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Actor, Cinephile & Culturalist posting stuff I like, no pandering. @TheMonologist on Twitter/‘X’.
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.
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Take 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
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“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
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This goes a long way to explaining a lot of Hollywood Studio Execs & Filmmakers today.
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Connery leaving his West Hampstead home for a spot of Golf in 1962.
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Luis 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.
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Sunset Strip - 1970
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The 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.
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A young cameraman by the name of CHRISTOPHER NOLAN in 1990
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Carrie Fisher taking a photo of Harrison Ford in Manhattan (1979)
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RIP 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.
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“4 poses for 25 cents” - 1950’s New York
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The 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.
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Remembering the late, wonderful CLIVE JAMES - who left us 6yrs ago today, aged 80.
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12yr 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.
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83 Candles 🎂 today for the glorious BILLY CONNOLLY
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84 Candles 🎂 today for the ‘5th Beatle’ - PETE BEST
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The body of President John F. Kennedy lying in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda - November 24, 1963.
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