Sunday
Crowded field. Cross-country ski classics race, Sweden. Photo by Ulf Palm, TT News Agency Via AP, posted at usatoday.com:
Headline from nypost.com: “Oklahoma gov rolls out red carpet for Jews looking to leave New York City.” Interesting strategy, but it’s hard to imagine them moving anywhere but along the east coast.
I suppose I shouldn’t chuckle over this NYP headline: “AI robot appears to grope female reporter during live interview in Saudi Arabia: ‘Coded to be a creep!’.” But I did.
Headline from newsmax.com: “Biden Ad Campaign Juxtaposes KKK Image With Trump.” DT should counter with one on Biden’s record on race, which is as bad as any modern politician’s.
Last night one of the CUNY channels, 25–3 on OTA in NYC, ran Strange Illusion (1945), the story of a young man whose dreams make him wary of the man courting his widowed mom. Since I nodded off with about a half hour to go, I won’t comment on it, but I did remember to research the woman who received credit for the screenplay. Adele Comandini was born in the Bronx to Italian immigrants. There are 31 titles under her name at IMDb, career spanning 1927-’56, although her Christmas in Connecticut was remade in ’92. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Story for Three Smart Girls (1936), on which she collaborated with five other writers, all uncredited. Her other notable work is Beyond Tomorrow (1940), for which she also received credit as a producer. I was unable to find any info on marriage or children, but I found one book credited to her: DOCTOR KATE: ANGEL ON SNOWSHOES; The Story Of Kate Pelham Newcomb M.D., a New York Times best seller. Comandini passed away at 89 in ‘87. Molto bene, signora. Photo from Google Images:
Born in NYC, Kate Pelham Newcomb earned a medical degree from the University of Buffalo. She practiced in northern Wisconsin, traveling hundreds of miles per week. She began raising funds for a hospital, and students, many of whom she’d delivered, began a penny drive that culminated in The Million Penny Parade on Memorial Day 1953. Newcomb served as chief of staff of the new facility. She was profiled on This Is Your Life. Tragically, she succumbed to injuries incurred in fall at 70.
I’ve banked my latest short story, Two Weird Hours, in the Google Docs BY the Numbers file, which is now more than 18,000 words. That’s about 7000 short of a thin book. I’m really happy with six of the seven pieces. The first, 24/7/365, is a brief rant I had to get out of my head.
Headline from foxnews.com: “Jan. 6 committee allegedly suppressed testimony on Trump push for National Guard.” I’m shocked — shocked! Round up the usual suspects: Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff…
Not much action at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop on this blustery day. All three sales were of novels. My thanks to Alice, who bought Sinners by Jackie Collins, and to Movie Buff, who purchased The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye; and to the young man who selected The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
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