Monday Mix

A proud day for the IVY League — not!

Headline from newsmax.com: “Some Dems Signal Support for Embattled Speaker Johnson.” It’s easy when things go your way, as they almost always do. I don’t blame Johnson. He’s in an impossible position. He seems to have something most politicians lack — a backbone.

It’s National Pin Up Day. Here are the two I see most often in youtube photo arrays. Photo from Google Images:

Last night one of the PBS stations ran Night Fright (1967) on its Nightmare Theater show. The flick has a dismal rating of 2.7 on a scale of ten at IMDb. It was directed by James A. Sullivan, the first of his three credits, the other two rated only a bit higher. Still, that’s three more movies than 99.9% of the public ever helmed. He also has six credits as a cinematographer. He passed away at 69 in 2004. John Agar starred as the Sheriff. A few of the other players had modest screen careers. Billed 15th is Brenda Venus. The host imparted interesting info about her. The film in question was the first of her 15 credits. The most notable works in which she appeared are The Eiger Sanction (1975) and 48 Hrs. (1982). Born in Biloxi, her ancestry is native American and Sicilian. She is noted more for modelling, writing and a unique connection with author Henry Miller. A book she purchased at auction contained an envelope that had Miller’s address on it. They became pen pals. She brightened the remaining four years of his life. He passed away at 88 in ’80. He wrote 1500 letters to Venus that were used in the 1986 book Dear, Dear Brenda — The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus. I don’t believe they ever met in person. She was 60 years his junior. She is the author of Secrets of Seduction, Secrets of Seduction for Women and the novella Twelve Hours. Her books have been translated into 37 languages. Her publishers sent her on a worldwide publicity tour. She made various appearances on TV and radio. For more than six years, starting in 1998, she wrote a column for Playboy called Centerfolds on Sex. She posed for the magazine but was not a centerfold. She produced, directed, shot and narrated the documentary Love and Sex in LA with seven Playboy centerfolds and up-and-coming actors (no pun intended). Venus, a play about her life staged in Russia, featured Olympic Gold Medalist Svetlana Khorkina in the title role. The cast also included members of the Bolshoi Ballet. She is 76. Facts from Wiki, photo from GI:

Entitlement madness redux. Headline from foxnews.com out of Denver: “Illegal immigrants furious despite Dem-run city slashing police budget to house them.”

Another gem from the Staten Island goombah:

It was a gorgeous day to do business curbside, despite a cool wind. My thanks to Alice and Gordie, who donated a bunch of books; and to Wolf, who bought a Dolly Parton CD and From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman; and to Herbie, who opted for The Killing Kind by John Connally; and to the lovely young woman who wanted easy reads to improve her English, who took home Ransom by Julie Garwood and The Graveyard Book and Anansi Boys both by Neil Gaiman; and to Alice, a baseball fan, who returned and purchased Balls by Graig Nettles and Peter Golenbock.

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