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Grant Williams and Randy Stuart in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Grant Williams (August 18, 1931 - July 28, 1985) died on this date 40 years ago.
July 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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James Stewart, Harvey (1950).
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Curly Howard’s Basketball Photo from PS 128.
July 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1952)
DoP: John Alton
July 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Up next, The Shop Around the Corner, 1940, starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
June 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
DoP: Robert Burks
June 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The word "genius" is bandied about far too freely these days. We just lost a genuine one.

PopCultureClassics.com had the pleasure of interviewing him a while back:
popcultureclassics.com/brian_wilson...
June 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Farewell to Sly Stone, who urged us, "We got to live together!"
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Oh, Canada.
June 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
DoP: Russell Harlan

#BOTD Dean Martin
June 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.
June 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Myrna Loy in a publicity photograph for LUCKY NIGHT (Norman Taurog, 1939)
May 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I remember that story

www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Leonard Cohen, September 21, 1934 to November 7, 2016
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A native of Montreal, Canada, the city eulogized their famous songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist by painting his portrait on the side of one of their skyscrapers.
He wrote many songs but my favorite is Hallelujah.
May 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#otd 18 May 1980
Ian Curtis (*1956)

English singer-songwriter and musician, lead singer of Joy Division

~ suicide, hanged himself with kitchen's washing line

youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc
May 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Ronald Isley, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and also lead singer and founding member of The Isley Brothers, was born on May 21, 1941. #RonaldIsley

Lulu - "Shout" (O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley) (1965, Ready Steady Go)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_g...
LULU - Singing Shout from Ready Steady Go 1965
YouTube video by Chris Salmon
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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88 years ago today, Robert Johnson stepped into a San Antonio hotel room and changed music forever. His first recording session and recorded blues classics like 'Sweet Home Chicago,' 'Terraplane Blues,' and 'I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom.' The birth of a legend.
November 25, 2024 at 2:56 AM