Allene Roberts’ first screen appearance, in the outstanding film The Red House, presented with the full TCM Noir Alley treatment.
Why Do Good Girls Fall for Bad Boys?
Don’t do it, Allene! He’s trouble!
Note: In Knock on Any Door Allene Roberts plays Emma, which was her actual first name.
Busy Busy Tom
Lessee… CBS Sunday Morning, a Boomer hangout, has an interview with Tom Hanks, and an interview with Henry Kissinger. I’ll go with Tom Hanks.
Happiness is… Facsimile Editions
Until the publication of The Complete Peanuts, my favorite books with Charlie Brown & Co. were the old Holt, Rhinehart & Co. reprints that sold for $1. Reading them on Christmas mornings is a particularly happy childhood memory. Forty years ago I happened to come across a large collection of the original paperbacks for cover price at a used bookstore. As a bonus, most of them are first printings.
My buddy Denro surprised me with a few facsimile editions of the paperbacks, published by Titan Comics. A direct comparison with the original books shows they are indeed exact replicas. Peanuts, from its modest Truman-era beginning to its LBJ glory, really comes alive in these collections.
For a deep dive into what Sparky Schulz created with pencil and ink on paper, there is the Unpacking Peanuts podcast.
https://www.unpackingpeanuts.com/podcast/
A very different Schulzian world is found within Monte’s new novel, Metropolis. It’s complex, and densely packed, with many quotable lines. A review will be coming up, as soon as I get to a million other things that have “best if done by” dates associated with them.
https://www.amazon.com/Metropolis-Monte-Schulz/dp/1683965795/
Again, Logitech Media Server??
I refer you back to this post.
It took longer than I expected, but today the Logitech Squeezebox Radio in the kitchen displayed the error message.
Book ’em Again, Danno
Every so often when watching Jeopardy! I’m dismayed not only by what I don’t know, but by what the contestants don’t know — cultural references that remind me of my age. For example, William Holden wasn’t recognized from a photo.
I thought a recent Final Jeopardy! was a giveaway. “What is Hawaii Five-O?” None of the contestants got it, which was strange for a couple of reasons. First, the Hawaii Five-O reboot has been running for almost as long as the original series. Second, one of the contestants appeared to be my age.
“The 1980s ‘Magnum P.I.’ used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, and even referred to its lead character.” All three contestants were wrong; the correct response was “Hawaii Five-O.
https://www.krtv.com/entertainment/former-mtn-news-journalist-ian-marquand-competes-on-jeopardy