Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

I dunno, maybe on the Internet?

https://i.redd.it/9vjqetwoz5sz.jpg

https://www.photogriffon.com/photos-du-monde/Photos-rares-de-rencontres-incroyables-entre-acteurs/Justin-Timberlake-Jennifer-McGill-and-Ryan-Gosling.jpg

I guess that last one isn't surprising, but I never watched "The New Mickey Mouse Club."

https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20230819-Thomas-Koch-Lead.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4981&fp-y=0.4488&h=1333&q=75&w=2000&s=30000a509bc6605ba8308d28f43c417a

nothing about this photo makes me happy

Well, David Koch being dead brings me a glimmer of hope for the guy on the left.

Who are these three?

Documentarian Ken Burns in the middle, don't know the other two.

It's conservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, beloved by many PBS documentary maven Ken Burns, and dead conservative billionaire activist David Koch. Who, to be fair, funded a lot of Burns docs, which doesn't make this so surprising. Just a gross glimpse of how the sausage is made.

And in the background is a person thinking "Get me the fuck away from all these assholes."

context: https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

I'm not typically one to complain about US politics infecting ILX threads, but I feel like we could leave it off this one.

Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?

not at all

tbh i think people outside the US are more likely to know what the ken burns effect is than who ken burns is.

that has to be Bohemian Grove, yeah? by the redwoods in the background

xpost Do they know it as "the Ken Burns effect"?

Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?

His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019).

How this fella from the Public Broadcasting Service has avoided international acclaim is beyond me.

Now I've googled it I had no idea it was called that.

Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?

Is his face really that well known in the US?

I thought he was great in Harold & Maude.

More familiar with the Kenny Burns effect tbh

https://files.ekmcdn.com/footycards/images/nottingham-forest-kenny-burns-scotland-250-97269-p.jpg

xpost Do they know it as "the Ken Burns effect"?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 22, 2023 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect#Use_by_Apple.

i don't actually know if more people know the name of the effect than know who ken burns is. both numbers are pretty close to zero in the UK.

I know Ken Burns' films, there is a (fre-to-air) PBS channel over here which shows them pretty much in a loop. No idea what the guy looks like though.

Yeah, I guess it makes sense that his face may not be recognizable; unlike, say, David Attenborough or something, he's not in his docs. I realize his stuff is mostly focused on American history and culture, but his brand is so high profile here I guess I assumed his name would be at least a little familiar in passing elsewhere.

I had to look up the pic to see that it was Ken Burns. I knew the other two assholes, obvs.

it's not just that he focuses on american history and culture. people all over are interested in that. it's that he focuses on it in precisely the way that makes it appropriate to invite him to a koch brothers retreat. the overseas market for that is not huge.

ken burns is how i know who mary chesnut is

she looks like this:
https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/styles/squarish/public/thumbnails/image/Mary%20C.jpg

Here's Fred Schneider, August Darnell, and Joey Ramone.

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/380423141_689240946573879_6733012020200262108_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=49d041&_nc_ohc=p1l5XLnfTXcAX_0AUjo&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AfDgvZ8ytloDl6PzOGIMuAuR1psUGJUl2Juktlx32w-ngQ&oe=65129083

That's more like it.

Gracias to peace man for putting nest in instead of expecting us to just know

*names

I doubt I'm the first to say this, but young Ryan Gosling looks eerily like young Macaulay Culkin.

Ken Burns is pretty well known in the UK if you like Serious Telly - I watched the Civil War with my parents as a teenager, and the BBC have fairly recently shown the country music and vietnam series. I’d never recognise his face though.

"Serious Telly" is the best phrase I've heard all day.

Serious Telly Savalas

https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/lKnU2kC4j2i1uzqWZcvGSDBX9mk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/telly-savalas-kojak-color-5c01fb5e46e0fb000161404f.jpg

Serious Telly

https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/a/v/e/r/avery_sid_5_1981_424272_displaysize.jpg

XP Goddamnit

Lol c. Grisso. Someone was gonna get there.

https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/TellySavalas.170583.jpg

Danny Torrence and a couple muppets

https://scontent.fhio2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/387179717_864864485005050_7146567757922299724_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5614bc&_nc_ohc=AX6F6O5bVTgAX89oBnt&_nc_ht=scontent.fhio2-2.fna&oh=00_AfCJfDdpwschzMcwYgO-5wPujrwSCzsWvdWjyXoy0w40lA&oe=652CEB14

looks like Jack already got to Waldorf

Kudos for knowing which one was which!

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Celebrities including front row L to R Helen Worth, George Michael, Julie Waltesr, Sue Cook, Sade, Danielle Westbrook and Jenni Faulkner attends the appeal press launch and photocall for "The Rainbow Trust" at the Oak Room, Maridien Hotel, Piccadilly (2003) pic.twitter.com/uPRzCTyNj9

— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) July 6, 2023

this may have been posted at the time, but in case it wasn't

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtU0MPhWQAAdwYG?format=jpg&name=900x900

Cliff Richard, Captain Tom and Russ Abbott(?) for non-UK ILXors.

(xp) Gary Rhodes, Paul Young, Linford Christie, Chris Eubanks, Tony Hadley are also there.

captain sir captain on his final fatal barbados trip, pictured with his smiling assassins