#BOTD

#BOTD 1944. Remembering singer, musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Pretty Things - Phil May. (d.2020)

The late, impossibly beautiful (but extremely problematic and questionable) Alain Delon, iconic French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman, was #BOTD on 11/8/1935 and passed away at 88 on 8/18/2024.

#BOTD 1941. Remembering musician, songwriter, and vocalist Tom Fogerty. (d.1990) #CCR

#BOTD 1936. Remembering singer Mary Travers. (d.2009)

Remembering French film legend and classic beauty Stephane Audran on her 94th birthday, acclaimed for her roles in LES COUSINS, LES BONNES FEMMES, LE BOUCHER, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, COUP DE TORCHON, BABETTE'S FEAST, and much more. She was #BOTD on 11/8/1932.

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.” - Bram Stoker #botd on 11/8/1847 In memory of the renowned Irish writer, barrister, literary critic, and theatre manager, who remains beloved for his influentual novel DRACULA.

“Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World #BOTD #CarlSagan #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Claims #Proof

Alain Delon 🙏 #BOTD Nov. 8, 1935 – Aug. 18, 2024 "I hate this era... Everything is false, everything is distorted. There is no more respect, no more word given. It's only the money that counts. We hear about crimes all day long. I know that I will leave this world without regrets." Alain Delon

"Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/…. ✒️ #AnneSexton, American poet (Pulitzer 1967), was #BOTD 9 November 1928. #Poetry #Literature

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." 📸 🎞 Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker #RobertFrank was #BOTD 9 November 1924. #Art #Photography

"Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. That's the way I was. The unknown was always so attractive to me... and still is." 🎭 #HedyLamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes), was #BOTD 9 November 1914. #Film ##Filmmaking

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." ✒ #IvanTurgenev, Russian novelist, poet, and playwright ("Fathers & Sons"), was #BOTD 9 November 1818. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature