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. 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 me the excuse to have Margaritas. Anything that takes place in Las Vegas, to give me the excuse to have martinis.
1. Metal Man (B. Wilde/RJ Burgess)
2. See No Evil (Wilde/Burgess/Walters)
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.
BARBIE REGRETS TO SAY THAT ’REAL FEMALE CENOBITE’ IS NOT ACTUALLY A BAND, HOWEVER, SHE PORTRAYED A REAL FEMALE CENOBITE AND SHE WAS ONCE IN A BAND AS WELL AS BEING A SOLO ARTISTE. SO THERE YA GO!
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:
Hello thanx for the add, Hellraiser is my favorit movies. I have the 8 films but I like the 1st very well. You're splendide, the make up change reality your visage. To soon I hope. Julian D.
Thanks for being a friend to Dawn. We appreciate your support and that you have become one of Dawn's friends even though she has left us.
We could use your help, again. MySpace wiped out Dawn’s account on Tuesday. We had built her page up to 35,000 friends. We would ask that you spread the word as to what happened to see if we can get some of Dawn’s friends back before her Video is released.
There will be aspects of Dawn’s video that have never been done in a music video before. And probably will never happen again. As unique and special of a person Dawn was to those who knew her. Our goal was to make this video a reflection of those same qualities that Dawn possessed. As well as sending a message as it relates to cancer.
MySpace may have killed the number of people Dawn’s video will reach. And even though Dawn is no longer be with us. We won’t like MySpace kill her spirit.
Loving all your pics ^_^ Didn't occur to me until recently that you had worked with Tik & Tok. I was lucky enough to see them perform at Elektrofest 2 years ago.
