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Writing is a lonely business filled with failure. Take a victory lap whenever you can.
Spray the champagne!
#writingcommunity
But think of all the years you'd have to live again!
Ran
Dir: Akira Kurosawa
1985
You don't have to wait for Halloween to do a monster movie Top Ten.
Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 2
#HorrorMovies #horror #monsters
I wouldn’t mind.
Two to beam down. Energize.
Watched this last week and it perfectly transported me.
Grace Kelly by Alan Sharland for LIFE magazine (1954)
Writing is a lonely business filled with failure. Take a victory lap whenever you can.
#writingcommunity
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“Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
✒ #MickeySpillane, American mystery writer, was #BOTD 9 March 1918. #Literature
Milk Bar, 1947
Nina Leen
I think you just listed my favorites among their work. Maybe that’s the connection.
Bert Wheeler’s Magic Shop just visible in that frame — one of my favorite haunts as a kid.
MARINA MALFATTI
I asked if he was escorting Mrs. Jaffee.
"Certainly," he said virtuously. "She is my client. What's that noise you're making?"
"It's something special," I told him, "and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle." -- PRISONER'S BASE, Rex Stout (1952)
John Cassavetes
#Caturday
“Great artists are entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they've got their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.” - David Lynch
Gestapo (points to 'Guernica' ): 'Did you do this?'
Picasso: 'No, you did.'
(True story).
My buddy had a Betamax machine, and Zardoz was his only tape. That was peak.
In "No One Will Believe You," a penniless New York gig worker is mugged at gunpoint ... by the world's most famous movie star.
Published in print, digital, and Kindle Unlimited by Mystery Magazine!
#crimefiction #mystery
When I drop off at the airport I don't even slow down.
Seconded and resolved. Same applies if they ask for a ride to the airport. I'd rather give up a kidney than drive someone to the airport.
Duke Ellington advertising Olivetti typewriters, 1969
Yeah ... never asked for it, don't need it. But they aren't making these things for guys like me who came up on the show. The studios are just rattling old cans, listening for nickles.
I grew up in the Valley, so it was Licorice Pizza for me.
42nd Street, N.Y.C 1967.
‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ was released on this day 72 years ago! (March 5, 1954)
Directed by Jack Arnold.
Screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross.
Starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, & more.
#OTD #OnThisDay
Happy #WorldBookDay to those who celebrate.
#MarilynMonroe #BookSky #FilmSky #MovieSky
Brian Dettmer's carved book sculptures are created with the exactitude of a surgeon, using clamps, tweezers and Exacto knives to turn unused books into intricate sculptures. He favors out of date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books and dictionaries for his work.
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