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Weed-smoking Hollywood star Robert Mitchum was BOTD in 1917 & died in 1997 at 79. He often fell prey to dangerous women on screen, especially in Preminger's "Angel Face" (1953). He played supervillains in Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) & Thompson's "Cape Fear" (1962)

Was Robert Mitchum the Coolest Guy Ever? Evidence Points to Yes | Austin Film Society Actor Robert Mitchum, known for his tough demeanor and melodious deep voice, was born on this date in 1917. Back in 1971 he joined Dick Cavett for a long form interview on Cavett’s legendary talk show...

BOTD Robert Mitchum!!! MCCT5 5)Crossfire (Dmytryk) 4)His Kind of Woman (Farrow) 3)Night/Hunter (Laughton) 1a)Eddie Coyle (Yates) 1b)Out of the Past (Tourneur)
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World's Most Famous Artist & Destroyer of Worlds Andy Warhol was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1987 at 58. BTW I’m currently staying around the corner from this lion fountain in the Piazza dei Martiri in Naples where Warhol hung out with Joseph Beuys

Superartist Andy Warhol was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1987 at 58. BTW Drella's white boyfriend Jed Johnson died at 47 when TWA Flight 800 exploded in 1996 & his black pseudo-boyfriend Jean-Michel Basquiat died of an accidental drug overdose at 27 in 1988 a year after Drella's death

World's Most Famous Artist & Destroyer of Worlds Andy Warhol was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1987 at 58. She died from complications after having her gallbladder removed, but it was Valerie Solanas, author of the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, who sealed her fate when she shot her 19 yrs earlier

World's Most Famous Artist & Destroyer of Worlds Andy Warhol was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1987 at 58. She died from complications after having her gallbladder removed, but it was Valerie Solanas, author of the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, who sealed her fate when she shot her 19 yrs earlier

Fearless, adventurous classical Hollywood director & actor John Huston was BOTD in 1906 & died in 1987 at 81. His movies often explored perverse, misfit, self-destructive characters. His thespian daughter, Anjelica, wrote a great memoir about her childhood, "A Story Lately Told"

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Thirst trap fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent was BOTD in 1936 and died in 2008 at 71

Ambiguously gay USA writer & poet of the American Renaissance period Herman Melville, best-known for his works Moby-Dick, Typee, a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, & Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella, was BOTD in 1819 & died in 1891 at 72

HBD the phenomenal Geraldine Chaplin who was BOTD in 1944, turning 81 today. She is a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and thus a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

Bruce LaBruce's Academy of the Underrated: Daisy Miller LaBruce highlights Peter Bogdanovich's unfairly dismissed 1974 Henry James adaptation, a film he considers one of the best of the 1970s.

The great Hollywood director Peter Bogdanovich, the Orson Welles of his generation, was BOTD in 1939 and died in 2022 at the age of 82. "Daisy Miller" (1974), starring his then-girlfriend Cybill Shepherd, is his overlooked masterpiece
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Obsessive, masterful & sadistic film director Stanley Kubrick was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1999 at 70. "Barry Lyndon" (1975) & "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) are arguably his two most underrated masterpieces, the former about a hustler, the latter about homosexuality, AIDS & Scientology

Although George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley were all BOTD, none of them directed "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) or "The Party" (1968), or were married to Julie Andrews. Director Blake Edwards, who did, and was, was BOTD in 1922 died in 2010 at the age of 88

Brilliant child actor Brad Renfro was BOTD in 1982 & died tragically of a heroin O.D. in 2008 (a week before Heath Ledger) at 25. I hung out w/ Brad once w/ a few others playing glow-in-the-dark bowling & I fondly remember him playing his guitar in his PJs in the back of a cab

I snapped this photo of Brad with his guardian grandmother at the hotel they were staying at in Toronto while he was shooting the movie "Tart" (2001). You can find it in my photo book "Death Book" from Baron Books
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HBD great gay USA director Gus Van Sant, BOTD in 1952, turning 73 today! "Mala Noche" (1986) was his first break-out film, and I met Walt Curtis, whom it's based on, in Portland. Gus & I first became friends when he was shooting his great movie "To Die For" (1995) in Toronto

Atlas Loved: Slava Mogutin's Photographic Curation of Queer Romance @ The Bureau of General Services Autre Magazine “What is ‘My Romantic Ideal’? If there were just one, I’d have been able to stop making images searching around the borders of yearning, imagining, and lusting, many years ago. These are some recent a...

I'm happy to be included in this fab group show curated by Slava Mogutin at the Bureau of General Services - Queer Division in NYC
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Gay Brit novelist, screenwriter & biographer Gavin Lambert was BOTD in 1924 & died in 2005 at 80. At Oxford he befriended film crit Penelope Houston & filmmakers Karel Reisz & Lindsay Anderson & they founded a short-lived but influential journal, Sequence, best film mag name ever

Bruce LaBruce, el filósofo del porno: “La pornografía puede ser arte” El transgresor artista publica en España sus ‘Diarios Porno’, un compendio de textos en los que reflexiona sobre la representación explícita del sexo, la identidad ‘queer’ y su relación con la política y el capitalismo

🗞️ @brucelabruce.bsky.social  afirma que la pornografía, como la masturbación, es algo a lo que casi todo el mundo se entrega, pero de lo que nadie quiere hablar. 🗞️
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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland was BOTD in 1935 & died in 2024 at 88. Crazy that he was never nominated for an Oscar, the best wide-open mouth actor in the business! (Roeg's "Don't Look Now" (1973), Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" (1975), Kaufman's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1977))

HBD to the gay superstar Thai director Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul who was BOTD in 1970, turning 55 today!

"Hollywood's biggest closeted lesbian," the indomitable Barbara Stanwyck, was BOTD in 1907 and died in 1990 at the age of 82. She was known for playing tough-as-nails broads in numerous Westerns and Noirs

Jan-Michael Vincent, who provided me with many a wet dream when he was a Disney star, was BOTD in 1944 and died in 2019 at the age of 74. He always had that old man hustler body, even as a teenager.

HBD the mysterious Nina Van Pallandt who was BOTD in 1932, making her 93 today! Ms. Van Pallandt became the cinematic ambassador of Malibu with her roles in Altman's "The Long Goodbye" (1973) and Schrader's "American Gigolo" (1980)

Bruce LaBruce, el filósofo del porno: “La pornografía puede ser arte” El transgresor artista publica en España sus ‘Diarios Porno’, un compendio de textos en los que reflexiona sobre la representación explícita del sexo, la identidad ‘queer’ y su relación con la polític...

Musings on porn in El Pais @elpais.com in support of my book "Diarios Porno" now published in Spanish by Editorial Cántico @canticoed.bsky.social
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Hot cutie-pie gay Republican dreamboat Tab Hunter was BOTD in 1931 and died in 2018 at the age of 86. Mr. Hunter officially came out of the closet in 2005 when he was 74 years old in his autobiography "Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star." Better late than never!!

Hunky movie star, singer, director, producer, model, photog & writer Yul Brynner was BOTD in 1920 & died in 1985 at 65. A heavy smoker since the age of 12, he quit smoking in 1971 but still died of lung cancer. He posed nude for George Platt-Lynes & had a long affair w/ Dietrich

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The amazing actress, offbeat beauty, and ersatz Keane painting Shelley Duvall was BOTD in 1949 & died in 2024 at 75. Her complex performances in Robert Altman's "3 Women" (1977) (she appeared in 7 Altman films altogether) and in Kubrick's 'The Shining" (1980) are stellar