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Hanna Schygulla at a benefit performance at the Circus Krone in Munich (with Rainer Werner Fassbinder) - BOTD
December 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Beth Beri by Orval Hixon, 1920. She was once billed as “the most beautiful dancer of the world.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Odd how listening to this once in awhile does the trick; audio comfort food I suppose.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JP3...
Raising Arizona Theme: Way Out There by Carter Burwell
YouTube video by jayX
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December 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
From 1996, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Barry Adamson.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjpG...
Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Mute
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December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
From 1999, "The Snowball Effect" by Barry Adamson.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPw...
Barry Adamson - The Snowball Effect (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Mute
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December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Henry Miller - #BOTD - from 1941.
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
From 1926 by J. Stall.
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"I read all about it in The Times. 'Mr Fabian, it is reported, is suffering from a highly inflamed imagination, coupled by delusions of grandeur.'"

Francis L. Sullivan with Richard Widmark - #BOTD - in "Night and the City" from 1950.
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"My folks came to the US as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien."

Leonard Nimoy (1931 - 2015).
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From 1966, "Get Away" by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_q...
Georgie Fame - Get away (HQ)
YouTube video by TheOldrecordclub
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December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Richard Widmark - #BOTD - with Jean Peters in "Pickup on South Street" (1953).
December 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
16 April 1889 - 25 December 1977.
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
By Oliver Dennett Grover, c. 1899.
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken."
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"[He] lived alone up in the High Sierra, tied flies and caught golden trout between films. When he was wanted in Hollywood, they sent word up to his mountain cabin by courier. He would come down, do a picture and then withdraw again..."

(John Huston)

Elisha Cook, Jr., born 26 December 1903.
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"It's weird, the effect actors have on an audience. With the [bad guy] roles I played in those early movies, I found that quite a few people wanted to have a go at me."

Richard Widmark, born 26 December 1914.
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"We do not talk—we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."

Henry Miller, born 26 December 1891. (Photo by Brassaï.)
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
From 1964, "Yeh, Yeh" by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-c...
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames Yeh Yeh
YouTube video by top401965
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December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"Fortune Teller" by Benny Spellman, written and produced by Allen Toussaint.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEll...
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
YouTube video by brico
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December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Happy Birthday to Hanna Schygulla, born 25 December.
December 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In Ansbach, Bavaria by Carl Mydans (1954).
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Humphrey Bogart - born 25 December - with Gloria Grahame, Mary Astor, Michèle Morgan and Ida Lupino.
December 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
By Dmitri Kessel from 1948.
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Investigative journalist Joseph Lincoln Steffins (1866 - 1936).
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM