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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Tennessee Williams from James Grissom's "Follies of God"

"It somehow has to happen. It somehow has to hang together. We must all hang together, support each other, be a distant shore to which someone, anyone, can swim. There is no reason in the world to continue, really, unless all of us decide that it is good and necessary and kind to do so. No one really allows a book, a play, a child, a piece of music--anything at all--to become, to exist, to thrive except for the dreamer who wants to matter, who wants to commemorate a moment, a memory.

"Why is it so necessary to know why things happen? Why things turn out the way they do? I'm not against knowledge, but I am against the bland refusal of so many to acknowledge magic and mystery. Strange things happen all the time--the result of energy and faith and herculean will. Don't always get to the bottom of things. Get to the heart of things.

"To know too much and do too little--to believe too little--is to me suicidal.

"Every work of art is enclosed in that bottle that is thrown into the water of humanity. It awaits an audience and surcease. Be the one on the distant shore to pick it up, acknowledge it, and rush to help.

"Ultimately, we cannot be alone with or for anything. We have to get in the mix. Come with kindness." Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982/Photograph by Cecil Beaton/

The first in a series of people smoking.

My Current Obsession, Which Has Lasted Only Thirteen Years

Along with the rest of the world, that is.

Norman Reedus as Lucien Carr from 2000's "Beat"

and a publicity still from "The Walking Dead" with Melissa McBride:

He likes to lick people. Insert obvious joke here. Or fantasy.

You know, whatever floats your aircraft carrier.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

All Hail the King and Queen

"An arrangement made with God, my mother, and Louis B. Mayer made me this person, this product, you know as Elizabeth Taylor. I showed up. I took light and directions and lots and lots of notes. I'm proud of the work. But what I most care about--always cared about--was being a good friend, a helpful person--and I'm happiest when someone tells me that I did that, that I became that person. The rest is fate, beshert, dumb luck. But the good person? I worked hard at that." -- Elizabeth Taylor/Interview with James Grissom/From "The Complete Divinity."

Breathtaking.

Sexy.

Artistic & Silly

Loving.

“She is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and willful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!” ~ Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor