"Oh, there's just one more thing..." 🔍 #OTD in #TV #History 20 February 1968, the pilot episode of the classic whodunit series COLUMBO, titled "Prescription: Murder", created by William Link and Richard Levinson, starring #PeterFalk in an iconic role, premiered on NBC.

"Scuse me while I kiss the sky." 🎸 #OTD in #Music #History 20 February 1959, guitarist #JimiHendrix (16) played his first gig in the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue basement, Seattle. His playing was deemed too wild, and he was fired from the band after the first set.

"Oh, I'm not worried, Miss. Gave myself up for dead back where we started." 🛥 #OTD in #Film #History 20 February 1952,  #JohnHuston's beloved classic THE AFRICAN QUEEN, starring #HumphreyBogart and #KatharineHepburn, was released at the Capitol Theatre, New York.

"...a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.” Text: www.booksontrial.com/the-full-tex... 📃 #OTD in the #History of #Art and #Literature 20 Feb 1909, #FTMarinetti's #Futurist Manifesto was published in "Le Figaro".

CECIL GRAHAM: What is a cynic? LORD DARLINGTON: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. 🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 20 February 1892, #OscarWilde's first hit play LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN opened at the St James's Theatre, London.

🎨🏛 #OTD in #Art #History 20 February 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art first opened its doors, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in #NewYork City.

"Oh, you alone, my love, can console my heart." 🎶 #OTD in #Music #History 20 February 1816, Gioachino #Rossini's two-act #opera buffa THE BARBER OF SEVILLE had its premiere at the Teatro Argentina, Rome. The Italian libretto was by Cesare Sterbini. ▶️ youtu.be/gDbBhzIcYj4

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." 🦇✒️ Remembering #HunterSThompson, American #Gonzo journalist and author, who #DOTD 20 February 2005. #Literature

"A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone." ✒️ #MauriceBlanchot, French philosopher, #DOTD 20 Feb 2003.

🎨 #AJCasson, Canadian painter (member of the Group of Seven), #DOTD 20 February 1992. #Art #Painting

"Your wife has a lovely neck." 🎭 German actor #MaxSchreck, unforgettable as Count Orlok in #FWMurnau's "Nosferatu," passed away #OTD 20 February 1936. #Film #Filmmaking #Horror

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." ✒ #FrederickDouglass, African-American escaped slave, abolitionist, lecturer, and editor, #DOTD 20 February 1895. #Literature #Politics

🎨 #PaulKane, Irish-born Canadian painter, #DOTD 20 February 1871. #Art #Painting

"If I recall and read again those days in love’s long-faded script, would there be not a mark or trace but Celia’s, imprinted on my breast?" ✒ #FranciscoBalagtas, Filipino poet, #DOTD 20 February 1862. #Poetry #Literature

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." 🎤 Remembering  #KurtCobain, American rock singer-songwriter with #Nirvana, who was #BOTD 20 February 1967. ▶️ youtu.be/1YhR5UfaAzM?si…

"My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors." 🎬 #MikeLeigh, great English director and screenwriter, is 83 today. #Film #Filmmaking

"According to William Blake, 'The road of excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom.' I was on my way there... in a Jag." 📀 Remembering #FactoryRecords co-founder, The Haçienda manager, and all-round #Manchester legend #TonyWilson, #BOTD 20 February 1950.

"If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty." 🎭 Remembering #SidneyPoitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, #civilrights activist, and diplomat, #BOTD 20 February 1927. #Film

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend." (I Am Legend) 100th Anniversary ✒️ Remembering #RichardMatheson, American author and screenwriter, was #BOTD 20 February 1926. #Film #Literature

"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes." 🎬 #RobertAltman, American screenwriter, producer, and director, was #BOTD 20 February 1925. #Film #Filmmaking

"In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance..." ✒ #PierreBoulle, French author ("The Bridge over the River Kwai"; "Planet of the Apes"), was #BOTD 20 February 1912. #Literature

"If I am lucky, the picture will paint itself." 🎨 English surrealist painter and poet #JulianTrevelyan was #BOTD 20 February 1910. #Art #Poetry #Painting #Surrealism

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." 📸 American photographer #AnselAdams, famous for stunning #photography of the American West, was #BOTD 20 February 1902.

"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so." ✒ French novelist #GeorgesBernanos was #BOTD 20 February 1888. #Literature

"I recognize no rights but #humanrights." ✒ #AngelinaGrimké, American abolitionist, #womensrights activist, and suffragette, was #BOTD 20 February 1805.

