This image from photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographic survey of the Russian Empire, using a special camera to capture three black and white images using red, green and blue filters. The images were later combined to be projected through lanterns, and now on the internet for Turban Tuesday!

It’s fantastic to see color imagery of what is always seen in black and white. The Library of Congress purchased the original plates in 1948.

More of this spectacular stuff here.

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If you haven’t seen Gay Carrington’s “Bates Motel,” here it is, on the second anniversary of its release.

More Gay.

The lost Gay Carrington screen test for “Double Indemnity.” Damn that Stanwyck!

Gay reminisces.

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for the brilliant Danny E.

Betrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, logician and pacifist (among other things), was born on this day in 1872, so he’s today’s Friday Face.

And just before his death in 1970, he filmed a message for you…

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

Austin Shear is the Walker Evans of our time.

Check out his tumblr here.

Get ready to crack open ya books, or crack sumpin’, because here comes a whole lotta fun — with the new professors of RuPaul’s Drag U” set for summer school, hunty!

This year’s Superstar (for-evah!) Sharon Needles will be on the faculty, scaring up new looks for schlubs who want a change! Prof. Needles will be joined by Mama Chad Michaels, who will undoubtedly give lessons in poise and general ladylike behavior and decorum.

Sharon has your shot!

Rounding out the edumacatrixes will be bad gurl “slut” Willam, who will no doubt lose her tenure before summer school is OUT!

Other drag hags joining include giantess Raven (“It’s only tinted moisturizer”), the deliciously witty Pandora Boxx, Boston’s own Jujubee, the luscious (sarap!) Manila Luzon… (below).

Big gurls Delta Work and “MF’n” Latrice Royale also have some learnin’ for ya, plus Shannel, Mariah, Alexis Mateo, marvelous Morgan McMichaels and last year’s glamah queen, Raja!

VP of Drag Lady Bunny and her giant hair will also return, along with guest judges Donna Mills, Brittany Snow, Holly Robinson-Peete, Joely Fisher and others.

Monday, June 18th is the big premiere on Logo!

The image of Marilyn Monroe is everywhere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — it’s part of the themed graphic of the 65th anniversary.

Here she is being hung by workers (and who doesn’t love hung bi workers?) at the Festival Palace.

“Fiesta comes from the old Spanish word, ‘fiesta,’ which means fiesta.” Great Technicolor from 1935.

Nat King Cole… en Espanol!

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. 1966.

Carmen Miranda’s outfits!

If you’ve never seen Jane Fonda in 1968′s “Barbarella,” this would be a good weekend to watch it. A futuristic sex adventure comedy set in the 41st century, Jane slithers her way through encounters with various odd ducks. Even Marcel Marceau shows up.

Sharon Needles has won RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4, and all is right with the world. The weird boy in school, Aaron Coady of the unlikely Newton, Iowa, has been crowned — and we are all better for it. Hooray for the steel mills of Pittsburgh that forged this gorgeousness into an instant legend.

Giving a star-mix of wit and spooky fun, the face of drag is forever changed, as she joins the pantheon of ladyboy greats who sashay their way through the dragalaxy!

Congratulations to Sharon, for gallantly representing triumph over bullies, wit over anger, and gore with the glitz. She is, at once, a star in our bloody hearts!

Watch the full episode below.

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Here’s a fun game for a sunny Sunday! Let’s play “Who’s Not Dead?!”

Watch the below clip from the 1974 gala celebrating the premiere of “That’s Entertainment!”

See if you can guess how many aren’t dead!