#Old Twentieth

[spockvarietyhour]

St Laurent and Ste Catherine, 1905

[mananabuffins]

What if I never get to die? What happens if we can prevent organ failure, cure cancer, and prevent aging? Will I be denied old age, sculpted over and shellacked, forbidden to experience being wrinkled or grey, so that we can claim to have created heaven, forgetting we padlocked her gates?

Will I get old, or just older? Will I get to inherit my mom's sun spots, or will those signs of aging be siphoned off into a little jar to be recycled like the rest of me that can't keep up?

What happens when the part that can't keep up stops being a part of me, and is all that's left?

What if I already can't keep up?

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: It Happened in Athens (1962). Tagline: “When Jayne decides to rival Helen of Troy … it’s a madcap marathon for Olympic Heroes and Grecian Glory!” I am an obsessive Jayne Mansfield completist and somehow this one had hitherto bypassed me (just discovered there’s a decent print on YouTube). It’s an inconsequential comedy about humble shepherd Spiridon (Trax Colton, resembling a Lil’ Abner cartoon come to life), who aspires to compete as a marathon runner in the 1896 Olympics Games in Athens. As Jayne’s biographer Eve Golden concludes, “It Happened in Athens is a picturesque film – lots of lovely location scenery and Greek dancing – but not terribly interesting.” Certainly, it’s mostly as wholesome and innocuous as a children’s film. Having said that, it’s a lush big budget venture, filmed on location in Athens in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Colour and looks spectacular. Despite her top billing Mansfield is essentially a special guest star. Her memorable “boudoir scene” sashaying around in a tightly cinched corset (pictured) is a highlight. And watch for the sequence where Spiridon ventures into a sleazy tavern. One of the belly dancers in the background (a “local hire”) boasts bushy natural unshaven armpits, something rarely glimpsed in a Hollywood film of the period. Mainly Athens is a “star vehicle” to introduce the buff square-jawed charms of leading man Colton - a male starlet from the stable of Henry Willson (the savvy gay agent who discovered and renamed the likes of Rock Hudson, Guy Madison, Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue) - to the world. Except Colton was immediately dropped by 20th Century Fox afterwards and never made another movie. Jayne’s character vows to marry whichever athlete wins the marathon, which prompts two funny lines. When told Hungary is in the lead, she recoils in distaste (she was still married to Hungarian Mickey Hargitay at this point). When someone enquires “How’s your French?”, she purrs, “I’ve never had any complaints!” anticipating the Elvira joke “How’s your head?” “I’ve never had any complaints.”

[thursdaymurderbub]

[werewolfetone]

Solid candidate for the funniest picture I have ever seen

[whypolar]

Not sure if this is an in-universe change in vocabulary due to scifi shenanigans or just a translation error, since I don't have access to the original jp text for novel 5, but Mineva refers to Gone with the Wind as a novel that was written during "the Middle Ages" and that is obliterating me

[fisarmonical]

[peaceandnature]

📸 Color photos taken by Russian writer Leonid Andreyev

[dockaspbrak]

seeking: information about if there are any recordings of the 1978 On The Twentieth Century broadway musical. I know there probably isn't but my god I'd give anything to see it.

[bisexualcharmanderenergy]

Does anyone know of any good videos of people Nuzlocking Pokémon Scarlet and Violet?

All I’m finding is people naming their Paldean Wooper “Pooper” because hurr durr poop is brown lawl and misgendering all the NPCs.

[ithacanradio]

nothing quite like your parents threatening to leave you in poverty if you don't stop doing political work and just annihilate yourself into your studies

[spockvarietyhour]

Anti-conscription rally, Square Victoria, 1917

[challenge-ant]

I feel like iac has been “twenty years old” for three years

[marigoidz]

Perhaps I'll watch Legally Blonde the Musical yet again later

[bunnyb34r]

Nooo Sony is rereleasing the spiderman movies on mondays and the first one is this Monday, which I'm working AT NIGHT and they're only doing 7pm/8pm showings 😢

Even if I was able to go thats still so late for me to go bc I go to bed then 😭 yeah I have the DVDs but I wanted to be able to see TASM in theaters bc I saw TASM 2 in theaters TWICE

[steamboatclusie]

Tyrone Power and John Carradine in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake 1942

The two appeared in 5 movies together while under contract at Fox, though they only shared the screen in four movies.