Performance dir. Nicholas Roeg and Donald Cammell, 1968.

never not thinking ab mick jagger in performance who gave him the right to look so fucking pretty in that movie

Anita as Pherber in Performance, 1968 photos by Cecil Beaton

Born 80 years ago (27 August 1943) today: Hollywood’s transgressive pouty, perverse and malevolent sex kitten / nymphette / wild child Tuesday Weld. I love the adorable Weld’s performances in Rock, Rock, Rock (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Lord Love a Duck (1966), Pretty Poison (1968) and Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977). Hell, she’s even beguiling in the otherwise execrable The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960). One film of hers I yearn to see but never have: Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) co-starring b-movie vixen Mamie Van Doren. Come to think of it, I’ve also never seen Go Wild in the Country (1962), in which Weld is Elvis Presley’s leading lady. But Weld is almost more famous for the parts she rejected: she was first choice for Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) ("I didn't have to play it. I was Lolita” she explained) as well as Bonnie in Bonnie & Clyde (1967) – which went to Faye Dunaway – and Pherber in Performance (1970) – which went to Anita Pallenberg. Weld’s bad girl persona wasn’t restricted to the screen: as Slant website put it, “Weld dated men three times her age, drank heavily, smoked pot, and was surly and difficult with reporters, once appearing on a daytime talk show in a bathrobe and bare feet. Sam Shepard later wrote of the incident, “I fell in love with Tuesday Weld on that show. I thought she was the Marlon Brando of women.”” In the tradition of late-period Garbo or Dietrich present-day Weld lives in deep seclusion and hasn’t been seen in public in years. Let’s hope she’s found some serenity.

Mr Turner n Pherber

Photo by Cecil Beaton

turner is a girl and pherber is a boy but theyre a gay couple but theyre a lesbian couple . do you see my vision here

i’m only like halfway through performance 1970 so maybe this does happen idk but turner chas and pherber should have fucked raw

Anita in the movie Performance where she played the part of Pherber🥀🖤

Via @anitapallenbergarchives on Instagram🥀🖤

Clockwork Orange letter, signed by Robert Fraser, 1967-68

This item was up for auction at Christie's in 2014. Robert Fraser signed as Strawberry "Bob", which was Keith Richards' nickname for him, apparently due to his penchant for pink suits.

Christie's Description: "A rare signed petition protesting against the selection of David Hemmings over Mick Jagger for the lead role of Alex in A Clockwork Orange, circa 1967-1968, the five line typescript document on black bordered mourning paper addressed to screenwriter Terry Southern, telling him: We, The Undersigned, Do Hereby Protest With Extreme Vehemence As Well As Shattered Illusions (in You) The Preference Of Devid Hemmings Above ***** Mick Jagger ***** In The Role Of Alex In 'The Clockwork Orange, the document signed in black felt pen at the foot by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, the four Beatles' signatures above that of Anita Pallenberg, signed as Anita ("the heater") [Pallenberg's signature in ballpoint pen faded] and close to Donald Cammell's signature Don the Drom and his caricature of a camel; fourteen other signatures on the document include: Peter Blake, Jann Blake, Marianne Faithfull, James Fox, Robert Fraser who inscribed a comment HEAR! HEAR! and signed as Strawberry "Bob", David Cammell, Sandy Lieberson and Christian Marquard, 1p. -- 13x7in. (33x17.9cm.)"

Christie's Essay: "According to screenwriter Terry Southern it was photographer Michael Cooper who first interested him in Anthony Burgess' futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange. It was also Cooper who was behind the petition in this lot. Southern said ...Michael turned me onto 'A Clockwork Orange' and so I took an option on the book and was going to write a screenplay. Then David Hemmings came out with 'Blow Up' and the agency said "We'll package this thing with David Hemmings because he's hot". Michael [Cooper] just freaked out and said "Mick Jagger has got to play this part". He drew up a letter edged in black which said: "We the undersigned hereby insist that Mick Jagger play the part". It was signed by all the Beatles, Marianne Faithfull and Robert Fraser...

Terry Southern's screenplay adaptation of Burgess' novel was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in May 1967, the board declared that: ..any film of this script would not be shown in Britain.. It was at this point that Paramount, the studio backing Southern pulled out, and Southern gave the book to Kubrick who just put [the book] to one side and forgot about it for a year and a half....

Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager in the mid-sixties, was also keen to make a film of Burgess' book with the Stones playing the violent quartet led by the hero Alex, who was to be played by Mick Jagger. In his book The Stanley Kubrick Companion, author James Howard records that at one point, Andy Warhol and David Bailey co-owned the screen rights to the book [presumably Warhol and Bailey's interest in it post-dated that of Paramount and Southern], and had wanted to use the Rolling Stones.... a project which folded when the group reportedly 'demanded exhorbitant fees' and the rights were subsequently allowed to lapse. Stanley Kubrick, who had been given a copy of the book by Terry Southern during the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1967, eventually took the project on, but was put off by...the reputation of decadence that Jagger already carried...and opted instead for Malcolm McDowell whose dynamic acting debut in Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If... had impressed him.

The inclusion of so many names on this petition also associated with the film Performance suggest that its date is closer to 1968 when work first began on the film. Donald Cammell directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg and is also credited as the screenwriter. James Fox played one of the leading roles - Chas Devlin, and Anita Pallenberg played Pherber. Sandy Lieberson is credited as the film's producer. A number of those who have signed the document are also linked with another momentous artistic production of the late 1960s, The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in 1967. The Beatles' and Stones' mutual friend, art gallery owner Robert Fraser signed the petition, as did Peter Blake, designer of the ground-breaking Sgt. Pepper album cover, who was introduced to Epstein and EMI by Fraser. Photographer Michael Cooper, who apparently devised the petition, also shot the Sgt. Pepper album cover."

Terry Southern, Michael Cooper, and many of the other signers were good friends of Fraser.

Just listened to: “Doctor Who: The End Of The Beginning”

The Universe is in a state of crisis, facing destruction from the results of a strange spatio-temporal event. And the Doctor is involved in three different incarnations - each caught up in a deadly adventure, scattered across time and space.

The whole of creation is threatened - and someone is hunting the Doctor. The three incarnations of the Doctor must join together to confront their implacable pursuer - but in doing so will they unleash a still greater threat?

Starring Peter Davison as The Fifth Doctor, Colin Baker as The Sixth Doctor, Sylvester McCoy as The Seventh Doctor and Paul McGann as The Eighth Doctor.

Also starring Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough, Miranda Raison as Constance Clarke and India Fisher as Charlotte “Charley” Pollard.

Guest starring Robyn Holdaway as Calypso Jonze, Kieran Bew as Dwayne Pherber, Tim Faulkner as Highgate, Richard Goulding as John Quarrington, Youssef Kerkour as Ibrahim, Glen McCready as El Zeddo, Kevin McNally as Vakrass and David Schofield as Gostak. 

Written by Robert Valentine.

Performance, 1968 dir. Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell

Performance is such an interesting film because at the beginning Chas is a man who has never once thought about who he is or the things he does. He is a gangster, and that's all he is. It encompasses his entire being.

And then he meets Turner and Pherber and the others, and they get to him in ways no one else ever has. Suddenly it's not so simple anymore, he's not so simple anymore. And no matter how much he wishes he could go back, he can't. And I don't think he can reconcile these two diametrically opposed parts of himself.

an important thing to note ab performance is that it's not turner who has two girlfriends, it's pherber

The big three..

Pherber, Lucy, Mr Turner

I still think the funniest part of Performance is that Mick Jagger’s character has two girlfriends and yet they’re both pretty open that they prefer one another to Mick Jagger and are even considering running off together without him