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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 8h

You forgot a key point. Russia is also providing intelligence support for Iran in the war that has made fuel so expensive, so you see, it all make sense. It's Trump's patented 5-D chess!

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eugeniat2.bsky.social @eugeniat2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Congratulations ! 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Navi Pillay 🕊️ Winner Nobel Peace Prize 🕊️ For her work promoting peace and strengthening international law. 🕊️ Well done! Navi Pillay #peace

Photo of Nobel peace prize winner, Navi Pillay at the UN

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 10h

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #noirneckties Say, Frank — hell of a tie you’ve got there. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE John Garfield & Hume Cronyn (1946)

John Garfield, dressed in a gray jacket, white shirt, and a wildly jagged-striped necktie is walking alongside a car. Inside the car is Hume Cronyn who was wearing a fedora and a black coat. He’s looking at John as if he’s saying something.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 09/10/2026

Happy Camille Saint-Saëns birthday! (1835-1921) Yes, you know "Carnival of the Animals" and "Danse Macabre" other concert works, BUT did you know he was the first major composer to write an original film score? In 1908! For THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE: #filmsky #moviesky #classicalmusic

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Saint-Saëns - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (soundtrack) - 1908

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 10h

#filmsky #moviesky #western #OTD #photography James Dean’s final film, GIANT, premiered on this day in 1956. Dean using his Bolex 16mm motion picture camera on set in Texas, 1955

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 8h

The Birthday Party was received well in Oxford, but the "comedy of menace" closed after just a week in London. Now it's considered a classic. Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director, also husband to writer Antonia Fraser, #botd in 1930. #writers #drama #filmsky #moviesky

Program for the play The Birthday Party is on the right, showing a man sitting in the darkness with a strange, unearthly light shining on his eyes. Adjacent to the program is the text "Today is the anniversary of Harold Pinter's birth." In smaller text below "But for God's sake, don't throw a party."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 8h

Adapted from Edna Ferber's best-selling novel, Giant premiered #otd in 1956. It was James Dean's last film; he died before the film posted, and Nick Adams did his voiceovers. Also starring Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor, the film was socially conscious for its time. #booksky #writers #filmsky #moviesky

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 9h

Winter of Dune. Like the sound of it.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oooh, I'll bet. I can't even imagine. And I'd like to say that society has changed, but the statistics on people getting exotic animals as back yard pets are not encouraging.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It may not be forgetting so much as people don't know. The two sequels came out a good bit later. It's really interesting to me what happens to writers work after they pass on.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#musicsky #tvsky #filmsky #Beatlesky #BOTD I am he As you are he As you are me And we are all together

Musician, John Lennon, wearing a jean jacket, sunglasses and smoking a cigarette

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#moviesky #filmsky #FrenchCinema HAPPY FRIDAY Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) Jacques Tati, Director #BOTD

Photo from the movie: a little boy has his head in between the spokes of a truck’s steering wheel, and he is looking up at the man who is driving the truck

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interesting thread. Uncharted waters, everywhere we look.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I should also point out that with her husband she is co-author (writing as K.A. Applegate) of the popular Everworld and Animorph series.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy B'Day to the one and only Katherine Applegate, author of the Newberry Medal winning The One and Only Ivan, inspired by the real-life story of a silverback gorilla who lived 27 years in a shopping mall. Below, a scene from the 2020 Disney adaptation. #botd #booksky #writers #moviesky #filmsky

A scene from the film adaptation of The One and Only Ivan showing an outdoor billboard on the side of a highway advertising the gorilla Ivan, who appears as a cutout above the edge of the billboard appearing to crash out from behind the board. The billboard reads The One and Only Ivan, mighty silverback. On the other adge of the billboard, a trained elephant and a trained seal do tricks and the sillhouette of a ringmaster is next to them. The headline is split into two; the top reads "The One and Only" and the bottom reads "Katherine Applegate."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Below, a scene from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Set in Fascist Italy, it's not only a really great, maybe the best, version of Pinocchio, it's also my favorite de Toro film. Harder edged than Frankenstein, believe it or not. #botd in 1964 (del Toro, that is!) #botd #moviesky #filmsky

