Pillow Talk
RIP Doris Day, 97, singer, actress, one of the entertainment world’s most successful artists. She began in radio, moved on to front Big Bands, became America’s number one female box office star in the early sixties, and had a five-year run, 128 episodes, as star of her eponymous sitcom. Her 1945 recording of Sentimental Journey with Les Brown and his Band of Renown still sounds great decades later. She had five other number one hits besides that one, and Que Sera, Sera hit number two. She did more than 20 albums, covering more than 600 songs. Billboard magazine ranked her as the number one female vocalist in nine of ten years, ‘49-’58. She received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Pillow Talk (1960), considered racy in its time. She was active in animal welfare. Her life was not perfect, of course. No one’s is. She married four times. When her last husband died she discovered that he and one of his partners had bankrupted her, which led her to TV, which she had resisted doing but which got her life back on track. Awesome, madam. Thank you. (Facts from Wiki.) Here’s a still from Love Me or Leave (1955), in which she co-starred with the great James Cagney:
Here are interesting numbers I came across in today’s news. From Yahoo Sports: The Miami Dolphins have signed RB Mark Walton, who has been arrested only three times this year… The Toronto Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard hit a game-winning shot with 0:00 on the game clock in game seven of the series with the 76ers. It bounced on the rim four times before falling through. It propels his team into the Eastern Conference Finals vs. The Milwaukee Bucks… From foxnews.com: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites from Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink project and Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper could save American households more than $30 billion per year by introducing more broadband competition. Bring it on! The sooner the better… Also from fn.com: A 26-year-old Long Island man racked up a mere 63 tickets yesterday driving his ATV recklessly on a highway.
I’m always fascinated about the creative ways people figure out to earn money. An article in today’s NY Post includes the following young ladies who use social media to promote products, attracting tons of followers. I’ll leave out the last names. The first is Olivia Jade, whose parents (you know who) got her into USC fraudulently. If she is expelled, it seems she won’t have any trouble making a living:
Here are Brooke, whose pose with the electric razor drew a lot of attention, and Josy, whose popularity would surprise no male:
This is Artemis, who seems to use modesty successfully, very rare these days:
This is Aubrey, who wants to design swimwear for fellow curvy women:
The scaffold once again enabled the floating book shop to conduct business on a rainy day. My thanks to Marina, who bought two novels in Russian, and to Ira who purchased The House of Frankenstein (1944) and The House of Dracula (1945) on DVD.
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