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A
Word
From
The
Web
Master |
 This
site began at nylon.net as
a tongue-in-cheek single page to complement the Goon
Show pages. It was never meant to get this big, but its size, I guess,
is proportional to the assets of its subject. Even if she was not a great
artiste, she was certainly a great pioneer and phenomenon of modern celebrity.
This is what this site celebrates.
I have made it a personal quest to discover everything about Sabrina. I call
it a research project into the role of the internet in archiving memes
and preserving our shared social history. Other people call
it pathetic and sad... anyway! If you've read this far, you obviously
agree with me, so to hell with the others.
She was a model, TV hostess, actor, singer, stage performer - and had
no talent. Even she admitted that. Why then, was the Western world and
the bearded president of Cuba so
keen to see her that - at one time -10,000 people in Perth caused an
airport terminal to collapse?
Why did The Goon Show audience wet
themselves whenever Spike Milligan slipped another reference
to Sabrina past the BBC censors?
Like most of the male world (albeit 40 years after the event) I was
intrigued by the lass. Were they real? (Yes, and they were insured).
Who was she? (Norma Ann Sykes.) How did a bed-ridden teenage Cheshire
girl end up as an international icon of femininity who rivalled Jayne
Mansfield, Diana Dors and Marilyn herself? Why did she cause hysteria
that made young people of all sexes literally push
Frank Sinatra out of the way to get her autograph?
Those questions, and more, are the subject of the SabrinaStuff Site... Continued...
for those who are interested
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Welcome
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Sabrina
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Sabrina -
Norma Ann Sykes - was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the
cast of the Goon Show, and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings
during the 1950s and 1960s.
Falling
more or less accidentally into an industry for which she was - at first
- unqualified, she endured, trained, paid her dues, and thrived to become
the biggest, least talented, most photographed celebrity of her day.
Was
she, as she herself once said, just a dumb blonde with a 42½ inch
bust and a 17 inch waist? Or was she an unacknowledged promotional genius with a native sense of publicity that would make most agents weep with
envy?
Please enjoy the phenomenon that was our Sabrina who - contrary to rumour
- is alive, gorgeous, and fairly well in Hollywood, and in
contact with the Sabrina Site!
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 Photos - ooh - over 1,200 or so |
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 Magazines - about 100 to enjoy.
A fascinating farrago of Fleet Street
facts and fantasy.
Read all of it; believe half of it.
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Readers'
Memories
The knees may be older, and arthritic, but many still tremble with memories of Sabrina
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 The Elite BOOBS Society - Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina - for discerning gentlefolk only |
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Did you date Sabrina? (Yeah, yeah. Sure - we believe you).
Anyway, these big names really dated Sabrina. |
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Can YOU support the Sabrina Site?
For example, do you possess any of this elusive Sabrinastuff? |
Do
You
Want
BOOBS? |
Join the Best
Of Our Beautiful Sabrina (BOOBS) program to support
the site. You get access to high-resolution, unwatermarked
scans of unique Sabrinastuff for
contributing a little money to help the
Sabrina Fighting Fund.
I will continue to offer normal sized, screen-resolution
(72 dpi) watermarked scans on this site in keeping with the Sabrinasite
policy of always remaining free to Sabrina Lovers. Donate a little, and get the Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina.
If you help Support Sabrina, I guess you'd be a BRA - Brave Reliable Assistant. Hmmm. Am I taking this acronym thing a bit too far now?
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Vital
Sabrina
Stats |
| Stage name: |
Sabrina (origins) |
| Real name: |
Norma Ann Sykes |
| Born: |
19 May 1936 in Stockport,
Cheshire, England. She was not born
in Blackpool or Wales in 1933 or 1938. |
| Measurements: |
42½-18-36 (the "½" was
vital). She did grow as time went on! |
| AKA: |
"The Hunchfront of Lime Grove"
"The British Bosom"
"The Careless Cleavage"
"Britain's Jayne Mansfield"
"Britain's finest hourglass"
"England's Maid of the Mountains"
"Queen of the Big Top"
"The Juliet with the Built-in Balcony"
"The average Englishman's Goddess of Glamour."
"Poor photographer's model"
"British TV's first sex symbol" (source) |
| Career span: |
Working years: 1954-1969.
Golden years: 1955-1959 |
| Talents: |
Pinup star, TV celebrity, stage actress, singer,
film and TV actor, cabaret and concert performer, self-publicity. Driving [MP3]. Cooking [MP3].
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| Current status: |
Alive, fairly well (with leg and back problems), and living in North Hollywood. |
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In
Search
Of
Sabrina
Stuff |
 If
you have, or can help locate Sabrina stuff, I would be delighted
if you contacted me. There are
precious few undiscovered pictures still to be on the internet but I'm sure there
are still a few knees trembling out there, especially in the UK, and those knee-owners
may have a buried Sabrina treasure or two in the sideboard. This is an international
philanthropic enterprise, for the benefit of red-blooded males everywhere!
Young
men: go to your aged fathers and grandfathers and say, "Do
you remember Sabrina?" If their eyes glaze over and they start
drooling, let me know. Personal
recollections of Sabrina are valuable.
You
knee-tremblers of the Sabrina generation: wait 'til the missus
is out and rummage through your secret stash of goodies you don't think
she knows about. There may just be a magazine, photo or love letter
related to Sabrina. Perhaps you have one of these elusive
goodies stashed away
in your pyjama drawer? If you find something, steady your trembling fingers
and let
me know.
(Puts "Land
of Hope and Glory" on gramophone)
Go to it, lads!
We cannot let the memory of Sabrina sink into the abyss of forgotten
legends. We owe it to our sons and grandsons!
(Wipes tear from eye.)
And the final
appeal is from Sabrina herself (in Mountains
of the Moon)
Thank you - thank you all!
Can you support
the Sabrina Stuff Site?
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Sabrina
Links
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Do you have a site related to the Sabrina era? Email
me to get a link here
Email
All hail Queen Sabrina!
(Click her to see her full size)
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| Can I - by any freakishly unlikely chance - help the Sabrinasite by selflessly looking at nubile, naked naughty vintage ladies? Golly. I know the chances are REALLY slim, but is there any chance at ALL? |
An odd question, but the odder answer is YES! Visit Retroraunch and enjoy 100 years of naughty naked nymphs! If you subscribe a bit, a tiny slice goes towards elevating Sabrina's assets!
RetroRaunch - Go on, you know you're interested!
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Where do Sabrina Fans come from? |
No Greenland visitors yet - dammit! Come on Greenland. You're letting everyone down. |
In
Conclusion |
Thank you for visiting, and I hope some happy memories and loins have
been stirred.
Many people have gone "Corrrr - blimey - I remember those!"
since the first Sabrina page was created at nylon.net on 16 June 2000.
It moved to sabrinastuff.com on 1 Sept 2003.
Moved back to semi-retire at nylon.net/sabrina on 12 April 2005
Back to full steam in 2008. It's strange how things go.
Visit
the original site from way back when.
Last modified:
Friday, July 3, 2009 2:35 PM
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