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Wacky bee hijinks #BMovieManiacs

Red demon with big ears, horns, and a beard

Pitch finally figured out how to ruin Christmas. #BMovieManiacs

I was going to make a lame Beatles joke but then I remembered that there actually is an album titled Let It Bee (by Voice of the Beehive). #BMovieManiacs

Oppose Nationwide Book Ban Bill ⭑ 5 Calls Rather than prosecuting people involved in child sex trafficking, House Republicans are trying to “Stop the Sexualization of Children” by turning the …

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Andrzej Wajda (with scenes from his film "Katyń") - BOTD

Stop this ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico If approved, this project will be BP’s first completely new oilfield development in the Gulf of Mexico since the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Tell the federal government to reject BP’s ultra-deepwater drilling project. Send a message to BOEM today. earthjustice.org/action/stop-...

In the Mood for Love (2000) Written, produced and directed by Kar-Wai Wong.

Anna Karina

#BOTD 1916
Virginia Lee Gregg. American actress prolific in film, radio dramas and television series. Known for Operation Petticoat (1959), Crime in the Streets (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946). Provided the voice of the mother in Psycho (1960), Psycho II (1983) and Psycho III (1986).

Moira Kelly in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" - BOTD

In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Nite) YouTube video by James Brown - Topic

From 1962, "In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Night)" by James Brown.

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Teddy Wilson, Jo Jones and Lester Young in Paris, 1958.

Photo by Herman Leonard, #BOTD.

Guy Kibbee in "Wonder Bar", "Gold Diggers of 1933", "Dames" and "Captain January" - BOTD

Montgomery in the recording studio with his guitar.

Remembering Wes Montgomery on his birthday 🎂
📷 Chuck Stewart

"His technique sans pick gave his tone a distinctive warmth, while his use of octaves and block chords made his single guitar sound like an orchestra."
- Danny Marks

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be either a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or the ball.”

Ring Lardner, #BOTD.

Caricature of the writer holding a cigarette

Remembering Ring Lardner on his birthday 🎂
📷 William Auerbach-Levy, 1928

"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, & he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper & then went back & filled in the spaces."
- Harold Ross

Andrzej Wajda (with scenes from his film "Kanał") - BOTD

Jean Martin in "The Battle of Algiers" - BOTD

Character actor Guy Kibbee, born 6 March 1882.

Character actor Jay C. Flippen, born 6 March 1899.

“It is a miracle that a formless block of stone could have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.” Vasari on the 1498 Pieta of Michelangelo, born OTD 1475.

Ray Brown, Ben Webster, Fats Navarro, Sarah Vaughan: photographer Herman Leonard, born 6 March 1923.

Clifford Brown and Max Roach by Herman Leonard, #BOTD.

Remembering Lorin Maazel on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jerome de Perlinghi

"When he’s good, he’s so good that he simply has to be counted among the great conductors of the day. Yet, enigmatically, it’s extremely difficult to predict just when he is going to be good or in what repertory."
- John Rockwell

GGM sits on the side of his bed

Remembering Gabriel García Márquez on his birthday 🎂
📷 Daniel Mordzinski, 2010

"His impossible fusion of subject & tone gives utterance to the Latin American soul: by fronting the continent’s tragic history with the unquenchable fiesta of his style."
- William Deresiewicz

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."

Gabriel García Márquez, #BOTD.

Kiri in a leather outfit, gets aboard a large motorcycle.

Happy birthday Kiri Te Kanawa 🎂
📷 John Swannell, 1993

"As a musician, Ms. Te Kanawa is more ice skater than explorer. Her singing glides over the music with an appealing grace, scarcely touching the surface."
- Bernard Holland

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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."

Ring Lardner, born 6 March 1885.

Heyyyyyyy, Abbott!

Lou Costello, born 6 March 1906.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (with scenes from his film "The Hawks and the Sparrows") - BOTD