EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h"Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe..." Irving Penn June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009 Marlene Dietrich, 1948 • Self-portrait, 1948 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h“Whether approaching a baroque concerto, a modern classic, a jazz standard or a large-scale project, Alison is exceptional not just for her technique and musicianship, but for her integrity, creativity and inspiring sense of purpose...” — Alain Lanceron Alison Balsom #botd 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h"My teacher Leonard Rose was such a great cellist. I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries..." Yo-Yo Ma #botd 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h"We live in a moment of history when change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing..." R D Laing #botd 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. They're much more stressful emotionally..." Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"When I was filming Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am." Kate Winslet #botd 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Joshua Logan #botd, was an American theatre and film director, producer, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. One of the most prolific and acclaimed Broadway directors of the 1940s and 1950s, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical South Pacific. 051
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Love Me Do", the debut single by the Beatles, was released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1962. It features John Lennon's prominent harmonica playing and vocals by him and Paul McCartney. 051
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got..." Janis Joplin January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970 021
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"New Yorkers are very cool. They don’t start screaming. They’re like, 'Hey, how are you doing? I like your work. You’re looking good'..." Susan Sarandon #botd 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Terence Conran #botd was instrumental in the re-designing of post-war Britain and his legacy is huge. He is revered by generations of designers from Mary Quant and David Mellor to Thomas Heatherwick and Jony Ive..." — Tim Marlow, CEO, The Design Museum 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Alvin Toffler #botd was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. 021
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They’re delicious, popular and versatile – but how healthy are berries? Experts say that if you’re eating any berry – strawberries, blackberries, currants, raspberries, blueberries – you are benefiting. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Discovered by Norma Shearer who saw her photo, Janet Leigh's career spanned over five decades. Her performance as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. Janet Leigh July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004 011
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the ways is by singing..." Woody Guthrie July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose...” Thomas Wolfe #botd 072
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026May el-Toukhy with her Venice Film Festival 2026 Golden Lion best film award for Woman Unknown. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can’t sit down and play this, I don’t take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar...” Tom Petty October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017 110
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life..." Gordon Sumner/Sting #botd 022
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This Polaroid photo of John Lennon by Annie Leibovitz #botd was taken a few hours before Lennon's murder, and is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine's most famous cover photographs. 052
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment, the character is alive..." Graham Greene #botd 062
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ...well, I have others." Groucho Marx #botd 062
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The late icon of French cinema Alain Delon brought his air of cool detachment to films by Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, and other European masters. 011
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Everything is connected. Everyone can make a difference..." Dr. Jane Goodall April 3, 1934 - October 1, 2025 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I never suspected how easy it would be to work with Charles. He brings with him such truthfulness that little by little he becomes the entire film..." — François Truffaut Charles Aznavour May 22, 1924 – October 1, 2018 041
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, English actress Julie Andrews #botd has an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, and seven Golden Globe Awards. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth in the 2000 New Year Honours. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Philippe Noiret #botd — One of the most prolific actors of his generation, a master of stage and screen, his many films included Agnès Varda's La Pointe Courte, Giuseppe Tornatore's Academy Award-winner Cinema Paradiso, and Michael Radford's Il Postino. 011
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Walter Matthau #botd and Jack Lemmon made numerous movies together. The closest of friends offscreen, they were constantly at odds in their films. The first of their on-screen pairings was in The Fortune Cookie, a performance that won Matthau the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Remembering James Dean February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955 "In front of the camera, he had an instinct that was nearly uncanny. I don't recall ever working with anyone who had such a gift." William Mellor, cinematographer 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong." Marion Cotillard #botd 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth." Laura Esquivel #botd 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Fred Zinnemann, in From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners, really brought out of me an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality..." Deborah Kerr #botd 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A field of canola crops in Australia's Oxton Park near the New South Wales town of Harden, 350 km south-west of Sydney. 022
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Together with Oldenburg, Ruscha and Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore the vernacular culture of mass-produced consumer goods and popular urban life..." — Christopher Knight Roy Lichtenstein October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997 040
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Robert Benton #botd, with his co-writer David Newman, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. In 1979, he wrote and directed the film Kramer vs. Kramer, winning Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"When you read his credits, you say that had to be six, seven or eight filmmakers that made this amazing contribution to American cinema. But in fact it all came from one incredibly talented visionary." — Steven Spielberg Stanley Kramer #botd 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Filmed in London in 1966, Antonioni played fast and loose with geography to make Blow-Up one of the definitive existential thrillers of its time... 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and so on, up to the true image of that mysterious reality that no one will ever see...” Michelangelo Antonioni #botd 161
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stage and screen actress Greer Garson #botd received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, winning for her performance in the title role of the wartime drama Mrs. Miniver, a critical and commercial success. 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kris Kristofferson, the award-winning country singer, songwriter — notably credited for Me and Bobby McGee, and Help Me Make It Through the Night, among others, and actor (A Star Is Born), died at home surrounded by his family this day in 2024. 120
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kazan's masterwork On the Waterfront, released in 1954, with its streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg and score by Leonard Bernstein, won 8 Oscars including best picture, director and actor. Elia Kazan September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in..." Remembering Miles Davis 🙏 May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The first time I met David Lynch, I remember being struck by his energy. I’d spent ten years auditioning, dealing with rejection over and over again, and he was beaming with light, which relaxed me right away..." Naomi Watts #botd Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn in Mulholland Drive 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Brigitte Bardot #botd on a Passerelle, Saint Tropez, 1958 📷 Willy Rizzo 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Marcello spends hours discussing his role until he thoroughly understands it, extracting the most extraordinary nuances. When he has it inside him we can get what we're really after: a look at the inner reality of life...” — Fellini Marcello Mastroianni #botd 001
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Peter Finch #botd achieved widespread critical success on both stage and screen, and was acclaimed for his role as Howard Beale in Network, an outstanding performance that earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The outstanding neo-noir mystery thriller written and directed by David Lynch. arrived in cinemas forty years ago, September 1986. 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A 1904 Rolls-Royce, believed to be the world's oldest surviving model, will return to British roads for the first time in decades at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 1 November. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026With an acclaimed acting career on screen and stage, she appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. "I like the ephemeral thing about theatre. Every performance is like a ghost — it's there, and then it's gone..." Maggie Smith December 28, 1934 – September 27, 2024 041
