HBD openly cute and gay English actor Ben Whishaw who was BOTD in 1980, turning 45 today. It's not all about the hair, but the hair is definitely there!

The great Udo Kier, whom I once interviewed on stage at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto as we both got drunk on Chardonnay and a bottle of Jagermeister as he mercilessly teased me, was BOTD in 1944, turning 81 today!!! HBD!!!

My book "Porn Diaries" has been translated into Spanish by Editorial Cantico & is now avail under the title "Diarios Porno"! almuzaralibros.com/fichalibro.p... They also published my first book translated into Spanish, "Contra La Cultura" almuzaralibros.com/fichalibro.p...) @canticoed.bsky.social

HBD, Em. Cliff Gorman, who played Emory so exquisitely in "The Boys in the Band," was BOTD in 1936 & died in 2002. I tear up when I recall the story of how Gorman & his wife took co-star Robert La Tourneaux, the Cowboy, into their home & took care of him when he was dying of AIDS

Leonard Alfred Schneider, aka Lenny Bruce, the USA stand-up comedian, social critic, & satirist, was BOTD in 1925 & died of a morphine overdose in 1966 at 40. He was renowned for his freestyle & critical form of comedy comprising satire, politics, religion, sex & fabu vulgarity

Hunky French actor/singer Yves Montand was BOTD in 1921 & died in 1991 at 70. He's at his hunkiest in Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" (1953). Montand was married to the brilliant actor Simone Signoret for 35 years, until her death in 1985; they're buried together in Pere-Lachaise

10/12/72 Bob Rafelson's masterpiece The King of Marvin Gardens w/Nicholson, Dern, Burstyn Seek out David Thomson's appreciation More From Us: midcenturycinema.org/node/105 @brucelabruce.bsky.social: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc... @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Serbian master filmmaker Dusan Makavejev was BOTD in 1932 and died in 2019 at the age of 86. His movie "WR: Mysteries of the Organism" (1971) had a profound effect on me when I saw it as a film student, and my movie"The Raspberry Reich" (2004) is essentially my homage to it

Hugely influential English pansexual occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, pagan & mountaineer Aleister "Do What Thou Wilt" Crowley, aka The Great Beast, was BOTD in 1875 & died in 1947 at 72. He was openly bisexual & used sex magick in his occult practices

The latest ish of @buttmagazine.bsky.social, #37, is out! Bruce LaBruce shoots and interviews Omar Apollo @omarapollo.bsky.social at the Eagle in NYC. Photo of Omar by BLaB buttmagazine.com

RIP fellow Jan Cap Diane Keaton, dead at 79. I'm sad even though I really haven't liked a movie of hers since Beatty's "Reds" (1981). But her 70's movies had a huge influence on me as a teen, particularly "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" & her Woody Allen movies www.talkhouse.com/12795/

RIP fellow Jan Cap Diane Keaton, dead at 79. I'm sad even though I really haven't liked a movie of hers since Beatty's "Reds" (1981). But the movies she made in the 70's had a huge influence on me as a teen, particularly Brooks' "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" & her Woody Allen movies

HBD hot actor & extremely nice guy Brandon Flynn, BOTD in 1993, turning 32 today. Best known for such shows as "Hellraiser," "True Detective," "13 Reasons Why" & "Manhunt," he's developing an exciting movie project that I can't really talk about! I snapped the photo on the left

Luke Perry, who played sexy Dylan on the OG Beverly Hills 90210 w/ Jason Priestley & the late Shannen Doherty, was BOTD in 1966 & died of a massive stroke in 2019 at 52. He was immortalized in the song "Luke Perry's Feet" by Smoke which I used 4 the soundtrack of "Hustler White"

Gay actor Frederick Combs, remembered fondly for playing Donald in both the original Broadway production of "The Boys in the Band" & in William Friedkin's 1970 film adaptation, was BOTD in 1935 & died of AIDS in 1992 at 56, one of five of the original cast felled by the Mrs. AIDS

Jerome Robbins, Jewish bisexual USA dancer, choreographer, film & theatre director & producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film & TV, was BOTD in 1919 & died in 1998 at 79. He had romantic relationships w/ Montgomery Clift, Nora Kaye, Buzz Miller, Jess Gerstein, etc.

