"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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Toby Jones gives an excellent performance as the mentor of actor Richard Burton - Philip Burton. Bravo!

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Harry Lawtey, who gives an excellent lerformance as actor Richard Burton in the film Mr Burton

Lawtey is certainly One to watch!

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Harry Lawtey, who gives an excellent lerformance as actor Richard Burton in the film Mr Burton

Lawtey is certainly One to watch!

#harrylawtey #richardburton #mrburton #phburton #film #filmworld #actor #greatperformances #cinema #onetowatch #kino

Stage & Film Legends

Eileen Heckart tries to teach Shirley Booth how to be cool to keep her man in 1958s George Cukor directed Hot Spell

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I don't want to think ... I want to drink.

Anna Lucasta, the 1959 film starring Eartha Kitt & Sammy Davis Jr as well as a stellar supporting cast had an interesting history.
Originally written as a play by Philip Yordan depicting a Polish American family, it was rewritten by American Negro Theater Director Abram Hill + Henry Wagstaff Gribble for an all African-American cast. After the success of this new version the script headed to Hollywood for a film version in 1949 ... but filmed with a white cast it was not a success.

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Portraits of Sean Penn

1) Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, known professionally as Hiro, 1983
2) Lance Staedler, Omaha Nebraska, 1990
3) Richard Lautens, 1995
4) Lance Staedler, Omaha, 1990

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