Megan Abbott
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NYT-bestselling author of BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on @netflix
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THAAT TIME I FOUUND OUT I WAS A NYT BESTSELLER
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I’ve heard David Lynch tell this story before, but every time it gives me chills.
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“Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them.”
—when asked how such a “nice lady” could edit Martin Scorsese’s violent scenes.
Happy birthday to the master herself, Thelma Schoonmaker ...
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Today recalling that time in 1988 when we drove to Chicago to see INXS and inexplicably encountered a Pee-wee Herman impersonator (?) on I-94 who relentlessly taunted us through the window of his speeding car for many miles.
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In honor of Thanksgiving, let's kick out this gem:
Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher and Teri Garr at a Thanksgiving Party at Sibils, NYC, 1977
Photo: Ron Galella
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Current mood: Carrie Fisher feeding Meryl Streep chocolate cake, 1991.
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“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
Happy birthday, 💔👑Nan Goldin …
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“Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them."
--Thelma Schoonmaker when asked how such a nice lady could edit Martin Scorsese’s violent movies.
Happy birthday, to the brilliant Thelma Schoonmaker ...
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“Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them."
--When asked how such a "nice lady" could edit Martin Scorsese’s violent scenes.
Happy birthday, to the brilliant Thelma Schoonmaker ...
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Anjelica Huston 🖤
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Happy birthday to the late, beloved Catherine Scorsese, responsible for the single greatest moment in cinematic history ….
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Humphrey Bogart's lifts, worn during his scenes with Ingrid Bergman in CASABLANCA.
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In honor of his birthday ...
Frances McDormand on how she and Joel Coen first got together on the set of BLOOD SIMPLE:
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Hard to top this one.
Frances McDormand on how she and Joel Coen first got together on the set of BLOOD SIMPLE:
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Today's inspo:
Sofia Coppola with .... Daniel Day Lewis, in full Gen X efflorescence.
Photo: Ron Galella, SINGLES premiere, 1992
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Today's inspo:
Nicole Kidman doing as she pleases at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, 2000.
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Happy birthday to the late, beloved Catherine Scorsese, who gave us the single greatest moment in cinematic history ...
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Today's inspo:
On her birthday, Sigourney Weaver at Tail O’ the Pup, La Cienega
📸 Douglas Kirkland, 1978
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Today's inspo:
11-year-old Martin Scorsese's storyboards for his planned Roman epic
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“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”
Happy birthday, Tallulah Bankhead ...
Photo: Cecil Beaton, 1927
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“Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them.”
--When asked how such a “nice lady” could edit Martin Scorsese’s violent scenes.
Happy birthday to the master, Thelma Schoonmaker ...
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Barry Keoghan steals all of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN with his reading of just one line.
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Today's inspo:
The effortless cool of Paul Newman's breton stripes.
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A new religion entirely based on images of Bogart lighting Bacall's cigarettes.
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Just appreciating the epic chutzpah of the great Paul Schrader ending at least three of his movies the exact same way.
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Forever fascinated by how bed feasting appears to be among the greatest fantasies of the 70s
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Today's must-eavesdrop inspo:
Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Laura Dern, Elizabeth Taylor and Anjelica Huston....
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In honor of her birthday, let's enjoy Sophia Loren enjoying life.
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Annual Thanksgiving posting of queens Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher & Teri Garr.
🦃🍂🍁🍸🚬
📷Ron Galella, NYC, November 21, 1977
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“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”
Happy birthday, the sorely missed Carrie Fisher ....
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Today's new year's inspo:
Patricia Highsmith, from her journals
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This IRISHMAN commemorative napkin from last November continues to haunt me with its prescience and growing multiplicity of meaning.
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Today's inspo:
Anjelica Huston and Liza Minnelli, ride or die, 1975.
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Annual posting of three graces Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher & Teri Garr at Sybils, NYC
📸Ron Galella, Thanksgiving, 1977
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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Happy birthday, Dorothy Parker....
(Photo: Anthony Calvacca,1945)
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"A man has always wanted to lay me down, but he never wanted to pick me up."
Happy birthday, Eartha Kitt...
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"I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive."
Happy birthday, the singular Harry Dean Stanton ...
Here with Nastassja Kinski (PARIS, TEXAS, 1984)
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“I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.”
Happy birthday, the legendary John Waters …
📸Jim Jocoy (r.), 1980
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“The industry is shit. It’s the medium that’s great.”
Happy birthday, the undaunted Lauren Bacall …
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In honor of his birthday, one of the many things we can be grateful to Paul Thomas Anderson for:
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A Thanksgiving tradition. The annual posting of goddesses Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher and Teri Garr.
Photo: Ron Galella, NYC, Thanksgiving, 1977
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Today's chill inspo:
Ingmar Bergman, cozy on various sofas.
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In honor of Werner Herzog's birthday, let us recall that time he saved Joaquin Phoenix from going up in flames:
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A Thanksgiving tradition. The annual posting of queens Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher & Teri Garr.
🦃🍂🍁🍸🚬
Photo: Ron Galella, NYC, Thanksgiving, 1977
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Happy birthday to the great Raymond Chandler…no writer has meant more to me.
From THE LONG GOODBYE, one of my favorite paragraphs in literature, especially poignant now.
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"I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."
Happy birthday, the incendiary Sylvia Plath ...
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For those who need it...(like me)
Ingmar Bergman, looking cozy
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@vicfoster
Right? But I do think LOST HIGHWAY is truly his Black Dahlia movie, and shows the way he'd tell that story.
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Today's inspo:
The hallucinatory dream of 1946 NYC , via Andreas Feininger
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Happy birthday, the late, beloved Catherine Scorsese, who is responsible for the single greatest moment in cinematic history ….
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"I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.”
Happy birthday, the one-and-only Flannery O'Connor...
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Now that King of Comedy and After Hours are beign celebrated, this stands as the most underrated Scorsese:
Evening viewing recommendation? On
@criterionchannl
, watch Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD in our 1999 collection! This searing collaboration between Scorsese & Paul Schrader continues their ongoing inquiry into questions of guilt, torment, faith & existential meaning.
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Michael Shannon reading FRANNY AND ZOOEY over soup is my new religion.
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"I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost."
Happy birthday, the sublime Nan Goldin ...
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Today's inspo:
Young Willem Dafoe
mad, bad, dangerous to know 🔥🔥🔥
Photo: Jeannette Montgomery Barron, 1985
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"I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up."
Happy birthday, Ingrid Bergman ....
Photo by Ernest Bachrach
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"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
Happy birthday, the extraordinary Frida Kahlo...
Photos: Nickolas Muray, 1945 and 1946
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This is the greatest.
Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher, and Teri Garr 1977. Photo by Ron Galella.
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“The only real influence I've ever had was myself.”
Happy birthday, the master of beautiful loneliness Edward Hopper ...
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For the
@Criterion
4K of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, I talked the Coens in a wide-ranging interview—they revealed all kinds of behind-the-scenes gems.
Coming Dec 10! Preorder now:
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“I’m not interested in realism—not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.”
Happy birthday, my hero, Martin Scorsese …
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1975
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"I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched."
Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe ...
(plus: SAME)
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“Folks, I'm telling you
birthing is hard
and dying is mean--
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
Happy birthday, the great Langston Hughes ....
(Photo: Carl Van Vechten)
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Today’s inspo:
👑Thelma Schoonmaker editing RAGING BULL as ASHES AND DIAMONDS plays on TV
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Today's chill inspo:
Jack, showing us how stay-at-home is done.
Photo: Arthur Schatz, Los Angeles, 1969
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Today's breath-of-spring inspo:
Schoolgirls on the subway to Far Rockaway, Queens
Photo: Willy Spiller, 1977-85
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Today's inspo:
Wim Wenders dreamy, lost Polaroids of 70s America
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“Nostalgia is a powerful feeling. It can drown out anything.”
Happy birthday, Terrence Malick …
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These are upsetting times, folks.
Let's all enjoy Sophia Loren making a pizza:
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Today's chill inspo:
Robert Mitchum visiting troops in Thailand, 1967. He arrived via helicopter, beer in hand.
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
Happy birthday, the-star-of stars Elizabeth Taylor …
Photo: Bert Stern, 1961
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A New Year’s Eve toast for the ages
via Patricia Highsmith (from her journals) 🍾🥂
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"I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."
Happy birthday, the extraordinary Sylvia Plath ...
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“I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
Happy birthday, the inestimable Katharine Hepburn ...
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Been waiting nearly my whole life for this. Seeing my hero Martin Scorsese, with the legendary Thelma Schoonmaker, after a screening of the astounding KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.
I first fell in love with MEAN STREETS at age 12 or 13 (thank you, Dad ❤️). Yes, I cried.
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Today's giddy inspo:
The dark, torrid energy of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, rewriting RAGING BULL in the Caribbean.
Photo: Gloria Norris, 1979
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when the nyt comes to take pictures of your apartment and you forget to put the hula hoop in the closet
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"I am passionately interested in human cruelty, human lust and human avarice."
Happy birthday, Daphne du Maurier (REBECCA, MY COUSIN RACHEL)
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“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”
Happy birthday, the radiant Eartha Kitt …
Photo: Russell Westwood, 1951
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“In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the U.S., I’m a bum.”
Happy birthday, the great director John Carpenter …
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"I had to bump heads with a lot of men in the industry ... As a strong woman, I was seen as a threat."
Happy birthday, Pam Grier ...
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Today's inspo:
The weary incandescence of famed cinematographer Robby Müller's Polaroids.
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“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it became the scene of his real life..."
--Edith Wharton, AGE OF INNOCENCE
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