Film still from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, a stop motion animation film in which the characters seem carved from wood. In the scene a fox plays a fiddle in front of a stage where Pinocchio and two other toy characters are dancing.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Red to blue--in deep read Arkansas!!!!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 07/10/2026

Happy 60th birthday to composer Marco Beltrami. The Emmy-winning and Oscar nominated composer is known for his scores for SCREAM and other horror films. Beltrami has a wide stylistic range, and has worked with Guillermo del Toro, James Mangold, Kathryn Bigelow and others. #filmsky #moviesky #BOTD

A photo of composer Marco Beltrami, wearing glasses and a striped short sleeve polo shirt. He's seated in front of a spread out music score, smiling at the camera.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story." Frank Herbert, #botd. The end is near for Dennis Villeneuve's cinematic adaptation; Santa's bringing the last installment of the trilogy this December. #booksky #writers #moviesky #filmsky

Poster for the third Dune film showing a closeup of Timothy Chalamet with his head turned down and his eyes turned up in a hard, almost demonic gaze. The word 'epic:" is over the his nose and "conclusion" is underneath his face. The text adjacent is "Better Watch Out."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#botd in 1920, Herbert first worked as a journalist; his inspiration for Dune arose from a magazine assignment on the Oregon Dunes. He spent 6 years researching and writing Dune. Chilton (yeah, the publishers of auto repair manuals) printed the hardcover. #booksky #writer #moviesky #filmsky

Film still from the first film in the recent Dune trilogy. A young Black woman in form fitting desert combat gear with a long flowing scarf; her hair is in dreadlocks. She is standing against a dune with the horizon in the distance. The headline is "today, spice up your life. It's the anniversary of Frank Herbert's birth."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The beliefs of the creators really permeate the film.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's astonishing--and yet not--that this isn't being reported everywhere, all the time.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vincent Price handing out hot dogs at Dodgers Stadium in 1965.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#filmsky #moviesky #dancesky Tuesday has a feel. Ricardo Montalbán & Cyd Charisse ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU (1948)

Ricardo Montalbán & Cyd Charisse
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Ricardo is standing at a bar wearing a very tight striped T-shirt, with a bandanna. He’s also wearing a sailors cap. He’s looking slightly over his shoulder because dancer Cyd Charisse is rubbing her back to his back. She’s wearing a leather skirt and an off-shoulder flowered blouse.
Sexy dance scene and comments

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. That must have been an experience. Hope you wrote it up.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#filmsky Carole Lombard #BOTD died in a 1942 plane crash. The pilot originally scheduled to fly her crashed in a B-18 on a New Hampshire mountain in a blizzard 2 days earlier — he +4 survived, 2 died. (Personal note: I hiked up to the remote NH crash site w/ that pilot long after he was retired.)

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can tell a person by the company they keep… and George Fenton kept very good company as the go-to composer for films by talents as different as Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Nora Ephron, Nicholas Hytner, Alan Bennett and Attenboroughs Richard and David. RIP georgefenton.com

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The novelist, Howard Fast, was a Communist jailed by HUAC who had to self publish. The screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, also jailed by HUAC and blacklisted. President John Kennedy had to cross a picket line to see it. Spartacus, released #OTD in 1960, was a smash. #booksky #writers #moviesky #filmsky

A film still from Spartacus showing two gladiators, played by Woody Strode and Kirk Douglas, sitting together in an anteroom before they go into the coliseum beyond where the ruling class sits in the emperors box.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display

Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team

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eugeniat2.bsky.social @eugeniat2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Autumn Harvest 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾 🍂 October is the treasurer of the year and all the months pay bounty to her store the fields and Orchard still their tribute there and fill her brimming coffers more and more .. __ Paul Dunbar #October #poem 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾 🖌️ #Artwork by Frederick Kalmorgan

Harvest painting by Frederick Kalmorgan showing men harvesting in field .

