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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 14h

Born on this day on 10/12/1965:

Kirsten Johnson, gifted documentarian/filmmaker and cinematographer

First 📷 by Benjamin Geminel

Film stills: CAMERAPERSON (2016) and DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (2020)

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 14h

"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?" - Luciano Pavarotti #BOTD on 10/12/1935

Remembering the legendary and majestic Italian operatic singer on his 90th birthday.

#musicsky #singersky

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 15h

Remembering renowned New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter Geoff Murphy on his 87th birthday.

#BOTD in 1938

Seen here with the great Bruno Lawrence on the set of his 1985 sci-fi masterpiece THE QUIET EARTH.

📷 by the NZ Film Commission
📷 by Onfilm

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 15h

"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."

Happy 57th Birthday to the great and dashing Hugh Jackman, Emmy/Grammy/Tony-winning & Oscar-nominated actor, producer and singer.

#BOTD in 1968

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 19h

Remembering Matthew Shepard who unfortunately died on this day in 1998. There isn't a day that goes by where his presence and legacy isn't felt. There isn't a day that goes by where we wouldn't have wanted to see him thrive and do great things.

Just remember, hate should never win; humanity should.

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people have asked about the
book I was working on. The truth is, I lost
it when my friend who was helping me
write it passed away. I didn’t know how
to talk about it until now. It still hurts,
but I appreciate everyone who believed
in it. Maybe one day I’ll try again. 😊

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19h

There's so much poetry just in hearing Daniel Day-Lewis speak as himself, and about himself. The soul of this man, to the extent it's on display here, is fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...

Q Is the difference here that you’d rather talk about the work with your collaborators than with someone after the fact?

DAY-LEWIS The transactions that take place between you and your collaborators are of a very particular kind, and by the time I ever get to a set, I hope that the talking is more or less over and you’re inside that world you’ve tried to create for yourself. Talking about it now is a little bit fraudulent because I’m trying to reconstruct an experience that I have very little objective understanding of. I really will try to find my way to answer anything you ask me, but I can’t be entirely sure that it’s not just a reinvention in hindsight.

Q Your father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, died when you were 15. You’ve said that you regret not having achieved anything of artistic significance that he could have witnessed.

DAY-LEWIS Of any kind of significance, yeah.

Q So I’ve got to think that to be able to watch your son embark on his biggest project of artistic significance thus far, and to do that alongside him, has got to be immensely satisfying.

DAY-LEWIS That’s a lovely observation, it really is. It was quite useful to me, and unique. We were both amazed that we were given this opportunity to do this thing. That quiet sense of joy ran through the entire period of time, sharing that precious time with Ronan. It was very, very special.

Q When you were young, what did acting mean to you?

DAY-LEWIS At a very early age, it seemed to me not just that there was a good chance I was going to try to have a career as an actor, but that I needed to have that career to survive in the world. The theater, when I first discovered it in boarding school, really became a sanctuary. To be in that illuminated box, I felt relatively safe from what appeared in every other respect to be a hostile and cruel environment.

Q Still, you considered forsaking it as a young man to instead become a cabinetmaker, and even as an adult, you once put your acting career aside to work as a cobbler. What appealed to you about that path?

DAY-LEWIS The craft thing almost felt like an alternative, largely because it’s tangible. In performance arts, we’re dancing with shadows and it’s a matter of taste: You like his face, you don’t like his face. But if you’re making shoes or a piece of furniture or a musical instrument, the quality of that is tangible. To me, it was an antidote to the unknown.

Q Do you consider acting a craft, too?

DAY-LEWIS I don’t really like thinking of acting in terms of craft at all. Of course, there are techniques you can learn, and I know that the Method has become an easy target these days. I’m a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like “gone full Method,” which I think is meant to imply that a person’s behaving like a lunatic in an extreme fashion.

Everyone tends to focus on the less important details of the work, and those details always seem to involve some sort of self-flagellation or an experience that imposes upon oneself a severe discomfort or mental instability. But of course, in the life of an actor, it has to principally be about the internal work.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 19h

AMERICA

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sad/angry that there will no new Diane Keaton films, but happy/grateful that we still have the ones she left behind. I don't think I'll ever get over her not being on earth anymore. She was truly one of a kind.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering legendary and award-winning novelist, short story author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard on his 100th birthday.

#BOTD on 10/11/1925

"I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck."

📷 by Marc Hauser, 1990

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 63rd Birthday to the great Joan Cusack, wonderfully offbeat, Emmy-winning & Oscar-nominated film/television/voice character actress.

#BOTD on 10/11/1962

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the very talented Michelle Trachtenberg, Emmy-nominated actress, on what should have been her 40th birthday.

#BOTD in 1985

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

Happy National Coming Out Day to all of fellow LGBTQIA+ brothers and sisters. I wish you could come out during better times, but we're all in this together.

Being a part of the community doesn't kill you (even though some people want to); it makes you stronger.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 2d

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

A hand holding a dripping wet, bulging-eyed, flat-faced cat looking sadly at the camera.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't say it's his best film, but my favorite is Last House on the Left. I don't know what that says about me.

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The Film ‘89 Podcast™️ @film89.bsky.social · 1d

We’re very sad to hear of the passing of Diane Keaton, star of innumerable classic films including The Godfather, Annie Hall, Manhattan and many more. She was 79.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it. Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don't you. Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment."

Elmore Leonard, born 11 October 1925.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus. Diane Keaton. RIP to a legend who managed to carve out a lifelong career in an industry that frequently robs women like her of dignity and status once they hit 40.

Diane just threw on a turtleneck and said "fuck you, I'm still going."

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 1d

#RIP #DianeKeaton

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Love Buns @lovebuns.bsky.social · 2d

It may seem like a little thing to some, but the little things in life mean the most. 🥰 Like the sweet, soft pets from mommy. ❤️

#bunny #rabbit

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