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Part of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s installation You, Me and The Balloons, which will be exhibited at the Manchester international festival. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters:
RIP actor Nicolas Coster, 89. The name did not ring a bell, so I looked it up at IMDb and discovered a remarkable career. Born in London, his training began in his teens at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also studied with Lee Strasberg and Milton Katselas. He appeared in many plays on Broadway as well as the London stage. There are 173 titles under his name at IMDb in a screen career spanning 1953–2023. That figure fails to reveal his prolific journey, as he was in 252 episodes alone of Another World, 599 of Santa Barbara and 63 of The Bay, for which in 2017 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series. Through the years he was nominated four other times for his Daytime work. Meanwhile, he did guest shots on just about every popular primetime series, including Law & Order, The Incredible Hulk, Dallas, L.A. Law, Star Trek: The Next Generation, just to name five. On the big screen he had roles in: 1776 (1972), All the President’s Men (1976), The Concorde…Airport ’79 (1979), The Electric Horseman (1979), Stir Crazy (1980), Reds (1981), Betsy’s Wedding (1990). He had two long term marriages, the first ending in divorce, the second lasting until his passing. He was a father of three. Few actors are as prolific. Well done, sir. Photo from Google Images:
Excerpt from a nypost.com editorial concerning Covid: “Some local politicians and health czars attacked the Catholic schools for opening, but the openers were right about the harms of remote learning and the safety of in-person schooling.”
The Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action, striking a blow for merit. Kudos. Let the cries of “Racist!” fly.
Headline from foxnews.com: “Solar farm crippled by hail, underscoring power source’s fragility.” Another inconvenient truth. In fairness, traditional methods of energy delivery also face challenges form harsh weather.
For the first time in a week I was able to set out a full display of the floating book shop without fear of rain. My thanks to the woman who kicked things off while I was setting up, who bought all three volumes of E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy; and to Movie Buff, who purchased Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich; and to the woman who selected The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett; and to Alice, who took home The Satan Factory by Thomas E. Sniegoski; and to the woman who chose The Narrowing Stream by John Mortimer and Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott; and to whoever left a handful of books on the roof of my car; and to the woman who did a swap of Russian titles. I’m a lucky so and so.
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