Remembering Tony Randall on his birthday ๐
๐ท Ralph Crane, 1960
"One wouldn't blame him for a hint of disdain for many of the lines he has had to speak, the predicaments to be endured. There has never been any such hint. He somehow civilizes the material.
- John Leonard
A scene from the one-night-only revival of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, with Jack Klugman & Tony Randall
๐ท Mario Ruiz, 1991
BTW The Jack Klugman Centennial is coming up in a couple of months. Start stockpiling cigars.
Oscar & Felix, one more time
Jack Klugman & Tony Randall did a one-night-only revival of The Odd Couple to raise funds for Randall's theater company. I wish I'd been there!
๐ท Thomas Kristich, NY, 1991
Tony Randall in Times Square, 1963. A great photograph by Sante Forlano for Glamour Magazine. The model apparently represents the astrological sign #Aries; her outfit is by Roger Van S.
Philippe Halsman's 1965 #jump! shot of Tony Randall
Tony Randall in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
๐ท Steve Schapiro, 1972
Tony Randall & Alfred Hitchcock by PoPsie Randolph
New York, 1962
Tony Randall campaigns for Eugene McCarthy
๐ท Bob Gomel for Life magazine, 1968
An October 1957 issue of Life magazine featured Tony Randall in a feature on "Cocktail Party Types", with photos by Yale Joel. I'm going to give each photo its own tweet, so you can see how great these are.
Another "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel, 1957
Yale Joel was the master of the Life photo-story. Tony Randall was the master of... pretty much everything.
Tony Randall & Yale Joe bring the "Cocktail Party Type" completely up to date. This is what cool looked like in 1957.
Another "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel for Life, 1957
One last "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel for Life, 1957
Here's how the Yale Joel photos of Tony Randall appeared in the December 2, 1957 edition of Life. The final shot got its own page.
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Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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. ๐งต
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 ๐
๐ท Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur โ 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
๐ท 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 ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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 ๐
๐ท 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
๐ท Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
๐ท 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.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread ๐งต
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
๐ท W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
๐ท Dennis Stock, 1959