#John Michael Bolger

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Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.

A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.

What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.

Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.

In order of the last round they survived—

ROUND ONE HOTTIES:

Richard Burton

Tony Curtis

Red Skelton

Keir Dullea

Jack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Robert Wagner

James Garner

James Coburn

Rex Harrison

George Chakiris

Dean Martin

Sean Connery

Tab Hunter

Howard Keel

James Mason

Steve McQueen

George Peppard

Elvis Presley

Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut

Ray Milland

Claude Rains

John Wayne

William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Harold Lloyd

Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert

Ramon Novarro

Slim Thompson

John Barrymore

Edward G. Robinson

William Powell

Leslie Howard

Peter Lawford

Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten

Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine

Spencer Tracy

Felix Bressart

Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)

Peter Lorre

Bob Hope

Paul Muni

Cornel Wilde

John Garfield

Cantinflas

Henry Fonda

Robert Mitchum

Van Johnson

José Ferrer

Robert Preston

Jack Benny

Fredric March

Gene Autry

Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas

Ray Bolger

Orson Welles

Mickey Rooney

Glenn Ford

James Cagney

ROUND TWO SWOONERS:

Dick Van Dyke

James Edwards

Sammy Davis Jr.

Alain Delon

Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford

Charlton Heston

Cesar Romero

Noble Johnson

Lex Barker

David Niven

Robert Earl Jones

Turhan Bey

Bela Lugosi

Donald O'Connor

Carman Newsome

Oscar Micheaux

Benson Fong

Clint Eastwood

Sabu Dastagir

Rex Ingram

Burt Lancaster

Paul Newman

Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire

Boris Karloff

Gilbert Roland

Peter Cushing

Frank Sinatra

Harold Nicholas

Guy Madison

Danny Kaye

John Carradine

Ricardo Montalbán

Bing Crosby

ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:

Marlon Brando

Anthony Perkins

Michael Redgrave

Gary Cooper

Conrad Veidt

Ronald Colman

Rock Hudson

Basil Rathbone

Laurence Olivier

Christopher Plummer

Johnny Weismuller

Clark Gable

Fernando Lamas

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Humphrey Bogart

ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:

James Dean

Cary Grant

Gregory Peck

Sessue Hayakawa

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:

Jeremy Brett

Vincent Price

James Shigeta

Buster Keaton

SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:

Omar Sharif

Paul Robeson

FINALIST FANTASIES:

Sidney Poitier

Toshiro Mifune

and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that called 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 1964 Vee-Jay LP INTRODUCING THE BEATLES, Pat Benatar, Ray Bolger, Frances X. Bushman, Eddy Clearwater, Jemaine Clement, Shawn Colvin, the 1972 UK LP issue of CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, Jim Croce, drum heroes Aynsley Dunbar and Max Roach, Donald Fagen, the musical FINIAN’S RAINBOW (1947), George Foreman, the 1928 Gershwin-Romberg-Wodehouse musical ROSALIE, Byron “Whild Child” Gipson, Teresa Graves, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Henreid, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Mary Ingalls, Frank James, Brian Joo, King Crimson’s 1971 US album release of LIZARD, Bob Lang (The Mindbenders), Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite), Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1958 UK single “Great Balls of Fire,” Linda Lovelace, Mendelssohn’s 1833 cantata  "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," the 1927 film METROPOLIS, Sal Mineo, St. Philomena, Fayette Pinkney (Three Degrees), Johnnie Ray, Lou Reed’s 1989 NEW YORK album, Lyle Ritz (Wrecking Crew), Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Hrithik Roshan, Samira Said, William Sanderson, Michael Schenker, “Silly Symphony” comics (1932), Frank Sinatra Jr., Sonic the Hedgehog, Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rod Stewart, Scott Thurston, composer-violinist Gasparo Visconti, Drew Robert Weiser, mega-producer Jerry Wexler, and Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that beckoned 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

