Sleeping Hermaphrodite in Niche of the Sala dell’Ermafrodito
Roman copy after an original from the 2nd century B.C. The mattress was added later by the Italian Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
The Borghese Gallery (Italian: Galleria Borghese) Rome, Italy
More with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Left: Peter Hall’s design for Belle’s music box and jewelry case, watercolor, Disney.
Right: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing 1767, Oil on CanvasOriginally the film was meant to have a music box as Belle’s confidant. You can see the clear quotations from Fragonard’s Swing, 1767.
— May 28, 2012 —
Inspirational figures get personal and share a passion with us in AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You.
Matthew Gray Gubler “I don’t like to go ‘medium’ on anything. When I had to get an internship to graduate from film school, there was an easy way to do it, but I thought: ‘Fuck it! Wes Anderson’s in New York and he’s my favourite film maker!’ For me, in life, it’s always seemed that the quickest point between two things is a direct path, so why not go straight into working for and learning from the best? Actually, I was the worst intern ever! Like, he would send me on shopping runs and I wouldn’t know what couscous was, and… I don’t know. He to me is one of the greatest living directors, so I’m still very nervous when I speak to him. I’m like, [raises his voice an octave] ‘Hey Wes! Yeah, yeah, sure Wes!’ I’m still amazed that I was in a Wes Anderson movie with such incredible actors. I actually really like actors who can’t help being themselves no matter what film they’re in. Like, I love Jeff Goldblum, because he’s always just being Jeff Goldblum, but who the fuck’s Jeff Goldblum?! No one’s like Jeff Goldblum.
If you and I should ever meet again let us live together for one year. My heart is the inverse of yours… you are kind, and pure, and honest. And I am sure that is how you will continue to grow up. Your heart will remain pure. So, if we should ever meet again I will try my hardest to learn to love you. Just for one year. And after that year if I can consider you ‘special’ you will have won, and I will not kill you. But if I decide that I cannot consider you special to me, if I cannot distinguish between you and that corpse, then…I will kill you. And so, today I will let you go.
❀ Happy Birthday, Kimberley!
