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@AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic) art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 26m

I don't understand any of these heights, and yet these are the units I use to measure everything except humans

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 26m

Look out, the french are getting taller

Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 1h

Notre taille moyenne a grimpé d’un centimètre par décennie depuis près de deux siècles... mais cette hausse continue a de fortes chances de se tasser ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/BWAu

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 11h

I'm quitting being the French Prime Minister. For an hour.

Steve Coogan announces he is closing the bureau de change. for an hour.

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 8h

Iceland showing us the way. It's surely good for concessions sales too

Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 11h

An interesting thing about going to a movie in Iceland is that theatres add an intermission to every film by abruptly stopping it halfway through so that people can go get a snack or use the restroom. A bit jarring when you aren’t expecting it, I thought the projector broke

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I like Simon Castlebar! Perfect!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

You've got it

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, so you've lost me, sorry!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

David Chelmsford

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Clark Maidstone (Aka "Man"?)

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

This implies the existence of Susan Winchester*

(County town of Hampshire - I had to look that up)

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 1d

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution

... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c

a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Janet Lynn 🐕 @fuunsaiki.bsky.social · 2d

Find someone who looks at you the way Nick Mohammed looks at Celia Imrie

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Serafinowicz just asked if there's a cash alternative for the prizes as he doesn't like any of them

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

I just tuned in to House of Games and Peter Serafinowicz and Vicki Michelle are contestants!
With this and celeb Traitors tonight, celebrities are back bébé!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

I was always jealous of the incredibly long phone cords they seemed to have on US TV.
Imagine - not having to stand at the bottom of the stairs if you wanted to talk on the phone

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 2d

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

A pleasure - Ioved your article - especially the bit on Mabel Grey.
The only other thing to offer is the FPG in the credit might (I'm guessing) be the Freelance Photographers Guild. Getty might know more.

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

Found the Rhea Perlman legs at a bar image on Getty. Not much more info in the listing, but it's nice to see more detail in the pic anyway!
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo...

People standing at bar, low section

People standing at bar, low section

www.gettyimages.co.uk

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of fancy Hollywood stars had servants to get them ready in the mornings, but Paul Newman did his own dressing

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

A film about the terrifying saga of me trying to get my pic accepted by the passport office in 2019

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 2d

Based on a story by #FrancisDurbridge

🖼️ PORTRAIT OF ALISON (1955) 3:25pm #RobertBeatty #TerryMoore #WilliamSylvester drama #TPTVsubtitles

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Checks out!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

I think in the All Creatures Great and Small books there's a bit where James sees Helen and she's the first woman he's seen wearing "slacks." What was it about the interwar years that caused such massive leaps in fashion

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

About 100 years ago your great great grandrelative became the first person in your family in thousands of years to see a fully dressed woman's knees in public. I would love to know how they reacted

Colleen Moore wearing a flapper style dress in the 20s

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Questionable ornaments but can't help but respect that it seems to be mainly CDs on the shelves. There's loads in the gym too - impressive collection

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Need them to put a circle and a line through it like Ghostbusters