editor's note: It's Labor Day, so your devoted Flavorwire team is taking a break. To keep you entertained, we're leaving you with our most popular features of the summer months. This post originally ran July 14th.] Here at Flavorpill, we love a photo booth. There’s something so satisfying (and pleasantly retro) about the art of the instant photograph, and we love the spontaneity that always seems to come from all those quick photos in succession, with only a small space to work with. But we’re not alone in our photo booth love. Actors, musicians, artists and celebrities of all kinds have also been known to step behind the cheap velvet curtain and indulge in the fun of automatic photography, and inspired by these shots of Elvis we recently spotted at Retronaut, we’ve pulled an Amélie and obsessively collected a few of the results here. … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we remembered Buddy Holly on what would have been the music icon’s 75th birthday. We decided that Jeff Tweedy and the Black Eyed Peas absolutely do not mix. We read a few letters penned by a young Ernest Hemingway. We got misty while watching Jimmy Kimmel’s… Read More

Music

Listen to a 12-Year-Old Buddy Holly's First-Ever Recording

By Emily Temple on

If you’re like us, you’ve been over at NPR pretty much nonstop for the last week, listening to their stream of Rave On Buddy Holly before it officially drops. We did, however, have time to stumble across this gem over at BoingBoing: a full cut of 12-year-old Buddy Holly’s first ever recording, ‘My Two Timin’ Woman,’ captured on a wire recorder. At first it’s strange to hear Holly’s pre-pubescent voice, but pretty soon you’ll hear that familiar plaintive croon shine through. Click through to listen, and let us know what you think in the comments! … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. George Clooney’s The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Williams’s play Farragut North, which was inspired by events in Howard Dean’s 2004 Presidential primary campaign, will open the Venice Film Festival on August 31st. The film’s all-star cast features Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella, and Evan Rachel Wood.… Read More

Celebrity

The 10 Most Expensive Pieces of Celebrity Memorabilia

By Paul Hiebert on

Over the weekend, three X-rays of Marilyn Monroe’s chest were sold for a grand total of $45,000 at a movie memorabilia auction in Las Vegas. The X-rays were originally taken from a hospital visit in 1954, when Monroe was 28. Experts estimated the X-rays would fetch $3,000, but it turns out the price of owning objects that have some sort of relationship to famous people, no matter how tenuous, is worth a whole lot more.

To celebrate celebrities — because that’s what they’re for, aren’t they? — we decided to make a list of cherished memorabilia that people were willing to pay a hefty fee to possess. The list includes a helmet, wig, and pair of glasses. … Read More