"It was beyond him to resign himself to some simple, cynical generality about life. Had he been able to do so, he would have been more comfortable. But because he could not, the heaviness in his heart persisted." ✒ #ShigaNaoya, Japanese author, was #BOTD 20 Feb 1883 #Literature

"Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so." ✒ #WilliamCarleton, Irish novelist, was #BOTD 20 February 1794. #Literature

🎨 English painter Sir #AugustusWallCallcott was #BOTD 20 February 1779. #Art #Painting

"Who loves not woman, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long." ✒ German classicist and poet #JohannHeinrichVoss, famous for his translations of Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," was #BOTD 20 February 1751. #Poetry #Literature

🎨 Dutch Golden Age master painter #JanDeBaen was #BOTD 20 February 1633. #Art #Painting

#DavidFincher's #FightClub will be released as a #4KUHD steelbook on 12 May... #Film

#Trailer for #Pixar #animation #ToyStory5... youtu.be/c51ND9Hdbw0?...

‘People are in awe’: #exhibition unveils #AncientEgyptian #BookOfTheDead A rare gilded and complete Book of the Dead, used in #AncientEgypt to help the deceased to the afterlife, is now on display in #Brooklyn #History #Literature www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#IfIHadLegsI’dKickYou #Film #Review – #RoseByrne is tremendous as therapist in meltdown in black #horror #comedy Byrne delivers a barnstorming performance as a shrink – counselled by an impatient Conan O’Brien – being pushed to the edge by stress of parenting www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

New #trailer for #PeakyBlinders: #TheImmortalMan... #Film youtu.be/lcvUGs3xaDM?...

"Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right." 🎭 #RayWinstone is 69 today. #Film

🏛🎧 Who's Afraid of #Lupercalia? In this new episode of the #History and #Classics #Podcast, #MaryBeard and #CharlotteHiggins focus on the #festival of Lupercalia in #AncientRome... youtu.be/QAPNU_QyJTo?...

"There's evil in the wood." 10th Anniversary 🌲🌲 #OTD in #Film #History 19 February 2016, #RobertEggers's debut feature, superb #horror THE WITCH, starring #AnaTaylorJoy and #RalphIneson, spooked audiences across 🇺🇸

“Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?” 🔥 #OTD in #Film #History 19 February 2010, #MartinScorsese's dark adaptation of #DennisLehane's SHUTTER ISLAND, starring #LeonardoDiCaprio, #MarkRuffalo, #BenKingsley, and #MichelleWilliams, hit 🇺🇸

"You ain't leadin' but two things right now: Jack and shit, and Jack left town." 💀 #OTD in #Film #History 19 February 1993, #SamRaimi's third movie in the #EvilDead #horror series ARMY OF DARKNESS, starring #BruceCampbell, was released in the 🇺🇸

🎶 That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion 🎶 35th Anniversary 💿 #OTD in #Music #History 19 February 1991, #REM released their hit single LOSING MY RELIGION from their 7th studio album "Out Of Time" on Warner Bros. ▶️ youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg

"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own." 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 19 Feb 1963, #BettyFriedan's "The Feminine Mystique", the start of second-wave #Feminism, was published by W.W. Norton.

⛪️ #OTD in the #History of #Architecture 19 February 1516, the beautiful #LadyChapel, which was ordered constructed as part of #WestminterAbbey by King Henry VII, was consecrated. It has been described as "one of the most perfect buildings ever erected in England."

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." ✒️ #UmbertoEco #DOTD 19 Feb 2016. #Literature

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." ✒ #HarperLee, American author ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), #DOTD 19 February 2016. #Literature

"Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!" 🎬🎨 #DerekJarman, English artist and filmmaker, #DOTD 19 February 1994. #Art #Film #Filmmaking

" #Art with a big A makes professionals uneasy. All art is one, and there is no difference in the mystery of the craft, only in the hand and eye of the craftsman." 🎬 #MichaelPowell, great English director, #DOTD 19 February 1990. #Film #Filmmaking

"A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rene-c... ✒ #RenéChar, French poet and painter, #DOTD 19 February 1988. #Art #poetry

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived" ✒ #KnutHamsun, Norwegian writer (Nobel Prize for #Literature 1920), #DOTD 19 February 1952.

"There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory." ✒ Uruguayan poet, playwright, and short story writer #HoracioQuiroga passed away #OTD 19 February 1937. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature