Well, dear readers, we had a splendidly splendid lively and sparkling chat last night, with a rather large turnout. If you’re missing these chats you are missing fun, fun, fun (that is three funs). Now I must hurry along and write these here notes quickly for I must go to the Oaks of Sherman to work.
Yesterday I watched a wonderful motion picture on DVD, entitled Juggernaut. It’s not a well-known film but it’s a terrific one, directed by Richard Lester. Made in 1974 it was kind of sold wrong, as a disaster movie. It’s not that at all – it’s about several bombs on board a luxury liner, put there by someone who wants to extort money from the ship owners. It is incredibly suspenseful, and also has Richard Lester’s trademark wackiness every now and then (there are several really funny in-jokes). The cast is brilliant – Richard Harris, Roy Kinnear, Michael Horden, a very young Anthony Hopkins, Freddy Jones and Shirley Knight. If you only know Miss Knight from recent outings be prepared for a bit of a shock – she’s not the heavyset Barbara Cookish woman we know from today – she’s a svelte and stunning beauty, a real leading woman. Rather the same demeanor and build that her daughter, Kaitlin Hopkins, has today. Anyway, get this DVD (it’s like eleven dollars) and you will really like this film, I can pretty much guarantee it.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must away, oh, yes, I must away.
If you weren’t around on the weekend or even if you weren’t asquare on the weekend, do use the Unseemly Archive button and catch up – it was most amusing around these parts this weekend. Also, to make up for the short notes you can peruse Juliana’s Journal – there was a new entry up on Saturday and I do believe there’s a new entry up today, so catch up or ketchup, whichever suits your fancy.
Also, Donald has a brand spanking new repeat of a radio show up so tune in and see if it’s one you missed. Also, if you haven’t read Charles Pogue’s interview do so immediately – we’ll have our next Unseemly Interview up on Friday – with film and television actress Miss Penny Peyser, she of All the President’s Men, the original The In-Laws, The Frisco Kid, Crazy Like a Fox and Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. Lots of great stories are told and you won’t want to miss one word of it.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go hither and thither to the Oaks of Sherman and then I must come home and write. Now remember, lots of posts so I have excellent things to read all day. Today’s topic of discussion: We all talk about our CDs, but what LPs do you still have that a) are your favorites and that you still play, and b) that haven’t been issued on CD yet? I’ll start – the original Gold and Fizdale recording of Dave Brubeck’s Points on Jazz, the OBC of A Family Affair by John Kander and the Goldmans, the London cast album of Promises, Promises, the OBC of A Thurber Carnival, and a few others. Your turn.