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River Phoenix, k.d. lang, and Liza Minnelli in 1991
Rosamond Lehmann posing beside her portrait by John Banting at the Wertheim Galleries, London, 1931
I was terrified of him. I was afraid of him. And I really didn’t know him at all. And gradually our relationship grew as it did in the film. The thing that I loved about him and the thing that I wanted to be one day was the way he dealt with people in a higher position. He would never take anything from anybody. He didn’t take any nonsense from anybody. And he would stand up to them no matter what the situation was.
- Sal Mineo
Vanessa Bell: Self-portrait, 1960
Dirk Bogarde in London, 1978. Photos by Eve Arnold.
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it changes.” ~ Joan Didion
anthony perkins and tab hunter [1950s].
THE HOBBIT/LORD OF THE RINGS illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien himself.
“My young protagonist Therese may appear a shrinking violet in my book, but those were the days when gay bars were a dark door somewhere in Manhattan, where people wanting to go to a certain bar got off the subway a station before or after the convenient one, lest they be suspected of being homosexual. The appeal of The Price of Salt was that it had a happy ending for its two main characters, or at least they were going to try to have a future together. Prior to this book, homosexuals male and female in American novels had had to pay for their deviation by cutting their wrists, drowning themselves in a swimming pool, or by switching to heterosexuality (so it was stated), or by collapsing—alone and miserable and shunned—into a depression equal to hell. Many of the letters that came to me carried such messages as “Yours is the first book like this with a happy ending! We don’t all commit suicide and lots “of us are doing fine.” Others said, “Thank you for writing such a story. It is a little like my own story …” And, “I am eighteen and I live in a small town. I feel lonely because I can’t talk to anyone …” Sometimes I wrote a letter suggesting that the writer go to a larger town where there would be a chance to meet more people. As I remember, there were as many letters from men as from women, which I considered a good omen for my book. This turned out to be true. The letters trickled in for years, and even now a letter comes once or twice a year from a reader. I never wrote another book like this.”
— afterword for The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
Liza Minnelli talks candidly about about her childhood in Hollywood and being raised by her mother, screen and music legend Judy Garland, during an interview with RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) in 1978. “It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland’s daughter,” she once stated. “I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it. You see, that’s another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.” Liza’s father was acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli, placing her in a small group of Hollywood off-spring who grew up with two famous parents and later successfully achieved stardom in the entertainment industry themselves.
Debbie Harry of Blondie and Joan Jett of the Runaways backstage at a show in the ‘70s.
Farley Granger, Rome, 1953
Gordon Warnecke as Omar and Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny in MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
Artistic Parallels in “Portrait de la jeune fille en feu” (2019)
“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
“Miranda” John William Waterhouse, 1875
“Ampio Orizzonte” Ettore Tito, 1910
“Portrait of a heart” Christian Schloe, 2013
“Nymphs dancing to Pan’s flute” Joseph Tomanek, 1920
“Self-Portrait” Elizabeth Nourse, 1892
“Portrait of Mrs. Claude and Miss Virginia Leigh” Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1933
“Orpheus and Eurydice” Edward Poynter, 1862
“Orphée et Eurydice” Eduard Kasparides, 1896
Psycho (1960) Marnie (1964) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, was born on this day (19 February) in 1917.
Katharine Hepburn