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!)
And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the self That was her song, for she was the maker. from “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens My wife is fascinated by sharks and the Titanic, so I’ve seen a lot […]