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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"We are all clowns." 🃏 #OTD in #Film #History 4 October 2019, #ToddPhillips' runaway hit thriller JOKER, starring Oscar-winner #JoaquinPhoenix, hit 🇺🇸 cinemas.

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Joaquin Phoenix The Joker

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"Well, you've gotta admit one thing: can't beat the view." 🚀 #OTD in #Film #History 4 October 2013, #AlfonsoCuarón's excellent space drama "Gravity", starring #SandraBullock and #GeorgeClooney, opened across 🇺🇸

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"They Had Absolutely Nothing. But They Were Willing To Risk It All." 35th Anniversary 🎤 #OTD in #Film #History 4 October 1991, #AlanParker's adaptation of #RoddyDoyle's novel THE COMMITMENTS, starring Robert Atkins and Michael Aherne, hit the 🇬🇧

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history." 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 4 October 1978, #FranklinJSchaffner's chilling adaptation of #IraLevin's novel "The Boys From Brazil," starring #GregoryPeck, #LaurenceOlivier, and #JamesMason, premiered in LA.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Media and #Literature 4 October 1933, the first quarterly issue of #Esquire Magazine was published (Autumn). Within its pages were stories by #ErnestHemingway, #DashielHammett, and #JohnDosPassos.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

95th Anniversary 📰 #OTD in #ComicBook #History 4 October 1931, #ChesterGould's famous detective #DICKTRACY (originally named "Plainclothes Tracy") made his debut as a comic strip in the Detroit Sunday Mirror. Gould wrote and drew Tracy until 1977.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

✒️📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 4 October 1910, the author #JackLondon, feeling a lack of origination for his stories, purchased nine plotlines from the young author #SinclairLewis for $52.50. London and Lewis had met through their shared interest in Socialism.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified." 🎭 Remembering #MontyPython #comedy legend #GrahamChapman, who passed away #OTD 4 October 1989.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"The joy that isn't shared dies young." Poems: poets.org/poet/anne-se... ✒ #AnneSexton, American poet and author, #DOTD 4 October 1974. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." 🎤 Remembering #JanisJoplin, who passed away #OTD 4 October 1970. ▶️ youtu.be/5Cg-j0X09Ag?si…

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"An experiment is a question which #science poses to #Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer." ✒️German physicist, father of Quantum Physics, and 1918 Nobel Laureate #MaxPlanck passed away #OTD 4 October 1947. #Physics

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses." 🎨 Dutch master painter #Rembrandt #DOTD 4 October 1669. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"I have to say I love film above all. I have the most affinity with celluloid and I feel most comfortable shooting that." 🎥 Great cinematographer #HoyteVanHoytema is 55 today.. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process." 🎭 Superb actor #ChristophWaltz is 70 today. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"Almost as soon as I began to study philosophy, I was impressed by the way in which philosophical problems appeared, disappeared, or changed shape, as a result of new assumptions or vocabularies." ✒ #RichardRorty, American philosopher and historian of ideas, was #BOTD 4 October 1931. #Philosophy

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas." 🎨 Remembering #WolfKahn, German-born American painter, who was #BOTD 4 October 1927. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you." 🎭 Hollywood legend #CharltonHeston was #BOTD 4 October 1923. #Acting #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

"The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet." ✒ #DamonRunyon, American newspaperman and short story writer, was #BOTD 4 October 1880. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

🎨 #JeanFrançoisMillet, French painter, one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France, was #BOTD 4 October 1814. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

🏛 #GiovanniBattistaPiranesi, Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, was #BOTD 4 October 1720. #Art #Architecture

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎬 The first of his many clusters of ramshackle misfits...all the way to his final film: THE DEAD. 👁️

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Because you've never seen a miracle." ❄️ #OTD in #Film #History 3 October 2017, #DenisVilleneuve's stellar #scifi sequel "Blade Runner 2049," starring #RyanGosling, #HarrisonFord, #JaredLeto, and #AnaDeArmas, premiered in LA at the Dolby Theatre.

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Rayan Goslin in Snow

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants." 🎸 #OTD in #Film #History 3 October 2003, #RichardLinklater's #comedy "School Of Rock", starring #JackBlack and an ensemble band of talented kids sticking it to the man, hit the 🇺🇸

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Jack Black: You're Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Let's never come here again because it would never be as much fun." 🥃 #OTD in #Film #History 3 October 2003, #SofiaCoppola's brilliant "Lost in Translation," starring #ScarlettJohansson and #BillMurray, opened wide across the 🇺🇸

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Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson: Lost in Translation

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I'm with you in Rockland..." 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 3 October 1957, in a much-publicized landmark case, California Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that #AllenGinsberg’s poem "Howl" was not obscene; adding that it had “redeeming social importance.”

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Detective Tom Polhaus: Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. 85th Anniversary 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 3 October 1941, #JohnHuston's adaptation of #DashiellHammett's "The Maltese Falcon," starring #HumphreyBogart, and #MaryAstor, premiered in New York.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Lord help my poor soul." (Poe's last words) ✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Literature 3 October 1849, #EdgarAllanPoe was found in a dire condition, delirious and wearing clothes that were not his. Very strange. Poems: americanliterature.com/author/edgar... [1]

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

⚔️ #OTD in #History 3 October 52 BC, the siege and #BattleOfAlesia effectively ended (there remained unrest in Gaul), when #Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrendered to #JuliusCaesar.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh - well, it's the best job in the world." 🎭👓 Remembering #comedy legend #RonnieBarker, who passed away #OTD 3 October 2005. #TV #Film

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'"I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!" 🌹🎭 Remembering Hollywood legend #JanetLeigh, who #DOTD 3 October 2004. #Film

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself." ✒ #JeanAnouilh, French playwright and screenwriter, #DOTD 3 October 1987. #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS." (Guitar inscription) 🎸 Remembering #WoodyGuthrie, American #folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and peace activist, who passed away #OTD 3 October 1967. #Music

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." ✒ #WilliamMorris, English textile designer, poet, artist, fantasy writer, and socialist activist associated with the British #Arts and #Crafts movement, #DOTD 3 October 1896.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema." 🎥 Great cinematographer #GreigFraser is 51 today. #Cinematography #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema." 🎬 #DenisVilleneuve, French Canadian director, is 59 today. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." 👀 www.eff.org/cyberspace-i... ✒ Remembering poet, lyricist, essayist, and cyberlibertarian political activist #JohnPerryBarlow, #BOTD 3 October 1947. #DigitalCulture

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself." ✒ #GoreVidal, American essayist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and critic, was #BOTD 3 October 1925. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” ✒️ #JamesHerriot, English veterinarian and novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), was #BOTD 3 October 1916. #Literature #Nature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." ✒ #ThomasWolfe, American novelist, was #BOTD 3 October 1900. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young." 5 Poems: www.ronslate.com/five-poems-b... ✒ #SergeiYesenin, Russian poet, was #BOTD 3 October 1895. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎨 #AYJackson, Canadian painter and academic, a founding member of the Group of Seven, was #BOTD 3 October 1882. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎨 #HenryLerolle, French painter and art collector, was #BOTD 3 October 1848. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎧📚 The #Guardian view on #BarackObama’s new #podcast: all the president’s #books From Oprah Winfrey to Dua Lipa, there is no shortage of celebrity literary champions. But the former US leader is in a class of his own #Literature www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on Barack Obama’s new podcast: all the president’s books | Editorial

Editorial: From Oprah Winfrey to Dua Lipa, there is no shortage of celebrity literary champions. But the former US leader is in a class of his own

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