I miss their IG interactions...🥹
183 notes
·
View notes
HARRY BELAFONTE (1927- Died April 25th 2023,at 96.Congestive Heart failure). American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature "Day-O" lyric, "Jump in the Line", and "Jamaica Farewell". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in several films, including Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award,and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category and was the oldest living person to have received the honour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte
396 notes
·
View notes
Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano during the shooting of Ulysses (1954)
8 notes
·
View notes
Jeremy Allen White in “ Hollywood’s most wanted” by Craig McDean for Interview Mag (2016)
82 notes
·
View notes
Bailey and Bomer 💜 Beautiful Partnership 💜
Fellow Travelers 💜
How I’d love to be with Jonathan 😊😊😊
128 notes
·
View notes
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
Oprah Winfrey - Actress - Talk Show Host - Producer - Philanthropist
4 notes
·
View notes
PAUL REUBENS (1952-Died July 30th 2023,at 70.Cancer).an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and children's entertainer. He was known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s, and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, Reubens began appearing in a show about a character he had been developing for years. The show was called The Pee-wee Herman Show, and ran for five sold-out months; HBO also produced a successful special about it. Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and, for the next decade, Reubens was completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. His feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), directed by Tim Burton, was a financial and critical success, and soon developed into a cult film. Its sequel, Big Top Pee-wee (1988), was less successful. Between 1986 and 1990, Reubens starred as Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children's program Pee-wee's Playhouse. Reubens made cameos and appearances in numerous projects, such as Reno 911! (2006), 30 Rock (2007), Pushing Daisies (2007), Life During Wartime (2009), The Blacklist (2014–2015), Accidental Love (2015) and Mosaic (2018). He also played the voice role of Pavel in the Disney XD television series Tron: Uprising (2012–2013).During his career,he had run into troubles in his personal life,with arrests for indecent exposure and dealing with pornographic meterials,causing him to have a brief fall from grace.He returned to his Pee Wee Herman character,after his successful role in the 2001 crime frama film,Blow.Paul Reubens - Wikipedia
115 notes
·
View notes
Paul Robeson
Winold Reiss (American, born Germany; 1886–1953)
In: The New Negro: An Interpretation. Edited by Alain Locke; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925)
The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
32 notes
·
View notes