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[colorhollywood]

Old Hollywood stars on the bicycles

[hotvintagepoll]

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.

[markwatnae]

Masterpost of Hot Old Man Round 1 Polls

Paul Newman v Richard Burton

Omar Sharif v Tony Curtis

Red Skelton v Burt Lancaster

Christopher Plummer v Keir Dullea

Anthony Perkins vJack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas v Alain Delon

James Dean v Marcello Mastroianni

Harry Belafonte v Jean-Pierre Cassel

Marlon Brando v Robert Wagner

Sammy Davis Jr. v James Garner

James Coburn v Rock Hudson

Peter Cushing v Rex Harrison

George Chakiris v Sidney Poitier

Dean Martin v Sean Connery v Jeremy Brett

Tab Hunter v Toshiro Mifune

Howard Keel v Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford v James Mason

Steve McQueen v Charlton Heston

Dick Van Dyke v George Peppard

Elvis Presley v Peter Falk

Oscar Micheaux v Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut v Buster Keaton

Jimmy Stewart v Ray Milland

Cary Grant v Claude Rains

John Wayne v Errol Flynn

Clint Eastwood v William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. v Sessue Hayakawa

Carman Newsome v Harold Lloyd

Noble Johnson v Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert v Conrad Veidt

Ramon Novarro v Robert Earl Jones

Slim Thompson v Gary Cooper

John Barrymore v Paul Robeson

Edward G. Robinson v Clark Gable

Humphrey Bogart v William Powell

Leslie Howard v Ronald Colman

Peter Lawford v Vincent Price

Harold Nicholas v Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten v Danny Kaye

John Carradine v Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine v Gilbert Roland

Benson Fong v Spencer Tracy

Guy Madison v Felix Bressart

James Shigeta v Ronald Reagan

Montgomery Clift v Ricardo Montalbon

Peter Lorre v Frank Sinatra

Bob Hope v Gregory Peck

Fred Astaire v Paul Muni

Bela Lugosi v Cornel Wilde

Cesar Romero v John Garfield

Basil Rathbone v Cantinflas

Henry Fonda v Turhan Bey

Boris Karloff v Robert Mitchum

David Niven v Van Johnson

Gene Kelly v José Ferrer

Robert Preston v Tyrone Power

Jack Benny v Donald O'Connor

Fredric March v Lex Barker

Michael Redgrave v Gene Autry

James Edwards v Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas v Fernando Lamas

Ray Bolger v Johnny Weismuller

Orson Welles v Sabu Dastigir

Mickey Rooney v Laurence Olivier

Rex Ingram v Glenn Ford

Bing Crosby v James Cagney

@hotvintagepoll

[pynkhues]

but yeah sam's bone structure is wild

I feel this way too, his face is so striking to me beyond just the standard "handsome man with cheekbones" thing, and I'm trying to articulate why, so I'm curious if you could say why his bone structure is wild to you? If that's not a strange thing to ask lol

I don't know if I have that many thoughts on it beyond the fact that he has a face I like looking at, haha, but I will say that I think he's got a pretty early-Golden Age Hollywood face in terms of his features, which is just not really a look that we see very much on screen anymore?

The sort of preferred appearance / beauty ideal for Western actors usually changes with shifts in cinema history and popularity of genre, and that sort of masculine, square-jawed, high cheekboned face shape with delicate, almost feminine, almost pretty features was just a lot more popular in the 1930s / pre-WWII cinema era (see also: Tyrone Power, Robert Montgomery, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard, etc.)

I do think there's a shift post-WWII, where you see more of the rise of gristly looking Men Who've Seen Things (i.e. Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Glenn Ford, Cary Grant, etc.) which isn't to say there wasn't crossover - there was, a lot of those 30s film stars had very long careers - but Western masculinity looked very different pre-and-post WWII, and movie stars reflected that.

(It also reflects the rise, I think, of the American movie star, given most of those 1930s actors I listed above are English, and most of the ones I listed after WWII are American.)

So yeah, I think Sam just has a very 1930s movie star face - like, I actually think in terms of bone structure and features (if not in colouring) he looks a lot like a young Laurence Olivier:

[yourforgottenbookshelf]

Updated Fandom List (TV Series)

Created: 26/02/2023

Updated: 31/11/2023

The following list contains fandoms and characters I take requests for.

You can find my Movies Fandom List here.

