Life’s a Scream
Here are some interesting stats from a Miranda Devine op-ed piece at nypost.com: “According to a report in Wired this week, almost 95% of donations from employees working at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle went to Biden: $5 million compared to $250,000 for Trump. And Wall Street has lavished eight times more cash on Biden than Trump, according to Breitbart.com, with donors living on Park Avenue giving Biden more than $1 million but just $127,000 to Trump.” Polls have Biden way ahead. The media refuses to press him or Kamala Harris on issues such as stacking the Supreme Court, ending the Electoral College, abolishing fracking, and statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. It seems the odds against Trump are astronomical — just as they did in 2016.
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran The House That Dripped Blood (1971), a fun flick featuring three tales that take place in the titular dwelling. Brit stalwarts Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are the linchpins of the separate segments, but I was interested most in one of the actresses, Ingrid Pitt, whose name was vaguely familiar. Born Ingoushka Petrov in Warsaw in 1937, she and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She didn’t let that stop her. She was at home on the stage and big and small screen. She broke into film in the mid ‘60’s, best know for her work in Hammer horror productions. She also appeared in mainstream projects. In Where Eagles Dare (1968) she helped the characters of Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood do great damage to the Nazis. She tormented Edward Winter in The Wicker Man (1973), now considered a classic. She did five episodes of Dr. Who. She founded her own theatrical touring company and starred in successful productions of Dial M for Murder, Duty Free (or Don’t Bother to Dress), and Woman of Straw. She also was a writer. There are 12 books listed on her Wiki profile, several novels among them including one based on the Perons of Argentina. Her autobio was first titled Life’s a Scream and later revised and expanded to Ingrid Pitt: Darkness Before Dawn. Here’s a quote attributed to her: “I was in a concentration camp as a child and I don’t want to see horror. I think it’s amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that’s why I’m good at it.” Awesome, madam. Thank you. She passed away at 73 in 2010.
Here’s a great pic from foxnews.com taken from a drone. It’s from New Zealand. The surfer wasn’t attacked.
Of the 13 books sold today at the floating bookshop, ten were in Russian. The others were The Storyteller and Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult, and The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories by Ian Rankin. My thanks to the buyers.
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