TheBaronOfFratton

^Geez, everyone's a critic! Pah - if any of them were "Real Angels" then I wouldn't have forgotten to put them up there...

^She's "second hand" mate, we only care about the "real" ones...

^You know, for some people the term "Angel" just isn't enough. I mean, members want to tell us there's a "Head Angel" and that some "Angels" aren't really "Angels" at all - they're just "Bombshells", or they're "Supermodels"... And now we have this new phrase "Real Angels", you know, like Adri - how realer an "Angel" could you get? You don't want a "Second Hand Angel" do you? Not me, I'd feel distinctly short changed.So, to keep these members happy - and to sort out the 'proper' ones from these crappy pretend ones - I've compiled an easy-to-use "Angel" spreadsheet; so you can quickly check just how "Angely" your "Angel" is. THE TOTALLY SPURIOUS ANGEL-WATCHERS GUIDE TO TELL YOUR ANGELS APART (AND POINTLESSLY SET UP YET ANOTHER STRATA FOR SOME STOOPID REASON) 1. REAL ANGELS: 2. SECOND HAND ANGELS: 3. ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD: 4. FALLEN ANGELS: 5. QUASI-ANGELS: 6. CHARLIE'S ANGELS: 7. CRISS ANGEL: 8. KURT ANGLE: No doubt you'll still bitch, but just accept this as FACT - and that it's all for your own good, silly heads...

^This is Risa Yoshiki, my current GI obsession, and these are some typical Gravure shots from her most recent photo-book - just to give you a taste of the aesthetic: Personal preferences aside, these are fairly standard poses and outfits. The quality is always good, with about 100 shots per book, the settings of which switch from studio to totally random locales as you can see!

^Just get rid of Adriana because the whole thing makes VS looks silly and immature. Just get rid of Ed Razked and Monika Mitro because the whole thing makes VS looks silly and immature. ^Just get rid of VS because the whole thing makes me acts silly and immature.

DOUTZEN KROES HOLIDAY ROUND-ROBIN Hallo! Just wanted to remind everyone that I was pregnant during the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show too. And I also had a baby in January with my husband. I'm back this year, in the show (after that necessary absence) and I'm a Victoria's Secret "Angel" - so hopefully I'll get some special wings or something to make me stand out? Sorry to take up anybody's time - I just thought you might not have known...

^I already feel bad about that - but it was just sitting there... ^Didn't we suffer Anne and Adam enough last year? Maybe this year, when Adam performs, Anne can get some of her bitches to do as they're told and stand up and clap obsequiously for him too?

^Just get rid of Adriana because the whole thing makes VS looks silly and immature.

^ I suppose anything is 'porn' if you want it to be though?!

^Not that I was invited, but Behati and Keith Richards in the same room might have been too much for me anyway! Modelinia's "A Bombshell A Day" has finally gotten around to her too - nothing new to us here though: (Source: Modelinia)

I like the new Poirot casting... (Source: BeePrinsloo/twitter)

^Actually the word "gravure" itself is a printing term - but gravure models, or "idols" (GIs) as they're more commonly called are japanese models who are posing primarily for men's magazines, dvds, and the photobooks (PBs) that are often dedicated to one particular model at a time (and which I post a lot of here!). Although you can get nude GI shoots, it's mostly about bikinis/swimsuits, skimpy clothing and 'uniforms' and isn't blatantly sexual - more like teasing and provocative. There, that's almost a specialist subject for me!!!

^Found this wonderful accompanying backstage shot on WWD:

^Only found this from the show so far, hopefully bigger and better to come: (Source: zimbio.com)

Part of a series of portraits called 'Wild Things' for COACD/Kathy Lo:

+ Lovely candid, outside of Anna Sui during NYFW (via Models Jam):

^I suppose these are slightly better in quality, if you're gonna be like that:

^No, I've never seen Irma Vep - and considering her outfit in that film it seems terribly remiss of me! I first saw Maggie Cheung in Jackie Chan's Police Story (on an aside here, I much prefer subtitle to dubbing. Perhaps weirdly, I find them less distracting than the often terrible and/or uninterested 'acting' by often disinterested, disembodied voices... Here we are lucky, as unless it's animation it's always subtitled - the ebb and flow of language, even when I have no idea what's being said, is preferable to the shitty juxtaposition of a - for me - spanish or english speaking hack in an obviously foreign locale! That all said, the "sterling" work done on Police Story, ortother movies of it's ilk - such as Drunken Master are kind of made by this bad dubbing - paradoxically making it indispensable to it's enjoyment! Thus endeth this incredibly long parentheses!), but really remember her from the great In The Mood For Love and it's sorta sequel 2064 (Gong Li is nice in that too!). Have to say though, my particular favourite in Chinese/Hong Kong cinema is Fan Bing Bing... I have always liked Lucy Liu - but I'm sure you're right. Are there many more US Asian actresses lurking about then? Like I said, I know Jamie Chung (and started her thread here), and I know of Brenda Strong from The Social Network - and that she has something to do with Disney, but that's about it. I think it was mighty bold (in regards to Maggie Q) of whichever of your network's commissioned Nikita with an Asian face as the lead and title character (not to mention female too) - sad as that is. I remember the big noise made about LOST's multi-ethnic cast and how great that was when it first came out (having TWO - yes a whole TWO black main characters, AND TWO Asian main characters too, plus Sayid - an "Iraqi" amongst it's initial ensemble), but ultimately the main focus of that show revolved around either Jack vs. Locke or Jack vs. Sawyer over Kate - all of whom were very much white... If it's any consolation though, I'm sure our population is 5% Asian (specifically Chinese) too - and you won't see any on Argentine TV aside from this Japanese sushi-chef who does a cookery show!

More new PINK gubbins - this is promoting their 'Collegiate Collection':

^I think the majority of the girls in Yeti 2: The Revenge (not to mention Yeti 3: Snow Day, Yeti 4: Yetis in Miami, and the inevitable reboot after everybody said part 4 had "lost track of the the Yeti's original premise" - Yeti Vs. Karate Kid) aren't just MTA's (or model turned actress) but rather model/slash/actress/slash/whatever. And so it all kind of works out, I suppose? ^You could always go see Maggie Cheung in Asian films! She's in a lot of them! I take Joe's point though - that maybe "Asian" faces are underrepresented in US cinema? I can only think of Lucy Liu and Jamie Chung off-hand who are Estadounidense and in major movies. I mean you have Jackie Chan (Hong Kong), Jet Li (China), and to a lesser extent Zhang Ziyi (China) making the 'crossover' to Hollywood - but their success is kind of predicated on chopsocky fare... I guess I'm kind of getting off the remit of this thread though. How about Maggie Q? I think she's gorgeous!

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Korea Electric Show 2011:

Part 2:

^Awww, dainty as ever! Round 3 of the Korea Speed Festival, form earlier this month:

Young Jump No.47, Nov '11: