Wednesday World
Let’s start with an amusing headline from nypost.com: “NYC-DSA’s membership is very, very white, internal report finds.” Know-It-Alls unite!
From NYP: “Former Taylor Farms exec accused of swiping $32M for Hawaii mansion, ‘gambling and women’: explosive suit.” At least he didn’t waste it.
Good news from NYP: “US Marine Robert Gilman freed after being imprisoned for more than four years in Russia.”
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Let’s hope the following doesn’t become common. From NYP: “AI assistant goes rogue, hacks Australian gym website in stunning breach: report.”… Counterpoint: Arkady stopped to schmooze and waxed ecstatic about a photo array he’s working on for his wife’s 70th birthday. There was one picture where a person’s head was cut off. Arkady asked ChatGPT if it could take the head from another pic and graft it into place. Sure enough… Now that is cool.
Whatever works. From NYP: “I live in a home just one mile from my husband — and our marriage is now better than ever.”
From newsmax.com: “Trump: Ending Medicaid Funds for Youth Trans Care.” Yay! Let the parents who allowed it fund it.
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on OTA in NYC, ran a Thin Man marathon. Since I’ve seen each at least once, I checked in only when other stuff I was sampling was in commercial. Loosely based on the works of the great Dashiell Hammett, they are so much fun. The chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy is as good as any Hollywood team ever. After the Thin Man (1936) features James Stewart in a key role pre-stardom. I’ll focus on two of the female players. Born in Venice, Elissa Landi got her start at the Oxford Repertory Company and on London’s West End, performing with the likes of Olivier & Gielgud. After appearing in a few Euro films, she came to America. There are “only” 33 titles under her name at IMDb, screen career spanning 1926-’43, tragically cut short by cancer at 43 in ‘48. Other movies in which she appeared: The Sign of the Cross (1932), The Count of Monte Cristo (1934). Not only was she a talented actress, she wrote six novels: Neilson (1925), The Helmers (1931), House for Sale (1932), The Ancestor (1934), Women and Peter (1941) and The Pear Tree (1944). Married twice, she was a mom of one. She became an American citizen in ‘43… Born in Philly, Penny Singleton performed in vaudeville as soon as she finished elementary school. She did a bit of Broadway, then headed west. There are 58 titles under her name at IMDB, screen career spanning 1930-’90. That figure is misleading as she was the voice of wife Jane on 75 episodes of The Jetsons. She is probably best known as the star of 26 chapters of the Blondie film series. Married twice, she was a mom of two. She was elected president of the American Guild of Variety Artists in 1969. She passed away at 95 in 2003. Photos from Google Images: Landi right:
Paltry return today at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop, despite the nice breeze that negated the humidity. My thanks to the young man who overcompensated me forthe enduring Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
