Well, it’s V-Day, and the master has spoken:
The East Coast cell phone network has just broken down… 😂
You *must* check the tweet and read through the comments – the puns and replies are just 😂. But yeah, new photo, right?
Not sure whether he is really waiting for a call – or hiding 😉. Or observing us? I wonder who took the photo? It’s not from the An Le shoot (like most of the recent pics he’s posted) – his hair was longer in that.
Wish I could see more of that coat. It’s longer than the Lucas North pea coat that suited him so well. And that long row of buttons is intriguing… Maybe the fashion sleuths are already on it!?
Happy V-Day, all!
Guylty Pleasure 
Meh on the photo, but does this mean he’s single again?
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What makes you think that?
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It’s an awfully flirty statement for someone who’s “in festen Händen.”
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Uhh, that didn’t cross my mind. Very interesting aspect! I only thought that he had quite a clever approach to this tricky, and often emotionally loaded V-Day topic.
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Probably not. Before he hid his LinkedIn, the man from the Getty images from the 2019 charity dinner listed his degree from BYU. So I take a small hop to conclusions that’s why Richard goes to Utah for New Year’s.
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Oh, interesting – a Mormon university.
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Interesting. That makes it literally 98% probable that he was born a Mormon. (Insane amount of baggage for queer people there.) But it seems to me just as likely that he went there because enjoyed the skiing when he was there for Sundance.
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I’m kind of undecided on the photo. Don’t hate, don’t love it. It kind of looks like a fashion editorial to me.
And ha! As usual the most obvious question did not occur to me at all. For his sake, I hope he was just teasing his fans. Jimbo seemed like a nice guy…
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Yes, although who knows, as we know nothing about him. (It’s not like he’s being interviewed all the time, in contrast to others he has apparently dated.) He has a nice face anyway.
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That’s exactly why he seems nice to me. Not the face but the fact that he is flying under the radar. But in the grander scheme of things, that may mean nothing at all…
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Could it be part of the “cream” photo shoot hair wise?
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That totally makes sense. Yes.
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He is Soooooooooooo nummy!!!!!!
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Not keen on the fisherman’s jumper, but I like that the grey temples are still in situ.
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The big turtle neck? I rather like the turtleneck!
And yas on the silver temples.
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He’s such a tease! I love the coat, it has Daniel vibes. Happy V.Day!
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It certainly has spy vibes. My first thought was that it was a Daniel Miller deleted scene.
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Ladies, ladies, hold your hats, because I predict you are about to faint. This confirms that the man is a…library geek. We now have proof. Those phone booths are in the New York Public Library “main branch” at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. They are sort of well known in NYC, but only among (snooty, intellectual) types who have actually been in that building, which is a research library only (non-circulating, one-off, historic materials), not lending, no popular books, videos, etc.
https://www.payphone-project.com/step_into_the_new_york_public_library_phone_booths.html
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Love it!! Thank you for the info.
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Interesting background info, thank you, Besotted. To me that means that the photo was taken as part of a proper shoot (i.e. not a friend pointing the camera phone), otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten in there. Which then makes me wonder why the left side of the picture is so blurry. If that’s an aesthetic choice, it’s an odd one…
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Oh no, not at all. It’s a public building, no special admission except for a bag check for guns and/or stolen library books. There’s a small amount of tourist trade, people who come in to look at the interesting, historic building (120 years old, that’s “historic” by American standards, mind) which has nice decorations, including painted murals. So the few tourists mix it up with the snooty intellectuals like me (ha ha ha.) I am researching the NYC business career of an ancestor who came to NYC from Italy in 1892–and they have materials about him, I’m so proud of my city!!!
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Oh, I see. BTW, we must have seen those phone booths when you took me and Linda60 on a tour there, do you remember?
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YESSSSSS, I remember I took a few groups of fangirls (Kel and Abby, also) to that building when you all were in town for Love, Love, Love. It’s not far from the theatre!
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You did. And funnily enough it had been one of the places of my must-see list for NYC. I took some great pictures in there.
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For sure! I do remember very well having been there with you two ladies! Wonderful building with a great atmosphere. Splendid memories… There are colourful pictures as proof 😉
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It was such a great tour. I loved being shown around by Besotted, a real local! It is always much better than just trawling around on one’s own as a tourist.
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There are tourists posing in those old phone booths all the time. Funny thing, I used them myself 40 years ago, when I worked in an office across the street and was looking for a new job. This is back in the day before cell phones, and before you trolled for new jobs right under your current employer’s nose. I went over there at lunch time to make my clandestine phone calls!
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😂 Oh yes, those days when we used phone booths. It seems ages ago. I used to have to ring my parents from the phone booth outside the train station for them to come and pick me up…
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Ha, love the location. Because of reasons. Thank you!
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I think my brother took me there because it has some connection to Karl Marx, but can’t remember what.
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I think they own the manuscript to Das Kapital…
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Ah, thanks, that makes sense
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They own a page of manuscript “notes.” https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/beginnings/item/3560. I’m not sure how that’s different from a manuscript, but it’s impressive, I’d say. And it’s on display! I will have a look, for all of us, for science, of course, next time I am there. When I will also discretely photograph those phone booths. Also for science. 😉
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Ah great. I just knew there was something there related to Das Kapital.
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That is something to see, thankd Besotted
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🙂
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He looks very serious but very handsome indeed 🙂 I like that he always sends a message for Valentine, he is loved but he also spreads love and appreciation… I love that. I’m not one that needs to know too much about her fav actor privacy, in fact I think that spoils the “fantasy”. So I’m glad that Richard keeps his private life private. I just hope he feels loved and appreciated, which I’m sure he does. He strikes me as someone that is not afraid to have some lonely time now and again, i think we have that in common.
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I think I am a little too jaded to believe that he spreads love and appreciation, tbh. Personally, I only take it as a typical SM self-advertisement – a reason to post a picture on Twitter, with the bonus of getting the fans excited. Nothing wrong with that – I was amused by the tweet, so I appreciate it.
He has spoken about his tendency to withdraw and be alone before. I remember him saying it at RDC5. Good for him!
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Ladies, I’ve been Googling for hours. You know how fan forensics work…. I am deciding, per your first hunch, G, that this photo IS from a photoshoot. Because look at the fancy schmantzy coat in a lightened jpg. (Check your email, G, if I’m unsuccessful at uploading it here.) And it may be…the same “creamy” shoot that you documented here: https://guylty.net/2022/01/04/nobleman-indeed-new-article-drops/.
I have been intrigued (for several weeks) with identifying the building in the second shot, the one where he’s wearing the plaid shirt and holding the book with the blue cover (book—it’s a clue!), and have even engaged with several historic preservationist NYC friends who I hoped might recognize the building. Which means going public to civilian friends on “Who is that guy?” OHHHHHH, the humiliation (Um, I have a celebrity crush….”), and what I do for the fandom!
Today, I thought to myself: I bet the building is in the West 30s (Manhattan, Garment District), because it looks about 100 years old (per stonework, especially the decorated part on the edge of the corner above his arm, and per the constructed style of the window’s mullions), and there are a lot of turn-of-the-century “loft” (factory) buildings in that neighborhood which haven’t yet been modernized (or demolished.) If that photographer shot that photo the same day she shot a photo of him in the phone booth at the library…ding, ding, ding! Maybe that photo is done inside the library, too!
So I spent a few hours looking at photos of the interior of that library, which is tricky, because the photo looks like an exterior wall/window, but that library has more “exteriors” than its four literal exterior walls now. It originally had two interior courtyards, which have been “filled in” with modern architecture, so there are windows to some of those now-interior spaces which were originally windows to the outside.
I’m starting to think that shot was done just inside the north doors, which is a “basement” entrance that is actually at street level on West 42nd Street, and I can NOT find a photo of that entrance (from the inside) anywhere online. (Those of you who I gave tours to, check your photos. We may have entered through this door, because it is near the elevators and the…phone booths, yes, really.)
There’s no bench that I remember, but he may be sitting on the floor (we know RA is game for directions from photographers) right next to a stationary panel to the side of a door. Next time I go there….
Now, my questions are:
When is that photographer (or someone) going to release the rest of her photos from that shoot, huh, huh?
Will one of you please lecture me to stop this and do something productive with the rest of my day, please, please???
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Thank you for your fan forensics Besotted! *hugs*
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This is great, Besotted! Thank you for going into so much detail and having a look around. Without knowing the location as such, it really makes sense what you are saying. I remember *ooof*ing one of those pictures (the same series as the one with the book, I believe, but without holding a book), and surmising just from the way the lights fell onto the subject that he was actually beside an *outside* door – which OTOH didn’t make logical sense because he was holding a book etc. Now that you have explained that there are some courtyards that have been converted into interior spaces, it makes much more sense.
So the photographer is slow-releasing the pictures one by one. Or maybe RA does, assuming he was the client of the shoot. Then he pulls the strings and decides when he wants to release yet another picture from the shoot. I wonder what other scenes/scenarios they shot that day, and whether there are other locations within the library that they used…
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Great detective work!
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Thank you for the fan forensics work, Besotted. Sorry but I have no intention of stopping you to do this 😊.
Guylty, this is definitely Daniel Miller and he is observing us 😊. Is there a light on the left side of the photo (it‘s blurry, to focus on Daniel back from the dead 😉)? Of course as usual everyone was there, except me. I’m only work all the time, ehh, back to work again. 😘
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Yesssss, that other photo, where he’s standing, I forgot about it: https://guylty.net/2021/12/29/ooof-fair-and-square/ And I’m off wasting time again….
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Hehe, I’m glad we’ve got you on the case, Besotted!
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Would love to call Richard! And hear that beautiful baritone voice…
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