Quintessential New Yorker & More
In his business column at nypost.com, John Crudele profiles actress Catherine Russell, 64, who has been playing the same part in the off-Broadway production of Warren Manzi’s murder mystery Perfect Crime for 32 years, 13,335 performances. In that span she’s missed only four shows. She also teaches acting and runs the The Theater Center on West 50th where the play is performed. Like so many Big Apple thespians, she did episodes of Law & Order and still gets residuals for the reruns. She can also do 180 Marine push-ups without stopping. Kudos to this Superwoman.
Also at NYP, Betsy McCaughey weighs in on health care. Here are excerpts, edited by yours truly: 5% of the population consumes 50% of the health care. Charging everyone the same is a rip-off for the healthy. The main reason costs are soaring is obesity. Diabetes costs have risen from $21 billion to $90 billion in the last 20 years. The way to correct this injustice without abandoning the obese and chronically ill is called reinsurance (don’t ask me to explain it). ObamaCare became unaffordable mostly because the law forced all consumers to pay the same, regardless of their health, sheer extortion. The Trump administration has reduced premiums using reinsurance. Seven states have lowered them by 20% the first year, on average. So much for the crazy claims Trump is sabotaging ObamaCare.
I’m not going to pretend I like Bernie Sanders, but I don’t want to see harm come to him. He should drop out of the race and attend to his health. There isn’t much difference in policy from one Democrat candidate to the next, so it’s not as if there would be a gap in representation. The only difference is that Sanders has the balls to admit he’s a socialist.
Robert Hawthorne shot this picture in Alaska. The fisherman were oblivious of the presence of the bear, of which the photographer alerted them. Shaken at first, they resumed fishing when the animal left.
An Oregon woman’s dashboard camera started recording as soon as this thief opened her car door.
The scaffold again served as an enabler for the floating book shop, keeping out the light rain. My thanks to the woman who bought a book in Russian, and to the gentleman who purchased Before Sunset, a short story collection by Stephen King, and Elvis Rising, a collection of stories inspired by the King, and a DVD of The Errand Boy (1961), co-written, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis; and to the elderly Latina, who went home with another thriller, Heartstone by Phillip Margolin.
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