Tomás Murray

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Lean left • Irish • Tom is fine • Full-time carer • Far from home • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, poetry, stout, Sylvia, & waiting • Sylvia most of all

In a chair near a bed now

Jazz in Isolation: https://tinyurl.com/2p8dfptp

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This evening’s feature. The director was never in doubt (it’s his birthday) & this is probably now* my favourite of his films. (*I find ‘Umberto D.’, masterpiece though it is, a tough watch as I get older.)

Vittorio De Sica, Director*, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1901, in Sora, Lazio, Italy (*my favourite)

George Cukor, Director, #BornOnThisDay in 1899, in New York City

Tonight’s late night feature. Ms Dunne.

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘Like Someone in Love’: youtu.be/N9FOla0VSfo?...

Never get up. Not even for a minute.

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘Don’t Take Your Love from Me’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHXH...

The view from here.

Tonight’s feature.

Jean Cocteau, Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Director, Artist, #BornOnThisDay in 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, France “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ The title track: youtu.be/mKf1x3CALAE?...

I am my father’s son.

Gertrude Lawrence, Actress, Singer, Dancer, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in London

Gloria Stuart, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1910, in Santa Monica, California

Eva Marie Saint, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in Newark, New Jersey

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This cat! #Hank

#NowPlaying* (*It’s his birthday.) ‘In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning’: youtu.be/Z_MuyKjaEKU?...

Elizabeth Taylor, Novelist, Short Story Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, in Reading, England “‘There was no need for him to be lonely. He knew he could always come here.’ ‘One can’t make much of a career out of having tea with married women.’”

George Sanders, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire

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With apologies to anyone who read this piece when it was fresh off the presses a few hours ago, I'd never have forgiven myself had I not added a couple of choice, if not necessarily relevant, Ernest Thesiger anecdotes. (Though can an Ernest Thesiger anecdote be other than relevant?)

Have a potato.open.substack.com [a bit of a meander]

Wisława Szymborska, Poet, Essayist, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1923, in Prowent, Poland “Those who knew what was going on here must make way for those who know little. And less than little. And finally as little as nothing.”

Hermann Hesse, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1877, in Calw, German Empire

Ok then.

Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first female members of Garrick Clubwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films: M - ‘Miracolo a Milano’ (1951) O - ‘Only Angels Have Wings’ (1939)* V - ‘Victim’ (1961) I - ‘I Know Where I'm Going!’ (1945) E - ‘The Earrings of Madame de...’ (1953)** (*Or ‘Oliver Twist’. **Or ‘Easy Living’.)

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films M - The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury in excelsis) O - Overboard (wildly underrated Goldie Hawn comedy) V - Victim (Dirk Bogarde, amazing) I - It’s Always Fair Weather (from the Singin’ in the Rain team) E - Edward Scissorhands (Dianne Wiest)

Charles Laughton, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1899, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England

Olivia de Havilland, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Tokyo

Farley Granger, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1925, in San Jose, California

William Wyler, Director, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1902, in Mülhausen, German Empire (now Mulhouse, France)

#NowPlaying ‘Born to Be Blue’: youtu.be/km63HJEHWkU?...