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5 Dec 2024

A Sprig of Holly: Notes on Gibbeting (with Reference to the Case of Tom Jenkyn)

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827): A Gibbet (detail)  Undated watercolor and ink on paper (36 x 27.5 cm) Yale Center for British Art     I...
26 Sept 2023

In Memory of a Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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David McCallum (1933-2023) as Illya Kuryakin  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68)     Thanks to Tom Cruise's big-screen reboot, many peopl...
15 Apr 2022

Chrysopoeia 1: Goldfinger (He's the Man - the Man with the Midas Touch)

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Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1964)   For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her It's the kis...
2 Mar 2021

Real Men Wear Gingham

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Sean Connery as James Bond and Claudine Auger as Domino  in Thunderball (dir. Terence Young, 1965)   Everyone loves gingham, don't the...
21 Apr 2020

Last Rat Standing (Darwin and Bond in the Age of Coronavirus)

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New York City rat (photo by Christopher Sadowski)  and Javier Badem as Raoul Silva in Skyfall (2012) There's a lovely scene i...
24 Jan 2018

Golden Girls (with Reference to the Case of Jill Masterson)

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Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (1964)  looking burnished and beautiful  For many skin fetishists, epidermal erot...
11 Oct 2017

On Black Dandyism (With Reference to the Case of Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)  The New York Times Magazine  (10 Feb 1985) "Being a black man", says Ekow...
11 Jun 2017

In Memory of Roger Moore and Adam West

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     Roger Moore as 007 and Adam West as Batman In the same way that many of us subscribe to the view that Roger Moore is the best B...
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5 Nov 2015

Margaret Nolan: Artist, Actress, Object

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Margaret Nolan (IMDB) Photo © 2011 Silver Screen Collection  Courtesy of gettyimages.com  The case of Margaret Nolan, the Lond...