Happy birthday Dick Van Dyke @iammrvandy π
π· With Mary Tyler Moore in a great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
"I just hit my marks and hope I think of something. I'm strictly a superficial actor."
Dick Van Dyke & Michael J. Pollard outside the theatre where they starred in the original 1960 Broadway production of Bye Bye, Birdie. @NYPL digital collection photograph
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner & Richard Deacon at the 1964 Emmy Awards.
So many Emmys!
π· Gene Lester
Carl Reiner runs a table read for The Dick Van Dyke Show, December 2, 1963. 158 episodes over 5 seasons. The show won 15 Emmys.
π· Earl Theisen
Another Earl Theisen shot of a Dick Van Dyke Show table read, December 2, 1963. So many funny people around this table, all at work adding lustre to the comic vision of Carl Reiner.
Another great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke & Carl Reiner
Dick Van Dyke rides Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the London Easter Parade at Battersea Park
π· Bela Zola, April 14, 1968
The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1961-69
In a 2015 interview Van Dyke said "Iβd still be doing the show if they let me. It was the most fun Iβve ever had."
Another photo by Earl Theisen from the set of The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1963
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ππ―
π· Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. π§΅
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola π
π· Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur β a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
π· Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial ππ―
π· Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday π
π· Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
π· Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.