It was actually nosing around a couple of kids who were hiding under a car in fear.
Still sad -- but necessary in this case.
Visit: A Tale of Two Movies
Weather: The rain keeps falling, and the Weather Service predicts another band of moisture from the Pacific.
Charity Alert: The Literacy Site -- each click means a free book for somebody this week, so I'll leave this link alone.
Media Watch: A new documentary Double Dare on PBS's Independent Lens last night -- an excellent look at two women who earn their living performing stunts. Jeannie Epper did all the jumps, falls, and fighting for Lynda Carter on TV's Wonder Woman twenty-five years ago, and still works in Hollywood today. Young Zoë Bell worked as primary stunt-double for Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess in New Zealand, then travelled to L.A. and China when that gig finished. She won an international award for Kill Bill, where she stood in for Uma Thurman, and deserved it! The film mentioned that she injured herself during Kill Bill -- enough to stay out of action for a year or more.
PBS' website about Double Dare
I woke up 'way too early, and watched first-rate movie villain Basil Rathbone playing a snobbish good-guy detective named Philo Vance in The Bishop Murder Case from 1930. I like seeing movies made in the days before drab formulas homogenized everything.
Illustrated Bishop Murder Case Synopsis
(A low-brow policeman makes a spoken reference to Sherlock Holmes in this flick -- many years before Rathbone placed his own indellible stamp on Doyle's character.)
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