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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 4d

Me in the unofficial throne room of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 1994.

Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 8d

My pic from a cheetah sighting in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in 2023. On the whole, Kruger is an example of how mass tourism can work in a wildlife area. But lately there's been an explosion of OSVs (Open Safari Vehicles), and they don't always follow the rules.

Traffic jam of safari vehicles in Kruger National Park, South Africa. 2023

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 8d

The Serengeti wildebeest migration is perhaps the most extreme example. Tourists are now blocking the prime riverbank exit routes, forcing the wildebeest back into the river.

Safari vehicles and tourists lining a river bank with wildebeest in the foreground. Serengeti, Tanzania, 2025.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 10d

Carmel....

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 10d

Treasure Island was apparently inspired by the coast around Carmel, Clint Eastwood's bailiwick, and now the golden retriever capital of the world.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 10d

Steinbeck link: Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Monterey.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 13d

Perhaps the best adaptation of a Donald E Westlake book - and there have been plenty.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 14d

This one's good fun.

Cover of A Talent for Loving: The Great Cowboy Race, a novel by Richard Condon.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 25d

I can never get over the fact that Charles Dance's dad fought in the Boer War.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 29d

The Duellists, based on a story by Joseph Conrad, is terrific.

Original poster for the film The Duellists (1977), directed by Ridley Scott.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · 29d

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Doorbell footage shows blaze erupt at mosque after suspected arson attack

Video shows a large fire in front of the mosque, which was later put out by the fire service. Photos from the aftermath showed a burnt-out car.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 20

More likely, he watched Brian De Palma's Scarface, which opens with Castro flooding the US with prisoners and asylum inmates.

Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 14

Its election time in Malawi as we speak. I still have this flyer from the 1994 election.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 14

I lived there on and off from 1986-94. I was definitely a Green man. The other choices were Brown (bitter), Black (stout), or Gold (Special Brew).

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wilder's A Foreign Affair is worth a watch. A steely Republican congresswoman meets the real world in post-war Berlin.

Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 10

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Greatest cameo of all time.

Graham Greene's cameo as an insurance agent in François Truffaut's La Nuit américaine (Day for Night).

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 8

The second one is especially bookseller friendly.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Sep 7

In the 20-odd years I spent as an expatriate, innumerable get-togethers would feature an ex-serviceman getting up to perform his party piece. It was always Gunga Din.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Aug 26

Are you saying Moby-Dick was a fish?

Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Aug 24

John Shade. Charles Kinbote, on the other hand.....

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Welcome to the Narrative fold.
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Tuskers by Richard Newton — Beginning of the end, is what I thought. One bum step p...

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Jul 25

The clip in the trailer of Nigel Tufnel as an artisanal cheesemaker augurs well.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Jul 24

The venue of my faux pas. Ed Fancher died in 2023, aged 100. Can only imagine the Mailer stories he took with him.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Jul 24

I once travelled around Slovenia with Ed Fancher, co-founder of The Village Voice. I mentioned the Mailer wife-stabbing incident. Ed went very quiet. I didn't realise that the wife concerned, Adele Morales, had previously been Ed's girlfriend.

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Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social · Jul 21

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PERFECT DAYS - Official Trailer

YouTube video by NEON

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