Marge: C’mon, Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon.
Homer: That’s not how I remember it.
—The Simpsons, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, American broadcast date: May 16, 1999
Untitled (Dovima in Balenciaga) 1950
Harpers Bazaar
oct 11, 2011
Building a Sukka, Israel
Costumed extra taking a break during the filming of Planet of the Apes
Los Angeles, 1967
![Margaret Hamilton & Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming) “I suppose I’ve turned down a fortune [by refusing countless offers to re-create the role], but I just don’t want to spoil the magic. Little children’s minds can’t cope with seeing a mean witch alive again. Many times, I see mothers and little children and the mothers always recognize me as the witch. Often, they say to the kids, ‘Don’t you know who she is? She’s the witch in The Wizard of Oz! Then the kids look worried and say, ‘But I thought she melted.’ It’s as though they think maybe I’m going to go back and cause trouble for Dorothy again.” -Margaret Hamilton, The Washington Post (1973)](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/witch.png)
“I suppose I’ve turned down a fortune [by refusing countless offers to re-create the role], but I just don’t want to spoil the magic. Little children’s minds can’t cope with seeing a mean witch alive again. Many times, I see mothers and little children and the mothers always recognize me as the witch. Often, they say to the kids, ‘Don’t you know who she is? She’s the witch in The Wizard of Oz! Then the kids look worried and say, ‘But I thought she melted.’ It’s as though they think maybe I’m going to go back and cause trouble for Dorothy again.”
—Margaret Hamilton, The Washington Post (1973)
Portrait of a Man c. 1470 oil on panel
The Frick Collection
Screenplay: Robert Pirosh, Marc Connelly
Dialogue: René Clair, André Rigaud (both uncredited)
Uncredited: Dalton Trumbo
Based on the unfinished novel, The Passionate Witch, by Thorne Smith
Norman H. Matson (story completion)
The Grocers’ Shop, A Woman Selling Grapes, 1672
Source: Sin in Soft Focus
Down Field, 2014
vellum, gesso, gouache, beeswax, pencil, plywood
48 x 49 inches
(photo: Roman März)
April 4, 1954
NYC
“If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.”
—John Cleese, 1997
Edgar Degas( 1834-1917) 1881, pastel on five pieces of woven paper backed with paper and laid down on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum-of Art
Self Portrait, 1941
Portrait of Anna Boudaen Courten, 1619
Swedish artist, 1862-1915
Dawn Over Riddarfjarden, 1899
NYC, 1963
Girls on a bridge, 1902
Silent Picture
The Ancient Park, NYC
2016
Children in a Movie Theater
1958
Ori Resheff, Israeli, b. 1955
Moshav Bar-Giora, Israel, 1993
Silver: hand-worked and copper: patinated
13 11/16 × 4 1/2 in. (34.8 × 11.4 cm)
Tom Lehrer was working on his PhD in Mathematics when he quit to continue his musical career.
I used to go see him at the Interlude which was upstairs from The Crescendo which was at street level. We used to go see June Christy at the Crescendo. She would sing as long as people listened. Her accompanist was her husband. If people were inattentive, she would quit after a short period but if they listened, she would go one for an hour. Then she would come out and talk to us at the bar. We couldn’t afford dinner in those days but she recognized us. The Interlude was jammed when Lehrer was playing.
College day memories.
On John Cleese: it is amazing in life how at the time you take a seemingly innocuous turn that becomes so profound. I wonder what his “fork in the road was like ” when he turned to comedy.
I read somewhere that Bob Newhart, before he turned to stand up comedy, was an accountant.
On the Dennis stock photo I read somewhere it took many hours for make up to get these people into the ape costumes.
And I’ll bet only in LA good one sitter the bus stop in that costume and not even get a second glance 🙂
I love the Wayne Miller photo, Robert, as well as the photo of your grand kids, I’m curious about your photo from the Ancient Playground in Central Park… what is that?
I too love the Miller photo. The stainless steel thing is a balance bar.