Via killingbambi (again), via theblogofrecord
Via apatientboy:
Rod Serling talks censorship, art vs. commerce, selling out, and more in this brilliant interview with Mike Wallace from 1959 (just before The Twilight Zone premiered on television).
Alla Nazimova as the title character in her screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, 1923. John Coulthart writes: “Nazimova inaugurated the project, produced it and even part-financed it since the studios, increasingly worried by pressure from moral campaigners, regarded it as a dangerously decadent work. Nazimova had a rather colourful off-screen life and the stories of orgiastic revels at her mansion, the Garden of Allah, probably didn’t help matters.”
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“Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)” by Fritz Kahn, 1926; via { feuilleton }.
Anyone who knows me personally can tell you I love bears like nobody’s business.