Monthly Archives: May 2013

dig the critics

Other Voices

Playboy. February 1972.

See ya, Ray.

f for orson

Burt Reynolds

Orson and Burt Reynolds in the unaired pilot for The Orson Welles Show. 1978.

Orson Welles

on your sleeve

PYT

P.Y.T. Michael Jackson. 1983.

midnight cowboy

Weird double-exposure promo shot of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. John Schlesinger. 1969.

way back

Michael Leonard

Latham Relics — above — Michael Leonard, who posed for the first screen fight made for Latham‘s special edition of Edison’s Kinetoscope — below — one of Latham’s Panoptikon’s first projectors — bottom — Latham Eidoloscope film of 1895, extract size.

Latham's Special Edition

1895

casino royale

Joanna Pettet

As Miss Moneypenny and Mata Bond, respectively, Barbara Bouchet (below) and Joanna Pettet (above) adorned the James Bond spoof Casino Royale. Barbara made it mainly on the strength of a nude surfside smooch with Hugh O’Brian, most of which was snipped from In Harm’s Way; but Joanna was already a veteran of two films, including The Group. – Playboy. January 1969.

Barbara Bouchet

f for fields

Two Flaming Youths

Claude and Chester Conklin in Two Flaming Youths. John Waters (not that John Waters). 1927.

record labels

Lies. Guns ‘n’ Roses. 1988.

advertising

Hard Rain

Dylan on NBC. 1976.

godard directs

Jean-Luc Godard directs Jean-Paul Belmondo and
Jean Seberg in À bout de souffle as Raoul Coutard mans the camera.1960.