Damn near ZERO degrees (F) this morning -- that's -18 (C)! I really felt the trek between buildings today at work. It was overcast, but that was just mountain fog between us and the Sun -- a North wind made things worse. A half a dozen Pheasants greeted me when I went out to recharge their Sunflower seeds yesterday.

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!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

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

In The Community: I'm doing an encore presentation of my Footsbarn slide show tomorrow at noon in the Board Room at FVCC. Enthusiasm got me through the first one, let's see if I can control my pace better this time.
Hooray! The Hockaday is getting it's own data projector so we can do more presentations. We are also starting to use Power Point to electronically "open" old books and pamphlets in our display cases, rather than have them sit there all closed up. They can't take too much handling, but what they have inside them is wonderful to see! Hockaday Museum of Art

Media Watch: I've been watching Festival Dailys on the Sundance Channel. I've had some of the best times of my life in and around Park City, Utah, so I'm happy to revisit the place on TV. To tell the truth, though, this little show is about as shallow as a meltwater puddle. The Sundance Festival carries on from the funky old Park City Film Festival I knew as a twenty-something. I'm glad that Robert Redford saved the festival from bankruptcy and oblivion, but it slowly swirls towards the maelstrom of Celebrity Voyeurism if left to drift. I saw the eccentric Crispin Glover, the friend of a friend, pimping his new film, but I didn't see our mutual friend in any of the scenes.
Dick Clark as a MOVIE STAR? It was true for two early-60's films -- Young Doctors and Because They're Young. The latter film was on TCM, but it played like a downer TV show. The theme song, performed by Duane Eddy, King of the Twanging Guitar, is EXCELLENT. The score was by John Williams, who "scored big" with Star Wars fifteen or so years later. Clark tried some TV acting too, but he was wise enough to know his limitations, and largely stuck with producing and announcing, except for the occasional loon-out.

Did somebody mention Footsbarn Theatre?


Shakespeare rejoins the company for a revival of this madcap farce. Rosenbaum described the Bard's plays as "Bottom-less," in his Shakespeare Wars, but he was just playing with words too. Footsbarn will likely perform it in French, which won't make it any more or less farcical.