When They Were Young

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Oliver Sacks (1933 – 2015) was a neurologist, naturalist, historian of science and an author. Born in Britain, and mostly educated there, he spent his career in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe." Sacks became widely known for writing best-selling case histories about both his patients' and his own disorders and unusual experiences, with some of his books adapted for plays by major playwrights, feature films, animated short films, opera, dance, fine art, and musical works.

 

The New York Times called him a "poet laureate of contemporary medicine." His books include a wealth of narrative detail about his experiences with his patients and his own experiences, and how each coped with their condition, often illuminating how the normal brain deals with perception, memory and individuality. In addition to the information content, the beauty of his writing style is especially appreciated by many of his readers.

 

Sacks swam almost every day for nearly his entire life, beginning when his swimming-champion father started him swimming as an infant. He became publicly well known for swimming when he lived in the City Island section of the Bronx, where he would routinely swim around the entire island, or swim vast distances away from the island and back.

 

Never married, Sacks lived alone for most of his life and addressed his homosexuality for the first time in his 2015 autobiography On the Move: A Life. Celibate for about 35 years since his forties, in 2008 he began a friendship with writer and New York Times contributor Bill Hayes that slowly evolved into a committed long-term partnership lasting until Sacks's death. He noted in a 2001 interview that severe shyness—which he described as "a disease"—had been a lifelong impediment to his personal interactions.

 

Here, at age 20 (1953) at Oxford:

 

Lifting weights, London, at age 23 (1956):

 

At 28 (1961) on his new BMW R60 in Greenwich Village:

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In Venice Beach, California, where he had an apartment for a while:

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And at 31 (1964) as a UCLA resident:

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I wonder if this is where @OliverSaks got his name?

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I wonder if this is where @OliverSaks got his name?

Absolutely :-) one of my original man crushes - brilliant and sexy (literally his entire life... especially his powerlifting days)

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"The Tarleton Twins"

 

Fred Crane, (1918-2008) was a film and television actor and radio announcer. George Reeves (1914-1959) was an actor best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program, Adventures of Superman.

 

The two men, who dyed their hair red to play the Tarleton twins in Gone With the Wind, are miscredited in the film: Crane is listed as Stuart Tarleton although he played Brent, Reeves is listed as Brent Tarleton but played Stuart. They appear in the movie's opening scene as suitors of Scarlett O'Hara.

 

Fred Crane, who died in Atlanta at age 90, was the last surviving adult male actor who appeared in GWTW.

 

George Reeves died of a gunshot wound at age 45. The official finding was suicide, but some believe he was murdered, or was the victim of an accidental shooting. Reeves' friend actor Rory Calhoun told a reporter, "No one in Hollywood believed the suicide story." (The 2006 film Hollywoodland dramatizes the investigation of Reeves' death.)

 

Here, in 1939, in a make-up still for Gone With the Wind, Reeves (on the left) is 25, Crane is 21.

 

And here (Crane on the left, Reeves on the right) with Vivien Leigh:

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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was born in Bohemia, a German-speaking Jew of humble circumstances. He displayed his musical gifts at an early age, and after graduating from the Vienna Conservatory, rose through a succession of increasingly important conducting posts in European opera houses.

 

Although his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music never gained wide popularity during his lifetime, and its performance was banned in much of Europe during the Nazi era. Only after 1945 were his compositions rediscovered and championed by a new generation of listeners. A bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century, Mahler has since become one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers.

 

Here, on the left, he is age 21 (1881):

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Having performed his symphonies 1,2,3,4,5,9,10, Rueckert Lieder, songs of the wayfarer, song of the earth, I think I earned the right to make a vacuous comment that I find the top picture of him with a beard quite appealing, clean shaven - not so much:

 

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Having performed his symphonies 1,2,3,4,5,9,10, Rueckert Lieder, songs of the wayfarer, song of the earth, I think I earned the right to make a vacuous comment that I find the top picture of him with a beard quite appealing, clean shaven - not so much:

I agree (to the point that I considered not including the clean shaven picture). The beard works!

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Well, I think he is cuter clean shaven.

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He was once described as looking like a strong and beautiful baroque angel.

 

In this headshot of American dancer and choreographer Louis Falco (1942-1993) he is age 27 (1969):

 

Born in New York City to Italian immigrant parents, Falco began his study of dance in the 1950s at The Henry Street Playhouse. While still a high school student, he started performing with Charles Weidman, a pioneer of modern dance in America. In 1960 he began dancing professionally with another contemporary dance pioneer, José Limón, and became a featured performer in Limón's company.

 

But Falco belonged to a generation that widened men's style from the stalwart, masculine kind of muscularity epitomized by Limón to include a more flexible, stretchy, openly sensuous and androgynous way of moving.

 

He made his debut as a choreographer in 1967, maintained his own company from 1967 to 1983, and choreographed for other companies as well. Falco had particular success as the choreographer for the 1980 film Fame, which depicted aspiring students at his own alma mater, the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

 

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography, was in demand as a teacher, staged opera productions and worked on Broadway. The success of Fame led to his dismantling his company and working in film, television and music videos. Louis Falco died from AIDS in 1993 at age 50.

 

At age 24 (1966):

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Gerard Butler-spectacular specimen of manhood. Unfortunately didn't age that well, his gorgeous photos first.

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His 300 pictures

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His current pictures-fortunately for us-memories back then will suffice for this magnificent specimen. I wondered if he partied too much?

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He was once described as looking like a strong and beautiful baroque angel.

In this headshot of American dancer and choreographer Louis Falco (1942-1993) he is age 27 (1969):

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For me he looks like someone Caravaggio might paint.

