The Art of War #5
for the series:
Art of War
October 31, 2005
Adventures in American Filmmaking #42
Today's Adventure: Adolphe Menjou outlines the International Communist Conspiracy
to Stanley Kubrick on the set of Paths of Glory (1957)
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
October 30, 2005
Artists in Action #17
Leonard Bernstein rehearsing West Side Story
for the series:
Artists in Action
When Legends Gather #63
Ennio Morricone, Charles Aznavour and Sergio Leone (mid-'70s).
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When Legends Gather
The World of Jacob Riis #4
One of Four Pedlars Who Slept in the Cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear (1892)
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The World of Jacob Riis
The Art of Cinema #91
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle . . .
(Two or Three Things I Know About Her)
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1967)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
October 29, 2005
The Ink & Paint Set #3
Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein's Monster
in Have You Got Any Castles?
(Frank Tashlin, Warner Bros., 1938)
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The Ink and Paint Set
October 28, 2005
The Art of Cinema #90
La Notte
(The Night)
(Michelangelo Antonioni; 1961)
(mucho, mucho thanks to Claudio for this image)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Seminal Image #308
Sumerki zhenskoi dushi
(Twilight of a Woman's Soul)
(Yevgeni Bauer; 1913)
for the series:
Seminal Images
When Legends Gather #62
Lum & Abner, Amos & Andy, and Laurel & Hardy
(Chet Lauck, Norris Goff, Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy)
for the series:
When Legends Gather
October 25, 2005
An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America #6
Rosa Parks is arrested for civil disobedience for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala. in 1956.
Rosa Parks: 1913-2005
for the series:
An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America
When Legends Gather #61
Charles Chaplin and Bebe Daniels play table tennis (late '20s).
for the series:
When Legends Gather
From 'The Black Panther Coloring Book' #6
"Black Panthers protect Black children."
for the series:
From the Black Panther Coloring Book
October 22, 2005
Shirley Horn Dead at 71
Shirley Horn, one of the finer piano-playing chanteuses in memory, has passed at the age of 71.
Here is an appreciation from today's New York Times.
for the series:
Obits
October 20, 2005
October 18, 2005
Great Moments in Marketing #5
Tintin Orange Soda (Europe, 1950s)
for the series:
Great Moments in Marketing
October 17, 2005
Seminal Image #304
Sono yo no tsuma
(That Night's Wife)
(Yasujiro Ozu; 1930)
for the series:
Seminal Images
October 15, 2005
The Cool Hall of Fame #21
Slim Gaillard (right, with bassist "Tiny" Brown, late '40s)
for the series:
The Cool Hall of Fame
The Ink & Paint Set #1
Roland Young
From The Autograph Hound (Disney, Jack King, 1939)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
October 13, 2005
From 'The Black Panther Coloring Book' #5
"Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, organized the Black brothers to defend their families."
for the series:
From the Black Panther Coloring Book
The Golden Age of Prurience #26
Lesbian Hell
(by Jane Sherman)
(Playtime Books; 1963)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Prurience
October 12, 2005
October 06, 2005
Seminal Image #300
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(John Cassavetes; 1976)
for the series:
Seminal Images
They Were Collaborators #83
Michelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra
(vast and copious thanks to Claudio for this image)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
October 05, 2005
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century #8
Jimmy Lee Swaggart
for the series:
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century
Great Madmen of the 20th Century #12
Jerry Lee Lewis
for the series:
Great Madmen of the 20th Century
October 03, 2005
They Were Collaborators #82
Jim and Marion Jordan (aka Fibber McGee and Molly)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
When Legends Gather #60
Leonard Bernstein and Leif Garrett
(many, many thanks to Martin Roa for this over-the-transom submission)
for the series:
When Legends Gather
August Wilson Dead at 60
August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson and Fences, has died from liver Cancer at the age of 60; leaving a sparsely populated field of genuinely great playwrights that much more empty.
Here's an appreciation from today's New York Times by Charles Isherwood.
for the series:
Obits
October 01, 2005
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