Artists in Action #292
Abbas Kiarostami peers
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Artists in Action
November 30, 2007
Seminal Image #754
Potomok Chingis-Khana
(Storm Over Asia)
(Vsevolod Pudovkin; 1928)
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Seminal Images
The Art of Jazz #49
Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Afrika '76
(Max Roach and Archie Shepp)
(Unitel Records; 1976)
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Art of Jazz
November 28, 2007
Artists in Action #291
In this excerpt from the scabrous 1979 film, Derek and Clive Get the Horn
(directed by Russell Mulcahy), Peter Cook and Dudley Moore give
way to their growing animosity.
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Artists in Action
November 27, 2007
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis #9
East Mesa Girls (1922)
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The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis
Seminal Image #753
Saraba natsu no hikari
(Farewell to the Summer Light)
(Yoshishige Yoshida; 1968)
for the series:
Seminal Images
November 26, 2007
Unwanted Image #13
An excised scene from Help!
(Richard Lester; 1965)
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Unwanted Images
The Art of Cinema #265
El Angel exterminador
(The Exterminating Angel)
(Luis Buñuel; 1962)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
November 24, 2007
They Were Collaborators #396
Joseph Barbera, Gene Kelly and William Hanna
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They Were Collaborators
When Legends Gather #320
Mr. George Arliss, Marie Dressler, Norma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore
for the series:
When Legends Gather
November 23, 2007
Artists in Action #288
Pier Angeli pays a visit to the dressing room of Joan Crawford, who was in the throes of making Torch Song.
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Artists in Action
Collect 'Em All #40
Robertson Hare
No. 25 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Born in London on December 17th, 1891, J. Robertson Hare had no relations on the stage, and his parents were a little startled when at the age of nineteen he announced his decision of taking up a stage career. A few years later he was playing the title role of Grumpy on tour. Then came the War, but after the Armistice, he resumed his professional career, and was offered a role in one of the Aldwych farces in which he made his name. He is married to Rene Vivian, formerly an actress, and they have one daughter, Diana, aged ten. His latest films are A Cup of Kindness and Are You a Mason?
for the series:
Collect 'em All
November 22, 2007
From The Playgoer and Society Illustrated #1
"Mr. Pottinger flirts with Rosie in Hillary's absence"
(from The Chaperon)
(by Jocelyn Brandon and Frederic Arthur; 1913)
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From The Playgoer and Society Illustrated
Great Madmen of the 20th Century #26
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Great Madmen of the 20th Century
The Art of Jazz #48
Kenny Burrell On View at The Five Spot Cafe
(Blue Note Records; 1959)
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Art of Jazz
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #43
Tricky attempts to sway the Catholic vote (1960)
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Tricky: Scenes from a Life
November 21, 2007
They Were Collaborators #394
The Timelords on BBC's Top of the Pops.
And following on from this post I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everybody that today is 'No Music Day' .
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
November 20, 2007
Politicians in Action #14
Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-TX) is greeted by a colleague
for the series:
Politicians in Action
November 19, 2007
They Were Collaborators #393
Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
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They Were Collaborators
November 18, 2007
Adventures in American Filmmaking #90
Today's Adventure: Our Gang director Robert F. McGowan introduces Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson and Harry Spear to the microphone.
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
The Ink & Paint Set #26
William Powell in Have You Got Any Castles?
(Frank Tashlin, Warner Bros., 1938)
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The Ink and Paint Set
Artifacts #3
John Logie Baird proudly shows off his first television device, built 80 years ago.
for the series:
Artifacts
When Legends Gather #318
Peter Sellers confers with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
November 17, 2007
November 16, 2007
November 15, 2007
G is for Gedney #12
Nude model sitting on stool while photographer adjusts view camera (1972)
for the series:
G is for Gedney
When Legends Gather #317
Richard Avedon, Gloria Vanderbilt and Sidney Lumet
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When Legends Gather
The Art of Pop #10
Blame It on the Bossa Nova
(Eydie Gorme)
(Columbia Records; 1963)
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Art of Pop
November 14, 2007
Authors on Authors #9
"Detective work was by nature prosaic. File prowls, blown tails, attenuated stakeouts. Crime stories demanded near-continuous action. File prowls must yield revelation. Blown tails must provide climax. Stakeouts must further plot. Hammett knew this going in: crime fiction was preposterous melodrama with a gnat-sized reality base. Never had there been a single case rife with multiple shootouts, homicidal seductresses and wall-to-wall mayhem succinctly resolved at tale's end. Hammett had to fit social realism into a suffocatingly contrived form. He did it with language - densely spare exposition and multilayered dialogue. He gave us a spell-binding male discourse - The Manoeuvre as moral crusade, the job holders' aria and torch song. Hammett's male-speak is the gab of the grift, the scam, the dime hustle. It's the poke, the probe, the veiled query, the grab for advantage. It's the threat, the dim sanction, the offer of friendship cloaked in betrayal. Plot holes pop through Hammett's stories like speed bumps. The body count accretes with no more horror than pratfalls in farce. It doesn't matter. The language is always there."
