🕯️💜 RIP Marjane Satrapi 💜 🕯️

22 November 1969, Rasht, Iran - 4 June 2026, Paris, France

Graphic novelist + film director. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis + its film adaptation

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Nightmare Alley

The magnificent Joan Blondell as Zeena with Tyrone Power in a classic Film Noir from 1947. Directed by Edmund Goulding

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Taxi!

Rita La Roy & Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 Pre-Code Film Blonde Venus

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Goodness!

Mae West in Night After Night, 1932

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Mark Frechette

In 1970 Mark Frechette was discovered by a casting director while in the middle of a shouting match at a Charles Street bus-stop in Boston. "He's 20 and he hates", she told director Michelangelo Antonioni. The director immediately cast Frechette for his counterculture film Zabrinskie Point

Despite the film being a flop Frechette + co-star Daria Halprin became symbols of the disillusioned youth of America, appearing on the covers of Look + Rolling Stone + appearing on talk shows.

In 1973, Frechette + 2 members of Lyman's Fort Hill Commune in Roxbury attempted to rob the New England Merchant's Bank. One of the trio was killed by police while the other 2 were arrested. Frechette was sentenced to 6 to 15 years in prison where he died in 1975 in a weightlifting accident after a 150-pound barbell fell on his neck + he suttocated. He was 27.

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"Incredible, really - how I got away with it; parlaying nine years at sea into two decades of posturing"

New Jersey born actor Sterling Hayden was a highly skilled sailor before, during, + after his Hollywood career often taking long voyages in between his roles in films

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The Legend of Lizzie Borden

The 1975 TV Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery (Emmy nominated) as well as a Golden Golden for Best Motion Picture Made for Television

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Man From Mars

When record producer Larry Klein asked former wife Joni Mitchell to write a song for the 1995 film Grace of my Heart she refused. The movie, based on the a songwriter + aspiring singer in the mid 60s (think Carole King) required an innocence + vulnerability that Mitchell no longer felt she could offer.

Enter Nietzsche, Joni's cat, also known as Man From Mars ("he's a little lavender lion who looks like an alien + walks on his hind legs"). Nietzsche had peed all over a couple of chairs + so Joni said to him, “if you're going to act like an animal - you're going to live like an animal.”, grabbing him + kicking him outside. Well, he disappeared for 18 days. Night after night, Mitchell called him from her yard + waited. The song's sounds mimic what she heard: the rustling of leaves, bird songs, the drone from a distant freeway. , "It took me 17 days to write this song, + the night I finished it, my amazing little mancat appeared in a neighbor's yard "

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Richard Burton & his mentor Philip Burton ... And actors Toby Jones & Harry Lawrey in the film Mr Burton

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