David Hughes
Ex Playboy Magazine scribe, food/travel writer & political journalist. Classic movies expert. Vinyl records. Pragmatic progressive. Brain tumour survivor.
- Promo masks for the underrated Steve Martin/Eddie Murphy comedy BOWFINGER (1999). These were given out at preview screenings the distributor held for rental store managers. They were to hold them up so it’d look like the whole cinema was just Eddies and Steves for a photo. 🤪😂
- 64 Candles 🎂 today for the creative polymath & force of nature - KENNETH BRANAGH
- Remembering the late, very great RICHARD PRYOR - who left us 19yrs ago today.
- Remembering OTIS REDDING - who tragically left us 57yrs ago today aged just 26.
- When Leslie Nielsen found Red Rock Cider wasn't red and there were no rocks in it - 1990 youtu.be/Mklawo5GujU?...
- Phasmid eggs. (Stick insect eggs.) Levon Biss collector
- Behind-the-scenes on THE WOMEN (1939)
- I mean, there are still so many people out there that don’t realise that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing. They’re doomed.
- 1939/40 Philco ‘Log Cabin’ Tube Radio
- Julie Newmar. Love her...always have...THE ORIGINAL Catwoman! I was fortunate to have worked with her 30 years ago (on To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar). She was and is spectacular.
- 1923-1925 Renault 10CV Type MH 6x6 Sahara
- Roman glass souvenir cup bearing the images and names of gladiators popular in Rome at the time, 50-80CE. [3072x4080] Currently at The Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
- “Orange Variee”, orange perfume set with eight spikes inside. Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.
- Trying to imitate the famous DDB VW ad.
- Released on this day 51yrs ago… DON’T LOOK NOW (1973)
- SCARFACE (1983) Tony Montana uses "yeyo" as slang for cocaine. Al Pacino learned the word while learning the Cuban accent, and ad-libbed it during the chainsaw scene. Brian De Palma liked it enough to keep using it throughout the film.
- American actress Paulette Goddard (The Cat and the Canary, So Proudly We Hail!, Kitty) in front of a Diego Rivera painting of her.
- Gorgeous panelling, fabulous wallpaper (French block printed from 1832 called 'Decor Chinois' by Zuber+Cie) in this angled attic bedroom at the historical Beauport House, Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was the summer home of one of America's first professional interior designers, Henry Davis Sleeper.
- Bill Forsyth’s films are chronically undervalued. They are too sad to be funny & too funny to be sad. This one in particular is one of those films where you feel like virtually nothing happens but when it ends you can't shake the feeling of 'what just happened to me...?'. COMFORT & JOY (1984).
- I know what Yule did last Summer
- One day in 1839, Robert Cornelius sat for 15 minutes in front of a hand-built camera made of opera glass and sheets of copper. His picture became the first “selfie” ever taken. And he looks like my mate, the actor David Morrissey! @davidmorrissey.bsky.social are you an actual time traveller?? 🤪😂
- …Then they made him President and he gassed and tortured tens of thousands of his own people. Ever wondered how the person you work next to would change if he/she was given unchecked power?
- Sharon Tate & Roman Polanski at The Cannes Film Festival - 1968.
- Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon on the studio lot during the filming of SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
- “No matter how ruthlessly.” 😡
- Find somebody who gives you the side-eye the way Tom Waits gives the side-eye to Elvis.
- Peter Lorre, a baseball bat and Sydney Greenstreet as Santa! This has GOT to be one of the most delightfully twisted things I've EVER seen!!
- J C Leyendecker - "A Stroll in the Snow" c. 1925
- Yul Brynner
- Married actors Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth pretending to bullfight (she's the toreador, and he's the bull) at home in California - 1945
- Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of GIANT (1956)
- Great publicity shot of Myrna Loy in THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932)
- Olivia De Havilland and Burgess Meredith (who were dating at the time) get an autograph from heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis at Joe's Greenwood Lake, NY training camp, 1941.
- If this had actually existed I’m sure inside it’d just be lukewarm (groan 🤪😂)
- Ticket prices for England's top four divisions back in 1981 When football was actually affordable so eg the £1.50 at my club Liverpool in 1980/81 is equal to £8.06 today, so if tickets went up with inflation £8.06 is what you would pay to get into the Kop today instead of the £45 you actually pay
- Laugh away! This is how people will talk in the future. 🤪
- In The Netherlands, you can use these codes instead of regular stamps.
