#BOTD 1947 Happy Birthday to...
Camille Keaton: American actress. Best known for her role as Jennifer Hills in the controversial 1978 film I Spit on Your Grave. Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)....Christ Rising (2023)
#NowReWatching Person of Interest (Created by Jonathan Nolan, 2011-2016)
Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy 9 wins & 22 nominations total.
"There are no good people just good decisions."
Born in Canada, 1802, Peter Jones’ father was a Welsh-born, American immigrant and his mother was of Ojibwa Indian ancestry. He grew up as a Native-American Indian with the name ‘Kahkewāquonāby’, meaning sacred waving feathers. He arrived in Edinburgh in July 1845
photo: David Octavius Hill 1845
#BOTD 1892
Mary Clare Absalom: British actress of stage, film and television. On the London stage from 1910, she specialised in stately characters and villainesses in period dramas.
#HitchcockConnection Young and Innocent (1937) The Lady Vanishes (1938)
#BOTD 1898
Berenice Alice Abbott: American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
#BOTD 1931
Susan Rennie Stephen: English film actress born in London. In her teens she pursued TV roles, subsequently moving to feature films, mainly in B-films in the 1950s. Appeared in more than 20 films including The Red Beret, The House Across the Lake, Pacific Destiny and Carry On Nurse.
#NowWatching Landscape in the Mist (D:Theo Angelopoulos,1988)
"...portrayal of the line that divides the illusions of childhood and the troubles of adolescence is a startling accomplishment and an essay on the human condition seen through the most vulnerable, corruptible and innocent eyes possible."
#BOTD 1868
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE: English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.
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#NowWatching La Chimera (D/W:Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)
"Rohrwacher’s trademark magical realism has us interpreting events as they unfold. The less you know about the plot, the better. It’s the kind of film that keeps shapeshifting as it goes along. The experience is damn-near transfixing."
GIVE ME BOOKS!!! Just look at the press of borrowers at this issue counter c.1900. Three deep? Four deep?? Extraordinary photo of an un-named public library in Lambeth, south London, from Ken Severn ‘The Halfpenny Rate’ (2006)
#PubLibs 💙📚
#BOTD 1527
John Dee: English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. "
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