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

Sean Connery

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“My first big break came when I was five years old. It’s taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It’s that simple and it’s that profound. I left school at thirteen. I didn’t have a formal education… It has been a long return journey from my two-room Fountainbridge home in the smoky industrial end of Edinburgh opposite the McCowans’ toffee factory. There was no bathroom with a communal toilet outside. For years we had only gas lighting. Sometimes the light in the shared stairway would be out after some desperado had broken the mantle to bubble gas through milk for kicks.”
—Sean Connery, RIP 1930 — 2020
Uncredited Photographer, Sean Connery Appearing in “The Seashell,” King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1959

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Sylvia Sidney, c.1934
“She was the only American film actress who reminded me of reality.”
—James Baldwin

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Masayuki Mori & Machiko Kyō in Rashomon (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa) 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
Masayuki Mori & Machiko Kyō in Rashomon, 1950
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

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