#NowPlaying Phineas Newborn Jr was new to me, but he’s as fleet-fingered and as swinging as Tatum and Peterson.

René Gruau

Diana Dors, holding a Siamese kitten, exits a car outside West London Magistrates Court in December 1957. Look at the kitten's tiny little claws gently hooking into Diana's jacket. #Caturday

#JohnWhiteAlexander The green bow (1898)

French poster for ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)

Two films which seem to me mightily indebted to The Seventh Victim: David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

It is time to keep my appointment with this fine @johnnymains.co.uk collection. #MayDay

Ambiance disco funk dans une piscine allemande de 1969. Conçue par Verner Panton.

Walpurgisnacht viewing: The Seventh Victim.

'Walpurgisnacht' - Paul Klee (1935)

Work – Yellow by Takeo Yamaguchi, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137569

© Nadav Kander

Final post of the goodies to be found in the June 1940 edition of the Strand Magazine. This one is Michael Arlen's yarn 'Gay Falcon'. Only one story was written featuring this character but it spawned a couple of films starring George Sanders. The illustration is by R M Chandler. #BookChatWeekly

#BOTD 1915 Patricia Knight: American actress. Made her debut with Roses Are Red (1947). As a platinum blonde Patricia photographed beautifully in her second film The Fabulous Texan (1947) but found her most noticeable work opposite Cornel Wilde in Shockproof (1949).

#BOTD 1910 Dolly Haas: German-American actress and singer, had her debut as a professional actress in 1927 in Berlin.Worked at the city’s Grosses Schauspielhaus,before embarking on a film career. Known for Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953), Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße (1932) and Der Ball (1931).

a ragged widow says hello, do you like my chapeau

#NowPlaying By turns lush, wistful and jaunty Piero Umiliani score for the 1962 film Smog, with assists from Chet Baker and Helen Merrill.

“Fly TWA JETSTREAM”, by Frank Soltesz, c.1957.

Duke Ellington. Born this day in 1899.

Gerry Conway was to 70s Marvel writing what Sal Buscema was to art. He seemed to have worked on every title they published.

Rétro cars voitures 🚘 les Peugeot 504

Fritz Lang made House by the River for Republic for what looks like spare change, but it’s extremely characteristic where some of his better-funded work isn’t. Louis Hayward delivers a “we couldn’t get Orson Welles” performance.

An amazing read.

Champions reboot greenlit

Add food to a movie: Citizen Kale

Remembering Vladimir Nabokov on his birthday 🎂 📷 Baron Wolman for Esquire, Montreux, 1971 "I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to analysts, or take part in any demonstrations. I'm a mild old gentleman, very kind."

A reminder that Ride’s Leave Them All Behind is one of the all-time great singles. Andy Bell later becoming bassist in Oasis (and god help us, Beady Eye) is like the scientist in He Who Gets Slapped ending up as a circus clown. youtu.be/gIsnb1TKYjE?...

This is going to be like the old Flash Gordon serials where at the end of an episode you saw Flash blown to smithereens, and in the recap at the start of the next, he’d be stepping to the side and dusting himself down in relief.

“If you value your very soul, do not forget the sherry!”

Now that’s a soundtrack to start the week.

Top five Mad Men musical cues: Telstar Satisfaction Tomorrow Never Knows You Only Live Twice Space Oddity youtu.be/2Ir1Es4ZjN8?...

Stephen Shore 1973 #marqueespotting

Sun’s shining, so this upcoming Italo-disco collection from @acerecords.bsky.social is just the ticket. www.acerecords.co.uk/promise-me-d...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

"British Bats at Home” 🎨 Friedrich Specht for “Cassell's Natural History” (1883) #InternationalBatAppreciationDay

Drop your crime fighting Catholics:

My tribute to the Artemis 2 crew in the style of Jack Kirby

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

Name the directors.

You could recast with Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Coolidge and Jon Voight.

“George, you can type this shit, but you can't say it.”

Joyeuses Pâques

First new photo from the Moon

Strongroom is a perfect watch on a bank holiday weekend, as the racheting plot turns on everything being closed for the long weekend and people knocking off early.

Just an hour till the Artemis launch.