Monthly Archives: January 2012

cover art

Posted on January 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

Henri Langlois with chronophotographic rifle. 1968.

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cute couple alert

Posted on January 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on the set of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Stanley Kramer. 1967.

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party in the u.s.a!

Posted on January 19, 2012 | 2 comments

Legends gather at a Hollywood Party. 1925.

Personal note: Now is probably a good time to mention that I’m now a regular contributor at the great If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Seeing as how this site is little more than a shameless rip off of that one, it should be a good fit. Please enjoy.

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on your sleeve

Posted on January 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

Orgasm Addict. Buzzcocks. 1977.

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the servant

Posted on January 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. The Servant. Losey. 1963.

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advertising

Posted on January 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

1971.

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record labels

Posted on January 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Unknown Pleasures. Joy Division. 1979.

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titles

Posted on January 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Eastwood. 1992.

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way back

Posted on January 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Thomas R Lombard—at left—the first man to see commercial opportunity in the motion picture machine he had discovered in Edison’s laboratory —Pictured here in the office of the World’s Fair exhibit of the Edison phonograph in 1893, awaiting the Kinetoscopes which never arrived.

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two english girls

Posted on January 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Les deux anglaises et le continent. Truffaut. 1971.

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