Men & Women

RIP French icon of stage and screen Anouk Aimee, 92. Born in Paris as Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, half Jewish, she captivated the world as the lead in Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman (1966), for which she received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe and Bafta. There are 91 titles under her name at IMDb, screen career spanning 1947–2019. She was in La Dolce Vita (1960), Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), 8½ (1963), A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986), Ready to Wear, Original title: Prêt-à-porter (1994), to name five films. Married four times, she was a mom of one. She had relationships with several others including — who else? — Warren Beatty. She had the x-factor, one of those faces the camera loves. Photo from Google Images:

Excerpts from a nypost.com editorial: “In West Virginia, which has the highest rate of opioid overdose deaths in the nation, more than half of all kids are being raised by their grandparents.” And: “Out of the more than two million kids being raised by their grandparents in the US, the majority are living with their family elders due to a parent’s drug abuse.” The Chinese, manufacturers of fentanyl, and their Mexican cartel distributors are only partly to blame, as is the insane open borders policy, but the individual bears the brunt of culpability.

Headline from newsmax.com: “YouGov Poll: 53 Percent of Hispanics Say Deport Illegals.” Madre de Dios!

Royal Ascot celebration in Britain. Reuters photo by Andrew Couldridge:

Among today’s celebrations, it’s National Panic Day. Too soon — it should be Election Day. No matter who wins, many will jive and wail.

Another monolith has popped up, this time outside Vegas. My hunch is jokers, not aliens are responsible. Photo from AP/GI:

Country music legend George Strait played to a crowd of 110,905 fans in south Texas, breaking the all-time attendance record set by the Grateful Dead nearly 50 years ago. In 1977, 107,019 fans packed New Jersey’s Raceway Park to catch the Dead show. Kudos, Cowboy. Taylor who? Just kidding, Swifties. She too is a phenomenon. Photo from GI:

It was all outgoing at today’s session of the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. For the first time in a while I went home with less stuff than I’d brought. I kept everything in the shade, even though it didn’t seem that hot. My thanks to the buyers. Here’s what sold: a bunch of CDs and DVDs, Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, a self-help book, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, a Bible, and this gem:

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