Beck Jones

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Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 19

Fear not, good sir, many will continue to take up the righteous cause against women's rights, well into the 21st century.... #otd

Illustration of balding man in a dressing gown sitting at a long table writing with an oversized quill pen. Adjacent text is in script in a journal entry. July 19, 1848 Dear Diary, Those damnable women have gathered at Seneca Fall for two whole days to discuss "women's right." As if such a thing exists!"

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 15

Happy Birthday to Linda Ronstadt! #botd in 1946. A multi-genre genius, she was known only as the top female rocker in 1980 when she signed on as Mabel in Joe Papp's production of Pirates of Penzance; a film adaptation debuted #otd in 1983. Below, a still of Ronstadt in the film. #music #filmsky

Linda Ronstadt as Mabel standing in front of a painted backdrop of pastel flowers. She is wearing a white lacy dress, bonnet tied under her chin with a big pink bow and lacy gloves. Her mouth is open as she sings and gazes upward with her hands clasped.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 14

We should remember that. Woody Guthrie, #botd in 1912.

Black and white photo of Woody Guthrie playing guitar with a sticker on it that says This guitar kills fascists. Adjacent text is "This Land is Your land."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 14

No more Cries and Whispers. Loads more super heroes though. Below, Bergman with his muse and lover liv Ullman. Sigh. #botd #filmsky #moviesky

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 14

Don't worry--Plenty of people to sing happy birthday! #botd #tv #moviesky

Film still from A Mighty Wind showing Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins and Christopher Moynihan, wearing coordinated yellow and turquoise outfits singing at a two microphones. Lynch is wearing her hair short and blond; Posey is wearing two poneytails.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 13

This take is jaw-dropping. America does not have any such post known as "viceroy," but thanks #brokentimes, for putting such a nice neutral name (it's historic, doncha know?) on this blatantly illegal power grab. As usual #newyorktimes runs PR for Trump administration.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 13

No comment. #otd

Jacques-Louis David's famous painting, The Death of Marat, showing Marat in the bath with his head wrapped in a towel, his body draped to the side of the tub with one hand dragging the floor with a quill pen and a piece of paper in his other hand. The adjacent text is "On this day in 1799, Charlotte Corday killed Jean Marat in his bath."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 12

What's misleading is the NYTimes' continued use of the word "windfall" to describe Trump's blatant corruption. This really shouldn't be a "both-sides" issue so beloved by the media. #brokentimes #trump

All text post--a screenshot from NY Times carousel promoting the series of articles on Trump's "windfall." This features a quote from Trump justifying his graft with fantastically inflated ("up 85%" ) returns on 401(k)s.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 11

#otd #booksky #writers

Image of first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird showing a stylized illustration of a tree with green leaves, reversed out of maroon. The title is in green and white type that resembles printing. Adjacent text is "Published on this day in 1960."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 11

Below, E. B. White, #botd in 1899, with dachshund Minnie. Some dog. Some pig. Some writer. #botd #booksky #writer

Black and white family photo of E.B. White (from which White's wife has been cropped). White is outdoors, wearing a jacket and holding dachshund Minnie. The adjacent quote from White is "Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." E. B. White July 11, 1899-Oct. 1985

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 9

He joined in Canada, and the war was over before he completed training. But he came home to Oxford claiming to have a plate in his head as a result of a crash. He added the "u" to his last name, snagged his high school sweetheart, whose marriage to another had dissolved. #booksky #writers

Photo of a young William Faulkner posing in a flight jacket with a scarf tucked in. The text below the photo is "On this day in 1918, William Faulkner joined the RAF."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 9

Her pioneering novels ushered in a genre that transcended literature, eventually spawning not merely an aesthetic but a world view. The Mysteries of Udolpho and Romance of the Forest are probably her best known works, though her influence is nearly ubiquitous. #booksky #writers #botd

A black and white newspaper illustration of the 196 edition of The Mysteries of Udolpho showing a. young woman with long blond hair flowing down her back. She kneels at the bedside of a nun. A cross hangs above the bed. The cutline on the illustration is "Hurriedly and brokenly, Emily told the nun of her connection to Udolpho." That text adjacent to the illustration is "Gothic Ann Radliffe. July 9, 1964-Feb 7 1823.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 8

Below, Huston as the Director in last year's Ballerina. #botd #filmsky #moviesky

Film still from Ballerina showing a darkened room with Angelica Huston leaning over a desk in conversation with someone. She 's wearing her hair pulled up with bangs, and a red silk robe and black blouse underneath. She looks amused.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 7

A couple of sweet kids got married #otd 1946 and stayed married for 77 years (the longest in U.S. presidential history) until her death. Something nice to think about today.

Photo of Jimmy and Rosayln Carter at their wedding. He is wearing his naval uniform; she is wearing a white hat and corsaage. They are standing in front of candles and flowers at the alter, and they are both smiling broadly.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 5

Below, Jean Marais in Orpheus, Jean Cocteau's 1950 masterpiece. Avant garde poet, playwright, novelist, director and so much more, Cocteau, #botd in 1889, found fertile ground in myth, fable and fairy tale. Unfortunately, his politics were absolute crap. #booksky, #writers #poetry #filmsky

Black and white film still from Orpheus showing Jean Marais from the other side of what is apparently a window with his hands pressed against the window, as he stares intently at them.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 5

Forget Johnny Depp's pretty boy Dillinger. Warren Oates, #botd in 1928, was the real deal in the John Milius film. Oates played tough guys and rough guys in movies like The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia, but he was surprisingly good at comedy, too. Dead at 53. #moviesky #filmsky.

Film poster for the movie Dillinger with a photo illustration of Warren Oates holding a tommy gun featured prominently with Michelle Phillips and Ben Johnson in the background. Title type is in red and is riddled with bullet holes. Adjacent text in yellow reversed out of red is "It's a hot summer day. Great time to sow some wile Oates in rough-and-ready 70s cinema."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 4

The bleakly comic "August: Osage County" by actor/playwright/screenwriter Tracy Letts, #botd in 1965, seems particularly American on this particular 4th of July. The play won a Pulitzer; below, the film. if you ever wanted to see Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts tussle... #moviesky #filmsky #drama

Still from film August: Osage County showing Meryl Streep wearing a short dark wig, Margo Martindale and Julianne Nicholson sitting together in a sitting room. They are gathered together, smiling as they read paper that Streep has in her hand. The text above is "You are cordially invited to celebrate the birth of Tracy Letts. Fist fights optional."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 4

Love the youthful swagger. He knows he's on to big things. #booksky #writers #poetry #otd

Steel engraving of Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer from a daguerrotype by Gabriel Harrison used in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. In the engraving, Whitman is wearing a shirt with an open collar and a hat set at a slight angle. One hand is in his pocket, he rests the other fist on his hip. He has a beard. The text adjacent is "On this day in 1855, Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass, a collection of 12 poems that would eventually grow to 400."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 4

And we hope she has a nice birthday! Happy 102! Academy and Emmy Award winner Eva Marie Saint, #botd in 1924. Below, as Eve Kendall bewitching Cary Grant's on-the-lam Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest. She made her movie debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. #moviesky #filmsky

Film still from North by Northwest showing Eva Marie Saint in a train dining car with the drapes partially open, the view outside blurred by the movement of the train. She's wearing a black dress and a necklace; her blond hair is bobbed. The text adjacent is "Nice Face."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 3

In fairness, they also gave Roberts big wet kiss yesterday, too. Ruling against Trump about 20% of the time is "facing down the president;" that his "long-sought goals"--like gutting the VRA and opening the floodgates wider to distort elections--are antithetical to democracy need not be mentioned.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 3

Below, Alan Bates and Oliver Reed prepare for nude wrestling in Women Love, the cinematic adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel, directed by the inimitable Ken Russell, #botd in 1927. Never a dull moment in a Russell film. He acted later in life and did comedic parts well. #moviesky #filmsky

Film still from Women in Love: Alan Bates, wearing a beard, and Oliver Reed, wearing a mustache, face each other, staring intently, in front of a roaring fireplace. Each has an elbow resting on the mantle. Reed has taken off his shirt and is holding it next to his chest; Reed is unbuttoning his. The text above is in quotation marks: "It's Ken Russell's birthday. Should we strip down and wrestle? We must."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 3

