Alec Baldwin has been a vociferous advocate of stricter gun control, but yesterday he fired a prop gun on a movie set, unintentionally killing the cinematographer and seriously injuring the director. I’ve read quite a few opinion pieces that assume … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Yesterday I noticed a discussion in the open thread about stone walls in New England and elsewhere. I thought I’d link to a post I wrote about stone walls, but – as sometimes happens – I discovered there was … Continue reading →
When I saw this news story about a Biden administration proposal for the feds to monitor “all business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts,” it struck me – and certainly not for the first … Continue reading →
The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has died at 88. Quite a few of the tributes to Belmondo call him “handsome.” That surprises me, because I never thought him handsome. He was something else – unique and compelling and magnetic. I … Continue reading →
Let’s have a happier discussion. In this thread, I was asked to give my opinion on Fred Astaire versus Gene Kelly. So here it is. Kelly was excellent. Astaire was transcendent. Kelly was a strong and very good dancer. Astaire … Continue reading →
Sometimes the great and the famous are arrogant, or they become arrogant. But not Fred Astaire: His perfectionism was legendary, but his relentless insistence on rehearsals and retakes was a burden to some. When time approached for the shooting of … Continue reading →
Yes, indeed: Career politician President Biden is being mocked for claiming he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck — with the White House only able to show he was once a passenger in one. The 48-year political veteran made the … Continue reading →
Biden loves to threaten people and then to brag about threatening people. For example, the tale of Corn Pop: Biden has publicly repeated several stories of him rebuking racial division and has relayed one specific incident detailed in his autobiography … Continue reading →
Actor Charles Grodin died yesterday at the age of 86. He was fabulous in one of my favorite movies of all time, “Midnight Run.” In the movie, Grodin played an accountant who had embezzled money from a Chicago mobster, and … Continue reading →
I love these: This one is great but the added sounds are awful: From a comment there: The children names and what they became: 0:03 : this is Madeleine Koehler, born in 1895, second child of Jeanne Lumière (sister of … Continue reading →
VDH has long been one of my favorite political commentators. I don’t agree with everything he says in this entire video, but I’ve cued it up to show a part where he makes an interesting analogy (although he starts by … Continue reading →
Escapism. Watch about the first 13 minutes. Ann Miller lied about her age big time when she began her career, but she got away with it because she looked like a woman. She had a very protective mother to keep … Continue reading →