proud peacock vies with mrs. astor for ball room sensation

Hundred-Year-Old Headlines part two: May 26, 1911.

festival time!

Jacques Tati presents his donkey abuse awareness film, Parade, at the Cannes Film Festival. 1974.

five more pictures of bowie

Part one: Bowie by Linda McCartney.

simon of the desert

Buñuel. 1965.

f for fields

W.C. Fields with Elise Cavanna (bottom) in The Dentist. Leslie Pearce. 1932.

pen to paper

Oh, man, I bet Gillett’s face was red. A silly error indeed. Sight and Sound. Spring 1974.

the stickers on records

Topper Headon on Combat Rock. 1982.

Bonus sticker: Black Market Clash. 1980.

Detail of the little bit of weed that I think the previous owner of this copy of Black Market Clash got caught between the sleeve and the shrink wrap. Circa 1980.

breaking news

I try not to comment too often on current events here but, today, as has been widely reported, the unimaginable has happened: it’s been announced that the forthcoming “We Are the World” reboot will feature both Lil Wayne and (probably less predominantly) The Beach Boys’s Al Jardine.

If Jardine is not edit out of the final product, “We Are the World” will somehow (but just barely) marry the talents of the guy who sang “Honkin’ Down the Highway” with the guy who appeared on releases as questionable as the ones pictured below. God, I hope Jardine and Weezy hit it off.

please be silent behind camera

Josef Von Sternberg (seated) with cameraman Maximilian Fabian and (standing from left to right) Conrad Nagel, Matthew Betz and Renée Adorée on the set of Exquisite Sinner. 1926.

parking for kirk douglas

The Stones rehearse in Los Angeles. June 1972.