Cara & Company
RIP Brooklyn girl Cara Williams, 96, born Bernice Kamiat to Jewish parents. She was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for The Defiant Ones (1959) and an Emmy in 1962 for her work in the sitcom Pete and Gladys, in which she starred opposite Harry Morgan in 72 episodes. She also had an eponymous series that ran one season, 30 episodes. I’m surprised there are only 55 titles under her name. Her Hollywood career spanned 1941-’82. She began in radio and also did voice-overs for cartoons. At first she was typecast as eye-candy. Meatier roles came her way after she received good notices for a stage version of Born Yesterday, but she would again be stereotyped. Post Hollywood she did well in interior design and was a poker champion. Married three times, she is a mom of two. Here’s the red-haired, blue-eyed beauty:
Sad headline from foxnews.com: “Canadian school district cancels speech by ISIS rape survivor, Nobel winner over ‘Islamophobia’ fears: report.” Here’s her book:
Also on the book front, good news: disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo has been ordered to pay back the $5+ million he received for his phony take on leadership during the pandemic.
It will be hard to top this headline, nypost.com: “Horse caps off Rosanna Scotto interview by peeing on anchor’s stilettos.” The cameraman must have lost it, as the ensuing video doesn’t capture Scotto’s reaction, but it sounded like everyone was laughing.
Another story idea came to me last night. It combines characters from three series currently running on the Heroes & Icons channel, 9–4 on OTA in NYC: Combat!, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager. The first draft came in at a little more than three pages. I don’t anticipate it growing much. Is it copyright infringement? I have no idea and don’t care. I’ll be lucky if 50 people read the book — if it ever makes it into print. All four of The Twilight Zone type stories in the Curious Sicilian file have bright rather than dark endings. I wonder if that will be a disappointment.
Nice return for the floating book shop on this glorious late fall day. My thanks to the kind folks who donated and bought wares. Here’s what sold: Pirate by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, The Confessor by Daniel Silva; Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg; a hardcover compilation of the works of Rudyard Kipling; Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot; Rose: The Life and Times of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy by Charles Higham; After the Conquest: The Divided Realm 1066–1135 by Teresa Cole; CD compilations of Native American and Latino music; The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach; DVDs of the first three seasons of the acclaimed Weeds series; and two titles in Russian.
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