Joan Fontaine has died. The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and NPR have obituaries. Here are a clip of Fontaine in Suspicion, the trailer for Jane Eyre and Fontaine’s screen test for Rebecca. Fontaine co-hosts the Mike Douglas Show in 1967 here.
Actor Peter O’Toole has died. NPR remembers O’Toole. The Guardian, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times have obituaries. Here is O’Toole on the Charley Rose program, in My Favorite Year, in Lawrence of Arabia and singing with Richard Harris.
Doc Hammer talks about The Venture Bros., janked-up tattoos and art with Inked Magazine.
Geena Davis has two suggestions for making films and television shows less sexist. They’d work well for increasing diversity of all kinds.
“The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr!” (Thanks, Kate!)
BibliOdyssey shares images and text from Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance maps. (Thanks, @Kinetograph!)
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The Cultural Gutter 