Ambiguously lesbian USA First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was BOTD in 1884 & died in 1962 at 78. According 2 letters of hers discovered in 1978, she had a passionate affair w/ charming, hard-living butch reporter Lorena Hickok, the sapphic scribe assigned to cover her for the NY Times

Don't get me started on bisexual, androgynous heartthrob Pierre Clémenti, BOTD in 1942, died in 1999 at 57. The louche, sexually ambiguous, carnal Clémenti worked with so many great auteurs, including Bunuel, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Garel, Cavani, Costa-Gavras, Rivette, and Ivory

Sexbomb Brigitte Bardot was BOTD in 1934, turning 91 today. I know, I know, she ended up an extreme right wing racist homophobic hag, albeit an animal activist. She still made some great movies, especially Godard's "Contempt" (Le Mepris) (1963), which is one of my fave JLG movies

Posthumous HBD to Peter Finch (BOTD in 1926, died in 1977 at 60), immortal for his posthumously awarded Oscar 4 his electric turn as Howard Beale in Lumet's "Newtwork" (1976), but also 4 his groundbreaking gay kiss, w/ Murray Head, in Schlesinger's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971)

The wonderful actor Sada Thompson was BOTD in 1927 and died in 2011 at the age of 83. She played the ultimate mother on the 70's TV series "Family." She is also memorable in Frank D. Gilroy's "Desperate Characters" (1971), which I wrote about here: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc...

USA theatre & film director Arthur Penn was BOTD in 1922 & died in 2010 at 88 after having directed 13 feature films. His second film, "The Miracle Worker" (1962), won Oscars for actors Anne Bancroft & Patty Duke. His film "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) became a worldwide phenomenon

Ambiguously gay Jewish composer & pianist George Gershwin was BOTD in 1898 & died of a brain tumour in 1937 at 38. In addition to his musical activities, George took over the management of the popular & famous gay bathhouse Lafayette Baths together w/ brother Ira when Ira was 20

Ambiguously gay punk legend and Germs frontman Darby Crash was BOTD in 1958 and died of an intentional overdose of heroin in 1980 at the tender age of 22. John Lennon's assassination the following day upstaged his death, relegating him to the punk bin of history.

HBD refreshingly cerebral actress Mary Beth Hurt, BOTD in 1945, turning 79 today. Although she has been in numerous notable films, she'll always be Joey in Woody Allen's "Interiors" (1978) to me as it remains one of my all time top 10 fave films, maybe because I have 3 sisters!

A party of MCC favorites, incl @brucelabruce.bsky.social & @christinalefou.bsky.social chime in w/excellent short takes on their favorite Altman Deep cuts via Criterion Current Much to admire here, but we're with @violetlucca.bsky.social and Jimmy Dean: www.criterion.com/current/post...

HBD brilliant Spanish cinema auteur Pedro Almodóvar who was BOTD in 1949, turning 76 today

Genius French auteur Robert Bresson was BOTD in 1901 and died in 1999 at the age of 98. He wrote and directed only 13 feature films in his career, and yet he has the highest number of films (seven) that made the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the 250 greatest films ever made

"To celebrate Altman’s centennial, we invited five writers to each explore a favorite lesser-known gem from this overflowing filmography" @criterion.bsky.social Includes my take on Altman's early masterpiece "That Cold Day in the Park" (1969) with Sandy Dennis www.criterion.com/current/post...

The wonderful Catherine Burns was BOTD in 1945 and died in 2019 at the age of 73. Cardinale worked with the great directors of cinema, including Visconti, Fellini, Leone, Brooks, Mackendrick, Edwards, Herzog, de Broca, Bellocchio, and de Oliveira

The wonderful Catherine Burns was BOTD in 1945 and died in 2019 at the age of 73. She will forever be burnished in our brains for her extraordinary monologue as Rhoda in Frank Perry's "Last Summer" (1969), a performance that earned her a supporting Oscar nod

Wonderful Austrian-born German/French film star Romy Schneider was BOTD in 1938 & died in 1982 at 43. Cause of death was officially a heart attack. Although sober when she died, she had drunk excessively after her 14 yr old son tragically died while climbing over a spiked fence

HBD Joan Jett, former member of The Runaways, BOTD in 1958, turning 67 2day. She's hot in Paul Schrader's "Light of Day" (1987). While she hasn't confirmed or denied being bi, she's said anyone interested in her sexual identity should "read my lyrics & figure it out for yourself"