13 Reasons Why

Jeff Atkins

Clay Jensen

Jessica Devis

Zack Dempsey

Montgomery de la Cruz

Tyler Down

Justin Foley

Sheri Holland

Alex Randall

Charlie St. George

Diego Torres

Scott Reed

Winston Williams

911

Evan Buckley

Athena Grant-Nash

Eddie Diaz

Bobby Nash

Howard Han

Maddie Buckley

All American

Asher Adams

Darnell Hayes

Jordan Baker

Layla Keating

Olivia Baker

Spencer James

Tyrone Morris

Chicago Fire

Kelly Severide

Matthew Casey

Leslie Shay

Sylvie Brett

Stella Kidd

Wallace Boden

Gabriella Dawson

Peter Mills

Jimmy Borelli

Chris Herrmann

Jessica Chilton

Chicago P.D.

Kim Burgess

Antonio Dawnson

Jay Halstead

Erin Lindsay

Hailey Upton

Hank Voight

Control Z

Alex Salomone

Dario

Ernesto

Gerry Granda

Isabela de La Fuente

Javier Williams

Luis Navarro

Maria Alexander

Natalia Alexander

Raul Leon

Rosita Restrepo

Sofia Herrera

El Club

Matias Anda

Nicolas Farah

Rablo Caballero

Santiago Caballero

Sofia de Leon

Elite

Ander Muñoz

Carla Rosón Caleruega

Christian Varela Expósito

Guzmán Nunier Osuna

Lucrecia Montesinos Hendrich

Marina Nunier Osuna

Nadia Shanaa

Omar Shanaa

Patrick Blanco Commerford

Polo Benavent Villada

Samuel García Domínguez

Valerio Montesinos Rojas

House M.D.

Gregory House

James Wilson

Lisa Cuddy

Eric Foreman

Robert Chase

Allison Cameron

Thirteen

Muted

Sergio Siscar

Anna Dussuel

Marta Ortega

Eneko

Station 19

Maya Bishop

Carina DeLuca

Theo Ruiz

Teen Wolf

Brett Talbot

Chris Argent

Danny Mahealani

Deucalion

Derek Hale

Aiden Steiner

Ethan Steiner

Isaac Lahey

Jackson Whittemore

Kira Yukimura

Liam Dunbar

Lydia Martin

Scott McCall

Stiles Stilinski

The Resident

AJ Austin

Barett Cain

Billie Sutton

Conrad Hawkings

Nic Nevin

Devon Pravesh

Kit Voss

Randolph Bell

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Flicks

Take out your five faves and it'd still be a dynamite year for movies. My tops = Poor Things. Fave performance = Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers. Fave score = Poor Things. Fave G'lord WTF is This Wild Gem = Dug Dug. The movie I liked a lot more than I expected to = Air. The Can't Wait for Their Next One = Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario. Congratulations to all winners, you've won special mention on this Tumblr page 🏆

Loved!

Air

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Asteroid City

Barbie

Beau is Afraid

Blackberry

Bottoms

Dream Scenario

Dug Dug

Ferrari

Godzilla Minus One

How to Blow up a Pipeline

Knock at the Cabin

M3GAN

May December

Napoleon

Oldboy (20th Anniversary Remastered)

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Society of the Snow

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stop Making Sense (rerelease)

The Boy and the Heron

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

The Killer

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, Poison

The Zone of Interest

Liked!

65

A Haunting in Venice

A Thousand and One

Alice Darling

AKA

All of Us Strangers

Ballerina

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)

Biosphere

Blue Beetle

Boston Strangler

Broker

The Burial

Cassandro

Cat Person

Creed III

Dark Harvest

Dicks: The Musical

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Dogleg

Dumb Money

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Eileen

El Conde

Elemental

Evil Dead Rise

Fair Play

Fallen Leaves

Fast X

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Flora and Son

Good Grief

Gran Turismo

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Halfway Home

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

If You Were the Last

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

It’s a Wonderful Knife

John Wick 4

Joy Ride

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Leave the World Behind

Little Bone Lodge

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Lyla

Maaveeran

Maestro

Maggie Moore(s)

