Forty years ago, when The Third Man, one of the truly great films, was not quite forty years old, British TV had this parody. Robbie Coltrane, best remembered as Harry Potter’s Hagrid, plays Orson Welles. Also featured is the delightful Miranda Richardson, who is hilarious as Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II.
There’s a reference to “page 3.” I’ll let you look up “Page 3 Girl” if you don’t know what that is. I saw them everywhere on my business trips to England long ago.
Tom Hanks is having a tailgate party in the back of the Playtone Records station wagon! Today at 1 ET, right here on this conveniently embedded TuneIn player.
A couple of my friends have birthdays coming up in April. One of them is Prue, who by now should be relocated in France. I’m waiting for her reply to a message I sent.
Here’s Prue’s first husband in an offbeat episode of Danger Man, reprising his croupier role from A Hard Day’s Night. If only Prue had been cast as the lovely lady with Patrick McGoohan. Note the presence of Desmond Llewelyn, the original Q in the James Bond films.
The second anniversary of my combined cancer+afib diagnosis is coming up in April. Both conditions were successfully treated, and there continue to be follow-up appointments to ensure all is well. I need to decide what I want to do in whatever time is left for me to do it.
There’s an update on my Verizon Fios remote administration complaint:
https://community.verizon.com/discussion/comment/1834732#Comment_1834732
Trump is a bummer, but don’t let him bring you down. Love, that’s where it is.