Danish-French actor, wife & muse of Godard Anna Karina was BOTD in 1940 & died in 2019 at 79. She made 7 films w/ GLG: Une femme est une femme (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1963), Bande à part (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Alphaville (1965), Made in U.S.A. (1966)

Danish-French actor, wife & muse of Godard Anna Karina was BOTD in 1940 & died in 2019 at 79. She made 7 films w/ GLG: Une femme est une femme (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1963), Bande à part (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Alphaville (1965), Made in U.S.A. (1966)

HBD my dear friend the brill actor & director Asia Argento (daughter of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento), BOTD in 1975, turning 50 today! Photos of Asia by me; the one of us together was taken at the premier party at Cannes 4 her movie "Musunderstood" www.baronbooks.co.uk/product-page...

HBD Sophia Loren, BOTD in 1934, turning 91 today! Her Oscar-winning turn in De Sica's powerful "Two Women" (1960) is a gut-wrenching portrayal of rape during war. Loren first met Carlo Ponti, producer of the film, in 1950 when she was 15 & he was 37 & they soon began an affair

My fave poet, along w/ Sylvia Plath (I was a very morbid youth) when I was at Uni was the great Stevie Smith, BOTD in 1902, died in 1971 at 68. Although she had a couple of lesbian liaisons, sex wasn't really her thing. Glenda Jackson plays her in Robert Enders "Stevie" (1978)

Gay Jewish Liverpudlian Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967, was BOTD in 1934 and died of a booze and dolls overdose, deemed accidental, at the age of 32. Epstein's homosexuality was an open secret amongst friends and business associates

French novelist, screenwriter & actor Jean-Claude Carrière was BOTD in 1931 and died in 2021 at the age of 89. Best known for his collaborations w/ Luis Bunuel, he also wrote screenplays for Malle, Godard, Forman, Schlöndorff, Peter Brook, Wajda, Schnabel, Oshima & Jacques Deray

British cinematographer & director Jack Cardiff was BOTD in 1914 & died in 2009 at 94. Most famous for his work w/ Pressburger & Powell, ("A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947) & "The Red Shoes" (1948)), he also directed & shot "Naked Under Leather" (1968)

The great Greta Garbo was BOTD in 1905 & died in 1990 at 84. One of the most famous women in the world in her time, the Swedish-American thespian & celesbian was, as a biographer described her, technically bisexual, predominantly lesbian & increasingly asexual as her life went on

Anne Bancroft was BOTD in 1931 & died in 2005 at 73. She was married to director Mel Brooks. She famously won the best actress Oscar for her role in Arthur Penn's "The Miracle Worker" (1962) defeating sentimental fave Bette Davis in Aldrich's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

Great Hollywood gay (who never came out) Roddy McDowall was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1998 at 70. He transitioned from fab child star (Ford's "How Green Was My Valley") 2 solid character actor. Fave films: Axelrod's "Lord Love a Duck" (1966) & Schaffner's "Planet of the Apes" (1968)

RIP the boyishly handsome movie star Robert Redford who has died at the age of 89. Oh and he also directed ten feature films, including "Ordinary People," which won the best picture and director Oscars in 1980. Oh and he also founded a little film festival called "Sundance"

RIP the boyishly handsome movie star Robert Redford who has died at the age of 89. Oh and he also directed ten feature films, including "Ordinary People," which won the best picture and director Oscars in 1980. Oh and he also founded a little film festival called "Sundance"

HBD hunky Tom Hardy, BOTD in 1977, turning 48 today. He had a turbulent past w/ substance abuse & crime & has apologized for his difficult working relationship w/ Charlize Theron on the set of Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road"(2015). His old MySpace photos should give us all hope

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Jacobo Arbenz, the 2nd democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to '54, was BOTD in 1913 & died in 1971 at 57. The 1954 CIA-backed coup deposed Árbenz & marked the end of the Guatemalan Revolution, installing the 1st in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers

HBD lovely Barbara Bain, BOTD in 1931, turning 94 today! She won 2 primetime Emmys 4 playing Cinnamon Carter on "Mission: Impossible" & also starred in the great sci-fi series "Space: 1999" both of which co-starred her hubbie Martin Landau to whom she was married from '57 to '93