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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

I have decided I am going to repost clips until the madness ends.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jul 5

34. ‘Portrait of Jennie’ (Dieterle, 1948)

“There isn’t a drop of love in any of these.”
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“Don’t be soft, Matthews. I’m an old maid, and nobody knows more about love than an old maid.”
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“It’s wonderful what a little compliment can do.”
“My first in 20 years, Mr. Matthews.”

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

I have decided I am going to repost clips until the madness ends.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jul 4

30. ‘A Room with a View’ (Ivory, 1985)

“‘A Shropshire Lad’. Never heard of it. ‘The Way of All Flesh’. Never heard of it.”
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“How do you do? Come in.”
“Come and have a bathe!”
“I’d like that.”
“That’s the best conversational opening I’ve ever heard! ‘How do you do? Come and have a bathe.’”

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 4h

I have decided I am going to repost clips until the madness ends.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jun 30

3. ‘Pygmalion’ (Asquith, 1938)

“And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me?”
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“Somebody pinched it. And what I says is, them what pinched it done her in.”
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“Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.”

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 5h

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

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 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?”

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 9h

With Joseph Cotten in ‘Portrait of Jennie’ (1948)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 14h

With Vincent Price, Ann Sothern, & Bette Davis (1987)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 14h

With Charles Laughton on the set of ‘The Night of the Hunter’ (1955)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 14h

On the set of ‘The Night of the Hunter’ (1955)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 14h

With Bette Davis in ‘The Whales of August’ (1987)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 15h

With Walter Connolly in ‘Uncle Vanya’ (1930)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 15h

Today is Lillian Gish’s birthday.

Lillian Gish

After a lengthy absence the noted screen star returns to the stage in Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 18h

Quite happy to be spending the next two weeks in this little trullo.

A little trullo in Puglia. Sparse to some, heaven to others (me).

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 1d

Our cat Kaiju, a brown striped cat, sticking her head out from under a wooden stool, on the bars of which she’s perched.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

(Exactly right, Ms N. A quite extraordinary absence of ego. Rare now.)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

(I am extraordinarily fond of him. I’m not going to pretend he’s among my favourite poets, but I think his ‘Preludes’ is amongst the finest poems ever written. An exercise in how to conjure up an image with a line.)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

My friend @kevinddaly.bsky.social. Indispensable.

Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 2d

Call Me Madam opened at the Imperial Theatre in NYC on this date 75 years ago.

Here's Ethel Merman, who won the Tony, wearing Mainbocher, while the rest of the cast wears Raoul Pène Du Bois (who also designed that fabulous set)

Ethel Merman, center, in the 1950 Broadway production of Call Me Madam.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

(You could reply as my late Uncle Christy—a south Mayo small farmer all his life, & it was a bloody hard life—did every time I asked how he was doing. “Middlin’, Tomás, fair to middlin’”.)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

#NowPlaying #TMCC™

‘Embraceable You’: youtu.be/snQiFZRdBZo?...

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DickensYouSay @dickensyousay.bsky.social · 2d

Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets,

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2d

For those who remember STB listening to John Coltrane, I bring you: Hildy listening to Stan Getz

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

“He [Kismet] is my family. He is absolutely fabulous, but you know, he can’t do the shopping or put out the bins.”

‘He is my family’: Woman living with MS says her rescue cat helps her stay positive

Mim Greene’s cat, Kismet, also suffers from ill health, and the Irish Blue Cross was able to treat him