“Patricia Neal, an Oscar Winner Who Endured Tragedy, Dies at 84,” New York Times

When he is not working, he travels the globe, attends the San Francisco Symphony, listens to traditional jazz, collects German Expressionist graphics and watches old movies (his favorites are “Sunset Boulevard” and “Double Indemnity”).

“Distilling the same-sex marriage case,” Los Angeles Times

Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (1986)

Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical facsimiles, from The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing (1927) via & via

In the 1960s, John Waters was an admirer of a lesbian stripper in Baltimore named Lady Zorro. “She just came out nude and snarled at her fans, ‘What the fuck are you looking at?’ To this day,” Waters writes in his splendid new book, “Zorro is my inspiration.”

The rest of my review of his new book is here.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

He emerges from nowhere, looks like Robert Culp, the fog rolling, then parting, then sort of closing up again behind him.

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969)

Via filesmattwolf.

Related: Does Mark Jude Poirier have special psychic powers? Here’s an excerpt from his story of February 4, weeks before the recent events at SeaWorld Orlando:

We drove to Wildwood Aquarium, left Alice at her apartment, even though it had been her idea to go. The week before, a German visitor to the aquarium had been killed, bitten in two by Sammy, the angry orca, as he held a fish for it. The crowd had cheered when the water turned red, then pink. People posted videos and photos on the Internet, but they had barely mentioned it on the news because the garbage strike was in full force then, and the city smelled like death.

You can read the rest of “Aquarium Souvenir” at Significant Objects.