One of my favourite Soho people & a fine friend for many years now - George Skeggs, aka ‘Soho George’. Royal Academician, Painter, Artist, self-proclaimed Poppinjay, and utter original. 📷 by Me

Remembering the great ‘Old Hollywood’ director CECIL B. DEMILLE - who died 73yrs ago today.

Remembering BENNY HILL - born 102yrs ago today.

Buster Keaton in 1928. On the shoulders of giants…

Marilyn in 1955 📷 by Milton H. Greene

Remembering TERRY JONES - who left us 6yrs ago today.

PLÁCIDO DOMINGO 85 Candles 🎂 today for the great Spanish Tenor.

“To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like.” — George Orwell He left us 76yrs ago today, aged just 46.

Sunset Strip - 1970

Remembering GEORGE ORWELL - born Eric Arthur Blair - who left us 76yrs ago today, aged just 46. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949) ANIMAL FARM (1945) THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (1936) HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (1938)

Raquel Welch - ‘Hannie Caulder’ (1971)

‘Self-Portrait, Yawning’ by Joseph Ducreux (c.1783)

“Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shit load of dimes!” BLAZING SADDLES (1974) #MelBrooks

“MAGNUM P.E.I.” SCTV (1982) It’s only a quick sketch — swapping P.I. for P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island) — on a show that launched many stellar careers, but (a) it makes me laugh and (b) it reminds me how much I miss JOHN CANDY.

The keen-eyed will hopefully recognise some of The Second City comedy troupe from this photo of them in Toronto in 1975.

A fantastic Documentary on my and many people’s favourite Stand-Up Comedian of all time GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM (2022)

A fantastic Documentary on my and many people’s favourite Stand-Up Comedian of all time GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM (2022)

Even at the height of his career STEVE McQUEEN would return unannounced to his alma mater - the Boys Republic reform school in Chino Hills, California - which he later credited as one of the key influences in shaping the resilience, grit and independence that defined his adult life and career.

Gary

9yr old Martin Scorsese’s first communion in 1951

Meryl Streep photographed by Anthony Armstrong-Jones for THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN (1981)

The iconic Marlboro Man at Sunset and Marmont in 1994.

Remembering the Oscar-winning BARBARA STANWYCK — who left us 36yrs ago today, aged 82.

My favourite 'Tarzan' (and multiple Olympic Gold medalist) JOHNNY WEISSMULLER - who left us 42yrs ago today, aged 79.

48 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful OMAR SY

Remembering the Oscar winning girl from Belgium - AUDREY HEPBURN - who left us 33yrs ago today, aged 63.

AUDREY HEPBURN - who left us 33yrs ago today, aged 63 - met Pippin shooting the 1959 movie “Green Mansions”. It was suggested Audrey take the deer home as a pet so they could bond. Ip - as she was called for short - was adopted by Hepburn and they were inseparable thereafter.

My favourite set of photos of AUDREY HEPBURN - who left us 33yrs ago today, aged 63 - were taken by Leo Fuchs when Audrey was 30yrs old and in the Belgian Congo shooting “The Nun’s Story” in 1959. No make-up, fresh-faced, love her hair, love her styling, just beautiful.

“Dwight’s Perfect Crime” THE OFFICE (2008) 66 Candles 🎂 today for RAINN WILSON

“I’m an actor, not a star” — Al Pacino 📷 by Annie Leibovitz

92 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful TOM BAKER

A very SOHO photo. TOM BAKER — 92 Candles 🎂 today — Francis Bacon, Jeffrey Barnard et al at The Colony Room Club in 1983. (📷 by Mary Dunkin)

Remembering the 4-time Academy Award winner FEDERICO FELLINI - born 106yrs ago today.

According to legendary Disney animator & imagineer MARC DAVIS - the dress transformation moment in CINDERELLA (1950) was Walt Disney’s favourite piece of animation.

Remembering the Oscar winning GEORGE BURNS - born 130yrs ago today

This super movie — with another outstanding MICHAEL KEATON performance and deserving of more love — opened 9yrs ago today. THE FOUNDER (2016)

Raquel Welch and that iconic fur bikini in ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966)

“… he’s gone.” BREAKING BAD (2008-2013) One of the great Drama series this century premiered 18yrs ago today can you believe. #BryanCranston #VinceGilligan

Wim

Yvonne Craig on the Batgirl motorcycle in 1967.

THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL was a famous early Hollywood society venue that stood on the northwest corner of Hollywood and Highland from 1903 to 1956.

Producer: We can't afford a train Wes Anderson: No problem THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) The glamour of filmmaking.

Of all the design experiments at THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL over the last century none has inspired more stories than the 100,000 gallon ‘reflecting pool’ that separated artists & audiences from 1953 to 1972. (Micky Dolenz leapt into it during a 1967 Monkees’ concert & got them banned)

James Stewart, Henry Fonda & Gene Kelly hanging out on the set of ‘The Cheyenne Social Club’ in 1969.

DOLLY officially celebrating her 80th 🎂 Helluva Lady

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They were called RECORD STORES - and back in the day kids, you could meet your favourite Artist and they’d sign your album or single. PRINCE at Sam Goody - NYC in 1988

The brilliant LARRY DAVID on the horrors of social intercourse.

An abandoned Drive-In Movie Theater - Buena Vista, Colorado

Joseph Levine - producer of A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977) - had a walking cane with an exquisite miniature of the Arnhem Bridge made in gold.