FILM, TV AND ACTORS: Film Noir, Marilyn Monroe, Morticia from 'The Addams Family', Emma Peel from 'The Avengers', Pussy Galore from 'Goldfinger', Tiffany Case from 'Diamonds Are Forever', Ava Gardner in 'The Sun Also Rises', 'The Night of the Iguana' and 'Pandora and the Flying Dutchman', Gene Tierney in 'Laura', 'Where The Sidewalk Ends' and 'Leave Her To Heaven'. 'Casablanca', 'Maltese Falcon', 'The Big Sleep'.
SINGERS & COMPOSERS: Edif Piaf and Juliette Greco as well as Madonna before she went wherever she is now. Kate Bush. k.d. lang. Maria Callas for making opera something of true passion. Chris Isaac. Johnny Cash. Elvis. Lennon. The Beach Boys. Bernard Herrmann. Georg Kajanus.
DIRECTORS: Alfred Hitchcock for 'Psycho' (the best film ever made about a serial killer) and 'North By Northwest'. Ridley Scott for 'Alien', 'Gladiator', 'Hannibal' and 'Black Hawk Down'. David Fincher for 'Se7en'. Anything by Tarantino & Rodriguez. 'Sin City' is where I want to live.
WRITERS: Colin Wilson, Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, James Ellroy, Margaret Atwood, Truman Capote for 'In Cold Blood'.
FAV TV: 'CSI: Vegas', Law and Order', 'Perry Mason' (1957-66. Out now on DVD. Each episode is like a mini-film noir.), John Stuart.
MORE FILMS: Anything with palm trees in it, to give me the excuse to have Margaritas. Anything that takes place in Las Vegas, to give me the excuse to have martinis.
1: METAL MAN (Wilde/Burgess) 1981 2: PHANTOM LADY (Wilde/Burgess/Walters) 1982 3: THE ASSASSIN (Wilde/Burgess/Walters) 1982 4. SEE NO EVIL (Wilde/Burgess/Walters) 1982
Barbie is best known as THE FEMALE CENOBITE in the classic cult horror movie 'HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II' by Clive Barker. She has performed in cabaret in Bangkok; appeared in the Bollywood blockbuster, 'JANBAZZ' (being the first classically trained robotic mime artist to perform in a Bollywood movie) and was a vicious mugger in 'DEATH WISH III'. Barbie also robotically mimed with British TV legends Morecambe & Wise and the famous TV hand puppet 'Sooty'.
In the early 1980's, Barbie danced professionally at the top nightclubs of New York City, London, and Amsterdam with the mime/dance/music group, SHOCK, which spawned the duo, Tik and Tok. SHOCK supported such artists as Gary Numan, Ultravox and Adam & the Ants and released two singles on RCA Records: 'Angel Face' and 'Dynamo Beat'.
While working as a television presenter, Barbie wrote the scripts for all of the programs that she appeared in, which include: 'The American Hot 100' (Skytrax TV); 'The Morning Show' and 'Supersonic' (Music Box TV); 'The Small Screen', a film review program for London Weekend Television; 'Hold Tight' a music show for Granada Television as well as a live music program, 'The Gig', for London Weekend Television. Barbie also presented the movie history program, 'Sprockets' which is still sporadically shown on various free-to-view channels (such as The Horror Movie Channel) on Sky Television UK.
Over the years, Barbie has interviewed such pop personalties as Cliff Richard, Iggy Pop, The Sisters of Mercy, Pepsi & Shirley, Roger Taylor of Queen, John Lydon (the Sex Pistol's Johnny Rotten), The B52's, Lisa Stansfield and Black as well as actors Nicholas Cage and Hugh Grant.
Barbie has also worked as a film critic for the prestigious Film Review Annual; as an assistant casting director for the BBC production of 'The Buddha of Suburbia'; and as a casting director for numerous commercials for British television as well as for MTV's London production of 'The Real World'.
As a song writer, Barbie has worked with Tim Dry (Tik from Tik and Tok) and Richard James Burgess & John Walters (Landscape).
Barbie is currently editing her first crime novel, 'the Venus complex', due for publication soon.
Screenshot from Barbie's 'Phantom Lady' video reprinted through kind permission of the director, David Rose. Main Photograph by Tim Dry.
I'll be appearing at the Horrorhound Convention from the 28th to the 30th of March. Check out the link:
Watch the video pitch for Barbie's book 'The Venus Complex' on the Meet the Author Web Site:
Hi Barbie Wilde - let's go make the movie. In the meantime, myself and Luke Rhinehart welcome you aboard Team Luke, we hope you enjoy the ride. May chance be always with you...
NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER: AN EXCLUSIVE SHOCK DVD.
Contains the 7" and 12" mixes of the A&B sides of SHOCK's 2 singles,the whole live set performed by SHOCK (Robert Pereno, LA Richards, Barbie Wilde, Tik and Tok, Carole Caplin) when they supported Gary Numan at Wembley Arena in 1981, the video promos for the two RCA singles, a short live set filmed at the Venue in London in 1980 (featuring 'Plastic Joe' and Carole Caplin in a legendary performance of 'Ricky's Hand'), as well as some rare footage from TV shows.
Do you need this DVD in your life? Of course you do! Rush now to: http://www.timdry.co.uk/shock.htm and you'll discover how to make this rare artifact your very own. Enjoy!
Hi BW Didn't know you had been working away, hope you get your publisher sorted out. Noir release will be great...cannot wait, even though I know the songs nearly off by heart, I'm still excited for the coming album
Hello B You have gone quite, what you up to then....I'm getting more excited for the up coming release, 3rd September, the day a great album hits the streets from NOIR and the day kids go back to School and Collage, so I'll be able to listen to it in peace...
No further thoughts on an album from your self yet B... We'll all wait, no matter how long it takes...
Hi Barbie What you up to then....I feel you might be somewhat excited about a duo's soon release, I am...maybe that good feeling Ive been having for over year and a half was aimed at wrong two...this could be it...let's hope and keep fingers crossed...
What you upto yourself lately. I seem tp have hot a point of endless tirednessa nd can't be bothered...but snap out of that I need to...
