Bruce & Cybill
MOONLIGHTING (1985-89)
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Bruce & Cybill
MOONLIGHTING (1985-89)
After seeing BRYAN CRANSTON in ‘Breaking Bad’ - ANTHONY HOPKINS sent this wonderful email to the show’s star full of admiration for Cranston's performance, claiming it to be the best acting he'd ever seen.
25.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Take your pick:
- The Jam
- The Buzzcocks
- Orange Juice/Delmontes
- Dexys Midnight Runners
- The Cure
- The Damned
- Ian Dury And The Blockheads
- The Stranglers
- Iron Maiden
The great MICHAEL SHEEN is magnificent as the legendary Brian Clough, Peter Morgan’s screenplay superb, and the whole Cast is uniformly excellent.
THE DAMNED UNITED (2009)
Katz’s Deli - NYC
25.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0“At this moment when any moment may be the last for many of us, it’s damned galling & impossibly sad that we still have among us the small, bitter people, the witch-hunters & the declaimers against reality."
A 1985 letter from the late great CHARLES BUKOWSKI on censorship.
Lauren Bacall and daughter Leslie Bogart - Paris, 1968
25.11.2025 17:13 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This goes a long way to explaining a lot of Hollywood Studio Execs & Filmmakers today.
25.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Connery leaving his West Hampstead home for a spot of Golf in 1962.
25.11.2025 13:45 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Luis Buñuel’s surrealist erotic psychological drama was CATHERINE DENEUVE’s second acclaimed success after ‘The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’, won numerous international awards and is held up as classic of its type.
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
BARRY LYNDON playing at the Cinerama Dome - Los Angeles in 1975.
25.11.2025 09:32 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sunset Strip - 1970
25.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0The Hollywood blacklist was instituted #OTD in 1947 after 10 were cited for refusing to answer before the HUAC.
The 10 were Dalton Trumbo, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott.
Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr & Dean Martin rat packin’ at the Sands Hotel - Vegas, 1960
📷 by Bob Willoughby
Still the best definition of Comedy I’ve ever come across.
25.11.2025 08:57 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0A young cameraman by the name of CHRISTOPHER NOLAN in 1990
24.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Carrie Fisher taking a photo of Harrison Ford in Manhattan (1979)
24.11.2025 17:12 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0RIP the great man of Ska, Reggae and Soul - JIMMY CLIFF.
Thank you man.
New York - 1957
📷 by Inge Morath
ROD STEWART has a huge, astonishingly detailed model train set based on an industrial US city which took him & two friends 26yrs to build.
24.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 50 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1“4 poses for 25 cents” - 1950’s New York
24.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2The voices of ‘Lady’ and ‘Tramp’ - Barbara Luddy and Larry Roberts
LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)
Disney animators working with the real-life ‘Lady’ and the real-life ‘Tramp’ for their huge box office hit
LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)
Remembering GEORGE RAFT - who left us 45yrs ago today, aged 79.
24.11.2025 11:47 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Remembering the late, wonderful CLIVE JAMES - who left us 6yrs ago today, aged 80.
24.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 012yr old Farrokh Bulsara - aka FREDDIE MERCURY - in 1958.
Born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar this enormous talent & star left us 34yrs ago today, aged just 45.
Remembering FREDDIE MERCURY — who left us 34yrs ago today, aged just 45 — here with his mum (Jer) in Zanzibar in 1947.
24.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 083 Candles 🎂 today for the glorious BILLY CONNOLLY
24.11.2025 11:16 — 👍 65 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 284 Candles 🎂 today for the ‘5th Beatle’ - PETE BEST
24.11.2025 11:05 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0The body of President John F. Kennedy lying in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda - November 24, 1963.
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