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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈

@douglashardy.bsky.social

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just a handsome older man with a cute personality⚡️urbane and pithy, yet degenerate⚡️✍️ 🎥 🎭🎵🎸🧐

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 21h

a woman wearing a gold top and earrings is sitting in front of a blue background .

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 21h

Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 2d

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 2d

We are not children here! We are scientists!

Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

For those who want to know more about Ben, start with Ken Burns’ PBS documentary on Franklin, then read his autobiography, which is included in a compact collection of his works published by the Library of America.

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

As Constance, Dowager Countess of Trentham said, “difficult color, green,” but I do like this jacket Mario is wearing, I’d call it emerald green.

#LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty
#GosfordPark

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

Well, that was a very, “let’s hurry up and end this” ending

#LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

In this courtroom scene, Vincent Price is giving “did you order the code red” vibes

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is laughing while sitting at a table .

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

That’s what I’m thinking

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

a woman wearing a gold top and earrings is sitting in front of a blue background .

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

a man with his hands folded and the words oh my god yes behind him

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

a woman with short hair is making a funny face while wearing a black coat and earrings .

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

First time viewing, and I’m thinking, she’s not really going to let Danny…OMG, she is 😱

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

a woman holding a cup of coffee with the words exactly written below her

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

But, us full figure gals need the support

Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Birthday, Montgomery Clift
BOTD 1920

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

a man in a purple suit sits at a table with his hands folded

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

Treat yourself and read the uncensored version of the novel; the first editor cut out the “immoral” content, especially that homo-erotic part 😱, but even despite that, the British press still called it vulgar, unclean, poisonous, discreditable, and a sham.

#ThePictureOfDorianGray #TCMParty

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

There are three kinds of pipe…

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

For years I listened to NPR while commuting to/from work, and I remember her distinctive voice. Plus, every Thanksgiving she’d provide her mother-in-law’s recipe for Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish; I never tried it, but I looked forward to hearing her tell the story every Thanksgiving.

In Pictures: Remembering Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's Founding Mothers

Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not synthetic. It’s…

Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 4d

If he hadn’t been stopped by the anti-fascist Allies, Uncle Adolf had plans to rebrand Berlin as Germania, and rebuild the city with a grand plaza, an Avenue of splendors for parades, and an Arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, so massive that the Paris arch could fit inside its opening.

A scale model of Uncle Adolf’s plan for a new Berlin, called Germania

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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde
BOTD 1854

Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday, Angela Lansbury
BOTD 1925

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