#ScottMcKenzie #SanFrancisco #Flowers #Hair #MontereyPopFestival #SummerofLove #JohnPhillips #MamasandthePapas #wreckingcrew #PragueSpring #folkmusic #BeachBoys #Kokomo #MikeLove #TerryMelcher #GuillainBarre #grungemusic #IggyPop #NobHill #demo #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[wouldadepressedpersonmakethis]

top portrayals:

LIZZY

[12] Lily James

[9] Keira Knightley, Jennifer Lawrence

[5] Imogen Poots

[4] Maisie Williams

[3] Sarah Bolger, Jenna Louise Coleman, Romola Garai, Bella Heathcote, Amber Heard, Saoirse Ronan, Emily VanCamp, Alicia Vikander

[2] Rose Byrne, Nina Dobrev, Taissa Farmiga, Sarah Gadon, Karen Gillan, Eva Green, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Anna Kendrick, Katie McGrath, Leighton Meester, Sophie Turner

[5] Matthew Goode, Jared Padalecki

[4] Jude Law, Aaron Paul

[3] Nathaniel Buzolic, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Landon Liborion, Miles Teller

[2] Jonas Armstrong, Justin Bartha, Douglas Booth, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sam Claflin, Charlie Cox, Chace Crawford, Charlie Day, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Freeman, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnum, Jake Johnson, Harry Lloyd, James McAvoy, Mads Mikkelsen, Julian Morris, Colin Morgan, David Morrisey, Dylan O’Brien, Evan Peters, Michael Pitt, Eddie Redmayne, Andrew Scott, Bill Skarsgard, Ben Whishaw

KATE THE GREAT

[ 3 ] Astrid Berges-Frisby, Bella Heathcote [ 2 ] Sarah Gadon, Felicity Jones

KATE AA

[ 8 ] Michael Fassbender [ 8 ] Keira Knightley [ 7 ] Tom Hardy

[ 6 ] Emilia Clarke, Phoebe Tonkin [ 6 ] Jensen Ackles, Richard Armitage, Henry Cavill

[ 5 ] Emily Blunt, Nina Dobrev [ 5 ] Nathaniel Buzolic, Sam Claflin, Luke Evans, Chris Hemsworth

[ 4 ] Jenna Louise Coleman, Michelle Dockery, Margot Robbie, Emma Watson [ 4 ] Ben Barnes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans, Liam Hemsworth, Jared Padalecki, Bill Skarsgard, Sebastian Stan, Toby Stevens

[ 3 ] Candace Accola, Natalie Dormer, Jessica Brown Findaly, Claire Holt, Scarlett Johanson, Freya Mavor, Katie McGrath, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Emma Watson [ 3 ] Robert Carlyle, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Jaime Dornan, Theo James, Joseph Morgan, Julian Morris, Evan Peters, Aidan Turner

[ 2 ] Chloe Bennet, Shelley Hennig, Lena Headey, Amber Heard, Lily James, Leighton Meester, Emilie de Ravin, Krysten Ritter, Sophie Turner, Evan Rachel Wood [ 2 ] Aneurin Barnard, Douglas Booth, Charlie Cox, Charles Dance, Hugh Dancy, Scott Eastwood, Mark Gatiss, Tom Hiddleston, Michiel Huisman, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, James Norton, Colin O’Donoghue, Daniel Sharman, Milo Ventimiglia

LAUREN

[ 7 ] Natalie Dormer [ 6 ] Romola Garai [ 5 ] Emma Stone [ 4 ] Crystal Reed, Holland Roden [ 3 ] Karen Gillan, Rosamund Pike, Emilie de Ravin, Eleanor Tommilson, Charity Wakefield

TINA RAE

[ 5 ] Ben Whishaw [ 3 ] Billie Piper [ 3 ] Dylan O’Brian, Colin O'Donoghue [ 2 ] Alexis Bledel, Laura Carmicheal, Sarah Paulson, Lara Pulver, Taylor Swift, Anna Torv [ 2 ] JJ Field, Freddie Highmore, Josh Hutcherson, Gabriel Mann, Dan Stevens, Max Theriot

JENN

2: Cava Delevingne, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Tonkin, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Suki Waterhouse, Emma Watson

