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# ![@BoylanRoger Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1440407776165990413.png) @BoylanRoger Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan posts on X about switzerland, paris, vienna, venice the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [countries](/list/countries)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [formula 1](/list/formula-1)  [finance](/list/finance)  [musicians](/list/musicians)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[switzerland](/topic/switzerland) #983, [paris](/topic/paris) #1640, [vienna](/topic/vienna) #335, [venice](/topic/venice), [rome](/topic/rome) #822, [jack nicholson](/topic/jack-nicholson), [france](/topic/france), [london](/topic/london), [dublin](/topic/dublin), [havana](/topic/havana)

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"A date memorable for two major events: the assassination attempt on Hitler 1944; and the moon landing [----]. Oh and in between I was born. Can't quite remember the year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1549757429411446784)  2022-07-20T14:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"John Constable Salisbury Cathedral 1830ish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1601589896996884482)  2022-12-10T14:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Anthony Burgess and his wife Liana in Rome 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1609923504396181505)  2023-01-02T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"One of those impossibly beautiful Swiss scenes: Lake Thun canton of Bern. There's a reason that everything I write these days tends to finish in Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1678753143293616133)  2023-07-11T13:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Another shot of Jeremy Irons and Smudge at the family castle Kilcoe Co. Cork Ireland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1679468787001688065)  2023-07-13T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Kirk Douglas and George Macready in "Paths of Glory" Kubrick's [----] WW1 masterpiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1681647815540260864)  2023-07-19T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Meiringen Switzerland locus of "The Final Problem.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1683535919645638668)  2023-08-03T01:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"James Joyce wearing a dressing gown reading over his notes for "Work In Progress" later known as "Finnegans Wake" a project that kept him guffawing into the night much to Nora's annoyance. But there was a great deal about the man she loved that annoyed Nora"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1687097923031678976)  2023-08-03T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole remembering old times over tea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1688183200391086080)  2023-08-06T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"At the Martinho de Arcada cafe in Lisbon Fernando Pessoa's table is still reserved for him (he died in 1935). A charming custom. I highly recommend Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet" written by one of his "heteronyms" Bernardo Soares. Crazy but brilliant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1688220901999783937)  2023-08-06T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Roger Moore as The Saint with his Volvo P1800 the essential accessory for the TV series 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1689256058068332544)  2023-08-09T12:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Vincent Price handing out hot dogs at Dodgers Stadium 1965"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1689617723620225024)  2023-08-10T12:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Christopher Lee and Vincent Price playing chess during a break in the filming of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oblong Box" 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1689622522721865728)  2023-08-10T12:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Marilyn Monroe going for a bike ride with her then-husband Arthur Miller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1690707374917492736)  2023-08-13T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Leslie Howard the English actor whose courage in going into the war zone led to his plane being shot down by the Luftwaffe in [----]. Rumor had it they thought Churchill was also on board"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1690797371788042241)  2023-08-13T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in "The In-Laws" [----]. It remains one of the best movie comedies skirting absurdity but never abandoning the story for the sake of laughs. And these two main actors were priceless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1691082372677029889)  2023-08-14T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Peter Falk an accomplished painter as well as a pretty good actor in his studio in Beverly Hills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1691874019430023203)  2023-08-16T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"P. G. Wodehouse browsing the works of his favorite author"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1692872091274543302)  2023-08-19T12:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Lynne Frederick and her husband Peter Sellers on the set of "Revenge of the Pink Panther" [----]. One of the best Panthers as we connoisseurs agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1693333740376805620)  2023-08-20T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"G. K. Chesterton braving the elements in Brighton 1935"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1693953363036020816)  2023-08-22T11:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter Sellers with his Aston Martin DB4GT a rare high-performance version of an already legendary car on a sidestreet in London during filming of "The Wrong Arm of the Law" 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1694335135263383919)  2023-08-23T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Gromit eyes the penguin suspiciously in "The Wrong Trousers." With good reason as we soon discover. A masterpiece of the craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695051835311022166)  2023-08-25T12:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Dylan Thomas rehearsing his final act at the White Horse Tavern in New York [----]. A fine bar. I lowered a few there back in the day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1695052412925456769)  2023-08-25T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Outside East Berlin [----]. Left and you come to the Capital of the German Democratic Republic; right you end up someplace called "Westberlin." Note however the Alfa not a common sight on the roads of the Workers' State"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1695787784819052712)  2023-08-27T13:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Le grand amour: Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in Florence 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1696156374583972034)  2023-08-28T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"President Bill Clinton amuses President Jacques Chirac with a spyglass at the lyse Palace 1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1697226848395010273)  2023-08-31T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"President Lyndon Johnson and one of his beagles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1697592802631168034)  2023-09-01T12:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett at his country home in Ussy-sur-Marne 1970s. Apparently the place was immaculately kept. No surprise there: SB was a man of clean habits and precision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1697613712469721451)  2023-09-01T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sylvia Beach who published James Joyce's "Ulysses" at the door of her Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. Beach along with Ezra Pound and Harriet Shaw Weaver sustained Joyce who would otherwise have had to get a job like the one he had in Trieste: teaching English"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1698320614610629089)  2023-09-03T13:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Samuel Beckett seated on a bench not far from the nursing home Rsidence Tiers Temps where he spent his last days after Suzanne died. "Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1698685546975953190)  2023-09-04T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"James Joyce playing the piano for his son Giorgio who like his father had a pleasant tenor voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1699052017233076457)  2023-09-05T13:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Alfa Romeo [----] at Samuel Beckett bridge Dublin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1699417020696064066)  2023-09-06T13:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Gerald Durrell with an owl. Durrell's legacy includes the famous Jersey Zoo one of the better zoos in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1700131490690945319)  2023-09-08T12:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ezra Pound sloshing through the streets of Venice 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1701584665306419584)  2023-09-12T13:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"John Wayne in John Ford's "The Quiet Man" [----] a classic piece of Irishry filmed in Co. Mayo and evoking an Ireland now long dead long gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1701690649425170772)  2023-09-12T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Roger Moore then also known as The Saint and his Volvo P1800 which the TV series made almost as well-known. This one has Swedish plates so it probably isn't the one Moore owned in real life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1701957755081285934)  2023-09-13T13:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Edward Fox the Jackal having just come from Italy heads for Paris and his target President De Gaulle in his Alfa. "The Day of the Jackal" 1973: a near-perfect political thriller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1702014527414337683)  2023-09-13T17:40Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements


