— I am dying to see Door in the Floor<\/i>. Jeff Bridges is (and has been for a long time) my favorite actor working today. Can’t get any better than Bridges at this silly job called acting. Can’t wait.<\/p>\n
— Still haven’t seen the Metallica movie. I think I’m going tomorrow with Blind Cave Fish<\/a>, which is going to ROCK.<\/p>\n — Finally reading Victor Davis Hanson’s Carnage and Culture<\/i>. Can’t read too much of it once, because it all starts to blend together in my mind – but it’s good stuff. I am in awe of how he can make battles in antiquity seem like they happened yesterday.<\/p>\n — I’ve rented Indiscreet<\/i> (directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bregman) and also Public Enemy<\/i> to watch over the next couple of days. Seeing all of these old movies has (for the moment) ruined my taste for “modern” movies.<\/p>\n — In a ghoulish craning-the-neck-at-a-traffic-accident kind of way, I absolutely LOVED the pictures of Courtney Love manacled to a stretcher, wearing a white slip, being dragged off to Bellevue on her 40th birthday. It seems like it should be a piece of performance art, only it’s not. It’s real. I wish the best for poor little Frances. I can’t imagine what that little girl’s life is (and has been) like.<\/p>\n — Had a great night in Rhode Island out on “Beth’s deck” with the high school crowd: Beth, Mere (Green Belt Mere) and Betsy. Beth and her family are now moving – so we had to say good-bye to that deck – the famous deck – where we all convene as often as we are able! We drank wine, we ate chips, we blabbed our heads off with the dark and cloudy night sky above us. A wonderful farewell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — I am dying to see Door in the Floor. Jeff Bridges is (and has been for a long time) my favorite actor working today. Can’t get any better than Bridges at this silly job called acting. Can’t wait. — … Continue reading