Missing

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Mountain Woman

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mutt

Nairobby

Nimona

No One Will Save You

Nowhere

Nyad

Origin

Paint

Para Betina Pengikut Iblis

Plane

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

Priscilla

Quiz Lady

Raging Grace

Renfield

River

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Sanctuary

Self-Reliance

Sharper

Shin Kamen Rider

Showing Up

Sisu

Skinamarink

Sometimes I Think About Dying

Starling Girl

Still Time

Strays

Suzume

Talk to Me

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

The Boogeyman

The Book of Clarence

The Call

The Covenant

The Kitchen

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Machine

The Royal Hotel

The Strays

Theater Camp

There’s Something Wrong With the Children

They Cloned Tyrone

To Leslie

Vesper

Wil

You Hurt My Feelings

[herecomesthefirstday]

herecomesthefirstday's year in review

Big things: Published a paper & a letter with my job, moved out of my parents' house and in with my boyfriend, stopped having a job, started watching One Piece, flew to Atlanta even though I hate flying, caught up with One Piece

TOP 20 FILMS OF 2023 / more & more year in review (music, TV, books, games) under readmore

Bottoms

Past Lives

Polite Society

The Holdovers

Oppenheimer

John Wick Chapter 4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Rye Lane

Killers of the Flower Moon

May December

Barbie

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

The Pope's Exorcist

Asteroid City

Theater Camp

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

You Hurt My Feelings

Poor Things

They Cloned Tyrone

80 For Brady

BEST SHORT OF 2023: Take Me Home

Songs on repeat / movies I watched and rated 4.5 or 5 stars / books read / TV watched / games played by month

January 🎵 Marigolds - Kishi Bashi American Teenager - Ethel Cain 🎬 Hail, Caesar! (2016) 4.5 Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 5 Fail Safe (1964) 4.5 Honorable mention: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 3.5 📚 World War Z - Max Brooks 🔁1/16 Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/18 Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/23 Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/26 📺 Dark

February 🎵 Partita for 8 Voices - Roomful of Teeth God Is a Freak - Peach PRC 🎬 Third Kind (2018) 4.5 Showgirls (1995) 4.5 Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) 🔁 5 📚 The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa 2/7 Authority - Jeff VanderMeer 2/15 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Bloodline S1

March 🎵 Not Another Rockstar - Maisie Peters 🎬 Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 4.5 John Wick (2014) 🔁 4.5 John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) 🔁 5 Honorable mention: 80 for Brady (2023) 3 📚 Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer 3/4 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Yellowjackets S1 🔁 S2 Poker Face Defending Jacob

April 🎵 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) - Lizzo Daytona Sand - Orville Peck Little Dark Age - MGMT 🎬 John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 4.5 Honorable mention: Rye Lane (2023) 4 📚 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 4/1 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets

May 🎵 Home - Diana Ross Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Gloria - Laura Branigan 🎬 Polite Society (2023) 5 The Joy Luck Club (1993) 4.5 Crank (2006) 4.5 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets White Lotus 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

June 🎵 Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Movin' Out - Billy Joel 🎬 The Fabelmans (2022) 4.5 Casablanca (1942) 🔁 4.5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 4.5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 5 What We Do In The Shadows (2014) 🔁 5 📺 White Lotus Grey's Anatomy Marriage The Bear 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

July 🎵 My House - Diana Ross Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell 🎬 Lady Bird (2017) 🔁 4.5 Pacific Rim (2013) 🔁 5 Whiplash (2014) 5 The Watermelon Woman (1996) 4.5 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 🔁 4.5 Oppenheimer (2023) 4.5 📺 The Bear Grey's Anatomy Black Mirror What We Do In The Shadows Foundation 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom Rocket League

August 🎵 It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion Adagio in D Minor - John Murphy 🎬 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) 4.5 📺 Foundation Only Murders in the Building Grey's Anatomy One Piece 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

September 🎵 American Pie - Don McLean 🎬 Bottoms (2023) 5 📺 One Piece Foundation Grey's Anatomy 🎮 We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (9/9) Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (9/26)

October 🎵 No One Comes Close - Infinity Song New Body Rhumba - LCD Soundsystem No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo 🎬 Past Lives (2023) 5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 🔁 5 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Lupin GBBO 📚 Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc (10/26)

November 🎵 Liability - Lorde Together in Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder 🎬 Annette (2021) 4.5 Electric Dreams (1984) 5 Honorable Mention: Light & Magic (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy GBBO The Crown Mindhunter 🔁 📚 The Uranium Club - Miriam E. Hiebert (11/16)

December 🎵 Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven) - Elisapie Butchered Tongue - Hozier Christmas Baby - Infinity Song Home For Christmas - Infinity Song 🎬 The Holdovers (2023) 4.5 x2 Take Me Home (2023) 5 - short Pro Pool (2022) 4.5 - short Mamma Mia! (2008) 5 🔁 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) 5 🔁 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 5 🔁 Honorable mention: The Quiet Girl (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Only Murders in the Building New Amsterdam Frieren Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury The Crown Pokémon Concierge 🎮 Fall Guys Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 📚 Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (12/25)