3: Tom Hiddleston 2: Daane Dehann, Chris Hemsworth, Luke Mitchell

[sporadiceagleheart]

My favorite actress and actors television stars Joan Geraldine Bennett, Joan Benedict Steiger, Douglas "Doug" Stuart Sheehan, Claude Earl Jones, Frank Paul De Felitta, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Jocelyn Brando, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Baby LeRoy, Shirley Temple, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Peaches Jackson, Peggy Cartwright, Shirley Jean Rickert, Billy Miller, Tyler Christopher, Jacklyn Zeman, Sonya Eddy, Judith Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Richard Belzer, Michael Gambon, Richard Harris, Richard Griffiths, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Robbie Coltrane, Helen McCrory, Sir John Vincent Hurt, John Heard Jr., John Franklin Candy, Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald, Roberts Blossom, John Ingle, Anna Lee, David Lewis, David Jacobs, Julie Harris, June Marlowe, Betty White, Carl Weathers, Virginia Weidler, Jane Withers, Jane Adams, Jane Wyman, Jane Waddington Wyatt, Cammack"Cammie"King, Lisa Loring, Raul Julia, Susan Lynn Gordon, Juanita Quigley, Julie Vega, Samantha Reed Smith, Dominique Ellen Dunne, Marie Eline, Ann E. Todd, Marlene Lyden, Frank Sutton, Jim Nabors, Phyllis Brooks, Jacquie Lyn, Janet Elizabeth Burston, Anissa Jones, Bridgette Andersen, Raymond Burr, Brittany Murphy, Denise Marie Nickerson, Clara Blandick, Jack Haley, Terry, Buddy Ebsen, Charley Grapewin, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Betty Ann Bruno, Carol Tevis, Betty Tanner,

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Monty Python & Co if they were actors & actresses from the Classic Era of Hollywood (specifically in 1930s/40s):

Connie Booth- Veronica Lake

Graham Chapman- Errol Flynn

John Cleese- Basil Rathbone

Carol Cleveland- Judy Garland

Terry Gilliam- Vincent Price

Eric Idle- James Stewart

Neil Innes- Mel Blanc

Terry Jones- Claude Rains

Michael Palin- Ray Bolger

[kwebtv]

Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows -  ABC  -  February 25 - 26, 2001

Biography (2 episodes)

Running Time: 170 minutes

Stars:

Judy Davis as Judy Garland

Hugh Laurie as Vincente Minnelli

Victor Garber as Sid Luft

John Benjamin Hickey as Roger Edens

Sonja Smits as Kay Thompson

Alison Pill as young Lorna Luft

Aidan Devine as Frank Gumm

Marsha Mason as Ethel Gumm

Lindy Booth as Lana Turner

Al Waxman as Louis B. Mayer

Dwayne Adams as Mickey Rooney

Jayne Eastwood as Lottie

Martin Randez as Mark Herron

Hume Baugh as Mickey Deans

Daniel Kash as Arthur Freed

Stewart Bick as Artie Shaw

Rosemary Dunsmore as Ida Koverman

Cara Pifko as Jimmy Gumm (adult)

Zoe Heath as Suzy Gumm (adult)

Michael Rhoades as Busby Berkeley

Gerry Salsberg as Charles Bickford

Phillip MacKenzie as Victor Fleming

Thea Gill as Lucille Bremer

Noah Henne as The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)

James Kall as The Tin Man (Jack Haley)

Michael B. King as The Lion (Bert Lahr)

Harrison Kane as Joey Luft (age 7-10)

Brittany Payer as Liza Minnelli (age 1-2)

Rob Smith as David Begelman

Christopher Marren as Freddie Fields

Richard M. Davidson as Jack Warner

Derek Keurvorst as George Cukor

Aron Tager as George Jessel

William Holden as Himself (archive footage)

Grace Kelly as Herself - Academy Award Recipient (archive footage)

Cynthia Gibb as Narrator (older Lorna)

Carley Alves as Judy (age 2)

