There is tentative improvement in the difficulty here. The negotiation may not be like Israel and Hamas, but the outcome isn’t assured. While waiting for confirmation of a resolution, I will be listening to DJ Tom Hanks’ Halloween show on Boss Radio 66, tomorrow at 4 PM ET.
Two physical book arrivals this week.
The Mysteries, by Bill Watterson and John Kascht.
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Bill-Watterson/dp/1524884944/
Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia, by Illeana Douglas.
Notice: This will be my last blog post for a while. How long? Don't know yet. For now, my full attention needs to be elsewhere. Check back in a month or two. Thanks for being here to read this.
Here’s a masterful reading, in 15 parts, of Rogue Male, the novel by Geoffrey Household that was adapted in the previously posted movie, Man Hunt.
Jackie DeShannon, “What the World Needs Now is Love” (Bacharach-David), April 1965.
The Beatles, “All You Need is Love” (Lennon-McCartney), July 1967.
If you have seen Inglorious Basterds, you know that Quentin Tarantino indulged revisionist history about Hitler. An alternative fate for Hitler likewise drives the story in Man Hunt. Directed by Fritz Lang, who had escaped from Nazi Germany, it was released six months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I was hooked watching Man Hunt from the start, with its unnervingly realistic depiction of Hitler in the crosshairs of Walter Pidgeon’s rifle.
Canadian-born Pidgeon plays an Englishman, and Russian-born George Sanders plays a German. They’re both fine in their roles, especially Sanders, who seemed to have spoken German as impeccably as he did English. Constance Bennett’s younger sister Joan is a delight, with her Eliza Doolittle accent. In one scene she looks so disappointed when Walter says he’s going to sleep on the couch, it’s obvious that she wanted him to join her in bed. I’m surprised it wasn’t cut by the censors. (Pidgeon was actually quite gay.)
Trump is buddies with a Pratt? From Australia?? And Donald shared classified nuclear submarine information with him???
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