Dean and Newman's Vaguely Homoerotic Screen Test
Aww! A 1950s screen test of Paul Newman and James Dean. Paul: your salad dressing is delicious! [via Cynical C]
Aww! A 1950s screen test of Paul Newman and James Dean. Paul: your salad dressing is delicious! [via Cynical C]
From a 1932 ad for the Automat in London: "Dialing [the] number of soft drink or wine delivers a shot from the spigot, thus eliminating customary bar tenders." Well, that can't possibly have been good for the wine. [Modern Mechanix]
Those communist-era magazines seem so quaint, if one forgets the dull horror of the system that produced them. Russia's Soviet Museum carries an excellent online collection of the usual propaganda posters and photographs—and these images of...
Things we miss about old-timey journalism: bourbon in every desk drawer, the sound of 400 Underwoods clacking away at the same time, teletype rolls cascading out into the hallway and the undivided attention of the American public. Things we...
Oh! the night that I struck New York, I went out for a quiet walk; Folks who are "on to" the city say, Better by far that I took Broadway; But I was out to enjoy the sights, There was the Bow'ry ablaze with lights; I had one of the devil's own...
Yesterday's gallery of journalism flicks, whose soaring soundtracks are partly responsible for infecting your mind with the Pulitzer bug, was a collection of some of our favorites. Twelve of yours, clamored after in the comments, are after the...
Newspapers aren't what they used to be, what with their declining circulations and evolving missions, and old-school, hard-drinking writers and editors like the Post's Steve Dunleavy are retiring and dying of liver failure in droves. The exciting...
Don't lie kids. There's nothing wrong with staving off career burnout and despair by watching Robert Redford make Bob Woodward look good in All the President's Men. You know you've done it and you've probably got the 1976 Watergate flick to blame...
The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. is celebrating its centennial this month. It's only semi-recently since they've tolerated women in the club: "In 1956, the men offered a compromise by inviting women to attend the luncheons, so long as...
The attached clip shows local news at its absolute finest: a hothouse of over-serious but under-talented egos, squabbling with each other over the responsibility of real journalists to cover broken elevator stories as thoroughly as possible. The...