Sunday
From an article at nypost.com, edited by yours truly: Bands of shoplifters are terrorizing Soho’s high-end boutiques, lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer merchandise… “The brands … tell their employees to walk away. They don’t want to be the next Instagram video claiming they are a racist brand.” Reparations, I guess.
Also from NYP, edited by YT: Killer whales off the coast of Spain are attacking boats. Several scientists think it’s due to injuries several sustained from rudders. There have been at least 33 attacks in which orcas surround small craft, deliberately ram rudders, and attempt to tip a boat over. The attacks have caused severe damage — and in some cases, disabled the crafts. Screenwriters take note. Cage Willy!
Here’s a snippet from an NYP op-ed piece by Michael Barone: “…The COVID-19 death rate per million is about one-fifth that of the 1957-’58 Asian flu and one-third that of the 1968-’70 Hong Kong flu.” There were no lockdowns then. Maybe the Corona death percentage would have far surpassed the others if restrictions hadn’t been put in place. As I say to anyone who comments on the issue, “I don’t know what to tell you.”
From an article at foxnews.com, in my own words: Wayne Knight has reprised his Seinfeld role as Newman in an anti-Trump ad excoriating the president for hampering the postal service. Seems like an odd choice given the work ethic of the iconic character.
Trump has received his fourth Nobel nomination, first for 2021.
Last night, Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran Magnum Force (1973), the second installment in the Dirty Harry series starring Clint Eastwood. It’s not boring but preposterous, paling in comparison to the manic original. It was directed by Ted Post. I watched the first hour. At nine I switched to the Heroes and Icons station, 9–4, which was airing Combat!, season two, episode four, The Long Way Home: Part 1, also directed by Post, who did the second part as well, and five other episodes of the series. Born in Brooklyn, an usher at the Loew’s Pitkin Theater in 1938, his career spanned 1950-’99, largely in TV. In a great bit of trivia, he taught acting and drama at New York’s legendary High School of Performing Arts in 1950. There are 92 titles under his name at IMDb. He was at the helm of 179 episodes of Peyton Place, 55 of Gunsmoke, 24 of Rawhide, four of The Twilight Zone and two of Columbo, and lots of other prime time fare. A true Hollywood stalwart, he passed away at 95 in 2013. Kudos, sir.
My thanks to the young man who overcompensated me for The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You’ll Love to Do by Shoya Zichy and Ann Bidou, and The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World by Sophia Dembling; and to the woman who bought two hardcovers in Russian; and to the young man, the only Asian currently patronizing the floating book shop, who purchased Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag and They Won’t Be Hurt by Kevin O’Brien; and to Bill Brown, author of Words and Guitar: A History of Lou Reed’s Music, and other fine books, who took home The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
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