Fascinating Photos of a Young Sandra Bullock in the 1980s26 July 2024 | 1:50 pm
Sandra Bullock has come a long way from her quiet childhood in Arlington, Virginia. She went on to become an Academy Award-winning actress as well as one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. The woman who’s led hit movies like Speed, Miss Congeniality, The Proposal, The Blind Side, Gravity and Bird Box has also been the world’s highest paid actress at multiple points in her career.
While she’s remained busy at work since first hitting the scene in the late 1980s, Sandra’s also found time to devote to her own production company as well as to her two children. But it all started in the Washington, D.C., suburb where she was born to an opera singer mother and an Army employee father.
For much of her childhood, Sandra Bullock and her family, which includes younger sister Gesine Bullock-Prado, also lived in Nuremberg, Germany, as well as Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, before the family returned to Arlington, Virginia, where Sandra attended high school. She studied ballet and vocal arts as a child before taking part in numerous theater productions as a teenager. Upon graduating from East Carolina University with a drama degree, Sandra headed to the Big Apple to pursue her dream of acting full time. She supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker while auditioning and eventually landed a role in the off-Broadway play No Time Flat, which got her seen by a director who offered her a supporting role in the 1989 made-for-television film Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
Sandra Bullock closed out the 1980s by snagging small roles in a few independent films before landing her first on-screen lead role on the 1990 sitcom Working Girl. The NBC series was loosely based on the hit 1988 film of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, with Sandra taking over the part for the television adaptation. The midseason series follows a spunky, independent secretary who’s suddenly become a junior executive after charming the company’s owner. Unfortunately, the show drew low ratings and was short-lived: It was canceled after eight of the 12 episodes produced aired.
Here, below are some amazing photographs of a very young Sandra Bullock back in the late 1980s:
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Amazing Backstage Photographs Show Mick Jagger’s Outfits During the Rolling Stones’ 1975 Tour of the Americas26 July 2024 | 11:15 am
The Mick Jagger look—the sartorial embodiment of rock star swagger for the past 50 years—is unmistakable, and iconic. The hair, the lips, the unforgettable outfits, it’s all pure Mick. Though Jagger’s style is instantly recognizable, it has never been stagnant; the star evolves his look to suit each era, continuously finding himself at the forefront of trends. Whether he was embracing crushed velvet and dandy signatures in the early 1960s, morphing into a glam-rock androgyne in the 1970s, or shimmying across the stage in a spandex jumpsuit in the 1980s, Jagger helped redefine menswear mores. If he could dance in it, he wore it—even if it wasn’t exactly menswear, but instead borrowed from his latest paramour.
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After the departure of Mick Taylor, this was the Rolling Stones’ first tour with new guitarist Ronnie Wood. Announced on April 14 as merely playing with the band on the tour, it would not be until December 19 that he would be officially named a Rolling Stone.
The Tour of the Americas ’75 was not tied to support of any newly released material, as it began more than seven months after the release of their last studio album at the time, It’s Only Rock’n Roll. Instead, the compilation album Made in the Shade was released to capitalize on the tour's publicity.
The tour officially began on June 3, 1975 at the Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas; however first the group played two warmup shows on June 1 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The tour continued, playing mostly arenas in the United States and Canada, including six consecutive nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and five nights at The Forum in Los Angeles. However, a planned Latin American leg in Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela for the balance of August was cancelled due to a combination of currency fluctuations and security concerns. Four additional US dates were then added, culminating in a final performance on August 8 at Rich Stadium near Buffalo, New York.
30 Glamorous Photos of Raquel Welch as a Model in the 1960s and ’70s26 July 2024 | 9:14 am
American actress Raquel Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood’s vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell.
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| Raquel Welch as a model in the 1960s and ’70s |
Welch won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and reprised the role in its sequel the following year. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in Right to Die (1987). Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017).
In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History”. Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their “100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century” list.
Take a look at these glamorous photos to see portraits of a young Raquel Welch as a model in the 1960s and 1970s.
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| Raquel Welch photographed by Don Ornitz, 1965 |
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| Raquel Welch, photo by Angelo Frontoni, Italy, 1966 |
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| Raquel Welch, photo by Angelo Frontoni, Italy, 1966 |
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| Raquel Welch, photo by JP Laffont, 1966 |
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| Raquel Welch, photo by Pierluigi Praturlon, 1966 |
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