Roscoe Lee Browne (born on this date in 1922) had a productive acting career in Hollywood, which stretched over five decades. Browned appeared on dozens of television programs – & had a reoccurring role on ABC’s Soap in the early 1980s. He also was an in-demand voice actor. Browne died in 2007.

Happy birthday to Brian Tochi, who was 9 when he was on Star Trek's "And The Children Shall Lead, then guest starred on Star Trek: The Next Generation over 20 years later in "Night Terrors."

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) #BTSaturday #filmsky

The legendary 2.5+ hour Assembly Cut of Joe Dante's GREMLINS is real, and it just screened in Los Angeles. Here's everything we know about the rough extended cut that star Zach Galligan calls "a total revelation": bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394943...

#NoirAlley raises the bar tonight with DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948), an early Kurosawa film about an alcoholic doctor who forms an uneasy bond with a TB-stricken gangster. It’s a crime picture, but an unusually human one—closer, in some ways, to a tender masterpiece like Ikiru than High and Low. #TCMParty

Finally watched Gloria (1980) with @shawnrobare.com after hearing him rave about it. 100% agreed, it’s an incredible movie. Tragic, funny, and tense. Riveting from start to finish. And scored by Bill Conti!

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Scotland’s first sci-fi film!

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Été(Summer) 1896. oil on panel. #Lithograph #PreRaphaelite

It is why we all have to suffer and now have a Supreme Court with 6 racist, misogynist and corrupt justices. Just because powerful men could not bring themselves to hear the truth and believe Anita Hill in 1991.

Indiana was the national epicenter of the KKK in the 1920s. Convince me John Roberts isn't a racist.

Huge anti Trump protests in Raleigh, NC and all across America. 8647

Trump continues his unhinged early morning rants. We really should be taking a serious look at who is running this country. The mess that he is causing. Never has so much damage been done by one man for so few. The lunatic has taken over the asylum... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIt...

Another library sale find by my wife.

2nd May 1979, The Who performed their first concert after the death of drummer Keith Moon. New drummer Kenney Jones made his debut with the band at the Rainbow Theatre in London. #TheWho

An hour is not enough for Carol Burnett stories. She grew up blocks from the Hollywood Blvd. and it’s all the stuff of legend from there. #TCMFF A national treasure.

Tech oligarchs in the US act like their own sovereign nations. They have proven that their foreign policy is based purely on personal gain. If going against American strategic interests makes them richer or more powerful, they will do it without hesitation

On his birthday, we remember Oscar nominee Theodore Bikel, who played Sergey Rozhenko, Worf's father, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family." He was also the co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival.

I didn’t know this. Did you?

Hank and Dean New family members!

Hahaha… There are dozens of videos with Chico frightening big dogs in his neighborhood! youtube.com/shorts/KOQyg...

RIP J. Craig Venter, founder of Celera Genomics. His imprint on science is his use of an innovative method to sequence the human genome. I wrote an essay about him in school. Little did I know I would meet him decades later, at a local conference. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/gene...

Louisiana Vote ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

PHOTO OF THE DAY. 2 employees of Abbey Road studios and 2 Beatles assistants act as stand-ins for The Beatles Abbey Road album cover just a few days before the historic photo shoot (1969) 📷 Iain Macmillan

#caturday #madmagazine

me when i get shot

Academy Awards organizers issued new rules to clarify that acting and writing must ‌be performed by humans — not artificial intelligence — to be eligible for the movie industry's highest honors

Italian ceramics artist Clara Holt, who decorates her work with images of ancient myths #WomensArt

One of the best auroral displays of the year for me

Gabriel Pacheco, Mexican (1973- ), from 12 Illustrated Poems by Lorca, 2013

Father & son

@sugoishiba.bsky.social got in on golden week early so lesbians please say thank you mel #CourageousArt

Union soldiers died to end slavery. Marchers died to secure the vote. The Roberts Court decided their sacrifice didn’t matter.

#OTD in 1932, Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for #Fiction for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 was the best-selling novel in the US in 1931 and 1932. Pearl Buck would go on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. #litsky #booksky

Just a reminder for Free Comic Book Day, I do not charge for signatures and I am happy to sign whatever books you bring. Come say hello!

Heh

Good morning. ☕️ *Earl Holliman in the first episode of The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody?", 1959

It's been 60 days since the President started his illegal war with Iran. According to the law, he must withdraw troops NOW.

Georgia O’Keeffe is not known for portraiture but she did paint this portrait of fellow US modernist painter Beauford Delaney (1943), who she greatly admired. Delaney was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and also gay #Womensart

Otherwise known as “Uncle Tom”

Stillness on Saturday. This morning in Chicago's Lincoln Park.

Robert Earl Jones (1910-2006), who played Luther in "The Sting" (1973), is the father of actor James Earl Jones.

this movie (a self standing fantasy with no prior IP and no potential for a sequel) would never get made in today's Hollywood