March 9 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Juliette Binoche, Taina Elg, Joe Franklin, Will Geer, Raul Julia, Richard Muenz, Lonny Price, Kerr Smith, Trish Van Devere, and Joyce Van Patten!
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#OTD The Incredible Jewel Robbery with Harpo & Chico Marx, 1959
Island Life 😚
Heavily developed and produced by Eric Kripke with veteran executive producer Laura Ziskin, “Tarzan ‘03” was made in the vein of WB’s “Smallville”; a young adult reimagining of sorts, where the famed heroic lead is faced with contemporary (early 2000s) dramatic tones. In the series, the action is set in New York City and concerns John Clayton (aka Tarzan), the heir to the billion-dollar Greystoke Industries; long thought dead with his parents in an airline crash in central Africa, his uncle, who took over said company, was able to locate and capture the grown wild man and keeps him locked up in secret. After Clayton’s escape, he encounters his Jane, an NYPD detective in this adaptation, who becomes entwined in the intrigue and falls in love with Clayton. Fimmel, who had little prior acting experience, was nonetheless very exposed as a Calvin Klein, where Ziskin spied and selected him to play the title role. Though it received a huge marketing push, the series seems to have failed in drawing an audience and lasted only one season. Kripke went on to have great success in developing television shows, creating both “Supernatural” and “The Boys.” Fimmel later found a true breakthrough role in History Channel’s “Vikings,” and continues to act in film and television.
“The Hunt Is On”
It’s Tarzan Thursday!
Today’s subject: Travis Fimmel, Australian actor, who portrayed the apeman in the short lived WB 2003 television series “Tarzan.”
#tarzan #portrait #caricature
Wishing a happy heavenly birthday to Canadian-American actress Catherine O’Hara, who passed away earlier this year.
Known for “SCTV,” “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone,” and “Schitt’s Creek.”
#caricature #portrait #sketchbook
March 4 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Gloria Gaither, John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, Robert Emmett Keane, Dorothy MacKaill, Paula Prentiss, Jaime Tirelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and Steven Weber!
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March 3 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Florence Auer, Diana Barrymore, Edna Best, James Doohan, Jean Harlow, Hattie Winston, and Tom Wolfe!
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns speaks to our curator Alan Pally for our new online exhibition The Belle of Broadway: Hirschfeld Draws Julie Harris!
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Congratulations Harrison Ford on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the #ActorAwards!
Images:
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones from 1981's Best in Review
The Cast of Force Ten from Navarone, 1978
What is your favorite Harrison Ford performance?
Born On This Day:
Gordon Scott, actor of Tarzan and sword and sandal movies of the 50s and 60s.
Wishing a happy heavenly birthday to Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American singer, actor, and civil rights activist.
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HTTP://Wrestlingis.gay
Already saw some of yall rocking the new stuff last night
Get it while it’s gay
February 28 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tom Aldredge, Kelly Bishop, Gemze de Lappe, Don Franks, Vincent Minnelli, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, Molly Picon, Cristina Ruehl, and Tommy Tune!
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Born on this date: Gavin Macleod
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They look so nice!
Often deemed one of the most beautiful women of film stardom, she wore many hats in her long career: child actress, bona fide film star, serial spouse, tabloid fodderess, Oscar winner, veteran witness of the last days of Hollywood’s Golden Age studio system, perfume spokeswoman, advocate for those living with HIV. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that she was the avatar for Hollywood fame for over four decades, the comparison point for many a would-be screen starlet afterward. Here, I’ve sketched Miss Taylor during her “weird 70s” era, in the mesmerizing thriller “The Driver’s Seat” (“Identikit,” in some releases and regions).
Born On This Day:
Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress of screen and stage.
#caricature #portrait #sketchbook
Happy 30th anniversary to the Pokémon franchise, one of my favorites.
I was recently reunited with my old childhood Pikachu stuffie.
Looking forward to Winds and Waves
Born on this date: Elizabeth Taylor
Let’s take an examination, for science 🍈 🍈 😚
Tarzan lets loose his famed “cry of the bull-ape,” ready to swing into action. Pencil sketch
It’s #TarzanThursday!
An imagine spot of free movement athlete Di Ma as the iconic apeman.
Born on this date: Johnny Cash
Some recent sketchbook work:
@jj-mccullough.bsky.social , Canadian political and cultural commentator and YouTube video producer. He’s also a fellow artist, so it’s nice to catch him in caricature!
#youtube #portrait #pencil
#OTD Groucho Marx (Clipping from Colliers Magazine), 1951
🖖 Majel Barrett
February 23 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Majel Barrett, Kristin Davis, Sophie Hayden, Patricia Richardson, and Brad Whitford!
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We’re living for his majesty 🙇
