The essence of classics perception in the modern world, according to Gielgud:
My little taxi driver was very amusing about it on the way down this morning. I gave him tickets last night. He loved it—mad about it. But he said it was so funny when the old man got killed behind the clothesrack. And this is the modern world. They think poisonings and killings are damned funny. It’s very extraordinary, isn’t it?
It is most extraordinary!
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theresa stern was a poetess/prostitute from hoboken and the shortlived alter ego of tom verlaine and richard hell. her author portrait is a composite image of both verlaine and hell, photographed by charlotte deustch. in 1973, hell published a book of poems, written collaboratively with verlaine a couple years earlier by passing a typewriter back and forth between themselves, under theresa's name. (via)
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Hey, did you know that there are a whole bunch of color photos of the Gielgud-Burton Hamlet? From both performance and rehearsal? Because I didn't until a few hours ago! Somehow they never came up in the many, many searches I did! Until I tried to get a decent link to the previously-discovered New York Public Library collection of black-and-white photos and finally searched "hamlet burton" there and all these results I'd never seen before appeared!
That's William Redfield getting directed by John Gielgud! In color!
I don't think these are the final costumes, but here's a glimpse of how the "rehearsal clothes" concept really looked!
Burton and Yorick!
Elizabeth Taylor's birthday cake!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've downloaded 62 photos so far and have a lot more to go. Eventually I'll sort through them and post some more. In the meantime, you can find them all here!
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton photographed by Bert Stern, 1962.
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Rereading Ninth House and I'm reminded again of how I couldn't keep myself from seeing the similarities between Richard Campbell Gansey the Third and Daniel Arlington the Fifth
They're on the opposite ends of the spectrum. I wanna read a crossover of them, and maybe Blue meets Alex as well
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i love fictional characters who’ve been dead since the beginning but clawed their way back towards the living
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The look of love. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Bert Stern on the backlot of Cinecittà Studios in Rome, 1962.
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Eight iconic photographers we should remember
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Richard Stern, "The Hole"
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