One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for December 21, 2011

Are you ready for your close-up, Zasu?

Hey, this is a ‘G’ Rated TV show!

I’ve always thought cloches were classy. I love seeing them in movies of the 20’s or 30’s on Turner Classic Movies.

Linguistic tidbit: “Cloche” is French for “bell” refering to the shape, from the same Latin root as English “clock” or the first part of German “Glockenspiel”.

Ruthie is having a clasic TV moment with the grand’s.

I’m so young I had to look that last one up.

Had to remind myself that OBH normally doesn’t take place in the present (9/11 tributes excepted). If it did, Grandpa would be either unusually young for a Zasu admirer or unusually old for Ruthie’s grandpa.

They are a terrific old couple. :)

I never thought of Zasu Pitts as being particularly desirable by 1920’s-30’s male film-goers. She was the Olive Oyl of live-action cinema.

So .. you’re making a cloche call?

My mother used to wear a cloche (only a little before my time) as I was adult in the late 50s.

saw cloches for sale in target yesterday – didn’t know they had a special name

love those old hats, very chic :)