Generate Islamic star patterns with Taprats, a free JAVA applet, and save them as scalable eps files.

Wow! A little cropping and you have the basis for creating exotic textures Like the ones I used in Harem.

Oil… Black Gold… Texas “T”

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Warner Bros had such a string of hits with the Gold Diggers movies they couldn’t get them out the door fast enough! MGM fired back with this reunion of hit-makers Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown who had won the Oscar in 1929 with Broadway Melody, the world’s first cinema musical. The Broadway Melody sequels steal shamelessly from Busby Berkeley’s genius, combining stage tricks and camera magic with eyepopping choreography and hummable tunes, but they differ in three important ways: you actually LIKE the characters in the MGM movies, the Gold Diggers musicals star Dick Powell — Melody features Eleanor Powell, and the Melodies take the even numbered years (’36, ‘38, 40) while the Gold Diggers take the odd (33, 35, 37).
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Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

Busby Berkeley’s war of the sexes.

Star Maidens (1975)

If you’re a fan of THUNDERBIRDS or SPACE:1999 then you might be curious about this obscure TV show made shortly after the Andersons’ divorced. Although she is uncredited, the hand of Sylvia Anderson is all over this ambitious but mostly haphazard production: Gogo- booted guards in day-glow crash helmets, delicious sets and props that have more in common with a Pucci gown than technology, romantic innuendos and social situations too advanced for a space-rocket adventure….

Star Maidens isn’t just a campy role-reversal. It explores what happens when worlds collide, and the ripple effect each has on the other’s culture, albeit played out in a silly melodrama with a handful of characters shot on as low-budget as possible….
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