Laugh, Weep — Choose
Like seeks like, headline from nypost.com: “Brooklyn DA, Dem party leader took campaign cash from reputed mobster.” It’s what gangsters do.
Here’s the opening line of Rich Lowry’s op-ed piece at NYP: “Why do the Russians need to bother spreading disinformation when our own domestic sources do a much better job at it?” Kudos.
Here’s an amusing headline from newsmax.com: “Putin Signs Law Allowing Him 2 More Terms as Russia’s Leader.”
Awesome headline from foxnews.com: “‘It’s almost comical’: Georgia gov rips MLB for moving game from half-Black Atlanta to mostly White Denver.”
Snippet from an FN article: “Despite Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s onerous lockdown policies and draconian shutdown orders, Michigan is still leading the nation in new COVID-19 cases.” That damn virus just won’t behave, do what we want.
From an article at FN: “US researchers found that redheads have a preternaturally high pain tolerance — wait for it — due to a mechanism that ups their susceptibility to sunburns.” What will be found tomorrow?
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on OTA in NYC, ran a fun flick — Another Man’s Poison (1951), based on a play by Matthew Leslie, adapted by Val Guest, directed by Irving Rapper. Set in rural England, Bette Davis stars as a writer who is visited by her hated estranged husband, who she hasn’t seen in years. The matter is further complicated when a man played by Gary Merrill shows and claims her husband framed him for a murder committed during a robbery. It’s one of those movies so lively that it rises above the outlandish scheming of the characters, the plot holes. The dialogue crackles. Davis and Merrill go at each other with brio. Knowing the two were once married and that the relationship ended badly, I wondered if the animus was fueled by the split. That wasn’t the case, as they’d been wed about a year at the time. They divorced in 1960. They’re just terrific actors. Emlyn Williams does a nice turn as a busybody who senses something wicked. He had an interesting career, more credits as a writer, 53, than actor, 50. His most famous work is the play The Corn Is Green, which has been adapted to the big and small screen four times. Here are the stars in character:
Not much action at the floating book shop on this gorgeous, breezy day. My thanks to my constant benefactress and the Braniac Brother’s home attendant, who each dropped off some non-fiction; and to the young woman who gave me a big bag filled with mostly kids lit as I was closing down; and to the gentleman who bought two Nora Roberts novels translated into Russian; and to Wolf, who purchased The Imagery of Chess by Larry List and Ingrid Schaffner and The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan; and to the gent who selected What Fish? A Buyer’s Guide to Tropical Fish: Essential Information to Help You Choose the Right Fish for Your Tropical Freshwater Aquarium by Nick Fletcher.
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