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Actor (The Strays, All About Eve, Coronation Street etc) Cinephile. Posting stuff I like, no pandering. @TheMonologist on Twitter/‘X’.
76 Candles 🎂 today for the glorious SIGOURNEY WEAVER
08.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 69 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Tina & Ike Turner at home with their sons Michael, Craig, Ike Jr. & Ronnie Turner (1970)
08.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you can name everyone in this photo - taken in the driveway after one of the regular gatherings BUDDY HACKETT used to hold at his Beverly Hills home - you’re a better man than I.
(although there’s plenty you should recognise)
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - the last photo of these two old friends together (1994)
08.10.2025 08:59 — 👍 39 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PAUL HOGAN - 86 Candles 🎂 today - working as a painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1971.
15 years later he'd become famous the world over as Mick “Crocodile" Dundee.
08.10.2025 06:20 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
55 Candles 🎂 today for
MATT DAMON
Desi Arnez and Lucille Ball by the gates to their studio in 1958.
07.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Winston Churchill's doctor making sure a little thing like prohibition didn't get in the way of his patient getting the right 'meds'.
07.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Laura Dern, Elizabeth Taylor and Anjelica Houston partying down at Carrie’s place in the 1990’s.
07.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
OLIVER HARDY wasn't just an avid golfer he was an exceptionally good one too. He was a member of Lakeside Golf Club and played alongside Bing Crosby, Douglas Fairbanks & W. C. Fields winning many a tournament and trophy.
07.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remembering the legendary portraitist - IRVING PENN - who left us 16yrs ago today, aged 92.
07.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Remembering EDGAR ALLAN POE - who left us 176yrs ago today
07.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
RIDLEY SCOTT echoing the thoughts of many on the state of Film now:
“Well, right now I’m finding mediocrity, we’re drowning in mediocrity. The quantity of movies that are made today, literally globally, millions. There’s not thousands, there’s millions, and most of it is shit.”
57 Candles 🎂 today for Radiohead’s THOM YORKE
07.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DON MCCULLIN — one of the greatest Photojournalists of all time.
07.10.2025 07:27 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Then & Now
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)
Julie Christie in 1964
📷 by Douglas Kirkland
In 2011 ALAN RICKMAN wrote this letter of advice to his 16yr old self.
07.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ann-Margret in 1971
📷 by Douglas Kirkland
BOWIE the multi-instrumentalist.
📷 by Richard Avedon
New York - 1970
📷 by Hans Joachim Jacobi
La Concha Beach Club - Acapulco, 1975
📷 by Slim Aarons
Daphne Du Maurier in 1944
📷 by Hans Wild
Carrie Fisher - Manhattan (1980)
📷 by Douglas Kirkland
20yr old Norma Jeane Mortensen in 1946
📷 by Richard C. Miller
‘The Guvnors’ - London (1958)
📷 by Don McCullin
Picasso in 1954
📷 by Yousuf Karsh
83 Candles 🎂 today for BRITT EKLAND
06.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
25yr old BETTE DAVIS in 1933.
This double Oscar-winning pioneer left us 36yrs ago today, aged 81.
