#Naked City

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ William H. Daniels, Naked City Stills, New York, 1948

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[thegothicalice]

A pop of green 🤍💚🖤Sweater from Spirit Halloween, earrings from Naked City Clothing in Portland.

[the-birth-of-art]

David Sanborn (1945 - 2024)

[disease]

NAKED CITY: "IF I HAD A MILLION" WEEGEE | NYC, circa 1951 [gelatin silver print | 9 1/2 × 7 5/8"]

[morffyne]

Title: Weegee, self-portrait Artist: Weegee (Arthur Fellig) Date of image: 1945, printed 1945

[glittermutt]

the mutt music bingo dropped. do it. NOW!!!

[filmnoirfoundation]

TV Noir on the Big Screen

The FNF will co-present Noir Television: Naked City with UCLA Film & Television Archive on Sunday, October 15, 7:00 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater located in Los Angeles' Hammer Museum.

The evening comprises two episodes of Naked City, a police drama from the original Golden Age of Television, and an in-person Q&A with FNF board member Alan K. Rode and actor/writer Michael McGreevey between screenings. Based on Jules Dassin's acclaimed 1948 motion picture of the same name, Naked City boasted location photography and a host of New York actors in thoughtful, original teleplays that emphasized character over action.

First, Jack Warden (Twelve Angry Men) guest stars as a fugitive who takes refuge in a tenement rooftop hideaway belonging to a troubled child (Mike McGreevey) in The King of Venus Will Take Care of You (1962). As the police close in, the misfit pair confront each other and their individual life circumstances, which are untenable.

A Horse Has a Big Head — Let Him Worry (1962) plays second. In groundbreaking casting, Diahann Carroll (Julia) guests as an earnest special education teacher searching for a sight-impaired student (John Megna) who, in defiant independence, wanders away on a field trip. Admission is free. Full details and program notes are available on UCLA's website.

[countesspetofi]

More from The Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars: Nearly five years before James T. Kirk set off on his five-year mission into space, William Shatner guest-stars in "Portrait of a Painter," episode 14 of the third season of "Naked City" (original airdate January 10, 1962).

Roger Barmer (Shatner) is a disturbed young artist who believes he may have killed his wife during an epilepsy-related blackout. He confides in his doctor, who convinces him to turn himself in to the police. It is a very sensitive performance, nearly free of the swagger that we've come to expect. The physical resemblance between young Shatner and Merritt Butrick (David Marcus) is very noticeable here.

Given the 1960s medical establishment's belief in homosexuality as a mental illness, the discussion of Roger's issues with women and intimacy (and his mother, oh, you have so much to answer for, Dr. Freud), the physical clinginess he displays toward the doctor, and body language that I recognize as coded for femininity and submission from my own Shakespearian training, I don't think I'm reaching too awfully far when I see some queer subtext in the extended scene in the doctor's office. (He looks like he could be playing Desdemona or Ophelia on that couch.)

Other Trek connections: The doctor is portrayed by Theodore Bikel, who played Worf's adoptive father Sergei Rozhenko in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth-season episode "Family." I nearly didn't recognize him without his signature beard, but the voice was unmistakable.

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[rastronomicals]

9:10 PM EDT March 21, 2024:

Naked City - "Piledriver" From the album Grand Guignol (February 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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peter falk as lee staunton on naked city (2.24 - a very cautious boy)

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Naked City - Une Correspondance

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Miru Kim - Naked City Spleen

[jazzdailyblog]

Bobby Previte: A Journey Through Rhythm and Innovation

Introduction: When discussing influential drummers in modern jazz, the name Bobby Previte often emerges as a pioneer who has continuously pushed the boundaries of what rhythm can achieve. With a career spanning several decades, Previte has not only established himself as a master percussionist but also as a composer and bandleader whose work transcends conventional jazz frameworks. This blog…