HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology.
Hell of a lady.
MICKEY ROURKE keeping it totally real whilst totalling his career at the same time in this 1987 Playboy interview.
STEVE McQUEEN wearing his ‘Heuer Monaco’ on the set of LE MANS in 1970.
“When you’re Racing, it’s… its life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
LE MANS (1971)
#SteveMcQueen
“More Stars Than There Are in Heaven” - one of the great ‘Old Hollywood’ strap lines.
The MGM ‘Class Of 1943’
The late great DAVID LYNCH becomes visibly moved talking about Frank Capra’s stone cold classic — “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
RINGO STARR is visibly moved when talking about the last words his fellow Beatle GEORGE HARRISON said to him on his deathbed.
“Do you want me to come with you?”
Sat with his friend & colleague JUDI DENCH, KENNETH BRANAGH becomes visibly moved when talking about the nature of loss & grief and simply not having the words to express these emotions.
He then he turns to a line from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’…
TEA WITH JUDI DENCH (2025)
Sat with his friend & colleague JUDI DENCH, KENNETH BRANAGH becomes visibly moved when talking about the nature of loss & grief and simply not having the words to express these emotions.
He then he turns to a line from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’…
TEA WITH JUDI DENCH (2025)
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the set of their first Hollywood movie together
MY FRIEND IRMA (1949)
Dean Martin visiting Audrey Hepburn on the set of
SABRINA (1954)
Cannot tell you how much I adore this clip from 1941 of women from the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides singing as they work their Harris Tweed.
It was shot by the Oscar winning cinematographer JACK CARDIFF.
AL PACINO’s 1961 mugshot.
As a 20yr old he was arrested in Woonsocket - Rhode Island when & 2 pals were caught driving around in masks with a .38 caliber revolver in the trunk.
Pacino said the gun was a theatrical prop but spent 3 days in jail as he couldn't find the $2k bail.
In 1963 HERBIE HANCOCK used his first royalty cheque to buy his first car — a brand new ‘Shelby Cobra CSX 2006’, which he still owns over 60yrs on.
Carroll Shelby and Steve McQueen at Shelby’s Cobra HQ — Los Angeles (1963)
HILL STREET BLUES (1981-87)
HILL STREET BLUES (1981-87)
Queueing at the box office in Blue Island - Illinois in 1943
📷 by Jack Delano
Oliver Stone won the Oscar but DAVID LYNCH — with a piece of blue velvet in his hand — won the cool & lovely award at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987.
MATT DAMON talks about auditioning for
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
not getting the part & spending the entire summer working in his hometown Movie theatre as an usher tearing tickets & watching people come out crying so moved by the movie were they.
Remembering one of the greatest Musical artists of all time — PRINCE — who left us 10yrs ago today, aged just 57.
11yr old PRINCE ROGERS NELSON — who left us 10yrs ago today, aged just 57 — interviewed in 1970 on a Minnesota picket line succinctly & eruditely making it clear why he believed his Teachers deserved better pay.
Remembering the Musical genius — PRINCE (here in 1977) — who left us 10yrs ago today, aged just 57.
They were called RECORD STORES - and back in the day you could meet a your favourite Artist and they’d sign your album or single.
PRINCE — who left us 10yrs ago today, aged just 57 — at Sam Goody, NYC in 1988
79 Candles 🎂 today for IGGY POP
James Newell Osterberg - or as we know him IGGY POP - in 1965.
Happy 79th Iggy 🎂
JEAN-LUC GODARD's Top 10 U.S Films (from the sound era):
Scarface (1932)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Vertigo (1958)
The Searchers (1956)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Angel Face (1953)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Dishonored (1931)
Jean Luc-Godard and Claude Chabrol in the Cahiers du Cinéma office.
JOHN LENNON interviewed in 1968.
“Our society is run by insane people… I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends."
He was right then.
He’s right now.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
