Happy anniversary to “Pine Barrens.”
25 years ago today, one of the greatest episodes of The Sopranos premiered and gave television Paulie and Christopher lost in the woods over a Russian in interior decorator lore.
In 1948, Pablo Picasso drew a bull in 14 seconds, but it was the product of decades of practice and his earlier bull studies like the 1945 lithograph series Le Taureau.
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"You know something? There's been a lot of rumours lately, about a certain band called Queen. The rumours are that we're going to split up, what do you think? They're talking from here! My apologies, but I say what I want. You can forget those rumors, we're going to stay together until we fu*king well die, I assure you! Also, I suppose we're not, we're not bad for four aging Queens, are we, really, what do you think?"
- Freddie Mercury
The crop duster chase in North by Northwest (1959) is Hitchcock at his peak.
No music, no buildup, just pure suspense and Cary Grant in the middle of nowhere.
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When Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt in 1959, they made the patent free for all competitors to use in order to save lives because it had more value as a free life-saving tool than something to profit from.