January 31, 2008

Old New York #18


The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1893)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #48


Tricky thanks Checkers for bailing him out (1952)

Before and After #113: Fritz Lang

Before


After

When Legends Gather #354


Albert Finney and Dirk Bogarde

Newspapermen #24


George Seldes

January 30, 2008

Where the Boys Are #8


Charles Boyer (1934)

A Who's Who of Swinging London #15


John Stephen

Glamour Jungle! #12

The Art of Cinema #281


Flame and the Flesh
(Richard Brooks; 1954)

January 29, 2008

When Legends Gather #353


Bert Lahr, Herbert Marshall, Robert Benchley, David Niven and Dave Chasen

They Were Collaborators #428


Frank Capra and James Stewart

Artists in Action #325


The Walker Brothers peer over the edge

The Art of Pop #15


Les Baxter's Teen Drums
(Capitol Records; 1960)

Ancient Voices #23


Blind Willie Johnson

January 28, 2008

A Who's Who of the Cold War #4


James Jesus Angleton

When Legends Gather #352


Jayne Mansfield and Roberto Rossellini

The Heretofore Unmentioned #4


Vaughn Meader

Seminal Image #778


Dark Waters
(Andre de Toth; 1944)

They Were Collaborators #427


The cast of That Was the Week That Was

January 27, 2008

The Art of Jazz #51


Street of Dreams
(Grant Green)
(Blue Note Records; 1964)

Artists in Action #324


Lenny Bruce hightails it after knocking down a Television cameraman

The Cool Hall of Fame #112


James Baldwin

The Art of the Piano #15


Operatic Rag
(by Julius Lenzberg)
(Jerome H. Remick & Co.; 1914)

Sex Education #96


Gloria Grahame

January 26, 2008

The Art of Cinema #280


Party Girl
(Nicholas Ray; 1958)

Artists in Action #323


Billy Gilbert prepares to sneeze

American Dry Spell #12


A plane carrying spiritous liquors crashes on a farm near Crotonville, New York (1922)

Seminal Image #777


The Bespoke Overcoat
(Jack Clayton; 1956)

An Illustrated History of American Labor #4


Marie Dressler and New York chorus girls protest the inequities of Actors Equity (1919)

January 25, 2008

The Cool Hall of Fame #111


Jim Thompson

Annals of Crime #6


Original Caption:

Ends Shooting Spree.

Allison, Iowa -- Ronnie Loughlin, 15-year-old altar boy, sits handcuffed after surrendering to police at Allison on Sept. 4th. The youth had killed one woman in a shooting spree, and kidnaped a second whom he held hostage during a 5-hour ride through South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. "I just went berserk, I guess," he told authorities. (1955)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #3


Fred Otash (Private-Eye to the Stars)

They Were Collaborators #426


Rita Webb and Sidney Poitier

Artists in Action #322


Errol Flynn tries to remember if he really did that

January 22, 2008

The Art of Cinema #279


Scared Stiff
(George Marshall; 1953)

The Art of Songwriting #18


Her Beaus Are Only Rainbows
Music: George W. Meyer
Lyrics: Alfred Bryan
(Henry Waterson Inc.; 1926)

Artists in Action #321


Lou Costello checks out Lupe Velez's fuzzy bunny.

They Were Collaborators #425


Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Gene Rayburn and Richard Dawson.

The Cool Hall of Fame #110


Otis Redding's gotta gotta gotta gotta...

The Art of Cinema #278


It's Always Fair Weather
(Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen; 1955)

When Legends Gather #351


Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and William Faulkner discuss the efficacy of corncobs

This Week's Weegee #36

Men of the West #17


Roy Rogers

The Art of Crime Fiction #11


The Asphalt Jungle
(by W.R. Burnett)
(Alfred Knopf; 1949)

January 21, 2008

Ziegfeld Girls #9


Mary Eaton

They Were Collaborators #424


Doris Day and Rock Hudson

When Legends Gather #350


Simone Signoret, Harry Belafonte, Yves Montand and Martin Luther King Jr.

January 20, 2008

Bobby Fischer dead at 64

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Bobby Fischer, here seen arriving in Reykjavik in Iceland on 5th July 1972 for the world championship match against Boris Spassky.
Read The Guardian's obituary here.

The Cool Hall of Fame #109

Photobucket
Steve McQueen photographed in London; 1969.

Artists in Action #320

Photobucket
Heidi Berry reads her palm

January 17, 2008

They Were Collaborators #423


The Bar-Kays

The Art of Cinema #277


The Bellboy
(Jerry Lewis; 1960)

Where the Boys Are #7


Rudolph Valentino

A Who's Who of Swinging London #14


Rita Tushingham

January 16, 2008

They Were Collaborators #422


Busby Berkeley and Ruby Keeler

The Art of the Leaf #4

They Were an Item #34


Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw

Before and After #112: J. Edgar Hoover

Before


After

When Legends Gather #349


Julie Andrews and Federico Fellini

Fun at Bohemian Grove #28


A Bohemian booze-up (1898)

Annals of Crime #5


Original caption:

Detroit -- After refusing to walk, Leonard G. Hamilton is carried to a patrol car by detectives and uniformed officers. Hamilton was identified by five victims as one of the "lure' bandits who had been robbing truck driver salesmen in the area since the previous November. Police said Hamilton was wanted in Los Angeles on 53 charges of robbery, and in St. Louis for 24 like offenses. (1956)

January 15, 2008

Seminal Image #776


Days of Heaven
(Terrence Malick; 1978)

Friends and Family #20


Vito Genovese keeps his mouth shut

Artists in Action #319


Frank Sinatra conducts

The Golden Age of Prurience #45


Hippies
(Vol, 1 #4; 1967)

They Were Collaborators #421


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