Tammy Blanchard as Judy (age 12-21)

Amber Metcalfe as Lorna (age 6)

Mackenzie Weiner as Lorna (age 3)

Krista Sutton as Lorna (adult)

Josephine De Cosma as Jimmy Gumm (age 7)

Samantha Gerber as Suzy Gumm (age 9)

Alex House as Joey Luft (age 11-15)

Ellis Turner as Joey Luft (age 4) (uncredited)

Arielle Di Iulio as Liza (age 6-8)

Sarah Moussadji as Liza (age 12-15)

Marie Ward as Liza (age 23)

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DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, performances begin Sept. 4th, on at the New World Stages in NYC.

Drew & Dane Productions presents Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen in a limited 18-week engagement, September 4 – January 7, at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Opening night is September 18. Directed by Gordon Greenberg (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Geffen), Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors features a company of fearless actors including Jordan Boatman (Medea at BAM, The Niceties), Arnie Burton (The 39 Steps, Peter and The Starcatcher), James Daly (Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Hulu’s “Letterkenny”), Ellen Harvey (How To Succeed, Present Laughter) and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Disney’s Newsies, Tuck Everlasting). Tickets are now on sale at Telecharge.com, (212) 239-6200.

(L-R) ARNIE BURTON, JORDAN BOATMAN,, ELLEN HARVEY, ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER, JAMES DALY. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. photo by Maria Baranova

Bram Stoker’s horror classic gets a riotous makeover in this lightning-fast comedic reimagining that celebrates goth, camp, sexuality, and the magic of live theatre. This 90-minute, gender-bending, quick-change romp features a pansexual GenZ Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis. When he sets his sights on the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Percy Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum. With a cast of brilliant quick take comedians, this Dracula will make you scream… with laughter.

(Back, L-R) KAITLYN BOYER, ARNIE BURTON, JAMES DALY, ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER, SEAN-MICHAEL WILKINSON. (front, l-r) JORDAN BOATMAN, ELLEN HARVEY. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. photo by Maria Barano

“In re-reading Dracula, we were surprised and intrigued by the boldness with which Stoker, a closeted gay man in Victorian England, plays with sexuality and gender norms,” says director/co-writer Gordon Greenberg. Co-writer Steve Rosen adds “we wanted to celebrate him and, at the same time, send up his moody, broody melodrama in the spirit of some of our comedic heroes like Charles Ludlam, Monty Python and Mel Brooks.” In regards to the New World Stages production, Greenberg continues, “We are so fortunate to have assembled an extraordinary company of top-notch comedic actors whose fearlessness and hilarity make the whole experience feel like a party. We hope our Dracula gives audiences of all ages the chance to forget about their troubles and just laugh their heads off for a while.”

Playwrights STEVE ROSEN and GORDON GREENBERG. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. photo by Maria Baranova

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors features scenic design by Tijana Bjelajac, costume design by Tristan Raines, lighting design by Rob Denton, original music and sound design by Victoria Deiorio, and wig and hair design by Ashley Rae Callahan. General Management is by Live Wire Theatrical. The company understudies are Kaitlyn Boyer and Sean-Michael Wilkinson. Production management is by Intuitive Production Management, and production stage management is by Morgan Holbrook. Casting is by JZ Casting. Dori Berinstein (The Prom) is Executive Producer.

JAMES DALY. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. photo by Maria Baranova

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors was commissioned and originally produced by Maltz Jupiter Theatre (Andrew Kato, Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive) in 2019. In 2020, it was adapted as a radio play for The Broadway Podcast Network with an all-star cast including Annaleigh Ashford, Laura Benanti, Alex Brightman, James Monroe Iglehart, Richard Kind, Rob McClure, Ashley Park, Christopher Sieber, and John Stamos. Productions followed at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany and Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal. A hit with critics and audiences alike, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors has been praised by the Albany Times Union as “a raucous comedy, done with impeccable adroitness …stuffed with sight gags, wordplay and lightning-fast costume changes,” and described as “a delicious comedic romp” by Berkshire Edge. McGill Daily calls the play “a sexy retelling of the classic 1897 novel that leans into contemporary gender roles with an unprecedented comedic angle. … not to be missed.” BroadwayWorld calls it a “lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud comedy.”

