Michael Warburton

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 06:06 UTC

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

Independence Day director ROLAND EMMERICH went crazy with the interior design of his Knightsbridge house. And I love it.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Behind the scenes with Hitch in Covent Garden and on the South Bank shooting FRENZY (1972)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1970) 📷 by Lawrence Schiller

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

In 1974 an 18yr old high school student in California by the name of TOM HANKS wrote to ‘The Sting’ director George Roy Hill asking to be ‘discovered’. Young ‘Thomas J. Hanks’ got a reply from the Oscar winning director. Happy 68th birthday Thomas 🎂

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 10:19 UTC

68 Candles 🎂 today for one of our finest TOM HANKS

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

The Gem Theater - Pioche, Nevada (2015) 📷 by Ed Freeman

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

Remembering MARTY FELDMAN - born 90yrs ago today.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

Miles

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

Paul McCartney on the last time he saw George Harrison.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Cary Grant on the set of FATHER GOOSE (1964)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 12:09 UTC

Charles Bukowski and Faye Dunaway on the set of BARFLY (1987)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

Barbra Streisand in 1969 📷 by Cecil Beaton

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:44 UTC

10yr old DANIEL DAY-LEWIS tucks into ice cream next to his Poet Laureate Dad - Cecil - in 1967.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:34 UTC

The last photo of THE BEATLES together - taken August 22nd 1969 at John’s Berkshire estate,Tittenhurst Park. 📷 by Ethan Russell

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

Man Of 1000 Voices - MEL BLANC's gravestone could only be and is “That's All Folks” Wonderful.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

Dunaway & Beatty BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:55 UTC

Eartha Kitt drinking honey before a performance in 1959

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

In the aftermath of the film’s premiere Noël Coward told Peter O'Toole that if he had “been any prettier, the film would have been called Florence of Arabia.” LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

This cracking follow-up did phenomenal business at the box office ($240m off a budget of $62m) and opened 34yrs ago today can you believe.

DIE HARD 2 (1990)

#BruceWillis

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

Sophia Loren in 1961

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

One of the great Hollywood Producers & Studio Heads in one of the greatest decades in Film history - the 70’s.

ROBERT EVANS

#TheGodfather #Chinatown #MarathonMan #TheOddCouple #Serpico #TheConversation #HaroldAndMaude

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:19 UTC

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on the set of ‘Guess Who's Coming To Dinner’ (1967). GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) 2wks after TRACY finished filming & 2 days after his death, anti-miscegenation laws were finally struck down by the Supreme Court.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

Liberace and Bob Dylan backstage at David Letterman’s show - New York City in 1984.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:16 UTC

Buddies. Colleagues. Film men.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 10:27 UTC

A wonderful shot of OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND at her Beverly Hills home in 1942 looking for all the world like it could've been taken yesterday.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

98yr old DAVID ATTENBOROUGH taking his seat on Centre Court at Wimbledon today. Definition of legend.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 09:35 UTC

In case you didn’t love GEORGE HARRISON enough - here’s a fantastic story about him brilliantly pranking Phil Collins.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 05:02 UTC

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 05:01 UTC

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:59 UTC

Kurt Vonnegut

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

Oscar winnng Actress and 70’s icon - FAYE DUNAWAY - reflects on her own filmography (‘Chinatown’, ‘Bonnie And Clyde’ and ‘Network’ etc) along with the tantrums & scandals — in the brand new HBO documentary produced by Steven Spielberg. FAYE (2024) Airs July 13th

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 07:06 UTC

Hollywoodland - 1926

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

27yr old CHARLIE CHAPLIN in 1916

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

De Niro TAXI DRIVER (1976)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth in a gorgeous publicity still for their 1942 picture - ‘You Were Never Lovelier’

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Not everyone in Hollywood is full of shit.

#MichaelMann

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

One of the all-time great Hollywood anecdotes. John Boorman on the late great LEE MARVIN.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

If walls could talk then the ‘Garden Of Allah’ in Hollywood would’ve spilled some serious shit. For this was place from the mid 1930’s to the late 1950’s was where Hollywood’s famous & powerful went to party down & tear it up. And boy did they.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968) Released in L.A. & NYC 56yrs ago today.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top actress in Hollywood, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology. Helluva lady.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

In 1974 an 18yr old high school student in California by the name of TOM HANKS wrote to ‘The Sting’ director George Roy Hill asking to be ‘discovered’. Young ‘Thomas J. Hanks’ even got a reply from the Oscar winning director.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Did you know that a blinking light at the top of the Capitol Records Tower spells out H O L L Y W O O D in Morse code? Leila Morse - Samuel Morse’s granddaughter - flipped the beacon switch for the first time in 1956 and its done so every night since the building was erected.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 07:11 UTC

Stevie Wonder - London (1967)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:49 UTC

Claude Monet on his Japanese bridge at Giverny.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 11:01 UTC

BILLY WILDER’s wonderful gravestone at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery - CA.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

Rutger on the set of BLADE RUNNER (1982) which premiered 42yrs ago today.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 09:41 UTC

Connery & Baldwin on the set of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990)

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