Monthly Archives: December 2011

museum piece

Posted on December 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Piece: Liberace’s Christmas Cards.

Where: Liberace Museum. Las Vegas, NV.

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tabloid tuesday

Posted on December 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

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casino royale

Posted on December 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

“Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), 007 (Terence Cooper), Sir James Bond (David Niven) and Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet) find themselves trapped in Jimmy Bond’s moving fingerprint room”

“Vesper (Ursula Andress) shows Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) her collection of tropical fish”

Films and Filming. May 1967.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on December 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Chas and Doug press their faces against the glass while Ernst Lubitsch, having recently arrived in Hollywood, poses with Mary Pickford and her mother (who for some reason I suspect was a total pain in the ass). 1922.

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tchaikovsky

Posted on December 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

Tchaikovsky. Igor Talankin. 1969.

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the decorative sex

Posted on December 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Delphine Seyrig in Mr. Freedom. Klein. 1969.

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hundred-and-thirty-six-year-old headlines

Posted on December 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s back to photographing running horses for Eadweard Muybridge after being acquitted of murdering the man who was cuckolding him. February 1875.

Muybridge. Circa 1884.

This begins a new category (for which I’ll come up with a terrible name later) about the dawn of and precursors to the movies. I’ll be culling the images to be included here from Terry Ramsaye‘s 1926 bone-dry, two-volume tome A Million And One Nights, A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925.

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hundred-year-old headlines

Posted on December 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Ah the good old days. July 11, 1904.

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titles

Posted on December 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Brownlow, Gill. 1980.

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cover art

Posted on December 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

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