-- James Ellroy
(Ellroy's essay on Dashiell Hammett can be found here)
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Authors on Authors
Seminal Image #748
Un Poliziotto scomodo
(Convoy Busters)
(Stelvio Massi; 1978)
for the series:
Seminal Images
The Children of Lewis Hine #6
Ora Fugate, 10 years old, worming tobacco
(Hedges Station, Kentucky; 1916)
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The Children of Lewis Hine
The Art of Jazz #47
Tenor Conclave
(The Prestige All Stars)
(Prestige Records; 1956)
(epic thanks and salutations to the great Pietro Meroni for this here image)
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Art of Jazz
November 12, 2007
When Legends Gather #315
Carole Lombard and Sabu in 1938 on Sabu's first visit to America.
My thanks to Vincent Paterno who runs 'Carole & Co' for sending this image.
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When Legends Gather
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #15
This stall sold ornamental china and bric-a-brac. There were two classes of stall-holder - the 'cheap-jacks' who sold mostly junk, and the 'silver kings' whose stalls were spread with glittering displays of polished silver, much of it of doubtful ownership
for the series:
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
The Art of the London Underground #27
Untitled by Fred Taylor; 1923
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Art of the London Underground
in the art deco style #4
Willy Herzig, 1000 Takte Tanz, band 10 1934
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in the art deco style
Adventures in American Filmmaking #89
Today's Adventure: On the set of Mister Roberts, John Ford withdraws (1955)
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
They Were Collaborators #391
Anthony Quayle, Arthur Miller, Mary Ure and Peter Brook
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They Were Collaborators
The Golden Age of Publicity #4
Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert are shadowed in this publicity still
for the United Artists release, Sleep, My Love (1948)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer Dead at 84
When he was having a better-than-average day and the gods were on his side, for once, he could summon waves of prose that would, with their astonishing velocity, overwhelm even the most jaded reader. When nothing, not a thing in the world, was smiling upon him, he made of himself a rank public spectacle and (albeit rarely) wrote sentences of such blinding, overreaching awfulness that one could be excused a longing for the simpler enterprise of hackdom. As the oldest-living enfant terrible in human history, he gave American literature and the times in which he lived the best show it ever had or could ever want.
Norman Mailer -- author of The Deer Park and Why Are We in Vietnam?; auteur of Wild 90, Maidstone and Beyond the Law; fetishist of Henry Miller and Marilyn Monroe; amateur boxer, wife-stabber, Mayoral candidate, man of letters, part-time buffoon and full-time genius -- passed away early this morning at the age of 84.
For those who have need of such things, here are three accounts of the life and the death:
The Washington Post
BBC News
The Associated Press
for the series:
Obits
Artists in Action #282
Arthur Kennedy and Tony Curtis carouse on the set of The Rawhide Years.
for the series:
Artists in Action
The Ink & Paint Set #25
Bing Crosby in I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
(Tom Palmer; Warner Bros.; 1933)
for the series:
The Ink and Paint Set
November 09, 2007
They Were Collaborators #389
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands
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They Were Collaborators
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century #15
Jim Garrison
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Great Con Artists of the 20th Century
November 07, 2007
Artists in Action #281
John Updike stares into the middle distance
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Artists in Action
November 06, 2007
They Were Collaborators #388
James Cagney and Joan Blondell (1932)
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They Were Collaborators
The Art of Jazz #45
Jazz for the Jet Set
(Dave Pike)
(Atlantic records; 1966)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
November 05, 2007
When Legends Gather #313
Vice President Henry Wallace, Rep. Vito Marcantonio and Paul Robeson
for the series:
When Legends Gather
November 04, 2007
Adventures in American Filmmaking #88
Today's Adventure: the Technicolor camera looms over director Rouben Mamoulian and star Miriam Hopkins on the set of Becky Sharp.
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
Artists in Action #279
Buster Keaton relies on the talents of the ladies of the chorus.
for the series:
Artists in Action
November 02, 2007
An Illustrated History of Vice #3
Prostitutes in Japan wait for clients (1947)
for the series:
An Illustrated History of Vice
Adventures in American Filmmaking #87
Today's Adventure: Judy Garland has some questions for John Cassavetes on the set of A Child Is Waiting (1963).
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
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