Farran Smith Nehme

Ha ha, I would love to tote around a kitten like that too! One of those beauties, like Kim Novak and Doris Day, who adored animals. Lots of lovely photos of ET with dogs and cats. Here's a sweet one of her drying off her spaniels.

Since You've Gone: An Interview with Cristina Raines Establishing and maintaining a successful acting career usually represents the pinnacle of an actress' life and accomplishments, which is...

Happy Birthday to Cristina Raines, one of the most level-headed & grounded people from show business I've ever encountered. Here is my interview with her from 2014.

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p.s. I know what you mean; it needs to get bigger and broader

YouTube video by David Hoffman BB King Was Afraid To Perform At Sing Sing Prison But Called It His Best Performance Ever

It was part of a larger concert featuring B.B. King (there's a 45 minute video), the Voices of East Harlem, and Jimmie J.J. Walker when he was just a very young stand-up as the MC. You can see Joan in the audience in this clip.

YouTube video by David Hoffman Joan Baez & Her Sister Mimi Sing To Prison Inmates. They Shed Tears

David Goodman: "I have filmed Joan on two occasions. At this time Joan's husband was in prison as a draft protester to the Vietnam War. My partner at the time, Harry Wiland, contacted her to ask her if she would participate in a Thanksgiving day event that we were planning inside Sing Sing prison."

P.S. One source says photo is David Redfern, 1960; whenever, love it, love her.

Joan Baez, hair long and wearing a velvet jacket, cradles a large and very beautiful all-black cat, circa late 1960s.

"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace. I was trying to disturb the war." —Joan Baez, 1967. She had been arrested, with 123 others, for blocking the entrance to an Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California.

(photo is undated AFAIK; #Caturday)

YouTube video by PaintBox68 The Police - Tea in the Sahara

The last song on the album

I love it.

#ThePolice
#musicsky

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Good, that was the idea.

😂 A+ dad joke

A white bunny sits on asphalt surrounded by scattered yellow leaves.

Taylor is wearing a polka-dot robe with a kitten riding comfortably in her left pocket.

Yesterday was Elizabeth Taylor's birthday, so here she is in her salad days, smuggling a kitten. #Caturday

They needed to interview the missile to get its side of the story first.

“Were killed when a strike hit” —listen you don’t achieve that kind of passive voice mastery in a matter of minutes

And a mere eight hours after everybody posted about it here comes the New York Times, winded and puking, across the finish line.

Mamdani reassuring Iranians in NYC that he’ll be working to keep them safe… Schumer could never and would never

Today's one of those "call your dad and tell him to turn on TCM" days, if you're lucky enough to still be able to do that. #TCMParty #FilmSky

I found this because I thought it was Toby Wing at first 😂you’re so right

Lucille Ball poses in a head shot, wearing a velvet halter top. She has the 1930s-style "drawn in" eyebrows and an almost-platinum hair color.

Lucille Ball as a very young, very blonde, lightly Harlow-ish (the brows!) starlet in 1935. That year the hard-working Lucy made nine movies, playing roles like "Flower Shop Girl" in TOP HAT. (It's fun to spot her in these bits, though.)

I guess Operation Epic Fury is better branding than Operation Please Stop Talking About Epstein or Operation Maybe This Will Help Me in the Midterms or Operation We'll Work Out the Details Later.

I bet the ham and eggs, toast and coffee are good.

The scene where Senator Geary finds himself with a dead girl really gets to them. That poor man! It could happen to anybody! All he wanted was good clean fun with an underage sex worker!

🙄He's entitled to his pandering, but why illustrate it with one of the most violent, cynical, anti-establishment U.S. movies? "I want to appeal to conservatives! Clearly I should make a movie about America's descent from lofty ideals to a corrupt criminal enterprise."

To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >

Here's Sam Roberts's very nicely done obituary for Ann; it tells the whole story.

this piece was years in the making, first stemming from conversations i had with fellow Munich fan @jessehawken.bsky.social

very happy it landed at @gqmagazine.bsky.social (there were several big outlets i could not have ethically pitched it to), and edited by the great @pappademas.bsky.social

Thank you, will look! because the more I read, the less I understand what the hell Tuttle and co. think they're doing.

German Tabloid Bild Reports Berlinale Head Tricia Tuttle On Way Out After Culture Ministry Calls Meeting Over Pro-Palestinian Speech Row German Tabloid Bild Reports Berlinale Head Tricia Tuttle On Way Out After Culture Ministry Calls Extraordinary Meeting

Shitshow.

How is the Berlinale so insanely bad at this?