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#astronomy #booksky #tvsky #filmsky Astrophysicist, movie-science analyst, and all-round brainiac, Neil deGrasse Tyson #BOTD

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Conan O’Brien show (2010). He’s wearing his signature space image vest. He has his hands up so it looks like the image of the moon behind him is being held up by his hands.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 05/10/2026

Introducing the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films, directed by Holly Blakey, and starring Himesh Patel, Maxine Peake, Lewis Gribben, Kathryn Hunter, Savannah Steyn and Paterson Joseph. Coming 08.10.26 | 2pm BST

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Below, Emmett Dalton's booking photo. Old Hollywood starred real cowpokes like Tom Mix, and in Dalton's case, a real outlaw. He wrote (possibly fictionalized!) versions of Dalton Gang escapades that were adapted, one of which starred Dalton himself. #otd #moviesky #filmsky

Black and white booking photo of Emmett Dalton. He's wearing a suit and tie, and his hair is cut short and parted on the side. Adjacent text is "On this day in 1892 the Dalton Gang's plan to robe two banks in Coffeeville, Kansas went spectacularly awry. Emmett was the only Dalton to survive. He was pardoned 14 years later and found success in Hollywood."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She understood that most of us can feel like outsiders. A lesbian who thought her mother had died until she read about her parents' contentious divorce. But her stepmother's brother was the writer Peter Taylor who encouraged her. She died young. #botd #booksky #writer #illustrator #childrenslit

Cover for first edition of Harriet the Spy, written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh. The cover shows a young girl walking down a city street in front of a derelict building with windows broken; she's wearing a hooded sweatshirt, glasses and jeans, and she's carrying a notebook under her arm. The adjacent headline is SPIES LIKE US. Louise Fitzhugh October 5, 1928-November 19, 1974.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#dogsky #oldhollywood #silents #filmsky #Damfino Buster Keaton #BOTD was an avid animal lover who, over his lifetime, had several 170lb (77kg) St Bernard dogs — all named “Elmer” Johnny Weissmuller, Elmer, and Buster Keaton on the MGM lot, 1932

This photo, taken 1932 is of Johnny Weismuller crouched on the sidewalk with his arms around Elmer the dog, while Buster Keaton takes a photograph of them.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#oldhollywood #moviesky #filmsky #silents #Damfino “A lovely person. A supreme artist. One of the most beautiful people that was ever photographed." — Orson Welles about Buster Keaton #botd

Buster Keaton circa 1928. He’s sitting sleeping on the running board of a car.

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Information overload? Yeah, we've got that too, pretty much every day. Alvin Toffler, #botd in 1928, tried to warn us, in Future Shock, Third Wave and Power Shift. Seems the"futurists" we have now just want us to sit back and let AI take the wheel. What could go wrong? #booksky #writers #tech

Color portrait of Alvin Toffler, taken by Vern Evans and shared under the CC BY 2.0. He's sitting at a dark wood table against a dark background of browns and blacks. He's wearing a suit and jacket, no tie, and he's wresting his right elbow on the table and his face against his right hand. The adjacent text is "Yep, we're shocked. And how."

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Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, it was a luxury cruise.....That makes me sad to think the man who played Fraser is actually IRL a MAGA. Sigh.

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eugeniat2.bsky.social @eugeniat2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Edward Gorey 🐈 was an artist, writer, and Tony award-winning costume designer. And on #Caturday we must mention that Edward loved cats. 🐈🐈‍⬛ 🐈🐈🐈‍⬛🐈 Edward loved #cats so much that he left the bulk of his estate to animal welfare. #Gorey Edward Gorey #art by Vivian Strauss

Portrait of Edward Gorie with beard and three cats

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