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors will play a 18-week limited engagement September 4 – January 7, at New World Stages, Stage 5 (340 West 50th Street.) Opening night is September 18. Performances are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7PM, Friday and Saturday at 8PM, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2PM. Tickets are $99 - $119. Premium seating is available. Tickets are now on sale at Telecharge.com, (212) 239-6200. For more information, visit www.DraculaComedy.com.

[bleedfm]

can I ask where on the timeline for tvd this takes place? and mwms you'd like to see as far as canons and fcs go?

so this is heavily au and doesn't follow any particular season per se , i would say if we had to put a label on it it'd be close to beginning season one of tvd / tru blood vibes but with different elements of both combined to one. so next gen / some of to would not be included in this particular timeline.

as far as our most wanted men ? i know our katherine is itching for a damon. i personally would love to see elijah as an authority member of alv , sam merlotte , matt donvan would be excellent , and give elena her lil bro jeremy. hes not listed but also there's been some talk of kai parker ? we'd love him.

now faces ? tasty q - rege jean page , chris wood , jeffrey dean morgan , charles melton , gavin leatherwood , casey deidrick , gabriel basso , john boyega , manny montana , dev patel , lakeith stanfield , herman tømmeraas , avan jogia , gong yoo ,  aaron pierre , paul wesley , cody christian , hugh dancy , yokohama ryusei , joe keery , david harbour , kellan lutz , billy burke , michael evans behling , josh heuston , nicholas alexander chavez , daniel sharmen , oktay cubuk , chase  stokes , drew starkey , & jordan bolger.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.10

Beer Birthdays

William Copeland (1834)

Nancy Johnson (1961)

Todd Alstrom (1969)

Eric Salazar (1973)

Frances Michelle (1987)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Pat Benatar; rock singer (1953)

Jim Croce; pop singer (1943)

Donald Fagen; musician (1948)

Bernard Lee; actor, "M" (1908)

Max Roach; jazz musician, drummer (1925)

Famous Birthdays

John Acton; English historian (1834)

Stephen Ambrose; historian, writer (1936)

Earl Bakken; inventor (1924)

Sune Bergström; Swedish biochemist (1916)

Katherine Blodgett; inventor, scientist (1898)

Ray Bolger; actor (1904)

Francis X. Bushman; actor, director, and screenwriter (1883)

Jared Carter; poet and author (1939)

Shawn Colvin; singer (1956)

Eldzier Cortor; painter (1916)

Roy E. Disney; businessman, Disney CEO (1930)

Dean Dixon; American-Swiss conductor (1915)

Aynsley Dunbar; English drummer and songwriter (1946)

George Foreman; boxer (1939)

Cynthia Freeman; author (1915)

Al Goldstein; pornographer (1936)

Evan Handler; actor (1961)

Ronnie Hawkins; rockabilly singer (1935)

Paul Henried; actor (1908)

Barbara Hepworth; sculptor (1903)

Rosella Hightower; ballerina (1920)

Walter Hill; film director (1942)

David Horowitz; activist and author (1939)

Frank James; outlaw (1843)

Robinson Jeffers; poet, writer (1887)

Janet Jones; actor (1961)

Jeffrey Catherine Jones; comics and fantasy artist (1944)

Donald Knuth; mathematician, computer scientist (1938)

Philip Levine; poet (1928)

Martin Lichtenstein; German physician and explorer (1780)

Linda Lovelace; pornstar (1939)

Willie McCovey; San Francisco Giants 1B (1938)

J.P. McEvoy; writer (1897)

Sal Mineo; actor (1939)

Cyril Neville; musician (1948)

Milton Parker; businessman, co-founder of the Carnegie Deli (1919)

Johnnie Ray; singer-songwriter and pianist (1927)

Charles G. D. Roberts; Canadian poet and author (1860)

John Root; architect (1850)

Michael Schenker; German guitarist and songwriter (1955)

Tony Soper; English ornithologist (1929)

Rod Stewart; pop singer (1945)

Scott Thurston; American guitarist and songwriter (1952)

Bill Toomey; Olympic gold medalist for Decathlon (1939)

Robert Woodrow Wilson; physicist and astronomer (1936)

Johannes Zick; German painter (1702)

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg; German composer (1760)

[lesterplatt]

Chevrolet Go Beyond from Christophe Collette, CSC on Vimeo.

