
Christopher Wallace promoting Ready to Die. 1994.

Christopher Wallace promoting Ready to Die. 1994.
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Dirk Bogarde and Monica Vitti.

Terence Stamp and Monica Vitti in Modesty Blaise. Joseph Losey. 1966.
Posted in cinema, context, Losey, modesty blaise

The Girl on a Motorcycle. Jack Cardiff. 1968.
Posted in advertising, cinema, context
Posted in booze, cinema, context, music, record labels

Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s segment of Les plus belles escroqueries du monde. 1964.
The 1960s loved the omnibus format.
Posted in cinema, context, cover art, haven't seen it

May Irwin and John Rice in The Kiss. William Heise. 1896.
Posted in cinema, context, cute couple alert

Years ago I was looking through a book in a Salvation Army or a used book store or something and the above post card fell out of the pages of the book and onto the floor. I left without purchasing the book, but not before shoving this little gem in to my pocket. The front is great, Richard Hamilton‘s Swingeing London 67, and the back is filled out and was mailed to a Madame Bavagnoli at Life Magazine’s Paris bureau in January 1971.

The only Bavagnoli who worked for Life that I can find is a Carlo Bavagnoli who took this photo and this one and I can only assume this one as well.
Here’s a better look at the message on the card.

Oh, and of course the top image depicts Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser after their drug arrest in 1967.
Posted in context, Jagger, mail bag, museum piece, music, old magazines

Geraldine Chaplin and Dick Talmadge dressed as Keystone Cops for their uncredited cameos—probably less than five seconds of screen time and if either actually appear in the film, they’re unrecognizable—in Casino Royale. 1967.