Cast of Characters

Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran two more flicks I’d never seen in its Sunday Night Noir series. The Fallen Sparrow (1943), stars John Garfield and Maureen O’Hara in an espionage/murder mystery. It was so-so, as was the second feature, Over-Exposed (1955), starring the voluptuous Cleo Moore as an ambitious photographer. Researching the cast, I found another of those forgotten Hollywood stalwarts, Eddie Parker, who has 302 titles under his name at IMDb as an actor and 437 as a stuntman in a career that spanned 1931–1960. His final acting gig is listed as uncredited in Spartacus (1960), in which he played a slave and also did some stunts. And he did all that in a life that was cut short at 59 that same year. Kudos, sir.

The Canadian Football League has cancelled its season. Kramer will be disappointed.

Good point made by talk radio host Mark Simone this morning. I’ll paraphrase: If we can stand in line at the supermarket and bank during the pandemic, why can’t we stand in line to vote?

Five dead, 59 wounded in Chicago during the weekend. In NYC six dead, 51 wounded.

As one ages, reading becomes more difficult. Whenever I encounter ridiculously small print, I tell myself I should buy a magnifying glass. I found one this morning amidst a bunch of books someone left in the lobby. I also took a large collection of short stories set in the Big Apple.

Unable to get a favorable parking spot, I considered taking the floating book shop to an alternate site. Good thing I didn’t. Even though I hauled out only a third of the inventory, the most marketable items, business was good. My thanks to the gentleman who bought three hardcovers in Russian, and to Wolf, who purchased four paperbacks, including a bio of chess whiz Bobby Fischer; and to the burly guy who went home with a Yankees-Braves 1996 World Series program and a copy of Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: a True Story by an FBI Agent by Joseph D. Pistone; and to the young dad who’s been my best customer lately, who picked out five works of non-fiction, then noticed my books and chose Exchanges and Present and Past; and to the woman who donated the massive Russian-English dictionary and paperbacks by Dan Brown and Danielle Steel; and to the gentleman who gave me a large paperback mystery whose main character is Sherlock Holmes’ daughter.

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