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[hotvintagepoll]

List of those already nominated below per @momsforroadhead's suggestion! Submissions close 12/14/2023

Alec Guiness

Basil Rathbone

Bela Lugosi

Benson Fong

Bing Crosby

Bob Fosse

Bob Hope

Boris Karloff

Buster Keaton

Cantinflas

Carman Newsome

Cary Grant

Cesar Romero

Charlie Chaplin

Christopher Plummer

Clark Gable

Claude Rains

Clint Eastwood

Conrad Veidt

Cornel Wilde

Danny Kaye

David Niven

Dean Martin

Dev Anand

Dick Van Dyke

Donald O'Connor

Douglas Fairbanks

Elvis Presley

Errol Flynn

Fayard Nicholas

Fernando Lamas

Frank Sinatra

Fred Astaire

Frederick March

Gary Cooper

Gene Kelly

George Chakiris

George Peppard

Glenn Ford

Gregory Peck

Guy Madison

Harold Lloyd

Harold Nicholas

Harry Belafonte

Henry Fonda

Howard Keel

Humphrey Bogart

Jack Lemmon

James Cagney

James Coburn

James Dean

James Edwards

James Garner

James Shigeta

James Stewart

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jimmy Stewart

John Barrymore

John Carradine

John Garfield

John Wayne

José Ferrer

Keye Luke

Kirk Douglas

Laurence Olivier

Leslie Howard

Marlon Brando

Michael Redgrave

Mickey Rooney

Montgomery Clift

Omar Sharif

Orson Welles

Oscar Micheaux

Paul Newman

Peter Cushing

Peter Falk

Peter Lawford

Peter O'Toole

Ramon Novarro

Ray Bolger

Ray milland

Rex Harrison

Ricardo Montalbon

Richard Burton

Robert Earl Jones

Robert Mitchum

Robert Preston

Rock Hudson

Ronald Colman

Rudolph Valentino

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sean Connery

Sessue Hayakawa

Sidney Poitier

Slim Thompson

Spencer Tracy

Steve McQueen

Tony Curtis

Toshiro Mifune

Tyrone Power

Van Johnson

Vincent Price

William Holden

William Powell

Nominated but thrown out of the competition:

Harrison Ford (not really working in movies in the 1910s-1960s, so outside the scope of this bracket)

Leonard Nimoy (not a movie leading man but a television dude)

Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS bracket! we are currently collecting submissions for the HOTTEST and VINTAGEST male movie stars from 1910-1970. (we will do the ladies next.) if you have a hot vintage man in mind, please fill out the submission sheet above or send us an ask with the appropriate propaganda!

To be counted in the bracket, your submission must (1) be a male movie star from classical Hollywood cinema, i.e. from the 1910s through the late 1960s, and (2) be considered to have been leading man material, i.e. hot, sexy, and on the marquee in big bright lights. In consideration of the Hollywood studio system's racist and narrow-minded casting policies, submissions of supporting actors who did not achieve leading man status in their time but clearly had the charisma and charm to have thrived if they'd been given the chance are welcome. If you're submitting someone not particularly well known, please link a picture where we can see your nominee at his hottest.

Feel free to submit as many times as you like, but one submission per form please. If you have a photo of your hot vintage man in his "best" era (several of these stars had multi-decade careers), please include a link so I don't show a pic of them at their crustiest and worst

This submissions page closes 12/14/2023, and the bracket should be up by 12/16/2023 :)

[ilovefinncole]

The Shelby’s - Series 3 Episode 6

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Happy birthday darling I have no presents and fantasy cake but I hope I make you happy with everything I made like this edit right here with all of your pictures in it Shirley Jane Temple Black 1928-2014 April 23rd 1928-February 10th 2014 and special rest in peace to those who passed away Bishop Rance Allen, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Lisa Loring, Bob Saget, Betty White, Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, baby Leroy, baby Peggy Montgomery, Peggy cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peaches Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman and Mildred Kornman, Kenny Rogers, Patsy Cline, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Eazy-E, rest in peace Ana Ofelia Murguía December 31st 2023, Jim James Edward Jordan, Lucille Ricksen, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton and Terry and Pal, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Sue Page, Pat Buttram, Joe Flynn, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Richard Belzer, Richard Harris, Bernard Fox, Raymond Burr, Perrette Pradier, Jeanette Nolan, Larry Clemmons, Bing Crosby, John Candy, John Heard, John Fiedler, Beate Hasenau, Billie Burke, Roberts Blossom, Billie Bird, Bill Erwin, Ralph Foody, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton, John Wayne, Clara Blandick,Charley Grapewin, Buddy Ebsen, Angelo Rossitto, Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, Bridgette Andersen, Dominique Dunne, Dana Plato, Robbie Coltrane, Lance Reddick, Betty Ann Bruno, Betty Tanner, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen McCrory, Ray Liotta and Tom Sizemore and Burt Reynolds, Zari Elmassian, Frank Cucksey, Vyacheslav Baranov, Vladimir Ferapontov, Carol Tevis, George Shephard Houghton, Irving S. Brecher, Richard Griffiths, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, Joe Conley, Alan Arkin, Jerry Heller, Fred Willard, Mary Ellen Trainor, Morgan Woodward, Anna Lee and John Ingle, David Lewis, Ken Curtis, Ed Asner, James Caan, James Arness, Amanda Blake, Avicii, Jane Withers and Virginia Weidler, Milburn Stone, Natasha Richardson, Joanna Barnes, Cameron Boyce and Tyree Boyce, Cammack"Cammie"King, Denny Miller, Jane Adams, June Marlowe rest in heavenly peace to all of them actors and actresses this is Shirley Temple birthday edit of the year

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Mudhoney 1965

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Another Peaky Blinders Rant

Warnings: it's longish

Does anyone else find it weird that when Jack Rowan got another role they killed off Bonnie, but when Jordan Bolger got another role they just replaced him? I don't want Isaiah dead or anything like that, but it just really stands out to me.

A part of me wants to believe that that means they actually have plans for Isaiah in s6 or s7, but another part of me thinks that they just couldn't be bothered to make a big deal out of his death, like they (half ass) did with Bonnie when he was killed.

If they killed Isaiah off, they'd have to make Jeremiah want vengeance (even though they've never/barely interacted on screen and Jeremiah is barely on the show anyways) and try and make it look like everyone is grieving because they all knew him (and again, barely interacted with him).

Bonnie was shown to have a close relationship with his dad, Isaiah is seen having a good relationship with several people (Finn, Michael, John), but there's nothing actually meaningful in any of it. We don't know his age, if he's definitely an only child, what happened to his mum, what he thinks of Michael in s5, anything really. He was literally introduced to the show so a young person could show Michael the attractive aspects of The Life™ (the girls, the smoking, the drinking, the fights, the perks of everyone knowing who he is) and then SK had no idea what to do with him, so he gave him a gun and put him in the background of every scene involving the illegal side of the business.

Isaiah was literally invented for a small role in S2 and then became so unimportant that they couldn't even bother to kill him off, in case anything took attention away from Tommy Shelby and his plans.

And this isn't hate against Daryl McCormack. I liked him enough, even if I think he seemed like he was playing a different character altogether. He was a little more serious than Jordan's cheeky portrayal of the character, which is what most people focus on when they write about Isaiah, so I think he would've made a great older brother character if he had been introduced in an earlier season. (an OC I want to add into my writing at some point).