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Headline from nypost.com: “Legacy of love: New cancer hope as a pill ‘annihilates all solid tumors’ — thanks to this little girl.” According to the article by Marc Lallanilla: “…AOH1996 is named after Anna Olivia Healey, a cancer patient from Indiana born in 1996… her fatal fight with neuroblastoma was the inspiration for the A.N.N.A. Fund (Anna Needs Neuroblastoma Answers), a charity that has raised more than $400,000 for neuroblastoma research since 2002.” Photo from GI:

Headline from newsmax.com: “RNC Video Features 24 Minutes of Dems Denying Elections.” It’s wrong only if DT does it.

Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on OTA in NYC, ran Night Must Fall (1937), which I’d never seen. It stars Robert Montgomery as a rogue who has a knack of cajoling women. Rosalind Russell and Dame May Whitty are two of the women who fall under his spell. Montgomery and Whitty received Oscar nominations. Since I fell asleep for about 20 minutes, I won’t comment on it other than to say the psychology was interesting, ahead of its time in cinema. In researching the film at IMDb, my interest was drawn to Emlyn Williams, whose popular play was adapted by John Van Druten, an Academy Award nominee, shared with two others, for Gaslight (1945). Born in Wales, Williams spoke only Welsh until age eight. He earned a scholarship to a school in England, where a teacher encouraged him and helped him win a scholarship to Oxford. He took to the stage and also began writing. He starred in the original stage production of Night Must Fall. He also starred in his other highly successful play, The Corn Is Green, partly based on his childhood in his home town. There are 50 titles under his name in the category of writer, and 50 in Actor. He played Caligula in the unfinished I, Claudius (1937) and Emile Zola in I Accuse! (1958), and had roles in Major Barbara (1941), Ivanhoe (1952) and The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959). On TV he did guest shots on The Defenders, Rumpole of the Bailey and David Copperfield (1970). He starred as Charles Dickens in three TV movies. Overall, he wrote 15 plays, two novels, two autobiographies, and five original screenplays. He directed one film: The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949). A true renaissance man, he was a father of two. He passed away at 81 in 1987. Photo from GI. “A Sequel To George” refers to his actual first name, which was the title of his first autobio. The books were published twelve years apart.

Headline from foxnews.com: “Oregon county lost $1 billion in 2020 as residents fled crime, homelessness: ‘It’s like Portland died’.” Time for its progressives to double down on their policies.

From FN: “Arkansas exceeds revenue expectations by nearly $16M at start of fiscal year.” The governor is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s one time press secretary, two years in the line of fire.

The floating book shop enjoyed more great weather, cloud cover and a nice breeze. My thanks to the kind folks who donated, swapped and bought wares. Here’s what sold: a kids’ DVD in Russian, three books in that language; The Funniest Joke Book Ever! by Bathroom Readers’ Institute (It’s been flagged.); The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum; the vinyl .45 of Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now by McFadden & Whitehead, which hit #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart in 1979. Jerry Cohen helped them write it.

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