Happy 43rd Birthday to Anne Hathaway 🎂

Happy 82nd birthday to Wallace Shawn, who has always understood the assignment.

The Kasambwe Brothers - "Ahedi (Head Teacher)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdf6... #Musicsky #Skymusic #NowListening

Celebrating the Music of Alexander Porfirievich Borodin! (November 12, 1833 – February 27, 1887) Russian composer, also research chemist, physician and professor. Here, his “Notturno” movement from his masterful String Quartet No. 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsC...

Alexander Borodin - BOTD

Jacques Tourneur (with scenes from his film "Night of the Demon") - BOTD

“I look for very strong visual unity by using a type of framing and camera movement that is very simple. Everything must come from inside. It mustn’t be superficial. I hate weird camera angles and distorting lenses.” Director Jacques Tourneur, born 12 November 1904.

Tell Congress Right Now: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

Patrice Leconte (with scenes from his film "Girl on the Bridge") - BOTD

Happy birthday Neil Young 🎂 📷 Mark Seliger "An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. It’s the pop world that has to make adjustments." - Bob Dylan

Taste of Cherry / Abbas Kiarostami / 1997.

Jacques Tourneur (with scenes from his film "I Walked with a Zombie") - BOTD

The exterior of the Rialto Theater in NYC, decorated for the New York premiere of the Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur horror classic CAT PEOPLE Tourneur was BOTD in 1904

Céline Sciamma (with scenes from her film "Petit Maman") - BOTD

Gwen Lee #botd with Norma Shearer in After Midnight (1927).

Alexandra Maria Lara in "Control" - BOTD

Double Indemnity (1944) directed by Billy Wilder stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson #Noirvember #FilmNoir

Images from films shot by cinematographer Sal Polito - BOTD in 1892 Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) 42nd Street (1933) The Mind Reader (1933) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

I seem to be on a daily run of posting a song with the word "mercy" in the title. Another day, another song. Recorded live in Chicago in 1966, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mY...

Auguste Rodin, Bust, c. 1894 (cast 1971) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136566

Remembering Auguste Rodin on his birthday 🎂 📷 Gertrude Käsebier, 1905 "Rodin is himself a cathedral." - Léon Bourgeois

Kim Hunter, born November 12, 1922, looked good in uniform and played cafe chess in A Matter of Life and Death (1946).

Kim Hunter, born 12 November 1922.

Jack Oakie, born 12 November 1903.

Taste of Cherry like Tokyo Story is a picture that gets under your skin like the best books It’s so human so original & constantly surprising in an organic revelatory way It’s one of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen & his performance is simply perfect Understated elegant Transcendent RIP

There Will Be Blood (2007) Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Children of Men (2006) Directed by Alfonso Cuaron

Happy Birthday to Kathleen Hanna youtube.com/watch?v=9ueg...

"I think of #punkrock as more of an idea than a genre. ....I didn't have a grandma who like, left me a trunk full of shit. Always wanted to leave that trunk full of shit for someone else. Feminism created a family structure for me." #HappyBirthday #KathleenHanna #BikiniKill

Buck Clayton #BOTD with Buddy Tate - "Blue Creek" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmiX... #Jazzsky

Buck Clayton (right) under the awning of The Famous Door in New York City with Ben Webster and Benny Morton, 1938. Photo from the Buck Clayton Collection

"The Basie orchestra never let up. They would swing you into bad health... I had never heard such swingin' music in my life... there were only nine of them, but that nine could out-swing anything that I'd ever heard." Happy Birthday Buck Clayton born November 12, 1911

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Buck Dharma, 78 today.

Neil Young #BOTD - "Powderfinger" www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs...

Neil Young #BOTD - "Revolution Blues" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yK5...

Neil Young #botd m.youtube.com/watch?v=NzgX...

Neil Young, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist, was born on Nov. 12, 1945. #NeilYoung Neil Young - "Helpless" (Neil Young) (Live at Massey Hall, 1971) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JTy...

Wishing Neil Young’s a happy 80th birthday. Long may be run! 🎶🎂🎸🎹🎶 (The Esquires, Patterson’s Ranch House, Winnipeg, Feb. 1961. l-r: Garry Reid (lead guitar), Jim Atkin (bongos), Don Marshall (drums), NEIL YOUNG (rhythm guitar), Ken Johnson (vocals). Photo courtesy of Garry & Yvonne Reid.)

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1938 and died aged 86 on October 8 this year, Isaiah Johnson known as Terry “Buzzy” Johnson.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Booker T. Jones, 81 today.

Booker T. Jones, American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, was born on Nov. 12, 1944. #BookerTJones Booker T. & The MG's - "Time Is Tight" (Booker T. Jones, Al Jackson Jr., Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper) (Live, 1970) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBc...

Happy 81st birthday, musician, songwriter, record producer, and arranger Booker T. Jones. 🎂

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1949 and died aged 74 in 2024, Arthur Paul Tavares, known as Pooch Tavares.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Brix Smith, 63 today.

Bob Crewe, American songwriter, singer, and record producer, who wrote/produced hits with Bob Gaudio for the Four Seasons, was born on Nov. 12, 1930 (d. 2014). #BobCrewe Jay and the Americans - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" (B. Crewe, B. Gaudio) (1966) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSi...

(Lester) Errol Brown, British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, the frontman of the soul/funk band Hot Chocolate, was born on Nov. 12, 1943 (d. 2015). #ErrolBrown Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing" (Errol Brown, Tony Wilson) (1976, ZDF Disco) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DwE...

#BOTD 1943. Remembering singer, songwriter, Errol Brown. (d.2015)

Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White, American Delta blues guitarist and singer, was born on Nov. 12, 1906 (d. 1977). #BukkaWhite Bukka White - "Fixin' to Die Blues" (Bukka White) (1940) #Music #Blues www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjB...

#BOTD 1906. Remembering blues, singer, and guitarist Booker T Washington aka "Bukka" White. (d.1977) #Skyblues

#BOTD Richard Quine