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Caravaggio's models probably didn't age well either.

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René Magritte (1898-1967), born in Belgium, attended art school in Brussels and worked in commercial advertising to support himself while he experimented with his painting. In the mid 1920s he began to paint in the surrealist style and became known for his witty and thought-provoking images and for a use of simple graphics and everyday objects that gave new meanings to familiar things. As his popularity increased over time, Magritte was able to pursue his art full-time. He experimented with numerous styles and forms during his life, and his work was a primary influence on the pop art movement. The Magritte Museum opened in Brussels in 2009.

 

Below, on the left, he is age 16 (1914):

 

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John Justin (1917-2002), born John Justinian de Ledesma in London, England, the son of a well-to-do Argentine rancher, was a British stage and film actor. Interested in acting from a young age, by 16 he had joined the Plymouth Repertory. At 20, he briefly trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, didn't care for it, and soon became part of the repertory company of John Gielgud. In 1938, he auditioned for and won the role for which he is best remembered, Ahmad in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad.

 

Preferring the stage to film acting, John Justin joined the Old Vic in 1959, and made his Broadway debut in 1960.

 

Here, at age 22 (1939) he is seen with June Duprez on the set of The Thief of Bagdad:

 

And here, as test pilot Philip Peel in David Lean's The Sound Barrier, he is 35 (1952):

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(1932-2014), born Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo in the Dominican Republic (he once said of himself, “I am the only Third World designer”), de la Renta was trained by Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo, and became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy.

 

He was also fashion’s favorite ladies’ man. Strikingly good-looking, fascinated by feminine style, with a strong color sense and impeccable social skills — a wonderful sense of humor among them — he became a court dressmaker to a large portion of the international set and a designer for several more First Ladies after Mrs. Kennedy.

 

“He was very handsome, with a perfect Latin-lover look,” noted Karl Lagerfeld. “In this business, very few have the charisma and the class of Oscar.”

 

 

"I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked." OSCAR DE LA RENTA

 

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"Always walk like you have three men walking behind you." OSCAR DE LA RENTA

 

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Pitcher Joe Albanese (1933-2000) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned eight seasons. During spring training with the Boston Red Sox in 1956, Albanese, age 22, stumbled and fell while attempting to field a toss from pitching coach Dave Ferriss in a conditioning game. He suffered a left shoulder separation, and was photographed in the locker by LIFE magazine photographer George Silk.

 

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Those pictures made me think of the controversy around Larry Nassar, a sports doctor convicted of molesting many, many young female (and at least one male) gymnasts under the cover of examinations & therapy. "You've got a separated shoulder? Let's get your pants off."

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Those pictures made me think of the controversy around Larry Nassar, a sports doctor convicted of molesting many, many young female (and at least one male) gymnasts under the cover of examinations & therapy. "You've got a separated shoulder? Let's get your pants off."

In this case, it looks like they've iced the shoulder, helped Albanese towel off after a shower, then helped him get his clothes on.

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Marcello Mastroianni

 

Just re-watched one of my all time favorite movies: A Special Day (Una Giornata Particolare). It was made in 1977 with Ettore Scola as director and Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni as its two principle actors. It is a beautiful, graceful film with Loren as an overly tired, repressed housewife and Mastroianni as her gay neighbor who is being exiled for his sexual orientation. They give probably the best performances they have ever given. Here is a short review/synopsis: This film literally took my breath away ! Both Mastroianni and Loren are fantastic actors, who can express a whole range of human feelings in just a look or a silence. This film is an unbelievable contrast : simplicity and sobriety in form but ultimate sophistication in content and in the actors' performance. I have never seen a film which raises so many questions at the same time : war, family, tolerance, women's condition, fanaticism, homosexuality, etc. Furthermore, it is a wonderful love story between two people who are actually too good for the world they live in. And last but not least, the contrast between the scruffy apartments and the beauty and elegance of Mastroianni and Loren is incredible. Mr. Scola achieved a masterpiece without make up, special effects or wonderful sceneries. When you have seen the film, you will understand that the special day was not for Mussolini and Hitler, who all the sudden seem very unimportant compared to what happened to the two characters. The day I have seen this film was definitely a special day for me as well, unforgettable ! It is just the most human film I have ever seen, a wonder of refinement.

 

 

 

 

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Chad Bannon (a/k/a Chad Ullery, Dusty Manning - born 1970, now 47) is an American television and movie actor best known for his role as Killer Karl in House of 1000 Corpses and for playing D.O.A. on the sports entertainment program Battle Dome. He has also competed as a kickboxer and mixed martial artist. In 1995 (as Dusty Manning) he modeled for photographer and COLT Studio founder Jim French, and in October of that year landed the cover of ADVOCATE MEN.

 

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Rex Bell (born George Francis Beldam, 1903-1962) was an American actor, rancher, businessman and politician. He made his film debut in Wild West Romance (1928) and continued to work mostly in Westerns. He moved on to other pursuits after 1936, although he occasionally had small roles in later films, the final one being in The Misfits (1961), which was also the last completed film of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. Bell was in his second term as the Lieutenant Governor of Nevada when he died of a heart attack at 58. From 1931 until his death, he was married to "The It Girl," Clara Bow.

 

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Randy Becker (born 1970, now 48) is a former actor probably best known for playing Ramon Fornos in Love! Valour! Compassion! both on Broadway (1995) and in the film adaptation (1997). More recently, he has worked as a literary manager and producer.

 

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Love! Valour! Compassion!

I saw Mr. Pecker...er, Becker in this marvelous Broadway play. He was impressive.