The damn bird-bath may be infecting our cats with Giardia. We have to figure out a way of watering the birds without the kitties drinking too. We don't leave out near enough seeds to feed the Deer, but I'm glad to say they don't look overly thin.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
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!
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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution as the days get longer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Native American art and artifacts from the Northern Plains, and Blackfeet artists take center stage at the Hockaday Museum of Art this Friday. It looks like we'll have a video crew there as well, as we "open" the traveling "trunk" show.

Media Watch: AMC showed a "DVD" version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist -- meaning it was letterboxed with all sorts of gossip flashing on the screen beneath the picture the while the film was running. It was great fun if you left the sound off, but sure got in the way of the story otherwise. There are too many adverts on that channel anyway, so I'm not sure this trick will help them keep their audience. The wretchedly laughable Exorcist II (1977) followed -- I liked Bob Logan's Reposessed (1990) a lot better than William Peter Blatty's stupid Exorcist III from the same year. Logan's script was lame, but funny sight gags were plentiful.
Speaking of demons -- Jacques Tourneur's Curse of the Demon (1957) was on TCM over the weekend -- a delightfully direct horror movie where the Supernatural just walks up takes over Reality for awhile. Tourneur also directed many well-photographed and well-acted genre films like: Cat People (1942); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); The Leopard Man (1943); Out of the Past (1947); and Berlin Express (1948).


Tourneur wanted to keep Demon footage out of his movie, and he was probably right -- however, I like this particular movie monster. It was made in the mid-50's when dawg-assed flicks were in flower, and this Demon stood "head and shoulders" above the competition for cheap scares -- except for maybe the rompin' stompin' Godzilla.