What's My Line?

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Yves Saint Laurent


Frank Lloyd Wright


Paul Newman


Jayne Mansfield

Down Here on the Ground

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While we were on the road, Paul Newman died, and I wanted to post something about that, but it fell through the cracks. Being so late with it, I won't add another obituary to the mix…I will take the opportunity, though, to post one of the most beautiful pieces of soundtrack music I've ever heard, from one of Newman's best films.

Lalo Schifrin Ballad of Cool Hand Luke mp3

"This is on for your education...we're gonna re-educate you."

Via Jen Graves at SLOG, The Guardian has posted its list of the top fifty arts videos on YouTube. James Dean and Paul Newman screen testing for East of Eden, Jack Kerouac reading from On the Road, Nirvana practicing in an Aberdeen garage circa 1988, Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema, Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul TV Special – the list is heavy. Here are two videos that make 1970s New York City feel like a small town:

Martin Scorsese's 1973 short on the inspiration for Mean Streets:


And Jean-Michel Basquiat on Glenn O'brien's TV Party, 1978:


48 more things to look at here.