Violence
Is this a harbinger of change or merely frustration at the shortages caused by the pandemic? Headline from nypost.com: “Cubans take to the streets in massive anti-government protest.” El presidente blames the Cuban-American mafia for using social media to foment dissent. Fortunately, there wasn’t any violence. I wonder how Fidel would have handled it.
Another sad headline about the Windy City, from foxnews.com: “Rapper shot 64 times in head, body moments after leaving Chicago jail.” Weekend tally: 40 shot, eleven killed.
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on ota in NYC, ran Violence (1947) in prime time in its Sunday Night Noir slot. It’s a so-so tale of a right wing organization bilking veterans they promise to help. Sheldon Leonard is the main heavy, though not the boss. I was more interested in the female lead, Nancy Coleman, who plays an undercover reporter. I completely drew a blank on her. There are only 35 titles under her name at IMDb, about 75% in TV. She did a six-episode arc on Ryan’s Hope in ’76, then appeared in a short in ’85, her last credits. Her main body of work came in Valiant Lady, a daytime soap that ran from ‘53’-’57, in which she appeared in 1024 episodes. She passed away at 87 in 2001… Also making an appearance in Violence is Frank Cady, a face familiar to boomers. I was surprised that there are only 107 titles under his name. There’s a good explanation for it — he was tied up in series TV. He did 142 episodes of Green Acres, 168 of Petticoat Junction and ten of The Beverly Hillbillies — all as the same character, Sam Drucker. He also appeared in 78 episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He passed away at 96 in 2012. Here are Coleman and Cady, lady first:
The lack of parking at my usual book nook sent me to my alternate site, and it worked out nicely, despite the humidity, which Mother Nature seemed to have set to max. All the business was outgoing. To my relief, there was no incoming today. My thanks to those who bought, all female, and to the gentleman who gave me a couple of chocolates and the little guy who brought me liquid refreshment for the second straight day. Here’s most of what sold: Storm of the Century by Stephen King, Delicious! by Ruth Reichel, three books in Russian, Testimony by Anita Shreve, Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon, Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand, Scientific American: How Things Work Today by Michael Wright and Mukul Patel, and What Fun! by Highlights for Children. And here’s an important book that’s just become available, by someone who will not look the other way:
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