Fortune Telling
How ‘bout this from an article at nypost.com: “While storefronts are going bust across the Big Apple due to the coronavirus pandemic, New York’s psychics and fortune-tellers say they are seeing more clients — and making more money — than ever before.” What was that P. T. Barnum once said?
Let me get this straight, people rioted and looted posh stores in Chicago after police wounded a man who fired a gun at them. Where is the outrage when week after week homicides occur with demoralizing frequency? I predict stuff like this will continue, particularly in cities that have been run by Dems for decades. Here’s one of the sad measures authorities are using to cut off the rioting:
I don’t want to hear anymore about the upper echelon of the FBI’s plot against Trump until there are indictments. Put up or shut up. Stop teasing the president’s supporters. I predict the perpetrators of this outrage will get no more than a slap on the wrist.
Hail Collin Morikawa, 23, whose brilliance won the day at the PGA Championship in only his second start in a major tournament. The California native made as great a shot as there will ever be, driving the par four 294-yard 16th green and then sinking the seven-foot eagle putt that catapulted him to victory. Oh, and the winner’s share was almost two million. Awesome, young man. I’ll go out on a limb and predict he will make a lot more money. Here he is hoisting the coveted Wanamaker Trophy:
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran I Died a Thousand Times (1955), a remake of High Sierra (1941), with Jack Palance and Shelley Winters stepping into the roles that Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino originated. Since it was shot in cinemascope, it’s wrong to label it film noir, as the station did, but that’s forgivable given its commitment to airing old films. The best aspect of the flick is the supporting cast: Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman, Lon Chaney Jr., Dub Taylor, Nick Adams, Dennis Hopper and a host of other familiar faces. Directed by Stuart Heisler, whose canon rests on the second or third tier of Hollywood helmsmen, the screenplay was adapted by W.R. Burnett from his own novel, as he did 14 years earlier. There are 69 titles listed under his name at IMDb, many of them fine films. His Wiki page lists 38 of his novels, the most notable the aforementioned, Little Caesar and The Asphalt Jungle. He co-wrote, with James Clavell, the screenplay for perennial favorite The Great Escape (1963), for which they received a Writers Guild nomination. Burnett got an Oscar nomination for his script for Wake Island (1942). He was popular in Europe, where his anti-hero ideology was enthusiastically embraced. He passed away at 82 in 1982. Hats off to an American original.
Here are five members of the cast of I Died... Second from the left is Perry Lopez, who played Detective Escobar in Chinatown (1974). The others should be obvious to baby-boomers:
Five of the six books sold today at the floating book shop were in Russian. The other was 1,200 Words You Should Know to Sound Smart: Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should be Able to Use. My thanks to the buyers. I predict even more sale tomorrow.
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