June 24

It's June 24th


In 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar
contract.

In 1938 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. Numerous reports
of the Chicora meteor mention that a cow was struck and injured by a falling stone;
some accounts saying the cow was killed.

In 1968 - The Beach Boys released "Friends"


In 1997 - Hours after shipping 100,000 copies of the Insane Clown Posse album
The Great Milenko, the group's label, Hollywood Records (a Disney subsidiary), recalls
the shipments over concerns about the "inappropriate" lyrics.


In 2003 - The Mars Volta released "De-Loused in the Comatorium"


Adrienne Shelly
as Gloria O'Conner in "Hexed"


Hope Sandoval


Danielle Spencer


Charles Sturridge


Nancy Allen
on Tubi

John Illsley


Patrick Moraz


Peter Weller

on Tubi

Mick Fleetwood


Colin Blunstone



Chris Wood


Jeff Beck


Arthur Brown


Erkin Koray


Brigitte Fontaine


Robert Downey Sr.


Claude Chabrol
on Criterion Channel

Margeret Olley


Al Molinaro

Ramblin' Tommy Scott


Saloua Raouda Choucair
"Rectangular Form Module"

"Moving Dual"


Arseny Tarkovsky
"There Has to Be More"

Now Summer is gone
And might never have been.
In the sunshine it’s warm,
But there has to be more.
It all came to pass,
All fell into my hands
Like a five-petalled leaf,
But there has to be more.
Nothing evil was lost,
Nothing good was in vain,
All ablaze with clear light
But there has to be more.
Life gathered me up
Safe under it’s wing,
My luck always held,
But there has to be more.
Not a leaf was burned up
Not a twig ever snapped
Clean as glass is the day
But there has to be more.

(read in the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky)

Phil Harris


Marcel Mule


Jean Metzinger
"Nu (Nu Debout)"


Robert Henri
"Edna Smith in a Japanese Wrap"


Eleanor Norcross
"My Studio"


Jan Matejko
"Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk"

"Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God"


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