Dreama Lux

History.Life.My Loves. Dreama Lux. I like the naturally beautiful things in life. I love flowers and carnations but dozens and dozens at once. They say home is where the heart is and that may be true but so is comfort and the comfort doesnt always come from things that are ever so comfortable. JedJohnson+BobDylan+HarveyMilk= JedDylanMilk The past generations I sorely wish I was part of. A passion. Yes.

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Le feu follet (1963), dir. Louis Malle

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Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)

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[ID: A Black butch woman, seated, says, “I know I am a woman. I know I am butch. I know that there is nothing wrong with that. And I know that within the confines of the word ‘woman,’ there is plenty of room for me.”]

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Isabelle Huppert, Tuscany, Italy by Marianne Rosenstiehl, 1995

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An exhausted young couple during an all-night jazz session at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Photo by Erich Auerbach, 1957

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Soviet postcard, 1955

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Wow, maybe there's something to that old stereotype about *everyone* in the USSR playing chess for fun...

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Isabelle Huppert

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Thierry Mandon – Suspended Domestic Scenes within Severed Buildings

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Sorry for acting like a sex pervert. It’s just that I’m perverted about sex is all.

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Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Bande à part (1964), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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pictured above: the wonderfully talented Raúl Juliá.

Before he became known for film acting and playing the iconic Gomez Addams, Juliá acted in many Shakespeare in the Park productions, including the famous 1978 performance of The Taming of the Shrew alongside Meryl Streep. Juliá broke barriers, performing Shakespeare plays in both English and Spanish, and bringing the characters to life through his powerful delivery.

Juliá once said, “I could bring myself to it, I could bring my own culture, my own Puerto Rican background, my own Spanish culture, my own rhythms, my own feelings to Shakespeare because Shakespeare is too big. Shakespeare is too big to be put into one little way of doing him.” 

It is as if the great Raúl Juliá was made for larger than life roles. He will always be my favorite Gomez Addams. His performance captured the character perfectly - the quirkiness, the love, the sensuality, the oddity, the passion, the fun. He will always be remembered as an icon.