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(Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller: The Cast of “Beyond the Fringe)
BBC obit
Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85
Jonathan Miller and The Kinds of Genius
(Jonathan Miller directs Mikado)
via Robin Gunningham/Mr Banksy… or Banksy in Studio
Banksy homepage here.
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Monet 
by Banksy
July 28 2019 today.. happy birthday Banksy and Marcel Duchamp.
Happy birthday Rebecca Horn and Lawrence Ferlingetti
(Underwear, Unicorn body suit – previous post)
Rebecca Horn, Body, Art installations
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Dreaming Stones – Rebecca Horn.
Lawrence is 100 years old today!
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s ‘Little Boy’ reveals his life before the San Francisco beat scene
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
photo via Paris Review
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000)
“He was a precocious child. He claimed to have read all the works of Victor Hugo by the age of eight.”
Edward Gorey Love of George Balanchine Part I
Feb 22 – Int’l cat day in Japan .. see Gorey with cat here.
Wes Anderson is under the spell of Edward Gorey
Poet Frank O’Hara and macabre writer and illustrator Edward Gorey were roommates at Harvard in the late ’40s, where they furnished their apartment with garden furniture and a coffee table made from a repurposed tombstone. According to The New Yorker, the pair “established their rooms as (in the words of a home-town friend) the spot to ‘lie down on a chaise lounge, get mellow with a few drinks, and listen to Marlene Dietrich records.’” Pompous and eccentric? Perhaps. But we bet their room was the coolest place on campus.
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
Happy New Year of the Pig (or Inoshishi in Japanese, meaning wild boar)
Chinese New Year in 2019 starts on Tuesday, February 5th and ends on January 24th, 2020. Conforming to the chinese horoscope , the year of the Pig 2019 comes right after the Year of the Dog (2018) and before the year of the Metal Rat (2020)!
Ohara Koson 
(Wild Boar -Ukioe)
Inoshishi <> 
(Image source)
The Happy Pig
Tomoo Gogita (Cloe Sevigny saw his exhibit in Japan)
All I Need Is Ham – (Remixed from Obama’s Inaugural poem)
Here is a trailer Pigsty by Pasolini (seemingly unpalatable and enigmatic film).
Porcile (Pigsty) by Pasolini.
A savage parody of Godard, Resnais and… Pasolini, ironically chronicling the ‘existential anguish’ of the children of the bourgeoisie, it features Léaud as a mystic youth whose being finally merges with ‘nature’: he gets eaten by the pigs he loves.
The first, “Orgia,” was originally conceived as a possible companion piece to Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert, and concerns a 15th-century cult of cannibals who must eventually reckon with Church and State. The second, “Porcile,” involves a West German industrialist and Nazi war criminal whose son (played by Truffaut and Godard regular Jean-Pierre Léaud) likes to copulate with pigs.
James with pig 
photo by Dennis Stock
Kosinski 
Photo via Jerzy Kosinski
Who was Jerzy Kosinski? (Previous post)
Jerzy Kosinski was born on June 14, 1933. He was an award-winning Polish-American novelist, best known for the novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), the latter of which was adapted into a film in 1979.
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Hal Ashby directed Being There.
Philip Roth on Jerzy Kosinski –
In the end, I don’t understand Jerzy Kosinski. At some level, he must have judged his life as successful. Using his talent, wits, boldness and determination, he went far, if you consider the boy growing up under the most menacing of shadows. Was he happy? There is so much darkness in his novels, I wonder how much brightness there was in his life (inside him, in the place he kept hidden). I am left with a sense of pity, which I’m sure he would not want me to feel. He would prefer respect. And I can grant him that.
Jerzey
David Foster Wallace described Steps as a “collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that’s like nothing else anywhere ever”. Wallace continued in praise: “Only Kafka’s fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.
Milan Kundera was born on April 1. (His first novel was called The Joke.)
Life is Elsewhere 
Photo collage by Fung Lin Hall.
The above image is a photo collage of an outdoor art installation from a street near Malostranska station in Prague. The statue of Sigmund Freud hanging by one hand by David Cerny – Czech Sculptor. *
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Philip Kaufman saw Miss Julie on stage and cast Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being for his adaptation of Milan Kundera’s most popular novel.
Daniel Day Lewis and Lena Olin
Easter Sunday – 2018
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The Rabbit knows how to relax.
Pool Bunny 
Fung Lin Hall (See Hotel lobbies in New Mexico and William James)
The Good, The Bad and The Rabbit
Rabbit by Henri Rousseau, Durer and others here.
Happy birthday S. Zizek March 21 1949
See young Zizek here. 
Lacanian Sympton
Scroll down – Sophie Fiennes (sister of Ralph Fiennes directed Zizek.)
The Duty of Philosophy? Zizek 
has the answer.
Peter Brook is 93 –
Peter Brook’s Filmography
1953, The Beggar’s Opera
1960, Moderato Cantabile (UK title Seven Days… Seven Nights)
1963, Lord of the Flies
1967, Ride of the Valkyrie
1967, Marat/Sade
1968, Tell Me Lies
1971, King Lear
1979, Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979, Mesure pour mesure
1982, La Cerisaie
1983, La Tragédie de Carmen
1989, The Mahabharata
2002, The Tragedy of Hamlet (TV)
L’avventura
Moderate Cantabile
Both film nominated at Cannes 60.
Jeanne Moreau and Jean Paul Belmondo in Moderate Cantabile directed by Peter Brook, an adaptation of a story by Marguerite Duras.
See “on the bench” from Moderate Cantabile (youtube)
Happy New (Y)ear of Earth Dog! starting February 16, 2018 to February 4, 2019.
(Earth dog is Communicative, serious, and responsible in work)
Spike loved Maria Callas and his family love and miss him forever.
Ellis began working on the book in 2010 after Kubrick’s death by canine lymphoma as a way of working through his grief over the dog’s death
Independent filmmaker Sean Ellis (previous post- Metro Manila to Prague)
James Dean ‘s dog here.
Dog by Ed Ruscha 
Monty and
Monty Socrates
Read how Monty Socrates found his family and his brother and sister.
Best in show – A film clip + fun dog photos and a link to 8 ways to prepare your pets for war.
Noah Tayler as Hitler, John Cusack as an art dealer.
The central mystery of Hitler, William Boyd writes in a recent Times Literary Supplement, is: “How on earth could a dysfunctional, deranged, down-and-out homeless person in pre-First World War Vienna become, 20 years later, Chancellor of Germany?” A peculiar and intriguing film named “Max” argues that he succeeded because he had such a burning need to be recognized–and also, of course, because of luck, good for him, bad for us. If Hitler had won fame as an artist, the century’s history might have been different. Pity about his art.
“Max” imagines a fictional scenario in which the young Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor) is befriended by a one-armed Jewish art dealer named Max Rothman (John Cusack) in Munich in the years following World War I. Both served in the German army and fought in the same battle, where Rothman lost his arm. The dealer opens an avant-garde art gallery in a vast abandoned factory, showcasing artists such as George Grosz and attracting important collectors–and Hitler, clutching his portfolio of kitsch. Rothman takes pity on this man and is friendly to him, moved by the pathos beneath his bluster. (Roger Ebert)
Considers the scripts to Max (2002) and Being John Malkovich (1999) the best he has read. (IMDB)
Cusack with Arundhati Roy (2016)
Happy birthday John Cusack, Mel Brooks and Kathy Bates.
Mel Brooks Hitler Rap (youtube)
Kathy Bates made two films based on Stephen King, Misery and Dolores Claiborne and she won an Oscar with Misery.
(Elgawimmer)
Donald as a cross dresser
1999, charcoal and pastel on paper
10 feet x 14 feet
Happy birthday Donald Duck June 9 1934
Donald Duck debuted – here –
Happy birthday Johnny Depp (Before Night Falls, he had double roles)
trailer here .
Fear and loathing (see Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson, Ali and Depp)
Act Natural 
(Orange blob escaped from the white house)
(art by Miranda July)
Dolls trailer (Directed by Takeshi Kitano, Poland gave this the best film award – costume design by Yoji Yamamoto)
Name these girls – Happy Hinamatsuri album
The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. “doll floating”), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.(via wiki)
Meet Jesse 
Captive Girls (previous post)