Gilman in 1900, when treatment for post-partum depression wasn't a whole lot more advanced than now. #booksky #writers #women

Black and white photo of Gilman. Her dark hair is braided and wound around in the back. She''s wearing a white blouse and a dark suit-type coat. She s gazing off in the distance with her head slightly turned.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 2

Pick your path to enlightenment. It's the anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Hermann Hesse, #botd in 1877. He grew up in Germany and Switzerland, but his interest in Eastern philosophy and religion, along with Jungian analysis, shaped his work. #boosky #writers #poetry

Color portrait of Hermann Hesse as a younger man by Ernst Wurtenberger shows him with closely cropped brown hair and mustache. He's wearing glasses, a high collared sweater and coat. Adjacent text s a quote "Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." Hermann Hesse July 2, 1877-Aug. 9, 1962

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 1

Ms. Magazine hit the stands #otd in 1972, after debuting inside New York Magazine with a pro-abortion essay that swayed opinion about the subject prior to Roe. Roe was overturned, but the mag was prescient about Wonder Woman: No mortal woman need apply for president. #women

Inaugural cover of Ms. Magazine; the title "Ms" is in red and the subhead is in white type reversed from red and says "Wonder Woman for President" A giant Wonder Woman runs over tiny-sized cars and buildings with an outdoor board reading "Peace and Justice '72". The adjacent headline is "Prescient" and the text underneath is "for a woman to be elected president, she'll have to be super human."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 1

Seriously, pick any title from William Wyler's filmography; you can't go wrong. Wyler, #botd in 1902, moved from genre to genre with ease--comedy, drama, war, westerns--coaxing (or demanding) award-winning performances from his actors, like Audrey Hepburn, below in Roman Holiday. #filmsky #moviesky

Cut out of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday set against green background. Her hair is short and curly. She's riding a red Italian scooter; she's wearing a gold skirt and white capped sleeve blouse with a short green scarf tied at the neck. Her mouth is open in delight. The headline in script is "Dive into Wyler today."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 1

Known for his portly build and generally irascible characters, Charles Laughton, #botd in 1899, was also an exceptional director if The Night of the Hunter is any indication. Unfortunately it debuted to bad reviews and lousy box office and he never directed another. See it. #filmsky #moviesky

Film still from Night of the Hunter showing star Shelley Winter sitting alone in a convertible Model T in the depths of a lake, the currents blow her hair and branches around her. The headline is "Fever Dream."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jul 1

Shame that the best adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice didn't earn novelist/screenwriter James M. Cain a dime or a credit. Visconit's unauthorized Ossessione burns off the screen and made Cain, #botd in 1892, justifiably hot under the collar. #filmsky #movisky.

Black and white still from Ossessione; a close up of star Clara Calamai in the dark. A stripe of light falls diagonally across her face. She's staring wide-eyed in terror at something offscreen. The adjacent text is "He rang twice. He wants his money."

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jun 29

If you love 70s movies (I do), you gotta love the documentary "The Kid Stays in the Picture, based on the memoirs of producer/actor/exec Robert Evans, #botd in 1930. Below, with his then wife Ali McGraw whom he had cast in Goodbye Columbus before Love Story. #moviesky #filmsky

Black and white photo of Robert Evans and Ali McGraw walking down the street; her hair is long and flowing behind her; she's wearing dark pants and shirt and dark jacket. Robert Evans is wearing tan colored pants, dark shirt and tan vest. He's pointing at something in the distance. The adjacent text is "The Kid Stays in the Picture." Robert Evans June 28, 1930, Oct. 26, 2019.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jun 29

It's Slim Pickens' birthday. Behave accordingly. #botd in 1919. #moviesky #filmsky

Black and white film still from Dr. Strangelove showing Slim Pickens in cowboy gear high in the sky riding a bomb. He holds his hat off his head, rodeo style. The adjacent text is "Yee-Ha!"

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere· Jun 29

The technology has leaped forward, but nobody made it more fun. Below, in 2010 with his Lifetime Achievement Award. #botd #moviesky #filmsky