SNL has this funny bit, picking up on the factoid that many men supposedly think about Ancient Rome several times each day. Something I don’t want to think about it how many times MAGA men think about Nazi Germany every day!
Speaking for myself, I never give a single thought to Ancient Rome…
… and there is no indication whatsoever of my having even a subconscious interest in Ancient Rome.
If my parents had made a go of their florist/greenhouse business in Wisconsin, I might know as much about plants as anything else. As it turned out, I know next to nothing. The two impatiens I had hanging on the front porch all summer did so well I decided to see if they can survive the winter, repotted on the all-season porch.
If the porch works for the impatiens, maybe later I could “pot” some other plants. 😉
Yes, I’m kidding!
Back in June I noted that the Movies! TV Network was no longer available in Boston. I don’t know when it returned, but Movies! is now on over-the-air channel 38-5.
https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/
Right now it’s showing an excellent movie I featured here a year ago, The Narrow Margin.
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.
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.)
