Claire McCardell, American fashion designer of the 20th century.
1940’s Bicycling outfit.
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“Bob Dylan Influenced Everything” - John Lennon
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the man who wrote Forever Young is now 70 years old. Regarded as the most influential musician of all time, his influence on music and culture alike are immense. Known as “The man with a message”, he brought folk music to the masses. When Dylan released “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” in 1963 people knew that they were hearing lyrics of a different kind. He was the voice of his generation and all generations to follow. His musical influence is still found in many artist today. Thank you for a half-century of great music.
Happy Birthday Bobby
may you stay forever young
mad girl’s love song (sylvia plath)
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
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Lillian Gish as “The Eternal Mother” & The Fates in Intolerance (1916, dir. D.W. Griffith) (via Museum of Modern Art Film & Media Collection exhibition catalog)
Her hand on the cradle of humanity—eternally rocking.
“I often heard [D.W. Griffith] say that he would rather have written one page of Leaves of Grass than to have made all the movies for which he received world acclaim.
It is said that some twelve to fifteen years before [filming Intolerance], Griffith was walking with Wilfred Lucas, when they were both working in a road show, when Lucas caught sight of a woman rocking a cradle, and reminded Griffith of Walt Whitman’s poem from Leaves of Grass: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking’ & ‘Endlessly rocks the cradle/ Uniter of Here and Hereafter.’
…We went back to the studio and did some shots of Lillian Gish rocking a cradle, all to the tune of Walt Whitman’s poetry, which Griffith recited with great feeling and surprisingly good delivery, considering how outstandingly lousy he was as an actor. It must have been one of his good days.
Griffith placed the symbolic figures of the Three Fates behind Lillian Gish. Upon hearing the sound of the spinning wheel and the creak of the Fates’ shears as they cut the thread of life, Griffith exclaimed: “Gahhd! If we could only get that sound!”
-excerpted from Karl Brown’s Adventures With D. W. Griffith (1973)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbldnubOYL1qzdvhio1_r1_400.jpg)
Lillian Gish as “The Eternal Mother” & The Fates in Intolerance (1916, dir. D.W. Griffith) (via Museum of Modern Art Film & Media Collection exhibition catalog)
Her hand on the cradle of humanity—eternally rocking.
“I often heard [D.W. Griffith] say that he would rather have written one page of Leaves of Grass than to have made all the movies for which he received world acclaim.
It is said that some twelve to fifteen years before [filming Intolerance], Griffith was walking with Wilfred Lucas, when they were both working in a road show, when Lucas caught sight of a woman rocking a cradle, and reminded Griffith of Walt Whitman’s poem from Leaves of Grass: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking’ & ‘Endlessly rocks the cradle/ Uniter of Here and Hereafter.’
…We went back to the studio and did some shots of Lillian Gish rocking a cradle, all to the tune of Walt Whitman’s poetry, which Griffith recited with great feeling and surprisingly good delivery, considering how outstandingly lousy he was as an actor. It must have been one of his good days.
Griffith placed the symbolic figures of the Three Fates behind Lillian Gish. Upon hearing the sound of the spinning wheel and the creak of the Fates’ shears as they cut the thread of life, Griffith exclaimed: “Gahhd! If we could only get that sound!”
-excerpted from Karl Brown’s Adventures With D. W. Griffith (1973)
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (part 1) - 1919
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Starring Lilian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp.
A young girl named Lucy (Lilian Gish) is abused by her alcoholic father, and meets a Chinese man, Cheng Huan, who is in London with a goal to tell Anglo-Saxons about his Buddhist beliefs. He falls in love with her and takes her into his home after she is beaten by her father one evening. After learning her whereabouts, Lucy’s father takes her home and punishes her severely, leaving her for dead. Cheng takes her body home, builds a shrine to Buddha and takes his own life with a knife to the stomach.
Dracula (1931)
One of the earliest classic American horror films, based on Abraham Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
Some parts of the film were censored overseas, such as a giant bug’s emergence from the coffin and the appearance of Dracula’s three zombie-like wives.
Lolita is a novel by Vladmir Nabokov, published in 1955 in Paris.
After it’s publication, it attained a classic status, becoming one of the best-known and controversial examples of 20th Century literature.
Nabokov told Playboy magazine that “I shall never regret Lolita. She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle—its composition and its solution at the same time, since one is a mirror view of the other, depending on the way you look.”
It has been adapted into two films - one in 1962 by Stanley Kubrik, and one in 1997 by Adriane Lyne.
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