Tom Wolfe, 2 March 1930 – 14 May 2018

"To me, the great joy of writing is discovering...I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about"

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Van Johnson, in BATTLEGROUND (1949), directed by William A. Wellman (1896–1975). One of Hollywood's better WWII-set ensemble films.

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“Although it was a career I rejected at first, the profession has given me an incredibly varied life and more than my fair share of success, failure, love, laughter and despair. I've not a single regret for any of it.”

Happy birthday to Joan Bennett in 1910

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Some creative Clockwork Orange covers.

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“Every dogma has its day.”

-Anthony Burgess

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Peter Fonda February 23, 1940. Actor, activist, counterculture icon and seriously influential filmmaker.



"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me."
Peter Fonda

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『Gente di rispetto』1975年
https://t.co/YD0VIKbwTX
ジェニファー・オニールは、シチリアのある町に赴任してきた教師。彼女の周囲で不穏な死が続き、彼女は恐れられてしまうが。彼女のお相手はフランコ・ネロ。いかにも70年代のサスペンス・スコアを聴かせるモリコーネ。彼女27歳時作品。

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This film is riveting stuff. I can only imagine the impact it had in the segregated southern USA states in 1967 , the year of its release.



In the Heat of the Night

- They Call Me Mr. Tibbs (196... https://t.co/JYg5itS1II via

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“Mediocrity never goes away—but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.”

- Miloš Forman, in 1932

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A whirlwind romance, as depicted in an Old Hollywood classic montage sequence [no audio]: a cad (#BOTD Jack Palance) sweeps an unsuspecting heiress (Joan Crawford) off her feet, in SUDDEN FEAR (1952).

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director Alan Parker 1944
Birdy
Midnight Express
Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Commitments
Come See the Paradise
Mississippi Burning
Shoot the Moon
Bugsy Malone
Angel Heart
Evita
Fame

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Kim Novak 1933
Vertigo
Picnic
Pal Joey
Bell Book and Candle
The Man with the Golden Arm
https://t.co/Een1qqkQ1f

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Jerry Goldsmith, my favorite film composer, who would’ve been 91 years old.

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Jules Verne 1828
From the Earth To The Moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Around the World in Eighty Days
Off on a Comet
Around the World in 80 Days
20,000 Leagues under the Seas
The Mysterious Island
https://t.co/84LZeCUCgX

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