[macabremomo]

Trailer Park Boys Collection (37/95) Level 1: Steve French, Sunnyvale 5-0 Level 4: Bunk BQ, Lahey Level 5: Bubbles, Ricky Level 6: Julian, Leslie Dancer Level 9: Barb, Candy (S10), Don, Jacob, Mr. Finch Level 10: Donna, J-Roc, Lucy, Mrs. Peterson, Phil Collins, Thomas Collins, Treena, Trevor, Trinity Level 11: Coconut, Cory, Detroit Velvet Smooth, Erica Miller, Rascal, Sam, Sarah, Shitty Bill, Steve Rogers, Tyrone Level 12: Bernie Sanford, Candy, Marguerite, MC Flurry, Willy Goat

[impossibleperfectionnerd]

maiden RINA dug out (1980 to present)is in UP & San Beda college. We have to dig up memories & things of: Severina Caravana -Rivera Lim & Susanna Rivera Lim. (Both are real children). JEGL & those 2 kids & that fritata of his is looting them. He’s been caught! The feel of the 2 prime women above: bad marriages. Not separated but touched by Serrano. (Illegitimate pipol & indirectly by Muslim)- The sound of music. Splendor in the Grass. Romeo & Juliet. My Fair Lady. Movies of Audrey Hepburn. MGM musicals. Thorn birds. (My taste). Leslie Caron. Alain Delon. Gigi the musical. James Bond. All Sean Connery movies. Tyrone Powers. The way we were. The reader by Bernard Schlink. (My taste). The shoes of the fisherman (my taste). Stewart Granger movies - Prince Valiant. Scaramouche. The legend of Zelda. Quo Vadis- Peter Ustinov. Flower drum song.

Marco Polo Weinstein company. Netflix. Kevin kwan the movie- crazy rich Asians- rich people problems. FH Batacan’s soho crime novels- marvel comics Thor- von doom- dr. Strange. risen starring Ralph fiennes.

[cyarsk52-20]

CULTURE, NEWS

20 More Songs That Almost Every Black Person Knows

Because we heard we missed a few of your favorites earlier this month.

by Leslie D. Rose

June 24, 2022 at 1:07 pm

A typical Saturday morning in a Black household between the ’70s to ’90s consisted of blaring soul music with sprinklings of hip-hop videos and a few episodes of shows like A Different World and Soul Train to the tune of cleaning the house. The music of the day made up a relevant portion of many Gen X and millennial childhoods, branching out to GenZ as traditions often do. Credit to these Saturday morning experiences is the intergenerational soundtrack to Black life.

To close out Black Music Month, and because we heard we missed a few of your favorites earlier this month, here are 20 more songs that almost every Black person knows.

1. "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack/The Fugees

Roberta Flack recorded this song in the summer of 1973. The Grammy-nominated hit reached number three on the Billboard charts and went double platinum that year. Twenty-three years later, The Fugees put a hip-hop spin on the tune, topping charts in more than 20 countries.

Their version went triple platinum and is still listed as one of the top-selling songs in several countries. Even if every Black person can’t sing the song word for word, you are sure to hear enough people hollering “one time!” even if it’s Flack’s version playing. 

2. "Tyrone" by Erykah Badu

First of all, poor Tyrone. He didn’t do anything but come pick up his shiftless friend, and yet the name is now synonymous with a no-good boyfriend. Erykah Badu took over radio stations in 1997 with this freestyle-esque tune about a man she wanted gone from her home. Starting the song with the now-common phrase, “keep in mind, I’m an artist, and I’m sensitive about my s**t,” Badu likely had no clue she was creating the get-gone anthem of a generation.

3. "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden and Whitehead

Philadelphia artists McFadden and Whitehead created a backyard classic with this 1979 disco song about resilience and the release of negativity. Its intergenerational groove infused itself into the brains of Black folks young and old and is a feel-good song no matter how you slice it. 

4. "I'm Going Down" by Rose Royce/Mary J. Blige

Women have likely been crying it out to this song since its original release in 1976. In 1994, the queen of hip-hop and R&B soul, Mary J. Blige, did such an impeccable rendition of it on her My Life album that the two-decade-old song reigned in a few more tears from younger women. It was even prominently featured in a talent show episode of Sister, Sister.