"James Joyce in his flat at Square Robiac [----]. This was one of [--] residences JJ and Nora had in Paris between [----] and 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1702315426271678511)  2023-09-14T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Geneva. A view of the Jet d'Eau framed by the apartment buildings of the Rue du [--] Dcembre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1702662111598436749)  2023-09-15T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"William Faulkner lectures his well-dressed well-groomed students at the University of Virginia [----] on the mysteries and marvels of American Literature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1702742383765393584)  2023-09-15T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"James Joyce and his wife Nora at ease in Zurich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1703016246743085171)  2023-09-16T12:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett directing "Waiting for Godot" in Berlin 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1703026460292727150)  2023-09-16T12:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Gustav Mahler at the office a.k.a. the Vienna State Opera where he became well-known as a conductor of Wagner pretty much a requirement for the opera director in those days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1703463152506036569)  2023-09-17T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Voltaire's restored Chateau in Ferney-Voltaire France re-inaugurated by President Emmanuel Macron. The town was my mother's home for many years and mine on and off for a couple of years until she died and I sold her house"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1704219812241506431)  2023-09-19T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"James Joyce loitering at his favorite Paris bookstore (and publisher) Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company at its original location [--] Rue de l'Odon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1704480635522335060)  2023-09-20T13:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The final iteration of the world's slowest but most reliable car the Citron Deux-Chevaux [----] Dutch edition. As one raised by parents who loved small French cars I have a soft spot for the things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1704485311944806422)  2023-09-20T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A view of the World Trade Center I remember seeing back in [----] at the height of my New York years. There was a riverside cafe down there under the Brooklyn Bridge possibly called The Riverside Cafe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1704914972529025398)  2023-09-21T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Future President Jacques Chirac then Mayor of Paris in a cafe in his ancestral Corrze in [----] buying rounds for the locals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1705201649688387914)  2023-09-22T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Roger Moore then better known as The Saint getting his own Volvo P1800 filled up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1705206428280000654)  2023-09-22T13:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"James Joyce paying a cabdriver in Paris 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1705589446228193327)  2023-09-23T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"President Jacques Chirac expressing shock at the sight of the ruins of the World Trade Center on September [--] [----]. He was the first foreign leader to visit after 9/11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1705927658603753678)  2023-09-24T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jay Leno filling up his Jaguar E-Type (with the V12 engine)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1705928498110468429)  2023-09-24T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Statue of James Joyce at the family grave of Joyces-JJ Nora Giorgio-at Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich. Elias Canetti the Nobel Prize laureate is also buried there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1706288222504947876)  2023-09-25T12:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Alain and Nathalie Delon driving their Ferrari [---] GT through Hollywood in the '60s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1706291096278516052)  2023-09-25T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Primo Levi at home in Turin [----] with the foreign translations of his books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1707385572333900125)  2023-09-28T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Students of the Scandinavian Cello School performing for cows. The cows apparently always want encores"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1707760957089353848)  2023-09-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CatGrimmTweets @hoyer_kat You never know until you've tried it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1708261455621988638)  2023-09-30T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


""Summertime" [----] directed by David Lean starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi and filmed in Venice. The naive American tourist the seasoned Italian seducer; cliches abound but well presented"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1708474823234531817)  2023-10-01T13:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Geneva. On your left the limpid Rhne just washed by the lake; on your right the muddy Arve sweeping before it the dirt and gravel of the Alpine foothills. There's a pleasant little cafe on the promontory in between where I remember enjoying a pastis or two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1708490170222141463)  2023-10-01T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Me doing the rounds of Vienna's Irish bars and reading from "Killoyle" [----]. Accompanied by my translator and friend Harry Rowohlt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1709200743784173952)  2023-10-03T13:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett at the PLM cafe on the Boulevard St. Jacques [----]. Now the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center. Just FYI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1709565886401478698)  2023-10-04T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Federico Fellini takes his wife Giulietta Masina on a canal cruise in Venice possibly as an anniversary present"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1711001131835392045)  2023-10-08T12:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Audrey Hepburn being greeted at Geneva Airport by Yul Brynner and his wife Doris [----]. The glamor of yore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1711079118274490611)  2023-10-08T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Future President Jacques Chirac works on his Peugeot [---] 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1711743043450155108)  2023-10-10T13:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"One of Jay Leno's most beautiful cars which also happens to be one of my favorites: the Citron SM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1711819433495179583)  2023-10-10T19:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"John Mills lowers a welcome cold one during filming "Ice Cold in Alex" in Libya (pre-Gaddafi) 1958"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1712100298582339862)  2023-10-11T13:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Vienna's Schwechat airport back in [----] the year when little Boylan first visited the Austrian capital. I remember seeing the Ringstrasse and thinking This is the place for me. I've been back there five times since then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1712455462698786888)  2023-10-12T13:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Gerald Ford [----]. Hard to imagine such contented pipe-puffing any more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1712459273693806825)  2023-10-12T13:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Joseph Stalin goes for a morning stroll across Red Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1713184683582767599)  2023-10-14T13:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Alexander Kerensky during his brief tenure as Prime Minister of Russia [----] until the Bolsheviks muscled onto the stage and Kerensky fled to New York where he spent the rest of his long life. He died in [----] at age 89"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1713915156856455443)  2023-10-16T13:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan at the Statue of Liberty December [----]. Somewhere off-camera is President-elect George H. W. Bush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1713918946959671418)  2023-10-16T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Graham Greene in Venice 1953"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1714282765917835288)  2023-10-17T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bela Lugosi playing chess with Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" 1934"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1715007100923834583)  2023-10-19T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Philip Larkin hanging around the docks at Hull probably on one of his frequent walks around the Humberside city"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1715007643608133634)  2023-10-19T14:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett looking very Beckettian on a Paris winter's day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1715727749397033023)  2023-10-21T13:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of "Giant" 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1715754824220713080)  2023-10-21T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on opposite sides of the spiritualism question shake hands in a gesture of goodwill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1716093967559757944)  2023-10-22T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jack Nicholson listens to Groucho Marx at the [----] Democratic Convention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1716464993036570864)  2023-10-23T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Arnold Schwarzenegger a pretty good chess player is outclassed by Gary Kasparov one of greatest ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1717168483597709366)  2023-10-25T13:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Old friends James Stewart and Henry Fonda go for a stroll in St. James Park London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1717169508954022159)  2023-10-25T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Senator John Kennedy campaigning in West Virginia in the [----] presidential election looking a little too buttoned-down to blend in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1717172259360473595)  2023-10-25T13:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Former French President Valry Giscard d'Estaing and his dog Samba 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1717899019031122319)  2023-10-27T13:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The town of Visp in the valley of Le Valais Switzerland. An old friend of mine lives in a rambling chalet somewhere around here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1718654572443443564)  2023-10-29T15:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett at home in his study in Paris 1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1718983220199358959)  2023-10-30T13:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"President George W. Bush learns from Andrew Card his chief of staff of the first plane hitting the Twin Towers 9/11/01. One of those moments after which nothing will ever be the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1719356473468154146)  2023-10-31T14:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Albert Camus and his wife Maria Casares in 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1719358277291528398)  2023-10-31T14:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Clint Eastwood buying fries in Saratoga's Fries a fast-food joint in Fort Lee New Jersey that lost no time in advertising their wares with a new slogan: "Go ahead make your day with Saratoga Fries.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1719412842917449991)  2023-10-31T17:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Panorama of East Berlin a couple of months before the Wall fell in [----]. The fernsehturm or TV tower pride of the regime soars above the Cathedral and the Palast der Republik or conference center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1720075304717496404)  2023-11-02T13:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Jacques Brel the great Belgian folk singer looking out over the Channel waters at Knokke-le-Zout Belgium while savoring a Gauloise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1720448725489787336)  2023-11-03T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"J. R. R. Tolkien creator of all things Middle-Earth. A thoroughly decent man by all accounts. And The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford with the table Tolkien and his mates notably C. S. Lewis used to sit at and tell tales over ale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1720475744420217142)  2023-11-03T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Alec Guinness and Graham Greene in Havana during filming of "Our Man in Havana" [----]. Greene also ran into Ernest Hemingway a Havana resident at the time. They did not hit it off. No surprise to anyone who knows anything about them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1721175337780826244)  2023-11-05T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jeremy Irons and Christopher Lee in "Night Train to Lisbon" [----]. Intriguing story line so-so execution. Good performances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1721552767234298142)  2023-11-06T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A plaque near Samuel Beckett's old home in Paris reminding us that he was born in Foxrock part of Dublin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1722266416559341968)  2023-11-08T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ernest Hemingway in Cuba around the time he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea." Cuba was his primary domicile until [----] when he moved to Idaho and left the Barbudos to their cigars and their country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1723349012974125254)  2023-11-11T14:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Central Park in New York looking north to Harlem and beyond. One of my many NY residences was up there on West 122nd Street. Dodgy in those mean times (the early '90s)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1723773557203669079)  2023-11-12T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor who lived to the great age of [--] at his home in Kardamyli Greece in [----]. In his superb travel trilogy he captured the essence of a now-extinct era"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1724065735834481102)  2023-11-13T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Brendan Behan by Dublin Bay waiting out holy hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1724145884437336268)  2023-11-13T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"1960 Mercedes-Benz [---] known as "the Adenauer" after the first Chancellor of West Germany who was a devoted Mercedes fan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1724427427605037289)  2023-11-14T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Surrealist painter Salvador Dali looking relatively normal stands on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1724428913906966995)  2023-11-14T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter Sellers and his then-wife Britt Ekland co-star in "The Bobo" 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1724791769248973198)  2023-11-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt stands guard at the Brandenburg Gate in the immediate pre-Wall days 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1725146005769756692)  2023-11-16T13:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Princess Grace overseeing her domain the principality of Monaco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1726243667323556121)  2023-11-19T14:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Resistance hero Jean Moulin (1899-1943) whose tomb in the Pantheon I visited to pay my respects to a brave and courageous man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1726600025395134804)  2023-11-20T13:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Jorge Luis Borges and his cat Beppo at home in Buenos Aires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1726601661492412843)  2023-11-20T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Two great mimics Eliot Reid and Peter Sellers and two of their favorite subjects President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a White House dinner 1962"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1727325353855865132)  2023-11-22T13:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Clint Eastwood gives Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor a hand with their dogs who are being quarantined on a boat for six months per the UK's then-regulations. In 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1727405157292683751)  2023-11-22T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Madonna del Sasso shrine above Lago Maggiore Locarno Switzerland. That's Italy on the opposite shore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1728077374481191064)  2023-11-24T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Frieda Kahlo wife and muse of Diego Rivera and a notable artist herself in Mexico City 1946"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1728781651637915689)  2023-11-26T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Seamus Heaney in his attic-study in Dublin 2009"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1729140480804630571)  2023-11-27T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@adrian_otoiu Greetings Adrian. Long road since Vienna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1729505452910584243)  2023-11-28T14:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Peter O'Toole in "Lord Jim" filmed in Cambodia in [----]. Of the experience O'Toole said "The three months we spent in Cambodia were dreadful. Sheer hell. A nightmare. There we were all of us knee deep in lizards and all kinds of horrible insects. Awful.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1729866812907790662)  2023-11-29T14:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Charles Bukowski filling up his Volkswagen in [----]. The VW soon gave way to a BMW as Buk's fortunes improved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1730230571173904397)  2023-11-30T14:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"James Stewart buys a newspaper on O'Connell Street Dublin 1960s-before [----] anyway as Nelson's Pillar is still standing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1730231707821846665)  2023-11-30T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter O'Toole and Rod Steiger at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles 1980s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1730945386238320706)  2023-12-02T13:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Switzerland's absurdly photogenic capital city Bern in winter garb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1730958147072717107)  2023-12-02T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in David Lean's [----] film "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." The moment when Nicholson takes a step back and says "What have I done" is a poignant reversal of all his assumptions a moment worthy of Euripides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1731025032611025159)  2023-12-02T18:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Lugano chief city of Switzerland's Italian-speaking region on the lake of the same name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1731677109368610861)  2023-12-04T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"James Joyce distracted from his reading forever in Fluntern Cemetery Zurich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1734599862258188349)  2023-12-12T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The twin villages of Saint Gingolph on the shore of Lake Geneva: on the left France; on the right Switzerland. Residents and domestic animals wander back and forth across the border all the time. Unlike most towns on the lake it has few tourist attractions except the view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1734664965720527228)  2023-12-12T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Oktoberfest in Munich 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1734963750522782025)  2023-12-13T15:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Elizabeth Taylor joins Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood after filming on the set of "Where Eagles Dare" 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1735325436404502842)  2023-12-14T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Caf Soufflot on the Rue Soufflot Paris with the Panthon in the background [----]. My favorite Paris neighborhood as a cursory read through "The Adorations" will tell you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1735387637035286655)  2023-12-14T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Graham Greene author of "Our Man in Havana" among many others in Havana 1958"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1735672050813907144)  2023-12-15T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Graham Greene topping up his guests' drinks sometime in the 1950s in Havana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736040309815910715)  2023-12-16T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jack Nicholson and Claudia Cardinale at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736045744891559973)  2023-12-16T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TedIacobuzio No actual Havana I believe. Way back when pre-Castro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736046135360319665)  2023-12-16T15:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Sir Rod Stewart recently returned to Blighty from a long exile in California was upset at the condition of the roads in Essex where he now lives and pitched in to repair the potholes. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently did something similar in California. Good job guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736102468755263636)  2023-12-16T19:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Clint Eastwood striding down a street in Rome in the early '60s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736393999642931244)  2023-12-17T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A touch of la dolce vita: Audrey Hepburn her Yorkie her husband Mel Ferrer and her Alfa Romeo in the EUR district of Rome 1961"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736411000163709005)  2023-12-17T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Richard Burton Clint Eastwood and others share a laugh during filming "Where Eagles Dare" in Austria 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1736818653755322576)  2023-12-18T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Sigmund Freud at the International Conference of Psychiatrists in The Hague Netherlands in [----] taking a cigar break"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737111084795150699)  2023-12-19T14:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Sophia Loren and Daniel Day-Lewis in Rome in a vintage Alfa Romeo Spider taking a break from filming "Nine" 2009"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737112764840366105)  2023-12-19T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Daniel Craig explaining to King then Prince Charles some of the finer points of the Aston Martin DB5 James Bond (a.k.a. Daniel Craig) drove"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737121584609951914)  2023-12-19T14:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Grindelwald Switzerland dressed for winter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737163672688968071)  2023-12-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Roger Moore his wife Kristina and two of the automotive veterans Volvo P1800s from the TV series "The Saint" 2006"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737480791334994168)  2023-12-20T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"James Stewart playing the accordion for his old friend Henry Fonda in Hyde Park London 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737848320536756476)  2023-12-21T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Edward Fox as the Jackal about to get into his Alfa Romeo-which starts out as white then turns blue-in "The Day of the Jackal" [----]. This scene was filmed in Genoa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1737849186224382315)  2023-12-21T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Graham Greene and Alec Guinness in Havana during filming "Our Man In Havana" [----] in which Guinness played a spy caught up in an espionage plot beyond his control. Greene wrote the screenplay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1738221177557098843)  2023-12-22T15:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Alfa Romeo Berlinetta in which Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci tried to evade justice at war's end. Fully restored it sold in Paris for around $2 mil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1738601728239382797)  2023-12-23T16:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Jack Nicholson practicing the piano at home for his role as a classical pianist-turned-drifter in "Five Easy Pieces" [----]. He could do the drifter no sweat but to be the pianist he needed lessons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1738609858243330275)  2023-12-23T17:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Steve McQueen getting ready for the climactic scene in "The Great Escape" [----] in which he tries to soar over the border fence and escape into Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1738918033479885212)  2023-12-24T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Claire Bloom and her then-husband Rod Steiger in Venice 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1739656053933932906)  2023-12-26T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"President Franklin Roosevelt fishing at Shangri-La (now known as Camp David) Maryland [----] with Prime Minister Winston Churchill keeping him company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1739664125087608899)  2023-12-26T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Dustin Hoffman gets into his [----] Porsche [---] in Brentwood Los Angeles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1740091490872005059)  2023-12-27T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo with his classic [----] Peugeot convertible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1740392756831477761)  2023-12-28T15:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


""It's for you" says Brendan hard at work on "Hold Your Hour and Have Another" in New York 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1740443991341203875)  2023-12-28T18:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Morgan Freeman says "Cheers." Cheers to you Morgan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1740803149315895643)  2023-12-29T18:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Tom Cruise hoists a stout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1741102955464376448)  2023-12-30T14:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Actors Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa and director David Lean on the set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741109005953475060)  2023-12-30T14:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@IrishLitTimes I haunted it assiduously one year day after day hoping for I know not what. That was in '82. Then I left Dublin and haven't been back since. I hear it's changed and people have died"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1741491959854706964)  2023-12-31T16:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The polymath William F. Buckley at work in his study which he converted from his garage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1741831536834379993)  2024-01-01T14:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Richard Burton as the depressed secret agent Alec Leamas in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1741906623021387876)  2024-01-01T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A [----] Renault 4CV. These were everywhere in Paris when I first arrived there at the age of [--] with my parents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1742196992254558344)  2024-01-02T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska whose work like Heaney's Dylan Thomas' and Larkin's has a readability the work of lesser poets doesn't attain. She won the Nobel Prize in 1996"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742559340332978432)  2024-01-03T14:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Stefan Zweig and his friend Joseph Roth in Ostend Belgium in [----]. Both geniuses killed themselves Roth in Paris in [----] through alcoholism Zweig in Brazil in [----] by barbiturates. Two tragedies among so many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1742928725782757739)  2024-01-04T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Samuel Beckett rehearsing "Endgame" with director David Gothard at the Riverside Studios London 1980"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1742960122224165046)  2024-01-04T17:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BirgitC Makes two of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1743015743971643709)  2024-01-04T21:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Rue Soufflot in Paris looking towards the Luxembourg Palace and Gardens and the Eiffel Tower with the Pantheon behind the viewer. A view that makes me nostalgic every time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1743286230324789378)  2024-01-05T15:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett taking a winter walk in Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1744014679251292512)  2024-01-07T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin after a rainstorm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1744722553132949963)  2024-01-09T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Vladimir Nabokov jotting down one of his novels possibly "Ada or Ardor" on index cards in his favorite mobile office Vra's Buick where he did a great deal of writing as they criss-crossed the USA in the '50s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744726802575335630)  2024-01-09T14:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges at a conference in Seville Spain in 1984"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1744730103786148005)  2024-01-09T14:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Me and my old buddy Richard in his compound in Idaho waiting for the hour of the aperitif to strike [----] or '86"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1745460724506501335)  2024-01-11T15:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Grindelwald Switzerland with the Eiger (Ogre) looming above"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1745473170172162292)  2024-01-11T15:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Andrew Wyeth working on a painting on his Jeep in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1745826508831183118)  2024-01-12T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samuel Beckett having an aperitif at La Coupole in Paris. As was his wont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1746243010524774677)  2024-01-13T18:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samuel Beckett reading proofs in the back garden of his country house in Ussy-sur-Marne northeast of Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746556784477667528)  2024-01-14T15:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Patrick Leigh Fermor contemplating a goat who contemplates him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1746561531225980930)  2024-01-14T15:54Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements


"Lauterbrunnen in the Kleine Scheidegg region of the Bernese Oberland Switzerland framed by high cliffs and precipitous waterfalls. Well worth a visit but preferably in the off-season when there are fewer tourists from Tokyo Chicago and Beijing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1746580329618362422)  2024-01-14T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Brandenburg Gate the Adlon Hotel Unter den Linden the Fernsehturm in the distance: Berlin's all there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1746920377765257373)  2024-01-15T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Noel Coward talking with Ernest Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana during filming of "Our Man in Havana" 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1747270875991462132)  2024-01-16T14:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Lawrence Durrell author of "The Alexandria Quartet" a favorite of mine. "Bitter Lemons" about his life on Cyprus is another. Durrell captured the spirit of the Mediterranean world and had a pagan sensibility in a manner similar to Patrick Leigh Fermor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1747276761446920395)  2024-01-16T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The World Trade Center soaring above Manhattan's skyline as seen from far Essex County New Jersey 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1747280790327587151)  2024-01-16T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Gustav Mahler his wife Alma and their daughters Anna and Maria in Vienna [----]. Sadly Gustav died in [----] and little Maria in [----] but Alma died in [----] and Anna in [----]. Alma remarried to the writer Franz Werfel made a daring escape across the Pyrenees in 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1747365297898619053)  2024-01-16T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Statue of Noel Coward in Jamaica where he lived and died. "I love this place it deeply enchants me" said Coward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1747630906783732007)  2024-01-17T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Chateau d'Aigle Switzerland in the Rhne valley astride the Vaud-Valais cantonal frontier in the heart of the Chablais wine region"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1748001370173513998)  2024-01-18T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson [----]. Good friends notorious womanizers. What Hollywood used to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1748359942258442401)  2024-01-19T15:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Locarno on Lake Maggiore in southern Switzerland. For such a small country it encapsulates so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1748720499142574257)  2024-01-20T14:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Vopos (Peoples' Police) at the Brandenburg Gate 1988"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1749080398489936358)  2024-01-21T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Prime Minister Winston Churchill lights up a cigar at his home Chartwell Kent sometime during the war. Chartwell was his home from [----] until he died in 1965"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1749158064232538434)  2024-01-21T19:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Hemingway at San Francisco de Paula Cuba in [----] the year he published "The Old Man and the Sea" which almost everyone agrees is a small masterpiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1749440498866041076)  2024-01-22T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Oriana Fallaci interviewing Paul Newman in Venice 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1749446454744133637)  2024-01-22T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ernest Hemingway Alec Guinness and Noel Coward stop in at a liquor store in Havana in [----] during filming "Our Man in Havana.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1750887561843638557)  2024-01-26T14:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Franoise Sagan author of "Bonjour Tristesse" and "Aimez-Vous Brahms" in a Jaguar XK120. "Money may not buy happiness" she said "but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. Sagan was impulsive and daring and nearly killed herself at the wheel of an Aston-Martin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1750954836823007529)  2024-01-26T18:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Romy Schneider loading presents into her Mercedes-Benz 190SL at her house in Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1751614370184921191)  2024-01-28T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Rainy day in Edinburgh. I remember many such days in Auld Reekie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1751631265357307992)  2024-01-28T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) in "The Great Escape" sits astride his BMW motorbike awaiting the ideal moment to accelerate and soar over the border fence into Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1751648423239877102)  2024-01-28T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Clint Eastwood changing a tire on his Jaguar XK120 1957"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1751972409601655209)  2024-01-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Four generations of Joyces in Paris: John (in the painting) James Giorgio and Stephen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1751975889749905549)  2024-01-29T14:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Chamonix France's oldest ski resort at the foot of the Mont-Blanc massif"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1752360596241051724)  2024-01-30T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Clark Gable Cary Grant Bob Hope and David Niven share a laugh during a break in rehearsals for the [----] Academy Awards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1752405164827213968)  2024-01-30T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Clint Eastwood with his Ferrari 275GT 1966"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1752700939625271802)  2024-01-31T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sean Connery as James Bond with his trademark Aston Martin DB5 in "Goldfinger" 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753089084002652307)  2024-02-01T16:13Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements


"Samuel Beckett casually elegant in meditative mode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753101987623969072)  2024-02-01T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Herta Mller Romanian-born German author [----] Nobel winner and scourge of the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu. "Ceausescu was mad and he made half of Romania mad" she says. "I'm mad because of him." He was executed in 1989; Herta's still with us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753448646438199432)  2024-02-02T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir having a beer and a vino bianco at a cafe table in Rome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753786082116727124)  2024-02-03T14:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Clint Eastwood and his first wife Maggie Johnson taking a walk in [----]. Handsome Jags can be seen in the background; Clint was a big fan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753833877385126067)  2024-02-03T17:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A rainbow descends on Neuchtel Switzerland following a storm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1753858239697936890)  2024-02-03T19:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Patrick Leigh Fermor at his writing table in the garden at Mani his estate in Greece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1754523734608576872)  2024-02-05T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samuel Beckett having a few leisurely beers at La Coupole in Paris likely with Barney Rosset"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BoylanRoger/status/1754597084227846526)  2024-02-05T20:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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Social Influence

Social category influence travel destinations countries automotive brands celebrities luxury brands stocks formula 1 finance musicians technology brands

Social topic influence switzerland #983, paris #1640, vienna #335, venice, rome #822, jack nicholson, france, london, dublin, havana

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @williamcooknews @adrianotoiu @tediacobuzio @larrykellogg @architradition @eliefoube16925 @dotcomnufc @jeanmarcle54279 @trottskyathome @elie_foube16925 @dickwith2dogs @catgrimmtweets @hoyerkat @irishlittimes @birgitc @artnouveautours @agaullisme @parolesla @hautslieuxidf @fondationcdg

Top assets mentioned PICASSO (PICA) Ferrari N.V. (RACE) April (APRIL) GARY (GARY)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"A date memorable for two major events: the assassination attempt on Hitler 1944; and the moon landing [----]. Oh and in between I was born. Can't quite remember the year"
X Link 2022-07-20T14:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"John Constable Salisbury Cathedral 1830ish"
X Link 2022-12-10T14:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Anthony Burgess and his wife Liana in Rome 1968"
X Link 2023-01-02T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"One of those impossibly beautiful Swiss scenes: Lake Thun canton of Bern. There's a reason that everything I write these days tends to finish in Switzerland"
X Link 2023-07-11T13:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Another shot of Jeremy Irons and Smudge at the family castle Kilcoe Co. Cork Ireland"
X Link 2023-07-13T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Kirk Douglas and George Macready in "Paths of Glory" Kubrick's [----] WW1 masterpiece"
X Link 2023-07-19T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Meiringen Switzerland locus of "The Final Problem.""
X Link 2023-08-03T01:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"James Joyce wearing a dressing gown reading over his notes for "Work In Progress" later known as "Finnegans Wake" a project that kept him guffawing into the night much to Nora's annoyance. But there was a great deal about the man she loved that annoyed Nora"
X Link 2023-08-03T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole remembering old times over tea"
X Link 2023-08-06T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"At the Martinho de Arcada cafe in Lisbon Fernando Pessoa's table is still reserved for him (he died in 1935). A charming custom. I highly recommend Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet" written by one of his "heteronyms" Bernardo Soares. Crazy but brilliant"
X Link 2023-08-06T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Roger Moore as The Saint with his Volvo P1800 the essential accessory for the TV series 1968"
X Link 2023-08-09T12:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Vincent Price handing out hot dogs at Dodgers Stadium 1965"
X Link 2023-08-10T12:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Christopher Lee and Vincent Price playing chess during a break in the filming of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oblong Box" 1968"
X Link 2023-08-10T12:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Marilyn Monroe going for a bike ride with her then-husband Arthur Miller"
X Link 2023-08-13T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Leslie Howard the English actor whose courage in going into the war zone led to his plane being shot down by the Luftwaffe in [----]. Rumor had it they thought Churchill was also on board"
X Link 2023-08-13T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in "The In-Laws" [----]. It remains one of the best movie comedies skirting absurdity but never abandoning the story for the sake of laughs. And these two main actors were priceless"
X Link 2023-08-14T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Peter Falk an accomplished painter as well as a pretty good actor in his studio in Beverly Hills"
X Link 2023-08-16T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"P. G. Wodehouse browsing the works of his favorite author"
X Link 2023-08-19T12:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Lynne Frederick and her husband Peter Sellers on the set of "Revenge of the Pink Panther" [----]. One of the best Panthers as we connoisseurs agree"
X Link 2023-08-20T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"G. K. Chesterton braving the elements in Brighton 1935"
X Link 2023-08-22T11:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Peter Sellers with his Aston Martin DB4GT a rare high-performance version of an already legendary car on a sidestreet in London during filming of "The Wrong Arm of the Law" 1963"
X Link 2023-08-23T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Gromit eyes the penguin suspiciously in "The Wrong Trousers." With good reason as we soon discover. A masterpiece of the craft"
X Link 2023-08-25T12:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Dylan Thomas rehearsing his final act at the White Horse Tavern in New York [----]. A fine bar. I lowered a few there back in the day"
X Link 2023-08-25T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Outside East Berlin [----]. Left and you come to the Capital of the German Democratic Republic; right you end up someplace called "Westberlin." Note however the Alfa not a common sight on the roads of the Workers' State"
X Link 2023-08-27T13:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Le grand amour: Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in Florence 1967"
X Link 2023-08-28T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"President Bill Clinton amuses President Jacques Chirac with a spyglass at the lyse Palace 1998"
X Link 2023-08-31T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"President Lyndon Johnson and one of his beagles"
X Link 2023-09-01T12:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett at his country home in Ussy-sur-Marne 1970s. Apparently the place was immaculately kept. No surprise there: SB was a man of clean habits and precision"
X Link 2023-09-01T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Sylvia Beach who published James Joyce's "Ulysses" at the door of her Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. Beach along with Ezra Pound and Harriet Shaw Weaver sustained Joyce who would otherwise have had to get a job like the one he had in Trieste: teaching English"
X Link 2023-09-03T13:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Samuel Beckett seated on a bench not far from the nursing home Rsidence Tiers Temps where he spent his last days after Suzanne died. "Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.""
X Link 2023-09-04T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"James Joyce playing the piano for his son Giorgio who like his father had a pleasant tenor voice"
X Link 2023-09-05T13:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Alfa Romeo [----] at Samuel Beckett bridge Dublin"
X Link 2023-09-06T13:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Gerald Durrell with an owl. Durrell's legacy includes the famous Jersey Zoo one of the better zoos in the world"
X Link 2023-09-08T12:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Ezra Pound sloshing through the streets of Venice 1964"
X Link 2023-09-12T13:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"John Wayne in John Ford's "The Quiet Man" [----] a classic piece of Irishry filmed in Co. Mayo and evoking an Ireland now long dead long gone"
X Link 2023-09-12T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Roger Moore then also known as The Saint and his Volvo P1800 which the TV series made almost as well-known. This one has Swedish plates so it probably isn't the one Moore owned in real life"
X Link 2023-09-13T13:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Edward Fox the Jackal having just come from Italy heads for Paris and his target President De Gaulle in his Alfa. "The Day of the Jackal" 1973: a near-perfect political thriller"
X Link 2023-09-13T17:40Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements

"James Joyce in his flat at Square Robiac [----]. This was one of [--] residences JJ and Nora had in Paris between [----] and 1939"
X Link 2023-09-14T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Geneva. A view of the Jet d'Eau framed by the apartment buildings of the Rue du [--] Dcembre"
X Link 2023-09-15T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"William Faulkner lectures his well-dressed well-groomed students at the University of Virginia [----] on the mysteries and marvels of American Literature"
X Link 2023-09-15T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"James Joyce and his wife Nora at ease in Zurich"
X Link 2023-09-16T12:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett directing "Waiting for Godot" in Berlin 1975"
X Link 2023-09-16T12:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Gustav Mahler at the office a.k.a. the Vienna State Opera where he became well-known as a conductor of Wagner pretty much a requirement for the opera director in those days"
X Link 2023-09-17T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Voltaire's restored Chateau in Ferney-Voltaire France re-inaugurated by President Emmanuel Macron. The town was my mother's home for many years and mine on and off for a couple of years until she died and I sold her house"
X Link 2023-09-19T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"James Joyce loitering at his favorite Paris bookstore (and publisher) Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company at its original location [--] Rue de l'Odon"
X Link 2023-09-20T13:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The final iteration of the world's slowest but most reliable car the Citron Deux-Chevaux [----] Dutch edition. As one raised by parents who loved small French cars I have a soft spot for the things"
X Link 2023-09-20T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"A view of the World Trade Center I remember seeing back in [----] at the height of my New York years. There was a riverside cafe down there under the Brooklyn Bridge possibly called The Riverside Cafe"
X Link 2023-09-21T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Future President Jacques Chirac then Mayor of Paris in a cafe in his ancestral Corrze in [----] buying rounds for the locals"
X Link 2023-09-22T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Roger Moore then better known as The Saint getting his own Volvo P1800 filled up"
X Link 2023-09-22T13:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"James Joyce paying a cabdriver in Paris 1938"
X Link 2023-09-23T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"President Jacques Chirac expressing shock at the sight of the ruins of the World Trade Center on September [--] [----]. He was the first foreign leader to visit after 9/11"
X Link 2023-09-24T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Jay Leno filling up his Jaguar E-Type (with the V12 engine)"
X Link 2023-09-24T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Statue of James Joyce at the family grave of Joyces-JJ Nora Giorgio-at Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich. Elias Canetti the Nobel Prize laureate is also buried there"
X Link 2023-09-25T12:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Alain and Nathalie Delon driving their Ferrari [---] GT through Hollywood in the '60s"
X Link 2023-09-25T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Primo Levi at home in Turin [----] with the foreign translations of his books"
X Link 2023-09-28T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Students of the Scandinavian Cello School performing for cows. The cows apparently always want encores"
X Link 2023-09-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@CatGrimmTweets @hoyer_kat You never know until you've tried it"
X Link 2023-09-30T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

""Summertime" [----] directed by David Lean starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi and filmed in Venice. The naive American tourist the seasoned Italian seducer; cliches abound but well presented"
X Link 2023-10-01T13:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Geneva. On your left the limpid Rhne just washed by the lake; on your right the muddy Arve sweeping before it the dirt and gravel of the Alpine foothills. There's a pleasant little cafe on the promontory in between where I remember enjoying a pastis or two"
X Link 2023-10-01T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Me doing the rounds of Vienna's Irish bars and reading from "Killoyle" [----]. Accompanied by my translator and friend Harry Rowohlt"
X Link 2023-10-03T13:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett at the PLM cafe on the Boulevard St. Jacques [----]. Now the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center. Just FYI"
X Link 2023-10-04T13:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Federico Fellini takes his wife Giulietta Masina on a canal cruise in Venice possibly as an anniversary present"
X Link 2023-10-08T12:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Audrey Hepburn being greeted at Geneva Airport by Yul Brynner and his wife Doris [----]. The glamor of yore"
X Link 2023-10-08T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Future President Jacques Chirac works on his Peugeot [---] 1967"
X Link 2023-10-10T13:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"One of Jay Leno's most beautiful cars which also happens to be one of my favorites: the Citron SM"
X Link 2023-10-10T19:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"John Mills lowers a welcome cold one during filming "Ice Cold in Alex" in Libya (pre-Gaddafi) 1958"
X Link 2023-10-11T13:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Vienna's Schwechat airport back in [----] the year when little Boylan first visited the Austrian capital. I remember seeing the Ringstrasse and thinking This is the place for me. I've been back there five times since then"
X Link 2023-10-12T13:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Gerald Ford [----]. Hard to imagine such contented pipe-puffing any more"
X Link 2023-10-12T13:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Joseph Stalin goes for a morning stroll across Red Square"
X Link 2023-10-14T13:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Alexander Kerensky during his brief tenure as Prime Minister of Russia [----] until the Bolsheviks muscled onto the stage and Kerensky fled to New York where he spent the rest of his long life. He died in [----] at age 89"
X Link 2023-10-16T13:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan at the Statue of Liberty December [----]. Somewhere off-camera is President-elect George H. W. Bush"
X Link 2023-10-16T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Graham Greene in Venice 1953"
X Link 2023-10-17T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Bela Lugosi playing chess with Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" 1934"
X Link 2023-10-19T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Philip Larkin hanging around the docks at Hull probably on one of his frequent walks around the Humberside city"
X Link 2023-10-19T14:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett looking very Beckettian on a Paris winter's day"
X Link 2023-10-21T13:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of "Giant" 1955"
X Link 2023-10-21T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on opposite sides of the spiritualism question shake hands in a gesture of goodwill"
X Link 2023-10-22T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Jack Nicholson listens to Groucho Marx at the [----] Democratic Convention"
X Link 2023-10-23T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Arnold Schwarzenegger a pretty good chess player is outclassed by Gary Kasparov one of greatest ever"
X Link 2023-10-25T13:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Old friends James Stewart and Henry Fonda go for a stroll in St. James Park London"
X Link 2023-10-25T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Senator John Kennedy campaigning in West Virginia in the [----] presidential election looking a little too buttoned-down to blend in"
X Link 2023-10-25T13:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Former French President Valry Giscard d'Estaing and his dog Samba 1986"
X Link 2023-10-27T13:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The town of Visp in the valley of Le Valais Switzerland. An old friend of mine lives in a rambling chalet somewhere around here"
X Link 2023-10-29T15:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett at home in his study in Paris 1970"
X Link 2023-10-30T13:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"President George W. Bush learns from Andrew Card his chief of staff of the first plane hitting the Twin Towers 9/11/01. One of those moments after which nothing will ever be the same"
X Link 2023-10-31T14:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Albert Camus and his wife Maria Casares in 1950"
X Link 2023-10-31T14:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Clint Eastwood buying fries in Saratoga's Fries a fast-food joint in Fort Lee New Jersey that lost no time in advertising their wares with a new slogan: "Go ahead make your day with Saratoga Fries.""
X Link 2023-10-31T17:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Panorama of East Berlin a couple of months before the Wall fell in [----]. The fernsehturm or TV tower pride of the regime soars above the Cathedral and the Palast der Republik or conference center"
X Link 2023-11-02T13:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Jacques Brel the great Belgian folk singer looking out over the Channel waters at Knokke-le-Zout Belgium while savoring a Gauloise"
X Link 2023-11-03T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"J. R. R. Tolkien creator of all things Middle-Earth. A thoroughly decent man by all accounts. And The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford with the table Tolkien and his mates notably C. S. Lewis used to sit at and tell tales over ale"
X Link 2023-11-03T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Alec Guinness and Graham Greene in Havana during filming of "Our Man in Havana" [----]. Greene also ran into Ernest Hemingway a Havana resident at the time. They did not hit it off. No surprise to anyone who knows anything about them"
X Link 2023-11-05T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Jeremy Irons and Christopher Lee in "Night Train to Lisbon" [----]. Intriguing story line so-so execution. Good performances"
X Link 2023-11-06T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A plaque near Samuel Beckett's old home in Paris reminding us that he was born in Foxrock part of Dublin"
X Link 2023-11-08T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Ernest Hemingway in Cuba around the time he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea." Cuba was his primary domicile until [----] when he moved to Idaho and left the Barbudos to their cigars and their country"
X Link 2023-11-11T14:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Central Park in New York looking north to Harlem and beyond. One of my many NY residences was up there on West 122nd Street. Dodgy in those mean times (the early '90s)"
X Link 2023-11-12T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor who lived to the great age of [--] at his home in Kardamyli Greece in [----]. In his superb travel trilogy he captured the essence of a now-extinct era"
X Link 2023-11-13T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Brendan Behan by Dublin Bay waiting out holy hour"
X Link 2023-11-13T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"1960 Mercedes-Benz [---] known as "the Adenauer" after the first Chancellor of West Germany who was a devoted Mercedes fan"
X Link 2023-11-14T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Surrealist painter Salvador Dali looking relatively normal stands on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York 1938"
X Link 2023-11-14T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Peter Sellers and his then-wife Britt Ekland co-star in "The Bobo" 1967"
X Link 2023-11-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt stands guard at the Brandenburg Gate in the immediate pre-Wall days 1960"
X Link 2023-11-16T13:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Princess Grace overseeing her domain the principality of Monaco"
X Link 2023-11-19T14:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Resistance hero Jean Moulin (1899-1943) whose tomb in the Pantheon I visited to pay my respects to a brave and courageous man"
X Link 2023-11-20T13:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Jorge Luis Borges and his cat Beppo at home in Buenos Aires"
X Link 2023-11-20T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Two great mimics Eliot Reid and Peter Sellers and two of their favorite subjects President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a White House dinner 1962"
X Link 2023-11-22T13:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Clint Eastwood gives Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor a hand with their dogs who are being quarantined on a boat for six months per the UK's then-regulations. In 1968"
X Link 2023-11-22T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Madonna del Sasso shrine above Lago Maggiore Locarno Switzerland. That's Italy on the opposite shore"
X Link 2023-11-24T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Frieda Kahlo wife and muse of Diego Rivera and a notable artist herself in Mexico City 1946"
X Link 2023-11-26T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Seamus Heaney in his attic-study in Dublin 2009"
X Link 2023-11-27T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@adrian_otoiu Greetings Adrian. Long road since Vienna"
X Link 2023-11-28T14:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Peter O'Toole in "Lord Jim" filmed in Cambodia in [----]. Of the experience O'Toole said "The three months we spent in Cambodia were dreadful. Sheer hell. A nightmare. There we were all of us knee deep in lizards and all kinds of horrible insects. Awful.""
X Link 2023-11-29T14:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Charles Bukowski filling up his Volkswagen in [----]. The VW soon gave way to a BMW as Buk's fortunes improved"
X Link 2023-11-30T14:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"James Stewart buys a newspaper on O'Connell Street Dublin 1960s-before [----] anyway as Nelson's Pillar is still standing"
X Link 2023-11-30T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Peter O'Toole and Rod Steiger at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles 1980s"
X Link 2023-12-02T13:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Switzerland's absurdly photogenic capital city Bern in winter garb"
X Link 2023-12-02T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in David Lean's [----] film "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." The moment when Nicholson takes a step back and says "What have I done" is a poignant reversal of all his assumptions a moment worthy of Euripides"
X Link 2023-12-02T18:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Lugano chief city of Switzerland's Italian-speaking region on the lake of the same name"
X Link 2023-12-04T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"James Joyce distracted from his reading forever in Fluntern Cemetery Zurich"
X Link 2023-12-12T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The twin villages of Saint Gingolph on the shore of Lake Geneva: on the left France; on the right Switzerland. Residents and domestic animals wander back and forth across the border all the time. Unlike most towns on the lake it has few tourist attractions except the view"
X Link 2023-12-12T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Oktoberfest in Munich 2016"
X Link 2023-12-13T15:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Elizabeth Taylor joins Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood after filming on the set of "Where Eagles Dare" 1968"
X Link 2023-12-14T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The Caf Soufflot on the Rue Soufflot Paris with the Panthon in the background [----]. My favorite Paris neighborhood as a cursory read through "The Adorations" will tell you"
X Link 2023-12-14T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Graham Greene author of "Our Man in Havana" among many others in Havana 1958"
X Link 2023-12-15T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Graham Greene topping up his guests' drinks sometime in the 1950s in Havana"
X Link 2023-12-16T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Jack Nicholson and Claudia Cardinale at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981"
X Link 2023-12-16T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@TedIacobuzio No actual Havana I believe. Way back when pre-Castro"
X Link 2023-12-16T15:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Sir Rod Stewart recently returned to Blighty from a long exile in California was upset at the condition of the roads in Essex where he now lives and pitched in to repair the potholes. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently did something similar in California. Good job guys"
X Link 2023-12-16T19:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Clint Eastwood striding down a street in Rome in the early '60s"
X Link 2023-12-17T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A touch of la dolce vita: Audrey Hepburn her Yorkie her husband Mel Ferrer and her Alfa Romeo in the EUR district of Rome 1961"
X Link 2023-12-17T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Richard Burton Clint Eastwood and others share a laugh during filming "Where Eagles Dare" in Austria 1968"
X Link 2023-12-18T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Sigmund Freud at the International Conference of Psychiatrists in The Hague Netherlands in [----] taking a cigar break"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Sophia Loren and Daniel Day-Lewis in Rome in a vintage Alfa Romeo Spider taking a break from filming "Nine" 2009"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Daniel Craig explaining to King then Prince Charles some of the finer points of the Aston Martin DB5 James Bond (a.k.a. Daniel Craig) drove"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Grindelwald Switzerland dressed for winter"
X Link 2023-12-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Roger Moore his wife Kristina and two of the automotive veterans Volvo P1800s from the TV series "The Saint" 2006"
X Link 2023-12-20T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"James Stewart playing the accordion for his old friend Henry Fonda in Hyde Park London 1975"
X Link 2023-12-21T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Edward Fox as the Jackal about to get into his Alfa Romeo-which starts out as white then turns blue-in "The Day of the Jackal" [----]. This scene was filmed in Genoa"
X Link 2023-12-21T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Graham Greene and Alec Guinness in Havana during filming "Our Man In Havana" [----] in which Guinness played a spy caught up in an espionage plot beyond his control. Greene wrote the screenplay"
X Link 2023-12-22T15:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The Alfa Romeo Berlinetta in which Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci tried to evade justice at war's end. Fully restored it sold in Paris for around $2 mil"
X Link 2023-12-23T16:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Jack Nicholson practicing the piano at home for his role as a classical pianist-turned-drifter in "Five Easy Pieces" [----]. He could do the drifter no sweat but to be the pianist he needed lessons"
X Link 2023-12-23T17:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Steve McQueen getting ready for the climactic scene in "The Great Escape" [----] in which he tries to soar over the border fence and escape into Switzerland"
X Link 2023-12-24T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Claire Bloom and her then-husband Rod Steiger in Venice 1959"
X Link 2023-12-26T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"President Franklin Roosevelt fishing at Shangri-La (now known as Camp David) Maryland [----] with Prime Minister Winston Churchill keeping him company"
X Link 2023-12-26T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Dustin Hoffman gets into his [----] Porsche [---] in Brentwood Los Angeles"
X Link 2023-12-27T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo with his classic [----] Peugeot convertible"
X Link 2023-12-28T15:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

