Anne Bradstreet
Author: The Junk Drawer of Shawn's Mind (Page 22 of 23)
Theodore Roethke
My town
Woody Allen on the set of “Sleeper”
Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman, 1855 and 1891
When they were wee: Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, Prince
This is apparently a young Russell Brand. Everybody say with me: “Now I get it….”
Like James Bond, Sir Sean Connery was a Navy man.
448 years old today. Happy Birthday, Soul of the Age!
John Keats’ death mask
H. D.
Charles Baudelaire
Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, 1978
Rufus (with Chaka Khan)
“I’m just a snoop.” (This is what I always answer when asked what my favorite movie is, btw….)
This fellow turns 75 today. Happy birthday, Jack!
John Berryman & Robert Lowell
Denzel Washington in “Malcolm X”
Paris, 1932: James Joyce’s prescription for new glasses
Four faces of Bickle
Ezra Pound
Marianne Moore
Seamus Heaney
Wendy Cope
Christopher Smart
Dante Alighieri
O Rei
I like Rock: Mr. Hudson campaigns for mayor of Universal City, 1953
Charles Boyer & Humphrey Bogart play chess. Lauren Bacall & chessmaster Herman Steiner play something else.
“Is that a man?” “You’re damn right it is.” RIP Levon Helm.
So who forgave whom? Evander Holyfield & Mike Tyson, April 2012
John Clare
Pablo Neruda
Paul Muldoon
Frank O’Hara
John Berryman
Gathering of the gods: Pele and Namath, date unknown
Billion-dollar babies: Paul Allen (seated) instructs Bill Gates, 1968
The Heptones, early days and later on….
La Mano de Lego
Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lee Patrick, and John Huston on the set of The Maltese Falcon
Bored no more!
Le bored
Il Maestro on the set of “Satyricon”
A brand new bag indeed….
#rctid
Ringo
Garcon
Shawn Levy's books include the best-sellers The Castle on Sunset, Rat Pack Confidential, Paul Newman: A Life, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, and Dolce Vita Confidential.
He also wrote and narrated the podcast Glitter & Might. The former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV, he has written for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, Interview, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Black Rock Beacon. He jumps and claps and sings for victory in Portland, Oregon.