5. "Sweet Love" by Anita Baker

If your mama didn’t blast Anita Baker on Saturday mornings, then did she really clean the house? There’s something about Black mothers and Anita Baker that is somewhat inexplicable. But because of this love, generations of Black folks can belt out the lyrics to many of her songs. “Sweet Love” is among the most popular and has even received a coveted New Orleans bounce version that can get a Louisiana nightclub popping.

6. "Can You Stand the Rain" by New Edition

New Edition was the soundtrack of many a Black person’s life. Their career began in the early 1980s, later revitalized in the mid-’90s with a successful legendary return in the mid-2010s. Among their many, many hits, this song seemed to resonate with a multi-generational audience, as it has the type of modulations that make up for a fun performance. An example of this type of fun is featured in the movie The Best Man Holiday. 

7. "My Girl" by The Temptations

This song is a historic artifact. It belongs to many of our grandparents, but because of its sweet nature and easy-to-remember lyrics, it’s a timeless classic that keeps ringing on. It was released in 1964 but has shown up over the years in many ways, even on popular sitcoms like Martin.

8. "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" by James Brown

This song may actually be the reason Black folks even identify with the word Black. Before this 1968 mega-hit, Black Americans were widely referred to as “negro.” Brown, with the help of this song, was key in ushering in the Black Power movement.

9. "This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway

It’s totally not Christmas until this song plays. It has to be played loudly and you are required to sing along. Released in 1970, this song is like a welcomed family member during the holidays. Mariah Carey creditedthe happy spirit of the song as a muse for her mega-hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” as Blavity previously reported. 

10. "Anniversary" by Tony! Toni! Toné!

These guys absolutely knew what they were doing when they made the undisputed anthem of celebrating marital bliss. There’s likely not a Black couple in the country who hasn’t at least once celebrated their anniversary ala Tony! Toni! Toné!.

11. "Make It Last Forever" by Keith Sweat and Jacci McGhee

When it comes to getting a crowd to sing in harmony at a nightclub, this is a DJ favorite. Released in 1987, this tune took over the hearts of young lovers and helped cement Keith Sweat’s legacy as a R&B legend and New Jack Swing sub-genre pioneer. In 1998, Mariah Carey remixed her song “Thank God I Found You” to incorporate the classic featuring Nas and Joe.

12. "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by G. C. Cameron/Boyz II Men

This song is a prominent part of the 1975 film Cooley High, which starred Glynn Turman, who later went on to play Col. Taylor on A Different World. Since its recording, the song has become synonymous with final goodbyes. It was covered by Boyz II Men in 1991 for their album Cooleyhighharmony. During the last episode of A Different World, the main cast joined together to sing it as a way to end the show and a nod to the movie that popularized it as the star was among them. 

13. "Happy" by Pharrell Williams

This song took over everything, everywhere in 2014. Released as the only single from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, people of all ages quickly found themselves singing and clapping. It became a social media trend and the tune landed itself some major accolades like spending more than a year on charts across the world.

14. "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys

Anytime anyone sets out to create an anthem, they’re either going to fail miserably or win like nobody’s business. This ode to New York City did the latter and continues to be a mega praise piece for the concrete jungle. It’s also the foundation for a great inside joke among Black folks, and you know what we mean, Lil Mama.

15. "I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan/Whitney Houston

Chaka Khan recorded this song in 1978. It has since been sampled in multiple genres more than 20 times. It was famously covered by Whitney Houston in 1992 for The Bodyguard soundtrack. Houston’s version featured a fun video with other women singers including Khan, who did background vocals on that version. In her 1993-1994 season, Oprah Winfrey used a modified version for her talk show’s promos and opening credits. 

16. "Respect" by Aretha Franklin

Another anthem, this song was written by Otis Redding and originally recorded by him in 1965. It blew up when it was rearranged and covered by the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, in 1967. Adding the necessary amount of sass and spelling out the word made Franklin’s version one for the history books. It shows up often in pop culture, including a fun episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

17. "Juicy" The Notorious B.I.G.

Maybe your grandmother doesn’t exactly know the words to this early Biggie hit, but she might know the hook because it’s a direct sample of Mtume’s 1983 song “Juicy Fruit.” The original song spent eight weeks on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart. “Juicy” solidified Biggie’s career and has been hailed as one of the greatest rap songs of all time. 

