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EdwardMO
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h
"I pick up a script and I think, 'Oh my God, how are we going to do that?' And then we get to the point when the play opens — and we've done it. That's what gives me a buzz."

Alison Chitty #botd
Award-winning production designer
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h
Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni and Nico (Christa Päffgen) #botd filming La Dolce Vita
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h
American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand #botd, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h
The Cuban Missile Crisis began #otd in 1962, and the 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
The night sky above the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, a remote Himalayan village in Ladakh, which has some of the darkest skies on Earth...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
Evan Hunter #botd — The American author of crime and mystery fiction is best known for his 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
Italo Calvino's series of short fantastic tales in The Castle of Crossed Destinies, tells of a group of travellers that chance to meet. Their powers of speech are taken from them and they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
"More than any other writer I know, to begin a new Calvino story is like embarking on a voyage to unknown lands. There is a joy to the sense of expectation he inspires..." — Chris Power

Italo Calvino #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
Mario Puzo #botd was determined to write something that would make him some money. The Godfather became one of the most widely read, post-war American novels.
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d
Little Caesar directed by Mervyn LeRoy #botd was one of the most influential early gangster movies. It catapulted Edward G. Robinson into stardom and helped establish the template for the tough talking, ruthless screen villain...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d
"There are concerts where you feel everyone’s in the zone. It’s like a group trance. We are all so totally focused that nothing else exists. It’s like riding the biggest wave around..." — Marin Alsop

Leonard Bernstein centenary concert, Chichester Cathedral, 2018
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d
"I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it, studying it, or thinking about it..."

Leonard Bernstein
August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom..."
Hannah Arendt #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d
As one of the most innovative poets of his time, e. e. cummings #botd experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical cummings poem is spare and precise...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d
In October 1964, Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through non-violent resistance...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d
"We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed..."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence..."

Paul Simon #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d
"I grew up thinking that singing was my security..."
Nana Mouskouri #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d
As an actor, Yves Montand #botd is remembered for many acclaimed roles, including those in the films of Costa-Gavras, notably “Z”, “L’aveu” and “État de siège”.
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d
"You have to practice improvisation,
let no one kid you about it!"

Art Tatum #botd

Pianists who have named Tatum as a primary influence include Bud Powell, Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans, Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 4d
A pool surrounded by native plants is the centre point of this solar-powered house in Manly, Sydney...
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 4d
"Personal style is the best kind of style there is, and no one did personal style better than Diane Keaton..." — Jess Cartner-Morley
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 4d
Lamplighters, pavement artists, babysitters – have taken on whole new meanings thanks to John le Carré. Now, almost five years after his death, an exhibition, with the title Tradecraft, reveals the techniques and motivations of the characters’ creator...

Exhibition | visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lecarre
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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 4d
Diane Keaton #RIP 💔

"The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more."

Diane Keaton
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 4d
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, the first novel by a United States-born Hispanic to do so, and soon became a huge international bestseller...

Oscar Hijuelos
August 24, 1951 – October 12, 2013