Dramatic photograph. Visited Liberty Island (from the UK) in 1973 & 2023. The name 'Liberty' seems somewhat incongruous in the current USA environment.

I know Chitty and Knives out are fun hokum, but this Sinatra film is quite remarkable for:

Controversial (for the time) subject matter
A crooner risking his rep playing a con & addict
The direction (Preminger)
The music (Bernstein)

Probably, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Followed by:
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Shine (1996)

Read those books as a child. The first TV mini series in 1967 (when I was 9) looked like a bad school play. It's good that the stories were revisited in later years, and given better treatments.

Reeves being attacked by the same press who defended Johnson and Truss, and now push Reform. What a surprise!

Great ad..... and a great band & song. Redbone also had a big hit with the earlier Witch Queen of New Orleans (1971).

President Tom Beck in Deep Impact (1998)
President Allan Trumbull in Angel Has Fallen (2019)
President for real would be a vast improvement.

Great news. So important to protect National identities and languages. My wife is Scottish. My mum's first language was (Irish) Gaelic.

Meal a naidheachd air Alba: Congratulations Scotland

A very important film, in that Kirk Douglas' production company used the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Douglas publicly announced this fact, thereby helping to end the shameful and cruel 'blacklisting' period in Hollywood.

My best mate had a 3ltr black Capri, with 'jacked up' rear suspension back then... and drove it accordingly. My main memory is pushing it, when it broke down.

Kashmir first, for me.

Noticed quite a few people of my age with hearing aids. Often wondered why?
Did a bit of roadie work back in the day. I remember one group flew 64 cabs from the ceiling and put more on the stage, in a 5k capacity theatre. Testing the rig for bigger tour venues I guess.

Born Christine Anne Perfect. Which kind of sums up much of her song writing and vocals. RIP

I have a Scottish wife, so we try to get there regularly. Passing the Welcome to Scotland sign is always 'a moment'. As is the Welcome to Ireland sign for me.

Happy St Andrews Day

#Scotland #StAndrewsDay

There is a statue of Oscar Wilde (with the Estonian writer Eduard Vilde), on the main shop street in Galway. A great writer, with a tragic back story.

I believe rum punch is compulsory on all Caribbean boat trips. 😁👍

Over 80%+ of the British press and media is right-wing leaning, or openly endorsing right wing parties.
Whatever the Chancellor did would have been 'awful', 'robbery', 'unfair'. Conveniently forgetting what the Tories did to the economy, police, schools, hospitals, soc services, transport, etc.

Lots of people post nice coast/beach pics on here. It's good to see people also recognising the context of coasts and sea under pressure from rising sea level, global warming, etc.

Here's Buccoo Reef, a marine protected area off the coast of southwestern Tobago.

I enjoy seeing other artists work on here and liking/reposting. I have focused on curating a photo collection over the last 5+ years, and producing my own work based on coastal visits. I have pinned pictures of exhibitions, which I mount solely in aid of marine conservation charities.

Recently returned from a holiday (Spanish territory) and a bloke at the pool was wearing a football shirt in Reform colour with FARAGE 10 on the back. That's a EUROPEAN territory!
Might as well have written MORON IQ 10 on the back.