“Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.”
—Barbara Stanwyck
Tatsuya Tanaka
Steak
Miniature Calendar
Mary Nolan, 1920s
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) Leicester Square 1901 Oil paint on canvas 805 x 648 mm
Rick McGinnis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, June 2017
Poster for the Swedish release of Skyhawk, 1929
Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917-2009 New York)
Large Sleeve (Sunny Harnett), New York
1951, printed 1984
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (37.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation
© Condé Nast
Hispano-Suiza T-68 Cabriolet Saoutchik (1934)
“You know what the average Robert Mitchum fan is? He’s full of warts and dandruff and he’s probably got a hernia too, but he sees me up there on the screen and he thinks if that bum can make it, I can be president.”
—Robert Mitchum
Tetsuya Tanaka
Bouldering
Miniature Calendar
Myrna Loy, 1930s
Mary Heilmann, Rio Nido, 1987. © Mary Heilmann. Photo by Thomas Müller. Courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, and Hauser & Wirth.
Brigitte Bardot by Pierre Boulat, 1952
1912 Stutz Bearcat
Irving Penn
Jean Patchett, New York, 1949
Poster for the Swedish release of Blonde Venus, 1932
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
—Sophia Loren
Tatsuya Tanaka
Bamboo Forest
Miniature Calendar
Jean Harlow poses with her 1932 Packard, outside of her Los Angeles home, 1933.
Modigliani
“Blue Eyes (Portrait of Madame Jeanne Hébuterne),” 1917
Poster for the Swedish release of The Clairvoyant, 1935
Erwin Blumenfeld
Babe Paley, 1947
At the Milliner’s
Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
1881
Pastel on five pieces of wove paper, backed with paper, and laid down on canvas
27 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (69.2 x 69.2 cm)
Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120
Manufacturer: Smith & Wesson (American, established 1852)
Decorator: Tiffany & Co. (American, established 1837)
ca. 1888
Springfield, Massachusetts; New York, New York
Steel, silver, nickel
Dimensions: L. 11 in. (28 cm); L. of barrel 5 in. (12.7 cm); Cal. .44 in. (11 mm); Wt. 2 lb. 8 oz. (1123 g)
Detail of a full floral and penwork border inhabited by a parrot. The ‘Lisbon Bible’ (1483).
Pinchas Tzvi wishes all our friends and relatives a happy and inspirational Shabbat.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Boy – if he had his thumbs up, I’d think Pinchas Tzvi was doing the Fonz! Very cute, keneinahorra.
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I’d hop in the Cabriolet, swing by and pick up Myrna Loy, and it would be away we go off to ADVENTURE!
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Yes, of course.
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Not unless you change your handle from “Get there just as soon.” The name is redolent of bike lanes, tofu and safety helmets, not Cabriolets and adventure with Myrna Loy.
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Touché. I had preferred “Johnny Dangerously,” but was otherwise advised. It’s actually part of a saying I head as a youth. “I’ll get there just as soon and die just as happy.” So, yes, it doesn’t exactly suggest life in the “fast lane.”
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All in fun, of course. Ain’t none of us in this particular race anyhow, I suspect.
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Fun. Sometimes it seems there are those who never developed or lost the capacity to simply have fun. My race, or a part thereof, was in a SAAB with a woman who, in my eyes, might as well have been Myrna Loy driving at night in the countryside with the sweet smell of honeysuckle in the air. Those were the days.
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Babe Paley was one of the three beautiful daughters of Harvey Cushing, the world’s most famous neurosurgeon. One married a Roosevelt, one married an Astor and she married the founder of CBS. Not bad.
I feel so sorry for Jean Harlow. She died of renal failure in The Hospital of the Good Samaritan at the age of 26. She, in spite of her image as a tramp, was from wealthy parents. Her mother was a typical stage mother but her death was probably not treatable before dialysis. It was likely glomerulonephritis and inexorable.
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My favorite Robert Mitchum retort, when asked if what something said in a tabloid was true, was “whatever they said it is true”. He was the one and only “don’t care” star.
Has Pinchas Tzvi gone Hollywood? – “Let’s do lunch”.
On the S & W .44 – I have never been a fan of firearms that are “pimped out”. They are made so pretty that one can’t shoot them because the value will plummet.
The Bouldering picture: I am struck by how an artist can see a plain thing – a bakery item with sprinkles – and turn it into interesting art. Just as the photographer’s eye can see things plain to everyone else and note the beauty in it..
On Brigitte Bardot – I am struck by how different she looks – “plain” denotes a derogary term but that is not my intention – Movie make up people apparently can transform…
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I may have posted this here before, but Mitch rented a house from a family friend when she went to Europe for a year. When she returned, her neighbor, Hugh O’Brien, stopped by one day to suggest she have her gardener uproot the marijuana garden that Mitch had planted on her hillside before the sheriffs saw it.
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Re Barbara Stanwyck. One of the people but on big money. If you are on big money, you are not one of the people. And I know we all come from our mother’s bellies, but we do not remain babies indefinitely, we change. Barbara is full of it.
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Further: If you work in a shop, that is a job. If you are a movie star, or the head of your class, that is, as the consequence of drive, vision, and money on the table, a career.
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I feel like Barbara Stanwyck would have been successful at whatever “job” she undertook. Her words seem very down-to-Earth and intelligent.
I have never seen the Miniature Calendar before. Fascinating, and he has a ton of them!
Poor Mary Nolan. She looks SO DIFFERENT than the picture of her at 35… a hard life to say the least!
When I look at the Hispano-Suiza T-68, I’m shocked by how far foward the front tires are set in the design. From this angle, it looks like all of the engine is set behind the front axle.
You know how I feel about Myrna Loy, Robert. This photo is so intense — I’m not sure if that is the look of a woman intent on seducing me, or planning my murder!!
And I know how you feel about Brigitte Bardot… this is the most casual/candid photo I’ve ever seen of her. In 1952, she would have been 17, or perhaps 18.
Love the photo of Jean Harlow. One can only wonder what her career and life might have been…
I love the detailed artwork of the Degas, the Smith & Wesson, and the Lisbon Bible.
Love the photo of Pinchas Tzvi — ready for action!
Have a wonderful Sabbath everyone!
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