BACK TO THE PAST: XX CENTURY

20th century pop culture bts, bio, curiosities, newspapers, interviews, home videos, polaroids.

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Ken Sharp interview with George Martin for Goldmine, November 6, 1998

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Al Pacino and Brian De Palma behind the scenes of Carlito’s Way (1993)

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Sal Mineo and Juliet Prowse in her shortlived 1966 sitcom, Mona McCluskey. Sal guest starred in the episode ‘The General Swings At Dawn.’  This was around the same time they worked together on the cult movie Who Killed Teddy Bear?

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@davidbowieglamourfanzine: Most say David Bowie appeared in a gay mag for the first time in 'Curious' & the cover wearing his Mr Fish dress with Freddie Burretti as Arnold Corns. Not so. Spring 1970 he appeared in very rare 'Jeremy' mag. A postal subscription gay mag. Images taken at Haddon Hall.

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Dirty Dancing green screen test

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“In the spring of 1974, Paul stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. There he met Lennon and the two ended up at the studio for a jam session. Soon after that, McCartney wrote the track Call Me Back Again on electric piano, reportedly he intended it as an invocation to his friend, and at first he even thought to make that clear in the lyrics. During the recordings, Paul apparently changed his mind, but rumours say that he mentioned John’s name in some of the takes.”

— Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions

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remember when linda almost joined steely dan in ‘78?

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imagine if bender did this smoke trick in the movie

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Tucker's Witch is a comedy-detective series that aired on CBS television from October 6 to November 10, 1982, and again sporadically from March 31 to June 9, 1983. It stars Tim Matheson and Catherine Hicks as a married couple and private detective duo Rick and Amanda Tucker.

The show's pilot was first filmed in early 1982 as The Good Witch of Laurel Canyon and starred Art Hindle and Kim Cattrall. In May 1982, CBS announced that the series had been picked up with that title and cast.

However, Cattrall's racy scene in the 1982 film Porky's reportedly caused CBS to demand her replacement. The show was retitled Tucker's Witch and the pilot was reshot with a new cast; Catherine Hicks replaced Cattrall and Tim Matheson was cast in Hindle's role (Hindle had also played a small role in Porky's).

In a 1986 interview with the Toronto Star, Hindle spoke of his and Cattrall's departures from the series:

All the networks show these pilots to members of the public they pick up on the street and they put push-button responses in their hands. They respond to whether they like the character, don't like the character; or they like the story, don't like the story; like the scene, don't like the scene. She (Cattrall) she didn't do too well with these reponses [sic] so they replaced her. And then I just walked. I had other things to do and I didn't really want to get involved with something they were going to start pulling strings all the time.

Tucker's Witch cancelled after one season

Rick and Amanda Tucker are highly sought-after private investigators in Los Angeles. The way they crack their cases seems to be almost magical. Amanda's psychic abilities prove vital to cracking cases, yet also have a tendency to get the couple into trouble. The duo must find a way of getting out of trouble, all while keeping their secret and solving the case!

The show was placed on hiatus after six episodes had aired; months later, it was brought back to burn off the remaining episodes, and it was cancelled after twelve episodes had aired overall. In later rebroadcasts on the USA Network, the program was retitled The Good Witch of Laurel Canyon, the series' original title. Ted Danson played an elevator killer in the premiere episode, which aired just one week after the premiere of Danson's Cheers. Others guest stars included Barry Corbin, Simon Oakland, Joe Penny and Noble Willingham.

Why 'Tucker's Witch' missed the mark

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Greta Garbo (top, left) at age 17 with friend and unrequited love interest and actress Mimi Pollak (top, center), with whom she maintained a correspondence for the following 60 years.

Garbo to Mimi in 1924:

“The letter from you has aroused a storm of longing within me.”

Garbo to Mimi in 1928:

“I dream of seeing you and discovering whether you still care as much about your old bachelor. I love you, little Mimosa.”

Garbo to Mimi in 1930, regarding Mimi’s pregnancy:

“We cannot help our nature, as God has created it. But I have always thought you and I belonged together.”

Garbo to Mimi in 1930, regarding the birth of Mimi’s son:

“Incredibly proud to be a father.”

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“The Barbara Stanwyck vehicle Ladies They Talk About (1933) seemed, on the surface, to be in the vein of tough Warner exposés and crime dramas, with Stanwyck as a bank robber doing time at the women’s wing of San Quentin. However, after an opening sequence so realistically recreating a robbery that censors feared it could be a how-to-primer, the movie lapsed into Midnight Romance fantasy. Instead of grim prison conditions, Stanwyck’s jail time resembled a stay at a health spa, with glamorous inmates, beauty treatments on demand, and a laid-back air. The only grittier touches (besides Stanwyck’s ingrained Brooklyn moxie) were incidental, such as the inmates yelling ‘New fish!’ when Stanwyck first arrives, and a black inmate talking back ferociously to an imperious white prisoner. Another jailbird in this glossy clink is a muscular woman with close-cropped hair and a cigar clamped in her mouth. ’She likes to wrestle!’ Like the other inmates, this one is spared the dreariness of prison grooming, being permitted instead to wear the standard Hollywood Dyke getup of a tailored outfit and little bowtie. ‘Mmmmm … . hmmmm!’ air. Later, less expectedly, we see this butch prisoner’s femme other half. The camera pans across the cells to take in after-hours vignettes that never occurred in any real-life jail, including a slumber party in lingerie, an inmate cuddling a Pekingese, and the butch woman doing an exhibition round of calisthenics. Wearing a pair of man’s pajamas and with the cigar still in her mouth, she goes through her paces to the delight of a frilly girlfriend sitting in the bed next to her. ‘You’re just always exercising!’ the femme marvels. Ladies They Talk About received numerous complaints through the Studio Relations Committee about the robbery scene, about the violence and discussion of prostitution. Only in strict Ohio, however, did the lesbianism cause any problem; Roth’s ‘wrestle’ line was cut. So it remained over the succeeding decades, when women’s prison movies were one of the few places onscreen where lesbians were allowed to exist openly. This one is one of the first.“

-From Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall by Richard Barrios

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– CHARADE (1963) – MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948)

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Tabloid pages from 22 May 1990, in which Angie spitefully kisses and tells. Readable if you right click and select ‘view image’ (page 2 under the cut). (Edited the second page to remove potentially triggering content.)

A few choice quotes:

“I have to confess that I’ve slept with men. I’m a passionate person. I love living life and being hungry for all kinds of new experiences. I went through a phase where lots of men were attracted to me and I was quite turned on by it all.” -Mick Jagger

“David had scores of men and women when we were married and so did I.” -Angie Bowie

“David is a highly sexed person. He was absolutely fantastic in bed. Often there would be three of us–usually another girl, me and David. We were modern women who loved sex. Our marriage was one long orgy.” -Angie Bowie

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Sean Young Polaroids - Blade Runner (1982)

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sean young and kyle maclachlan on the set of dune (1984)

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Archie Leach, an 18 year old vaudeville actor, before becoming Hollywood’s iconic Cary Grant.

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Cary Grant – Home Videos