IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Iowa admitted wrongdoing and publicly apologized for comments ridiculing former President Donald Trump for issuing a series of pardons to well-connected Republican officials.
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt made the remarks during a phone interview with The Associated Press in December, saying: “It’s not surprising a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals.”
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-2df8728cfafe4624c1e21ef44622e756
The novelization of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is out, and as befits the material, there’s no hardcover edition.
One of the earliest topics to appear here was the wacky anime series Azumanga Daioh. The cartoon isn’t about giant robots, so it must be about a group of Japanese schoolgirls.
One of the musical themes is beautiful and simple, plaintive yet hopeful.
Here’s an interesting photo I found, that Prue was surprised to see.
The caption on back explains the situation. Prue was the compère, or host, for the event. Note the reference to Noel Harrison.
I continued my Alfred Hitchcock viewing on TCM. Saboteur — not to be confused with Hitchcock’s earlier Sabotage — has a brief scene that’s straight out of a Western. Then there’s an encounter with a blind man, just like in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. And how about a nod to Tod Browning’s Freaks for good measure?
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings’ co-star in Saboteur, passed away in 1995. When she died I learned that whenever I visited my younger sister’s family I was driving past the retirement home where Lane lived out her final years.
This is Turner Classic Movies’ Alfred Hitchcock binge weekend. I’m a Hitch guy, and I never tire of watching many of his films.
Foreign Correspondent is a favorite that I hadn’t seen in a long time.
Watching Shadow of a Doubt, an otherwise much greater film, I was reminded how much the ending just doesn’t work for me.
I was in high school when Hitchcock appeared on The Dick Cavett Show.
P.S. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Psycho, but my favorite was at a sold-out TCM Event showing in Phoenix, where the movie is ostensibly set. It’s playing on TCM right now, and until this moment I’d never before noticed the shower behind Janet Leigh in her apartment, before she runs away with the money.
