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A black and white photo of Brandon.

The cover to a collection of Luther strips.

Three samples of the Luthor daily strip.

Brumsic Brandon Jr. (April 10, 1927-Nov. 28, 2014) served in the Army, worked as an animator & editorial cartoonist, and later created the comic strip Luther that ran from 1968-1986. #BlackHistoryMonth

Rampling poses beside an archery target

Happy birthday Charlotte Rampling 🎂
📷 Lewis Morley, 1963

"Rampling works now with one eye on being a Dame and the other on what might be lack of a pension, but she manages to be more and more adventurous.”
- David Thomson

Adams smokes a cigarette as he works on a design sketch

Remembering Ken Adam on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andreas-Michael Velten, 2014

"He was a brilliant visualiser of worlds we will never be able to visit ourselves - the War Room under the Pentagon in Dr Strangelove, the interior of Fort Knox in Goldfinger."
- Christopher Frayling

Jussi Björling at the piano (with Eddie Cantor) - BOTD

#BOTD 1879
Edward Rigby in Ashford, Kent. Actor, known for Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and The Stars Look Down (1940).

Mann poses with a cigarette in front of neon lights.

Happy birthday Michael Mann 🎂
📷 Deborah Feingold, 1985

“He is a director and producer, an organizer of TV series, a visionary of modern style who somehow integrates the fluency of Max Ophuls with the iconic poise of the most hip TV commercials.”
- David Thomson

Giger holds up an elaborate mask to his face.

Remembering H. R. Giger on his birthday 🎂
📷 Dana Frank

"Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going."
- Timothy Leary

The Last Emperor (1987)

The Guyver (1991)

The Pillow Book (1996)

Dead Pigs (2019)

Images from films starring Vivian Wu - BOTD in 1966

The Last Emperor (1987)
The Guyver (1991)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Dead Pigs (2019)

Isuzu Yamada in "Throne of Blood" - BOTD

Carradine as Casy, leaning against a window sill & smiling.

Remembering John Carradine on his birthday 🎂
📷 Emmett Schoenbaum, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940

"I worked with some of the greatest directors in films, and some of the greatest writers. They gave me freedom to do what I can do best and that was gratifying."

Tim Holt in "The Magnificent Ambersons" - BOTD

Errol Morris (with scenes from his 1978 documentary about the pet cemetery business "Gates of Heaven") - BOTD

Skeleton dance in DAVY JONES' LOCKER (1900). By the turn of the century, there was a movie shortage with demand far exceeding supply. At Biograph, Fred Armitage combined unrelated 1890s footage of a skeleton marionette and a shipwreck to create a ghostly mashup.

YouTube video by Classic Motown Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) (Official Audio)

Barrett Strong Junior. Born OTD in 1941, West Point, MS. Raised in Detroit, MI. Died 28/1/2023, San Diego, CA
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"It is so easy to invent, by mistake, not remember what was there, what is truly remembered?"

✒️ #BSJohnson, English author, poet, and critic, was #BOTD 5 February 1933. #Literature

“Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span.” Dr Timothy Leary.

🎨 #HRGiger, Swiss artist and special effects and concept designer ("Alien"), was #BOTD 5 February 1940. #Art #Film #SciFi

Judex, caped vigilante with a very credible claim to cinema’s first superhero, battled gangsters and a corrupt banker in the 1916 French serial.

Virginia Pearson and Charley Chase as mother and son reminiscing over baby pictures in MUM'S THE WORD, and demonstrating how title cards and pantomime worked together to deliver a punchline.

"I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of #art but part of making a #film."

🎞 Legendary set designer Sir #KenAdam, who designed "Dr Strangelove" and #JamesBond , was #BOTD 5 February 1921. #Filmmaking

🎨 #CarlSpitzweg, German Romantic painter, was #BOTD 5 February 1808. #Art #Painting

YouTube video by Monotone Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Live at Newport 1965)

Al Kooper, American songwriter, record producer and musician, was born on Feb. 5, 1944. #AlKooper

He played organ here with Bob Dylan, as he did on the Highway 61 Revisited album:

Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan) (1965, Newport)
#Music
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🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 5 Feb 1887, Giuseppe #Verdi's penultimate #opera, the 4-act "Otello," his first in more than 15 years, premiered at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. The libretto was by Arrigo Boito, based on #Shakespeare's play Othello.

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🎭🎶 #OTD in #Music and #Theatre #History 5 Feb 1913, French composer Vincent D’Indy staged his revival of Claudio #Monteverdi’s Italian #opera L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre des Arts, Paris - the first staging in 250 years, the text having been rediscovered. [1]

Monty Banks in Chasing Choo Choos (1927)

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 February 1919, #CharlieChaplin, #DWGriffiths, #MaryPickford, and #DouglasFairbanks formed UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, with the aim of controlling their creative and commercial #filmmaking interests without the involvement of the major studios.

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90th Anniversary 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 February 1936, #CharlieChaplin played his iconic Little Tramp for the last time, struggling in the Industrialised world, as the silent classic MODERN TIMES premiered in New York.

YouTube video by Beat-Club Three Dog Night - One (1969)

R.I.P. Chuck Negron (June 8, 1942 – February 2, 2026), American singer-songwriter, one of the three lead vocalists in Three Dog Night, which he helped form in 1968. #ChuckNegron

Three Dog Night - "One" (Harry Nilsson) (1969), Chuck Negron singing lead
#Music
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"They're here already! You're next! You're next!"

70th Anniversary 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 Feb 1956, #DonSiegel's #scifi #horror classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, adapted from the novel by Jack Finney and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, was unleashed on the 🇺🇸

"In his endless search for truth, man is condemned to knowledge. Everything else is a whim."

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 Feb 1972, Andrei #Tarkovsky's #scifi classic SOLARIS, starring Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis, premiered in Moscow.

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Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency: No more delays. Time to force power plants to finally clean up their toxic waste. 3 Days Remain.
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