Friday Fandango
From What They Saw: Breathtaking Historical Images from Eyes Long Closed by Mariia Tkachenko, msm.com: Barber and Beauty Shop, Bedrock City, Rts. 64 and 180, Valle, Arizona, 1987. ©historicalpics1. Yabba Dabba Doo!
This is sure to rile leftists. Headline from newsmax.com: “Kennedy Center Board Votes to Restore Trump Name at Site.” I only care in that it gets their goat.
Excerpt from NM article by Nicole Weatherholtz: “…the latest Consumer Price Index report, which showed consumer prices rising just 0.1% in July… 3.3%, 3.2% right now.” The goal is 2%. I don’t think it will be enough to keep Republicans in power after the midterms. Will all the manufacturing DT has brought back to America be lost when the Dems’ knives come out?
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Among today’s celebrations, it’s Love Your Bookshop Day:
Light musicals are not my thing, so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Wake Up and Live (1937), which aired last night on AMGTV, channel 39–1 on OTA in NYC. It hooked me from the start. The film has two main storylines: a feud between journalist Walter Winchell and bandleader Ben Bernie, each playing himself, and the travails of a talented singer who has mic fright preventing him from performing on radio. He is played by Jack Haley, who two years later would gain immortality as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939). His character falls for the one played by Alice Faye, who received third billing to Winchell and Bernie! It must have been the height of their popularity. The screenplay was written by Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen & Curtis Kenyon, adapted from the book by Dorothea Brande. The dialog is lively and witty. Joan Davis does an awesome slapstick dance. Boomers may remember her as the ditzy star of the ‘50s TV series I Married Joan, which ran in syndication into the ’60s. The movie was directed by the prolific Sidney Lanfield, who has 71 titles under his name as a director and 18 as a writer. On TV he helmed 54 epsiodes of McHale’s Navy and 48 of The Addams Family, as well as other popular primetime fare. His most notable big screen credit is The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939). Thank you, AMGTV. Photo from Google Images:
Not much action at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop on this pleasant though still too humid day. My thanks to the Cook Book Lady, who bought Stop Dieting and Lose Weight: Featuring the Seven-Step-Get-Slim Plan That Really Works by Prevention Magazine Editors and Mark Bricklin; and to the gentleman who purchased one of the toughest reads I ever cracked, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The author was on a much higher intellectual plane than I… Audrey was waiting in the shade for a friend and noticed my Lafayette H. S. reunion T-shirt. Turns out she graduated a year behind me, 1968. She was unhappy there, as she was on the side of the street that went to LHS rather than Lincoln, where all her friends were. She recently had dinner with Joe Palo, a teammate of mine. They were born on the same block two weeks apart.
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