A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--

What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?

Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD

His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer...

The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889

Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood

Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...

Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach

Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...

All eyes on budget reconciliation!

We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?

Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...

Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org

Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD

Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD

Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981

"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson

Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975

"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."

His cat's name was Marisol!

Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985

"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."

Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...

Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells

Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...

Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder

Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...

Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder

Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...

Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder ! Thank you for everything !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKY...

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂
📷 Al Satterwhite

"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John

Chishû Ryû BOTD

repose en Paix 💛

Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942)

Ryu was BOTD in 1904

Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD

Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Gay, 1949

"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing

Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**

Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963

Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908

Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**

Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963

Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910

Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)

Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich