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The Suit Makes the Man

I retained nothing from The Scarlett Hour (1956) except the gams.

Ed Bernard (right), Actor on ‘Police Woman’ and ‘The White Shadow’ #obitpix #edbernard #actor #brushdrawing #illustration

The Ruin of Kasch (@fsgbooks) by Roberto Calasso takes up two subjects: “The first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else,” wrote Italo Calvino. He wasn’t kidding. I’m way over my head, but I like feeling lost. #FridayReads

When Norma Rae (1979) was released I probably saw it as a goof. I was emotionally immature. I watched it again last week. During the climax, when Sally Field holds up the union placard and textile workers slowly turn off their machines in solidarity, I choked up. Today I’m a man.

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Death in Small Doses (1957) pits Mission Impossible Star Peter Graves, as an undercover narcotics agent, against the Rifleman pill-popping trucker, Chuck Conners, and the amphetamine pushers who feed his manic energy.

Christopher S. Wren, Times Bureau Chief in Hostile Lands #obitpix #nyt #reporter #bureauchief #brushdrawing

There was an abandoned house that obsessed my friend and me. It was a key to enter an exciting world as if we were the Hardy Boys or Kolchak. We never got in, nor really tried to find an entry that wasn’t bordered up. I didn’t know then, but just the quest meant we arrived. #tbt

A couple of spot illos for inside the color book cover I drew and posted a week ago. Stay tuned for its pub date.

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Crazy double exposure with Elisha Cook Jr. in the late-noir The Glass Cage (1964).

Carol Kitman (left, with husband, Marvin Kitman, who was a television critic and syndicated columnist), Photographer Documented the Vindman Twins #obitpix #carolkitman #photographer #vindmantwins #brushdrawing

When I want to express an original opinion or an idea, I search my brain for the proper cliche.

Is this love or necrophilia? @ohthehorrorla #zombie #horror #comedy #webcomic

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When I’m not home Janie gets love where she can find it.

Calvin Tomkins, Who Profiled Giants of Modern Art #obitpix #calvintomkins #artcritic #brushdrawing #illustration

A young woman came into the office with free samples from a new Korean restaurant. She asked what we did and I told her we cover the news business and journalists. “I’m a reporter,” she said, handing me her businesscard. “I’m just doing this to help a friend.” I chose to believe.

Three’s Company in Leftover Paint