18. "One Love" by Bob Marley

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Thanks to ’90s television promotions for the island of Jamaica, this song has had an extended shelf life far beyond its original recording. Unfortunately, Bob Marley didn’t get to see the commercial success of his music since he actually never had a top Billboard hit in his lifetime. His family famously sued Raising Canes Chicken Fingers for infringement in 2013, as the restaurant had been using the phrase “one love” as its trademark. 

19. "Hip Hop Hooray" by Naughty by Nature

Once a song gets covered by The Muppets, it’s a clear choice for an intergenerational bop. This 1992 rap mantra was another feather in the trio’s hip-hop anthem hat. The certified platinum song landed itself on the U.S. pop chart at number eight and also found itself scattered among other charts internationally. 

20. "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar

This song became the unofficial theme song for Black rights. Maybe everyone doesn’t know the verses, but “we gon’ be alright” is certainly chanted by varying age groups at protests. What’s interesting is that the lyrics don’t exactly match a civil rights movement, but the hook was enough to infuse the tune into the struggle.

Black Music Month is a time to celebrate the contributions of Black artists to the music industry. What better tribute to this than showcasing how these artists have infused their work into the very fabric of our cultural existence.

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[swanlake1998]

charmaine hunter, tyrone brooks, and leslie anne cardona photographed in arthur mitchell’s fête noire by martha swope

[ipgbook]

New & Notable

The Thumbtack Dancer By Leslie Tyron, Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

A sweet story about one talented and creative go-getter. Gus is a most promising, most energetic and most talented young dancer who figures out how to make enough money to upgrade his tip-a-tap thumbtack sneakers to a new pair of real tap shoes that could slap-a-dee-dap, slap-a-dee-dap on a real dance floor. He uses his public street dancing and thumbtack shoes to tap his way down the sidewalk and right up to the big red door of the dance studio. 

[incorrectoldhollywoodquotes]

(and now, for the most ambitious crossover before infinity war)

Hedy: Every single odd number has an "e" in it.

Vivien: ...

David: LISTEN-

Leslie: Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren't spelled with the letter e in it...

Myrna: (shrugs smugly)

Claudette: Father God.

Carole: If you can split a number in half evenly, it's even. 30 and 50 are odd.

Myrna: (shrugs smugly)

Errol, mildly peeved: 15+15=30. 25+25=30.

Judy: 25+25=30? You sure about that??

Olivia: Lord have mercy...

Katharine: Bye

Veronica: 3 days into 1941. I'm speechless.

Alan: [laughs hysterically]

Lauren: ...

Tyrone: One, three, five nine. And since everything after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter 'E'.

Judy: YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

Joan: It keeps getting worse.

Bette: WHAT IS GOING ON

Ginger: ...

Frank: My head hurts...

Bogart: This is why that Hollywood University shit was the dumbest idea ever. Just look at this.

Greta: Who failed you all?

Lana: IM SCREAMING

Marlene: Yes, this is what it's like calculating the tip when you are bi and don't know math. We're going to die here.

Cary: You completely forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even.

Fredric: Why would 8 be brought up if it's EVEN in a conversation about ODDS??? Hedy said "every single ODD number has an 'e' in it" not every single number with an 'e' is odd". What the fuck?

Rita: 3 days until 1942 and we're still here.

Fred: Happy new year's eve.

Janet: I'm going to bring this flaming dumpster into 1942 so future generations can see what a mistake these Hollywood conventions were.

Gene: Er, guys, two is odd and doesn't have an e. Just saying...

Clark: Did you just try to tell me two is odd? Throw MGM away.

Glenn: I'm only getting involved in this conversation because of what Mr. Gable said.

Ava: The one thing I notice is no matter how much you want to completely discard this conversation, you just can't.

Spencer: TWO IS ODD?!?!

Angela: Wait, what about zero, that's an odd number, right?

Cyd: ...

Errol: Okay, but hear me out: Fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no E by the way they are pronounced. Third-E and Fifth-E.

Ann: Mr. Flynn why do 30 and 50 even matter THEY'RE FUCKING EVEN

Jimmy: What the actual fuck is happening?

William, burying his face in his hands: You are all so STUPID

[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 :)

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I’M SO EXCITED!!!

[yesterdaysprint]

The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1938

Aleen Wetstein (Leslie) answers questions from Tyrone Power’s Popularity Test (which was featured in Hollywood magazine April 1938 and quite popular at the time), called “The Hostess Takes the Cake”