Full Metal Jacket (1987) Directed by Stanley Kubrick stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers.
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...”
#BOTD.
“All our best men
are laughed at
in this nightmare land
but the newspapers preen
in virtue - Throughout
the world the left & right
the east & west, are both vicious”
Jack Kerouac, #BOTD.
"Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed. They write the script for the reality film. Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes."
Wm. Burroughs on Jack Kerouac, born 12 March 1922.
• Quote: Collected in Leaves of Grass, c. 1891 - 1892. • Source: WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. Published in the United States by Library of America. Twenty-second printing, 1982.
![Portrait: "Walt Whitman [age 50] by G. Frank Pearsall, ca. 1869 - 1872." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c7ex5lsw6ieo65txcbw7of2r/bafkreiew4zkqcnt5vl2rjczgzbdmr6tvfse6yn52gltn3iz7cdj2gxqr2u)
Portrait: "Walt Whitman [age 50] by G. Frank Pearsall, ca. 1869 - 1872." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price.
#WhitmanWednesday 🌾
~ Thought ~
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something
profoundly affecting in large masses of men following
the lead of those who do not believe in men.
- Walt Whitman, By the Roadside, c. 1860
Color photo of Dolly Parton wearing a colorful dress and sunglasses.
Dolly Parton
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Images from films shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey - BOTD in 1946
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
"Sidney, this syrup you're giving out with... you pour over waffles, not J.J. Hunsecker."
Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in "Sweet Smell of Success" from 1957.
Liza, wearing a hat, sings from a score in the studio
Happy birthday Liza Minnelli 🎂
📷 Bill Eppridge, 1965
"With her expressive face & her wonderful (and wonderfully costumed) body she moves & sings with a strength, warmth, intelligence, & sensitivity to nuance that virtually transfixes the screen."
- Roger Greenspun
Boy on his knees outside in courtyard looking at school notebook
Sand boy on ancient stone steps stooping down to look in a courtyard
Ahmed from Kiarostami’s Where is the House of the Friend? is film’s greatest protagonist. Profound implications
From 1957, with cover art by Ed Emswhiller.
"Reflets dans l'eau" from Debussy's "Images" (Book 1) played by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in a 1971 recording.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Py...
Scorpio (1973)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Curtains (1983)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Images from films shot by cinematographer Robert Paynter - BOTD in 1928
Scorpio (1973)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Curtains (1983)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Major Tetley: "This is only slightly any of your business, my friend. Remember that."
Gil Carter: "Hangin' is any man's business that's around."
From "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943), adapted from the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and carefully directed by William A. Wellman.
Googie Withers, born 12 March 1917.
Takashi Shimura in Akira Kurosawa's STRAY DOG (1949)
Shimura was BOTD in 1905
Black and white photo of Akira Kurosawa pouring face snow on Takashi Shimura as the latter sits on a swing.
Akira Kurosawa and Takashi Shimura on the set of IKIRU (1952)
Shimura was BOTD in 1905
#MMLifers Happy birthday to Marlon Jackson, 69 today.
Born In The Rock 3/12/1917; The late, great Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, champion of Chicago Electric Blues and early rock and roll. Rock as we know it would literally not be the same without Leonard and his brother Phil. #ChessRecords #LeonardChess #RockHonorRoll
![DON DRUMMOND & THE SKATALITES - Man In The Street [1964]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:figl5udvn46ziu53l5d5uz2k/bafkreiayvm7zf37vsolr5b6zpgpelwhlvzphubqvsivritsehlj4s4dzqy)
Don Drummond #BOTD - "Man In The Street" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YogO...
#MMLifers Happy birthday to Pete Doherty, 47 today.
#MMLifers Happy birthday to Liza Minnelli, 80 today.
The debut studio album from the Velvet Underround and Nico was released #OTD 1967 by Verve Records.
"My song shall spread wherever there are men,
If wit and art will so much guide my pen."
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 12 March 1572, #Portugal's national Poet Luís Vaz de #Camões published his magnificent epic poem "Os Lusíadas" in Portugal. #Poetry
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 12 March 1957, #DrSeuss' THE CAT IN THE HAT was first published by
Random House and Houghton-Mifflin in the 🇺🇸
The Power of Fascination (USA, 1915)
Director: Cleo Madison
Cast: Jack Holt, Cleo Madison, Caroline Fowler, Jack Francis, Jack Wells, Tom Chatterton.
Production Company: Essanay Film
#silentfilm #cinema #film #movie #1910s
"The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage."
✒ #KylieTennant, Australian playwright and author, #BOTD 12 March 1912. #Literature
🎶🎞 Remembering #GeorgesDelerue, French film composer, #BOTD 12 March 1925. #Film #Filmmaking
"Camille's Theme" from Le Mépris:
▶️ youtu.be/arX8xf_p1vk
The Golden Beetle (France, 1907)
Direction: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand
Zecca
#silentfilm #1900s #cinema #film #movie
"You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
🎭 #EdwardAlbee, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?), was #BOTD 12 March 1928. #Stage #Theatre #Literature
