Drat! It's way too cold for an early Autumn day. Single digit temperatures were forecast for this week, and I hope the weatherperson's wrong.

Sitemeter Sez: Columbia Falls, Montana; Richmond, Indiana; Harrison Township, Michigan; Saint Charles, Illinois; Sydney, Australia; Fairbanks, Alaska, and Topeka, Kansas.

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.

News and Events at Flathead Community College New website for the Hockaday Museum. (I'm working on my Autumn Salon artwork, with Katie Duck as my muse.)

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: Umrao Jaan (1981) starring Bhanurekha Ganesan AKA Rekha. I've really enjoyed her work in Bhoot (2003), Mil Gaya (2003), and Parineeta (2005). Wikipedia says she's been in 180 movies. That almost makes her an honorary member of the Bachchan clan! (Bollywood joke) All joking aside, Umrao Jaan was a very well-done movie about a girl who is kidnapped and sold into prostitution in 19th Century India. The costumes and settings are generally beautiful, but the story is very sad indeed. Her character becomes a courtesan -- who gains money, but no respect or love. Actors Farooq Shaikh and Naseeruddin Shah are solid in their respective roles as dithering prince and loathsome pimp.

Indian superstar Rekha Sharma, from Tamil Nadu, in a stylized classical pose. She fits any time period, though!