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Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation.

#Art #SA #Gordimer #Literature
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Tilda Swinton is a British actress. She is known for playing eccentric and enigmatic characters, often working with auteurs. Her accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Volpi Cup.

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#Art #BFI #TildaSwinton
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Best known for her role as Naoko Yamada in the Trick TV series and movie, Yukie Nakama is one of many female "idols" in Japan who juggle three jobs: actress, model and singer.

#Art #Kyoto #Flowers #Shinobi #Musashi
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Diane Keaton (1946-2025) Rip.
October 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Terence Davies (1945-2023) was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes.

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#TerenceDavies #Liverpool #EmilyDickinson #BFI
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Simone Signoret was a French actress best known for her performances in films such as "Room at the Top" (1958), "Ship of Fools" (1965) and "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1966).

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September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French film director. He made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film.

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September 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Born in a Sicilian community in Tunis in 1938, Claudia Cardinale grew up speaking Sicilian dialect, French, and Tunisian Arabic, and aspired to be a schoolteacher.

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(1938-2025) Rip

#ClaudiaCardinale #Rip #Art #TheLeopard
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Dame Lesley Lawson, widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the "swinging sixties" in London.

#Art #Twiggy #1960s
September 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Amy Winehouse (1983-2011) was an English singer, songwriter, musician. She was known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, and eclectic blend of genres such as soul, rhythm & blues, and jazz.

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#Art #Amy #London #BacktoBlack
September 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
JLG was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy.

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September 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. He featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience.

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#Art #PeterSellers #ThePinkPanther
September 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
William Hal Ashby was an American film director and editor. His work exemplified the countercultural attitude of the era. He directed wide-ranging films featuring iconic performances.

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#Art #HalAshby #SHAMPOO #Glory
September 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982) was a Swedish actress. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.

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#Art #Bergman #Rossellini
August 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor, director, and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation.

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#Art #RobertDeNiro #82ndBirthday
August 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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#Napoleon
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
August 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was an American actress, model, and singer who became an iconic symbol of her age. Often playing an archetypal "dumb blonde" she starred in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and 1960s.

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#Monroe #Pasolini
August 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Life’s a voyage that’s homeward-bound."

Hermann Melville/Moby-Dick

#Art #Melville #MobyDick #Boston
August 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, most of them in the last 2 years of his life.

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#Art #VanGogh
July 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The endless legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750):
As the creator of over a thousand works, the German musician still has tremendous influence today, and every Easter his ‘Passions’ can be heard in concerts all over the world.

#Bach #Art #Baroque #Berlin
July 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history.

#TheShining #BarryLyndon #Dr.Strangelove
July 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations.

#Art #Kyoto #LA #NoCountryForOldMen
July 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Celebrating the life of Donald Sutherland, born 90 years ago on July 17, 1935. He was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades. He rose to fame after roles in the war films The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), and Kelly's Heroes, 1970.

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#Art #LA #Kyoto
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Inside the hidden quarters of history's greatest seducer
The greatest lover of all time, Giacomo Casanova, is also one of the most misunderstood figures of the 18th century. Beyond his legendary romantic escapades, he was a diplomat, a musician, an actor, a writer.

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#Art
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM