Well, dear readers, here it is, Sunday, the beginning of a brand spanking new week. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, the brand spanking old week is now through and we have a whole new week to look forward to. Yesterday, I spent a most relaxing day not doing much of anything, and that includes getting no writing done, which means I must buckle down Winsocki and make up for that this very day. I shall not leave the home environment before doing several pages and that is all there is to that. I’m quite excited that I’ll be seeing my finished book, at least the softcover version, this week. There is nothing quite as exciting as holding in your hands your very own book. Well, when I held my very own darling daughter in my hands for the first time, that was pretty darned exciting, too. Once I held a box containing a dead rat in my hands – that was not too exciting and, in fact, it skeeved me. Well, I just seem to be going on and on with no point, don’t I? Perhaps the next paragraph will reveal a point.
Nope, this paragraph has not revealed a point. Of course, we’ve only just begun – oh, a Carpenters reference. Yesterday I finished watching a region 2 DVD entitled A Woman’s Secret, a strange little film from RKO Studios. It never seems to know what it wants to be – woman’s film, a film with noir trappings, a mystery, a comedy. It just veers all over the place from scene to scene. However, it’s beautifully photographed, and elegantly directed by a young Nicholas Ray. The cast is excellent and includes Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas (love Melvyn Douglas), Jay C. Flippen, and others. But the film belongs to Gloria Grahame, who is, as always, just wonderful. Not a film I ever need to see again, but fun to watch. Last night I saw my friend Dave Strohmaier’s loving tribute to Cinerama, Cinerama Adventure, at a private screening. It’s a fascinating documentary with lots of wonderful interviews, and I found it very moving. I think people today have no idea of the impact Cinerama had on film history and how successful it was. There are lots of clips from the various Cinerama films, shown in a new process called “smileboxing”, which is like letterboxing but which replicates the curved Cinerama screen. I must say the clips looked amazing. Dave is trying to get this shown at festivals and other places, so if any screenings come up in various and sundried cities, I’ll keep you posted. Apparently the Cinerama film elements are in good shape and Dave is trying to get someone interested in presenting all of them on DVD. The most interesting news that Dave imparted to me was that in going through the elements they discovered a 70mm print of Scent of Mystery, the first and only film in Smell-o-Vision. I feared that no print of the film existed. In fact, he told me they ran it not long ago, privately, at the Dome. Why was it in with Cinerama materials? Because after its Smell-o-Vision run totally bombed, they converted the film into three panel Cinerama and called it Holiday in Spain. I am going to implore and bug him until he’ll arrange a screening for me.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I still haven’t found the point yet.
I was hopeful to find a point after clicking the Unseemly Button, but no, I see no point. So, I will just go aimlessly on, blathering away with no point.
Don’t forget, Donald, our haineshisway.com national treasure, should have his new radio show up today. And, hopefully, we’ll do a Writer’s Block show within the next couple of weeks. Won’t that be ever so much fun?
Tomorrow will be the day I can hopefully tell you why I’ve been on such an Astrud Gilberto kick. No, I’m not doing an album with her, which would be the best news – it’s something wholly other that I’m very excited to share with you dear readers on the ‘morrow. That is, if we ever find the point.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must write quite a few pages, I must relax, I must tool around in my automobile, and I must watch a couple of DVDs. And I must find the point. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to come up with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings and perhaps at some point we’ll figure out the point of the point.