Charles-isms

GLAM'MA-
Southern vernacular for "glamour".
Origins :Created by my friend Anthony Monday night when discussing why as a youth I preferred Dynasty over Knot's Landing. He said because I need "GLAM'MA"!!! Not glamour, but GLAM'MA! And he was so right!

To illustrate my point, enjoy one of my favorite scenes from Dynasty, featuring Alexis Carrington Colby and Dominique Deveraux...



And what the hell, this one too! Notice how very now Alexis' jacket is!...

Charles-isms

An ongoing list of my favorite words or phrases, either quoted from others or wholly/partial created by me...

Bovarian-
Relating to or in the style of Madame Emma Bovary, the title character in the eponymous Flaubert novel.
ie, "Lounging in my caftan, talking on my rotary phone, I feel perfectly Bovarian!"

My new favorite phrases come from the 1949 film Madame Bovary, directed by Vincent Minnelli, staring Jennifer Jones.
The first one is " Is there something wrong with wanting things to be beautiful?"
The second is "Happiness, Fashion, and High Romance."

Quelle chic!

A still of Jennifer Jones as Emma Bovary surrounded by beaux at the ball, from the film Madame Bovary.