""It's for you" says Brendan hard at work on "Hold Your Hour and Have Another" in New York 1963"
X Link 2023-12-28T18:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Morgan Freeman says "Cheers." Cheers to you Morgan"
X Link 2023-12-29T18:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Tom Cruise hoists a stout"
X Link 2023-12-30T14:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Actors Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa and director David Lean on the set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon)"
X Link 2023-12-30T14:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrishLitTimes I haunted it assiduously one year day after day hoping for I know not what. That was in '82. Then I left Dublin and haven't been back since. I hear it's changed and people have died"
X Link 2023-12-31T16:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The polymath William F. Buckley at work in his study which he converted from his garage"
X Link 2024-01-01T14:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Richard Burton as the depressed secret agent Alec Leamas in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965"
X Link 2024-01-01T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"A [----] Renault 4CV. These were everywhere in Paris when I first arrived there at the age of [--] with my parents"
X Link 2024-01-02T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska whose work like Heaney's Dylan Thomas' and Larkin's has a readability the work of lesser poets doesn't attain. She won the Nobel Prize in 1996"
X Link 2024-01-03T14:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Stefan Zweig and his friend Joseph Roth in Ostend Belgium in [----]. Both geniuses killed themselves Roth in Paris in [----] through alcoholism Zweig in Brazil in [----] by barbiturates. Two tragedies among so many"
X Link 2024-01-04T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Samuel Beckett rehearsing "Endgame" with director David Gothard at the Riverside Studios London 1980"
X Link 2024-01-04T17:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@BirgitC Makes two of us"
X Link 2024-01-04T21:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Rue Soufflot in Paris looking towards the Luxembourg Palace and Gardens and the Eiffel Tower with the Pantheon behind the viewer. A view that makes me nostalgic every time"
X Link 2024-01-05T15:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett taking a winter walk in Paris"
X Link 2024-01-07T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin after a rainstorm"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Vladimir Nabokov jotting down one of his novels possibly "Ada or Ardor" on index cards in his favorite mobile office Vra's Buick where he did a great deal of writing as they criss-crossed the USA in the '50s"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges at a conference in Seville Spain in 1984"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Me and my old buddy Richard in his compound in Idaho waiting for the hour of the aperitif to strike [----] or '86"
X Link 2024-01-11T15:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Grindelwald Switzerland with the Eiger (Ogre) looming above"
X Link 2024-01-11T15:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Andrew Wyeth working on a painting on his Jeep in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania"
X Link 2024-01-12T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Beckett having an aperitif at La Coupole in Paris. As was his wont"
X Link 2024-01-13T18:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Samuel Beckett reading proofs in the back garden of his country house in Ussy-sur-Marne northeast of Paris"
X Link 2024-01-14T15:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Patrick Leigh Fermor contemplating a goat who contemplates him"
X Link 2024-01-14T15:54Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements

"Lauterbrunnen in the Kleine Scheidegg region of the Bernese Oberland Switzerland framed by high cliffs and precipitous waterfalls. Well worth a visit but preferably in the off-season when there are fewer tourists from Tokyo Chicago and Beijing"
X Link 2024-01-14T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Brandenburg Gate the Adlon Hotel Unter den Linden the Fernsehturm in the distance: Berlin's all there"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Noel Coward talking with Ernest Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana during filming of "Our Man in Havana" 1959"
X Link 2024-01-16T14:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Lawrence Durrell author of "The Alexandria Quartet" a favorite of mine. "Bitter Lemons" about his life on Cyprus is another. Durrell captured the spirit of the Mediterranean world and had a pagan sensibility in a manner similar to Patrick Leigh Fermor"
X Link 2024-01-16T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The World Trade Center soaring above Manhattan's skyline as seen from far Essex County New Jersey 1978"
X Link 2024-01-16T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Gustav Mahler his wife Alma and their daughters Anna and Maria in Vienna [----]. Sadly Gustav died in [----] and little Maria in [----] but Alma died in [----] and Anna in [----]. Alma remarried to the writer Franz Werfel made a daring escape across the Pyrenees in 1940"
X Link 2024-01-16T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Statue of Noel Coward in Jamaica where he lived and died. "I love this place it deeply enchants me" said Coward"
X Link 2024-01-17T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Chateau d'Aigle Switzerland in the Rhne valley astride the Vaud-Valais cantonal frontier in the heart of the Chablais wine region"
X Link 2024-01-18T15:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson [----]. Good friends notorious womanizers. What Hollywood used to be"
X Link 2024-01-19T15:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Locarno on Lake Maggiore in southern Switzerland. For such a small country it encapsulates so much"
X Link 2024-01-20T14:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Vopos (Peoples' Police) at the Brandenburg Gate 1988"
X Link 2024-01-21T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Prime Minister Winston Churchill lights up a cigar at his home Chartwell Kent sometime during the war. Chartwell was his home from [----] until he died in 1965"
X Link 2024-01-21T19:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Hemingway at San Francisco de Paula Cuba in [----] the year he published "The Old Man and the Sea" which almost everyone agrees is a small masterpiece"
X Link 2024-01-22T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Oriana Fallaci interviewing Paul Newman in Venice 1963"
X Link 2024-01-22T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Ernest Hemingway Alec Guinness and Noel Coward stop in at a liquor store in Havana in [----] during filming "Our Man in Havana.""
X Link 2024-01-26T14:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Franoise Sagan author of "Bonjour Tristesse" and "Aimez-Vous Brahms" in a Jaguar XK120. "Money may not buy happiness" she said "but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. Sagan was impulsive and daring and nearly killed herself at the wheel of an Aston-Martin"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Romy Schneider loading presents into her Mercedes-Benz 190SL at her house in Switzerland"
X Link 2024-01-28T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Rainy day in Edinburgh. I remember many such days in Auld Reekie"
X Link 2024-01-28T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) in "The Great Escape" sits astride his BMW motorbike awaiting the ideal moment to accelerate and soar over the border fence into Switzerland"
X Link 2024-01-28T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Clint Eastwood changing a tire on his Jaguar XK120 1957"
X Link 2024-01-29T14:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Four generations of Joyces in Paris: John (in the painting) James Giorgio and Stephen"
X Link 2024-01-29T14:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Chamonix France's oldest ski resort at the foot of the Mont-Blanc massif"
X Link 2024-01-30T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Clark Gable Cary Grant Bob Hope and David Niven share a laugh during a break in rehearsals for the [----] Academy Awards"
X Link 2024-01-30T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Clint Eastwood with his Ferrari 275GT 1966"
X Link 2024-01-31T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Sean Connery as James Bond with his trademark Aston Martin DB5 in "Goldfinger" 1964"
X Link 2024-02-01T16:13Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements

"Samuel Beckett casually elegant in meditative mode"
X Link 2024-02-01T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Herta Mller Romanian-born German author [----] Nobel winner and scourge of the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu. "Ceausescu was mad and he made half of Romania mad" she says. "I'm mad because of him." He was executed in 1989; Herta's still with us"
X Link 2024-02-02T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir having a beer and a vino bianco at a cafe table in Rome"
X Link 2024-02-03T14:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Clint Eastwood and his first wife Maggie Johnson taking a walk in [----]. Handsome Jags can be seen in the background; Clint was a big fan"
X Link 2024-02-03T17:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A rainbow descends on Neuchtel Switzerland following a storm"
X Link 2024-02-03T19:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Patrick Leigh Fermor at his writing table in the garden at Mani his estate in Greece"
X Link 2024-02-05T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Samuel Beckett having a few leisurely beers at La Coupole in Paris likely with Barney Rosset"
X Link 2024-02-05T20:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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