A Little Game of Roman Ping Pong

Hey, you're a sort of bad loser, Captain. I never found a guy who'd sort of pull a gun on me when he lost a game. Didn't anyone ever tell you - it's not really who wins, it's how you play, like the champs...

Ritratto di due amici (Jacopo Pontormo, 1524)

 ... Amicitia plurimas res continet quoquo te verteris praesto est nullo loco excluditur Numquam intem pestiva numquam molesta est Intaque non aqua non igni ut aiunt pluribus locis utimur Quam Amicitia. (Cicero, De amicitia, 44 BCE)

El pintor del Ganay Salvator Mundi.

 Apoyando un post que hice hace algunos años, una especialista del Prado dijo que cree que el Ganay Salvator Mundi y el Prado Mona Lisa son del mismo artista, que creo que es Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina.

Además, el personal curatorial del Prado parece apoyar mi creencia de que Dubai Salvator Mundi es una obra realizada bajo la supervisión y con la colaboración de Leonardo. Como afirmó Joseph Nechvatal hace unos años, el probable asistente es Bernardino Luini.

Nuevas Fotos de Miguel de Nuevo México

Han pasado años desde la última vez que encontré nuevas fotos de él, pero recientemente lo hice. No sé si realmente se llama Miguel, y si realmente reside en Nuevo México, pero sí sé que estas no son fotos recientes y que solo son nuevas para mí y posiblemente para los lectores de este blog. Algunas de estas fotos fueron tomadas al mismo tiempo que se filmaron los videos, que se publicaron aquí hace años. Espero que todo lo que haya hecho con su vida desde entonces sea de su agrado. No tengo ninguna duda de que se merece ser feliz. (No todo el mundo lo hace).

Dean Stockwell (5 March 1936 – 7 November 2021)

Dean Stockwell started out young in the business and continued on for another seven decades.  Among his earliest roles was opposite Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in George Sidney's Anchors Aweigh (1945) as a little boy who wants to join the Navy.

He went on to play the Boy with Green Hair (Joseph Losey, 1948) and of course alongside Margret O'Brien in the Secret Garden (Fred Wilcox, 1949).  I first remember seeing him with Errol Flynn in Kim (Victor Saville, 1950).  Of his work as an adult he's most famous for Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) and as Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962). 

He won the Cannes Film Festival best actor award for both of these roles.  Of course he never received an Academy Award, though he was nominated once, and then only as Supporting Actor, late in his career, for Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme, 1988).

He should be best remembered, however for the two films he made with David Lynch, as Dr Wellington Yueh in DUNE (1984) and as Ben in Blue Velvet (1987). He's perfect and completely different from one to the next in both roles. Let's hear it for Ben, but above all: Remember the Tooth!

RIP.

Pero aunque he llorado y ayunado

lloró y oró,

Aunque he visto mi cabeza (un poco calva) traída en una bandeja
No soy un profeta, y aquí no hay gran cosa
He visto parpadear el momento de mi grandeza
Y he visto al lacayo eterno sostener mi abrigo y reírse disimuladamente,
Y en resumen, tenía miedo.

But though I have wept and fasted,

  wept and prayed,

Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter

I am no prophet — and here's no great matter

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

And in short, I was afraid. 

Reverend Mother Ramallo calls

Sayyadina. Our Reverend Mother tells me she is too old... She has been calling through space and time for you to come and let her rest. She asks that you pass within.