Timothy Carey
Timothy Carey was an eccentric Hollywood actor who did his finest work in John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz.
Timothy Carey was an eccentric Hollywood actor who did his finest work in John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz.
The World's Greatest Sinner is a 1962 American drama film written, directed, and produced by, and starring Timothy Carey. The film focuses on a frustrated atheist who rises from an insurance salesman to a powerful figure but alienates his family and friends with his increasing egomaniac and dictator-like presence.
TV Party was a cult public-access television cable TV show in New York City that ran from 1978 to 1982. Guests on the show included Mick Jones, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, James Chance, Klaus Nomi, Charles Rocket, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm groves in the world. Elche has more palm trees than people. According to some estimates, there are between 200,000 and 300,000 trees here distributed across hundreds of orchards.
Rock Crystals a novella by Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, about two missing children on Christmas Eve. Thomas Mann said Stifter is "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature"
The Bricklin SV-1 is a Canadian sports car made in the 1970s. 1,500 cars are estimated to have survived.
Shilin is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of karst landscapes. It is characterized by giant sinkholes and caves.
The Catahoula dog breed has a striking appearance and a strong work ethic. One theory posits that the Catahoula is the result of Native Americans having bred their own dogs with molossers and greyhounds brought to Louisiana by Hernando de Soto in the 16th century.
Hôtel Drouot is a large auction house in Paris, for fine art, antiques. It consists of 16 halls hosting 70 independent auction firms.
Thomas De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.