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Lean left • Tom is fine • Far from the west of Ireland now • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, paintings, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Sylvia most of all 🎷🧵 https://tinyurl.com/3bvnbyfb 🎬🧵 https://tinyurl.com/47stke59 • https://tinyurl.com/2jan4tzd

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jul 8

My wife, Sylvia, died this morning. 💔

“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.

You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”

Sylvia & Lily (Cork, Ireland, July 2007)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding photography

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

📸 Rita Martin (1913)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

With Dorothy McGuire & Robert Young in ‘Claudia’ (1943)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

With Greta Garbo & Melvyn Douglas in ‘Ninotchka’ (1939)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

With Madge Evans & Joan Blondell in ‘The Greeks Had a Word for Them’ (1932)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

With Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, & Fredric March in ‘The Royal Family of Broadway’ (1930)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

With Joan Greenwood & Claude Rains in ‘The Confidential Clerk’ (1954)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

In a publicity still for ‘The Greeks Had a Word for Them’ (1932)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

Today is Ina Claire’s birthday.

📸 Cecil Beaton (1931)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

Today is James (Jacques) Tissot’s birthday. He was a painter & illustrator.

‘The Ball on Shipboard’, Tate Britain

James Tissot’s ‘The Ball on Shipboard’, Tate Britain

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

Today is P. G. Wodehouse’s birthday.

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 16h

. .. and one of my cats—Aoife—loves the pipes. The other—Sophie—not so much.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 17h

I needed to listen to Liam.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jun 7

#NowPlaying

‘Shadow on the Hill’: youtu.be/V90EIR3T6Uc?...

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 17h

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jun 30

11. ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (Lean, 1954)

“Are you a lawyer?”
“Yes, I’m a lawyer.”
“At your age?”
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“Shall we get to business, sir?”
“Young man, don’t abuse a noble word.”
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“I’m not so fond of the sound of your voice as you are. What’s the figure?”