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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Promo masks for the underrated Steve Martin/Eddie Murphy comedy BOWFINGER (1999). These were given out at preview screenings the distributor held for rental store managers. They were to hold them up so it’d look like the whole cinema was just Eddies and Steves for a photo. 🤪😂

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

64 Candles 🎂 today for the creative polymath & force of nature - KENNETH BRANAGH

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Remembering the late, very great RICHARD PRYOR - who left us 19yrs ago today.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Remembering OTIS REDDING - who tragically left us 57yrs ago today aged just 26.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Phasmid eggs. (Stick insect eggs.) Levon Biss collector

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Behind-the-scenes on THE WOMEN (1939)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I mean, there are still so many people out there that don’t realise that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing. They’re doomed.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

1939/40 Philco ‘Log Cabin’ Tube Radio

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Julie Newmar. Love her...always have...THE ORIGINAL Catwoman! I was fortunate to have worked with her 30 years ago (on To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar). She was and is spectacular.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

1923-1925 Renault 10CV Type MH 6x6 Sahara

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Roman glass souvenir cup bearing the images and names of gladiators popular in Rome at the time, 50-80CE. [3072x4080] Currently at The Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Orange Variee”, orange perfume set with eight spikes inside. Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Trying to imitate the famous DDB VW ad.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Released on this day 51yrs ago… DON’T LOOK NOW (1973)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

SCARFACE (1983) Tony Montana uses "yeyo" as slang for cocaine. Al Pacino learned the word while learning the Cuban accent, and ad-libbed it during the chainsaw scene. Brian De Palma liked it enough to keep using it throughout the film.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

American actress Paulette Goddard (The Cat and the Canary, So Proudly We Hail!, Kitty) in front of a Diego Rivera painting of her.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Gorgeous panelling, fabulous wallpaper (French block printed from 1832 called 'Decor Chinois' by Zuber+Cie) in this angled attic bedroom at the historical Beauport House, Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was the summer home of one of America's first professional interior designers, Henry Davis Sleeper.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Bill Forsyth’s films are chronically undervalued. They are too sad to be funny & too funny to be sad. This one in particular is one of those films where you feel like virtually nothing happens but when it ends you can't shake the feeling of 'what just happened to me...?'. COMFORT & JOY (1984).

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

One day in 1839, Robert Cornelius sat for 15 minutes in front of a hand-built camera made of opera glass and sheets of copper. His picture became the first “selfie” ever taken. And he looks like my mate, the actor David Morrissey! @davidmorrissey.bsky.social are you an actual time traveller?? 🤪😂

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

…Then they made him President and he gassed and tortured tens of thousands of his own people. Ever wondered how the person you work next to would change if he/she was given unchecked power?

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sharon Tate & Roman Polanski at The Cannes Film Festival - 1968.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon on the studio lot during the filming of SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“No matter how ruthlessly.” 😡

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Find somebody who gives you the side-eye the way Tom Waits gives the side-eye to Elvis.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Peter Lorre, a baseball bat and Sydney Greenstreet as Santa! This has GOT to be one of the most delightfully twisted things I've EVER seen!!

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

J C Leyendecker - "A Stroll in the Snow" c. 1925

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Married actors Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth pretending to bullfight (she's the toreador, and he's the bull) at home in California - 1945

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of GIANT (1956)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Great publicity shot of Myrna Loy in THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Olivia De Havilland and Burgess Meredith (who were dating at the time) get an autograph from heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis at Joe's Greenwood Lake, NY training camp, 1941.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If this had actually existed I’m sure inside it’d just be lukewarm (groan 🤪😂)

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ticket prices for England's top four divisions back in 1981 When football was actually affordable so eg the £1.50 at my club Liverpool in 1980/81 is equal to £8.06 today, so if tickets went up with inflation £8.06 is what you would pay to get into the Kop today instead of the £45 you actually pay

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Laugh away! This is how people will talk in the future. 🤪

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In The Netherlands, you can use these codes instead of regular stamps.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren and John Lithgow in 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT (1984) 2010 continues 2001 without ruining it and is a better film than anyone could have dared to expect!

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

When this underground car park in London was built in 1957, an incredibly well-preserved 2,000 year old Roman wall was discovered. A section of the ancient wall still stands today and occupies a couple of parking bays.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Scrivener's Books in Buxton,which is in the centre of the beautiful Peak District and surrounded by the UK's oldest National Park. This lovely bookshop is one of the Guardian's 10 Best Secondhand bookshops in the UK

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Behind a door deep within the lower floors of the National Library of Scotland lies a forgotten street which gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago. bbc.in/4g2Ewxc

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

😳 That escalated quickly and definitely takes the biscuit. lol

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