I hope you'll bear with this old man as he creates his two-hundred and eighty-third post about how much things have changed in the last 20 years. Just prior to the creation of thighboots.com in '97, James
snail-mailed me a newspaper (ask your grand-dad kids) copy of the picture above for me to scan. Scanners were expensive and challenging to set up (mine required me to install a SCSI card). Mailing me a physical copy of a picture he happened to snag from a newspaper 7 years earlier was the only way to get a grainy, half-toned version of this picture back in the day. I happened to think of it the other day. Google image search "Jane Fonda Ted Turner basketball game"-boom there it is. A random 27 year old picture of real interest only to boot-fans. I don't care how rude people are on twitter, I ain't giving up the interwebs.
BTW-I only just now noticed the legs in the foreground are wearing leather and suede OTK's.
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Fu@k. The more I think about this, the more I think I might be combining two memories. I think James DID have a scanner and e-mailed me this picture, but I had another friend who did not have a scanner who snail-mailed me pictures to scan. I think, maybe. Is it time for soup yet?
The opening 15 seconds of Book club has Jane pulling on leather thigh highs unobscured. Some further bootate, but that's the $ shot.
ReplyDeleteYep, nicely bootie for the first few scenes, dries up pretty quickly after that. The really good blu-ray rips are just starting to show up. It's on my short list
DeleteAWESOME pic. And what's crazy is that I have no recollection of it. If I have seen it before, I've inexplicably forgotten about it, which makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteAlso ... "SCSI card" made me laugh. I was an early user of scanners (for work). They've come a long way.
-JohnSmith14