The week of of Mondays is over, they even borrowed one from the following week -- tomorrow is the USA's version of Labor Day.

Sitemeter Sez: Toms River, New Jersey; Montreal, Quebec; Detroit, Michigan; Birmingham, UK, and my secret admirer in Louth, Ireland.

The Mime Troupe Saga continues: 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

Many thanks to Toni -- she sent me an autographed copy of Winter Season; A Dancer's Journal (1982) for making a video of her presentation at Harvard University about Ida!




Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
MORE UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Even more Flash Gordon comparisons from the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.





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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. 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. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

Then and Now -- Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park.

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: Netflix's Bollywood movies have been disappointing lately, but Naqaab (2007) had some virtues. The acting by veterans Bobby Deol and Akshaye Khanna was pretty good, though patchy. Newcomer Urvashi Sharma looked like she might be an experienced model, and the Internet told me I was right! Plastic surgery is rife in the Indian film industry, and she may have caught her nose in some of it, rather than her lips, as is too common nowadays. None of my business, really, but I wish that fad would end. Most of the flick was shot in the concrete craziness of Dubai, on the Arabian Peninsula, which has been built up like a monstrous movie set itself in the last generation.

I think I'm going to dip into this collection of 50 Horror Classics -- only the worst is good enough!
Update: One Corpse Too Many with Jack (Tin Man) Hailey and Bela Lugosi -- D-grade murder mystery in a mansion honeycombed with secret passages; A Shriek In The Night starring young Ginger Rogers in a C-grade mystery. Monster from a Prehistoric Planet starring guys in rubber suits echoing Rodan and Gorgo.

Intersecting Lives:

A postcard from the Friends Roadshow, published circa 1974, showing them outside of the Shaffy Theater in Amsterdam, Holland with their portable stage and multi-talented company. The guy in red is Jango, Lenny is next to him, and Robbie is at the other end of the line. My young friend Justin in front was only about 10 years old, and it sure looks like beautiful Helene sitting on the bricks. I can only guess who the others are in this photo, but a copy of it rode with us on the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe bus from coast to coast in 1975, displayed right next to the driver's seat!