Saturday Matinee

This popped up in a photo array last night at youtube. A pat on the back to anyone who guesses who the kid is. Photo from Google Images:

RIP Ryan O’Neal, 82. Born in L.A., he went to high school in Germany while his dad worked for Radio Free Europe. He was a successful amateur boxer, 18–4, 13 KOs. There are 65 titles under his name at IMDb in a career that spanned 1960–2017. He began in TV and his role in 501 episodes of Peyton Place catapulted him to fame and into a fine movie career. I would say Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) is O’Neal’s best film, although critics battered it. Other notable work: Under the Yum Yum Tree (1969), the smash hit Love Story (1970), for which he received an Oscar nomination; What’s Up, Doc? (1972); Paper Moon (1973); A Bridge Too Far (1977); The Driver (1978). On TV he appeared in 31 episodes of Empire, 15 of Good Sports, six of Bull, 18 of Miss Match, and 24 of Bones, his swan song. Married twice, he was a father of four. Like many Hollywood stars, his personal life was a mess. Given his substance abuse, his longevity is amazing, a testament to great genes. Photo from GI:

Message to NYC Mayor Adams: bus future migrants to Delaware or DC.

Here’s something that is at once amusing and maddening, culled from an article by Madeline Coggins at foxnews.com, in my own words. In Home Alone (1990), Macaulay Culkin’s character goes shopping, his bill $19.83. This year the same items would cost $72.28, a 250% increase. Photo from GI:

It was an interesting session of the floating book shop on this gorgeous day that had me shedding two layers of clothing. My thanks to the buyers and donors, especially the gentleman who pulled his SUV up to drop off about a hundred books, most of them marketable, many of them on photography. It took me an hour to sort through them and figure out how to get everything into the car. Here’s what sold: five DVDs, two huge cookbooks by Jacques Pepin; Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh; Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky; two paperbacks by sci-fi authors writing in the name of Arthur C. Clarke; two kids’ books; a book in Arabic. Too much work today for a man of 73. Still, I am blessed.

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