Turkey Vultures were circling high above the west hills. It's been warm, and looks like it will stay that way, even though we are getting night showers.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Sitemeter Sez: I wonder why people search for body-builder Mickey Hagarity? That guy's unfortunate marriage to Jayne Mansfield was a humiliating example of private romance melting under the white-hot glare of unfriendly Hollywood publicity. I've only mentioned him ONCE, because of the Something Weird compilation video I reviewed last spring.

Media Watch: TCM played THREE versions of The Wizard of Oz over the holiday -- the 1910 tableaux with Bebe Daniels when she was a child, an odd racist pastiche from the mid-20's with Oliver Hardy -- featuring Dorothy as a purse-lipped flapper princess, plus MGM's classic from 1939.
If you think I'm going to watch our thieving, lying, unworthy excuse for a president on Larry King, you can only be a new reader.
British media were dominated by commemorations of the horrible bus bombings in London a year ago -- made more hideous by the resulting growth of racism in a society which needs less instead of more -- like our own.

Glamorous moving-picture star Bebe Daniels held a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle's Rotogravure Pictorial Section for this 1925 advertisement. Daniels (1901-1971) was a leading lady in silent pictures and gracefully managed the transition to sound in such musicals as Rio Rita.

Bebe Daniels is best remembered today for 1933's Forty-Second Street. (Instead of 1910's Wizard of Oz movie.) She married British star Ben Lyon, and they appeared on stage, radio and television. Quotes and pictures from http://www.sfmuseum.org http://www.silentsaregolden.com -- literary Dorothy by John Sabruda.

Hot days and occasional rains. A huge raptor flew majestically over Middle Foy's Lake from West to East at Sunset.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Sitemeter Sez: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Arlington, Virginia; Spokane, Washington; (Reading about The Monkees.) Pensacola, Florida; Ardsley On Hudson, New York; Chepachet, Rhode Island; (A Priscilla Lawson fan -- Hooray for Princess Aura!) Kalispell, Montana; and somewhere in the United Kingdom.

Media Watch: Democracy Now had an hour's conversation with Pete Seegar. Sometimes TV is really worth a person's time. This great American humanitarian, scholar, and musician spoke about his family, Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, The Weavers, the House Un-American Activities Committee, Bob Dylan, and Seegar's home on the Hudson River.
He didn't mention his important role in securing royalties for the family of Solomon Linda, the South African musician who gave the world M'Bube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight).


Jacques LeCoq alumnus Julie Taymor became famous for her bold artistic direction in the stage version of Disney's Lion King. The nation of South Africa stood up for Solomon Linda's heirs over royalies owed to them for use of the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Production photo from PBS.org