In Search of the Golden Apple

Richard Burton singing “Camelot” in 1978 (this is...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:21:14 -0400

Richard Burton singing “Camelot” in 1978

(this is vaguely how I feel about my time at the University of St Andrews)

5 Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton Movies To Watch

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:00 -0400

5 Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton Movies To Watch:

With Cannes screening Cleopatra (marking its 50th anniversary) two nights ago and yesterday’s re-release screenings at 75 theaters countrywide, we’re feeling the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton love. The twice-divorced, Vatican-condemned couple continues to capture the public’s imagination and interest. In the past three years, we’ve seen Sam Kashner’s Furious Love and Richard Burton’s diaries […]

"The large room was full of people. One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano, and beside her..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:29:30 -0400

“The large room was full of people. One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano, and beside her stood a tall, red-haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song. She had drunk a quantity of champagne, and during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad — she was not only singing, she was weeping too. Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping, broken sobs, and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano. The tears coursed down her cheeks — not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets. A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face, whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair, and went off into a deep vinous sleep.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Her screwed-up black glove dropped to the floor. When Jacob gave it her, she started angrily. For..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:42:34 -0400

“Her screwed-up black glove dropped to the floor. When Jacob gave it her, she started angrily. For never was there a more irrational passion. And Jacob was afraid of her for a moment—so violent, so dangerous is it when young women stand rigid; grasp the barrier; fall in love.”

- Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

"It seems then that men and women are equally at fault. It seems that a profound, impartial, and..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:41 -0400

“

It seems then that men and women are equally at fault. It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this—and much more than this is true, why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us—why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.

Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.

”

- Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

"“No, no, no,” she sighed, standing at the greenhouse door, “don’t..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:04 -0400

“

“No, no, no,” she sighed, standing at the greenhouse door, “don’t break—don’t spoil”—what? Something infinitely wonderful.

But then, this is only a young woman’s language, one, too, who loves, or refrains from loving.

”

- Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

Timothy Dalton during filming on The Rocketeer...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:17:36 -0400

Timothy Dalton during filming on The Rocketeer (via http://imgur.com/a/Ep395)

Marlon Brando on the set of Guys and Dolls...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:46 -0400

Marlon Brando on the set of Guys and Dolls (via http://imgur.com/a/Ep395)

Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly on the set of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:54:39 -0400

Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly on the set of “Rear Window” (via http://imgur.com/a/Ep395 via The Playlist)

youngpeopleinloveareneverhungry: Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:08:34 -0400

youngpeopleinloveareneverhungry:

Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant doing a radio adaptation of The Philadelphia Story…

"He had masses of fascinating women everywhere, wanting at first to be either mother or sister to him..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:36:13 -0400

“He had masses of fascinating women everywhere, wanting at first to be either mother or sister to him - so helpless, vague, and dependent did he seem. But before the poor gullible wretches, of all social and economic levels, knew what was going on, they were supine in his arms.”

- The Salad Days, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. writing about friend & co-star Leslie Howard (via interrmezzo)

deforest: Joan Crawford on the set of Dream of Love, 1928 Omg....

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:33:57 -0400

deforest:

Joan Crawford on the set of Dream of Love, 1928

Omg. Joan could have been the mother (HIMYM)… Look at those boots!

salesonfilm: Peter O’Toole by David Hurn, 1962

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:13:16 -0400

salesonfilm:

Peter O’Toole by David Hurn, 1962

Cary Grant photographed on the top of the Hotel Raphael in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:53:54 -0400

Cary Grant photographed on the top of the Hotel Raphael in Paris, 1956.

"If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain people, then I don’t..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:27 -0400

“If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain people, then I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. What’s the Raymond Chandler line? ‘All good art is entertainment and anyone who says differently is a stuffed shirt and juvenile at the art of living.’”

- Joel Coen (via imcastortroy)

Sirocco or Zaca?

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:49:52 -0400

Sirocco or Zaca?

Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby [1974]

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:48:11 -0400

Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby [1974]

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:01:50 -0400

“Girls, if boys say something that is not funny… You...

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:01:09 -0400

“Girls, if boys say something that is not funny… You don’t have to laugh.” - Amy Poehler

fuckyeahangelina: (via Time Magazine’s Angelina Jolie Cover...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:59:11 -0400

fuckyeahangelina:

(via Time Magazine’s Angelina Jolie Cover (PHOTO))