Strikes
Maybe this is a positive sign — Lady Liberty still standing despite an attack from Mother Nature:
This headline from nypost.com doesn’t surprise me: “Shocking video shows truck crash into outdoor dining area in Brooklyn.” Some of the set-ups I’ve seen have tables in streets that are busy. Some have wooden barricades that seem sturdy, but would they hold up to being struck by a car out of control? I wouldn’t sit at them.
Pity poor Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler — booed, heckled while addressing protesters despite all the asses he kisses, and then tear-gassed by Feds.
Here’s an interesting headline form foxnews.com: “Satanic Temple offers scholarships to high school grads.” The group says the $500 Devil’s Advocate Scholarship is open to any 2020 graduate. Only $500? Seems the devil’s lost his mojo.
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran yet another title I’d never seen — Song of the Thin Man (1947), the sixth and final entry of the entertaining series starring screen legends William Powell and Myrna Loy. This one concerns the murder of a band leader. The cast is a cinephile’s dream: Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows, Gloria Grahame, Bess Flowers, Don Taylor, Warner Anderson, Marie Windsor and Dean Stockwell, pre-teen, as Nick Charles Jr.. I’ll focus on the player least familiar to me, Patricia Morison. Born in NYC in 1915, she had a frustrating screen career. Her best role, a rape victim who commits suicide, was cut entirely from Kiss of Death (1947), deemed too harsh at the time. Most of her screen work was in minor films, with a few exceptions: The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Dressed to Kill (1946), where she played the villainess in the last of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series. She flourished on the musical stage, however. In 1948 Cole Porter cast her in the lead of Kiss Me Kate over the objections of the director and producers, who wanted a bigger name. She did more than 1000 performances. She also starred in productions of The King and I, Pal Joey, Kismet and The Merry Widow. She passed away at 103 in 2018. In film she was dubbed The Fire and Ice Girl. Here’s a still from Song of the Thin Man that corroborates that image:
The floating book shop was delayed about an hour by rain. My thanks to Evelyn, who bought Call Me Crazy a Memoir by Anne Heche.
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