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Candy Darling in "Women in Revolt " (dir. Paul Morrissey - 1971).

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Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI opened in Japan today in 1954. A masterpiece. #OnThisDay

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Multiple Maniacs (1970)

dir. John Waters

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❆❅𓇬✣, madonna inn

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'Faux Body Ornaments' jewelry store - 7309 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles CA (1986)

Designed by Solo Productions (Laura Solow), winged horse sculpture by W.J. Evans

"The original space, a large room, bare but for two Georgian columns and an archway, provided an empty canvas for Solow. The jewelry offered - gold mesh chains, twined metallic ropes, hanging crystals - pointed Solow in the direction of fantasy. Faux presents the visitor with a complete "planet-scape," an environment with elements of the past and the future, joining to create a sense of fairytale timelessness. The graphic image that serves as the repeated theme and the store's logo, a full moon split by a bolt of lighting, is the basis for an almost narrative design. Further back in the store is the most prominent element, mounted on the same wall as the archway: a gauze-winged horse in flight appears to be leaping out of the mountains. Solow explains that this is the narrative aspect of the store; the horse represents the muse, and has entered our world."

Scanned from the July 1986 issue of VMSD Magazine

Note: Melrose Avenue was a hotspot for amazingly creative and playful design in the 80s and 90s, I'm working to collect as many interiors and storefronts from that era as possible.

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Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

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Elizabeth Taylor

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ethel waters, eddie anderson, john w. bubbles, and lena horne in cabin in the sky (1943)

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Ethel Waters in a scene from ‘Cabin in the Sky’ (directed by Vincente Minnelli), 1943

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Ethel Waters and very young Sammy Davis, Jr. in Rufus Jones for President (1933)

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In the Heat of the Night 1967

“The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. I kept telling [Sidney] Poitier that Tibbs was a sophisticated detective, not used to being pushed around. I showed him how to do the slap. ‘Don’t hit him on the ear,’ I said. ‘I want you to really give him a crack on the fatty side of his cheek.’ I told him to practise on me. A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo.

”Young black people in northern cities responded to the film in a much more visceral way than the whites did. This was the first time a black actor was wearing the fancy suit and being looked up to.”

-Director of In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison on The Slap Heard Round The World.