Went to the French bookstore yesterday to buy some easy reading material. The shopkeeper saw me pick up an adaptation of Jaws, so swiftly went for the jugular and fetched this beauty from the back…. A huge hardback graphic novel about the life of George Lucas. Absolutely loving it so far!
Share someone who looks stylish in stripes.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The annual rewinding of the big watch at Dennison watch maker’s shop in Holborn,London (1910). 📷 Roger Viollet.
James Doohan as Scotty sits at a control console aboard the USS Enterprise, wearing a red Starfleet uniform with a black collar and a delta insignia on his chest. He leans slightly forward with one hand resting on the console, his dark hair neatly combed to the side. Behind him are colorful control panels and futuristic set walls characteristic of the original Star Trek series bridge.
James Doohan wasn’t just Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, he was also a Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Then he turned to acting, was trained by Lorne Greene and even helped develop the Klingon language.
This is his story.
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Remembering the legendary Karen Carpenter, talented and ethereal singer and drummer, on what would have been her 76th birthday.
She was #BOTD on 3/2/1950 and sadly passed away at just 32 on 2/4/1983.
FACT OF THE DAY. 3 March 1943. 173 people were killed during a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green Station, London during a bombing raid. This was the worst British civilian loss of life in a single bombing incident during the Second World War.
Castel del Monte, a very unusual, totally symmetrical octagonal castle built in the 1240s in Apulia, Italy
Castel del Monte, a very unusual, totally symmetrical octagonal castle built in the 1240s in Apulia, Italy
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Pablo Picasso (1962). 📷 Arnold Newman
Great title!
So many of these terms are still used today. Calloway is my favourite performer of the Jazz Age and Swing Era.
"Nose Diving on the City," by Italian artist, Tullio Crali, 1939.
I propose that tomorrow be declared a national holiday in Canada so that we can all spend the day streaming SCTV.
SCTV will be available to stream next week
One year from today, the original returns to the big screen.
The expulsion of my ancestors by some of my other ancestors.
A poster for Mystery of the Wax Museum.
93 years ago:
Mystery of the Wax Museum (US)
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both p...
1933-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32652
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks preliminary drawings.
There's no denying this silly 100% AI piece (made in a single day) will bring Hollywood to its knees. The modern blockbuster is over. Hopefully, smaller indie films, fully created by humans, will be deemed premium content by the masses now. youtu.be/V5AFQaEbHQU?...
Exploring a tomb is an ideal first date.
Rick and Evie from the Mummy!
The Phantom
A black and white photo of Falk
Today is the anniversary of the Phantom, created by Lee Falk. His daily newspaper strip was first published on February 17, 1936, and a color Sunday strip followed on May 28, 1939.
#sammydavisjr meets #godzilla 🤯🤯🤯
Yes, this was a good one.
Starsky & Hutch: Detective Game. The box has a painting of them in the Gran Torino at night next to a bunch of photos of them from the tv show.
Fellas, you may think your wife is cool, but has she ever gone shopping at a Savers and then come home with a 1977 Starsky and Hutch board game for you?
Goodnight Gus.
Last night’s read: May 1942 issue of Thrilling Mystery. A few good stories, including one that anticipates the plot of Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train (1950). A bizarre tale by Frank Belknap Long to cap it off (about a cult and moths with human faces).
'The Blue Posts, Berwick Street, Soho' by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk
This looks so much like The Blue Posts on Newman Street in Fitzrovia. I didn’t know there were multiple pubs with the same name in the same general location.
My temptation is to say Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now as my personal favourite of Robert Duvall's. In truth, I feel the finest performance he ever gave was in George Lucas's terrifyingly prescient debut feature, 'THX 1138'.
If you haven't seen it, you need to!
#RobertDuvall #FilmSky
Dusty Springfield photographed by Harry Langdon, outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 1970.
Dusty Springfield in Los Angeles, 1970
Up next, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, Faye Dunaway and, Warren Beatty.
