The weather pattern is still the same -- dry in the valley, snowy in the mountains. The local newspaper ran pictures of the Ospreys at Dry Bridge Slough.

Sitemeter Sez: Gav, near Barcelona, Spain (Magpie Music/Dance fans); Hyderabad, India; Loma Linda, California; (Coulda been Nigel Olsson or Davey Johnstone reading about themselves); Toronto, Ontario; Vienna, Austria; San Leandro, California and Stozo Da' Klown in Jamaica, New York.

ROCK against Reaganomics at: 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 --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics -- UPDATED!





Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The last Honors Symposium for this year was "Why Be Moral?" with Dr. Dane Scott from Missoula. Self-interest and "flourishing" as a person seem to be the keys to why being principled is a good choice, which is my observation too. Plato's character Glaucus, from the ani-democratic dialogue Republic, who was the model for Machievelli's Prince got his predictable licks in, though.
The Hockaday Museum of Art features abstractionist George Gogas, our annual Children's Show, and local High School Art Show.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch:

The great British 'Scream Queen' Hazel Court just passed away at the age of 82. Her long-awaited memoir will be published later this year, but she won't be able to autograph it. Curses, I should have sent her a fan letter when I first heard of her book.

(L to R) Prim Hazel Court faces off with leather-clad Helen Laffer in the magnificently wretched classic Devil Girl From Mars.
Hazel stands right where she belongs, next to fellow Britisher Boris (William Pratt) Karloff on the big Technicolor screen in The Raven.
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Here's a dandy Fan Site about this level-headed, talented, model and actress, plus a photo from his archives:


The public asks, and even demands, many actresses to show their bodies. It is much harder to convincingly display the emotions which comprise a character. Hazel Court was capable of all the requirements an actress faces, and did her work with grace and good humor -- or humour as she probably spelled it.

Last of all, the opening poetry recitation from The Raven by Richard Matheson and Roger Corman. The rest of the movie is a fairly good genre parody starring Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Jack Nicholson, and the recently-departed Ms. Court: