Friday Focus
From pinterest.com, posted by Ana Maria:
Headline from nypost.com: “Ancient science: Scientists turn yeast found in gut of ancient mummy into ‘very good’ sourdough bread — beer’s next.” You first.
From NYP: “Alzheimer’s patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in groundbreaking drug trial.” Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms. Apparently, Grace Slick and others were way ahead of their time.
Headline from foxnews.com: “New York Democrats vote to replace ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with gender-neutral terms.” Fie!
Headline from foxbusiness.com: “US economy added 172,000 jobs in May, beating expectations.” According to the article by Eric Revell, 85,000 had been predicted. Remember, that figure will likely be revised, like the numbers from the past two months: “…employment in March and April was 93,000 jobs higher than previously reported.” Go, baby, go.
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Last night AMGTV, 39–1 on OTA in NYC, ran Woman on the Run (1950), starring the “Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe, directed and co-written by Norman Foster. Since I’d never heard of it, I didn’t expect much. It was very good. I suspected and dismissed the twist halfway. It actually repaired what I thought were holes in the script. Also in the cast, Hollywood mainstays Robert Keith, John Qualen, Ross Elliott, Frank Jenks, Victor Sen Yung and Steven Geray. Thank you, AMG. Photo from Google Images:
RIP prolific supporting player James Handy, 81, who was murdered by his girlfriend’s son. Born in NYC, there are 148 titles under his name at IMDb, screen career spanning 1977 to the present, one work to be released posthumously. He was comfortable on the big or small screen. He did numerous guest shots on popular primetime fare. Here are just five of his movie appearances: The Verdict (1982), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Arachnophobia (1990), Jumanji (1995), Logan (2017). His name may not be familiar, but his face likely will be to movie fans. Photo from GI:
Gorgeous day, just short of hot, a pleasant breeze blowing through the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. My thanks to the woman who donated her third bag of books this week, mostly Russian today, and to the gentleman who bought a stack of Spider-Man comics; and to Herbie, who purchased Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart; and to my Constant Benefactress, who took home Hawaii by James Michener and Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson.
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