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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters: Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.” Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?” Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.” Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?” Hepburn: “I have one.” Walters: “You have one.” Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”
From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters:
Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.”
Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?”
Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.”
Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?”
Hepburn: “I have one.”
Walters: “You have one.”
Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Self-Portraits, Early Selfies

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“Never get caught acting.” —Lillian Gish
“Never get caught acting.”
—Lillian Gish

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.” —Lillian Gish
“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can’t explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”
—Lillian Gish

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Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition

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“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.” -Marilyn Monroe Photo by Andre de Dienes, '50.
“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
-Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Andre de Dienes, 1950.

The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Source via my friend Neo-Neocon

Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.

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Movie Posters: Hollywood’s Golden Age

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Fantastic poster for a 1931 film that hints at menace in the form of a mysterious yellow ticket. What the poster doesn't tell you is the ticket was a pass issued to Jewish women allowing them to travel out of the Pale of Settlement where the Jews were confined by order of the Jew-hating Tzar. But only prostitutes were eligible. An obscure film starring Laurence Olivier, Lionel Barrymore and Elissa Landry.

Have you looked at a movie poster recently and said to yourself: I really have to see that film.

Doubtful.

In the digital era movie posters are barely there, a minor and frequently mediocre—tedious star shots dominate—element in the white-noise media that is dominated by an ever-shifting social media.

There was a time, however, when movie posters were the dominant element by which audiences were lured to the movies.

Here are just a few samples of ordinary posters cranked out by the Hollywood studios; all are characterized by bold graphics and unusual fonts. These are posters that artfully promise action, mystery and romance.

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