Let's Talk About Favorites: That's why we list them, do we not?
Mike Gold sent me an email about the Flash Gordon serials:
My favorite comics movies ever; always have been. There has yet to be a movie villain with half the appeal of Charles Middleton. And, of course, when he takes on Chico Marx in Duck Soup...!
Agreed -- Charles Middleton was abolutely stunning as Emperor Ming!
He had a great voice, and got to chew up some of the wackiest scenery in movie history. Priscilla Lawson was perfect as Princess Aura, his hell-cat daughter too.
The over-the-top barbariousness of the first series, echoing the flavor of the early Flash Gordon comic strip, has never been equalled.
Middleton was also in a crazy backstage mystery flick called Murder at the Vanities with Victor McLaughlin. The actual Vanities was a 1920's/1930's New York revue that featured leggy chorus girls and variety numbers. Charles Middleton explicitly asks for "the prop machine gun," and mows the Duke Ellington Orchestra down as part of his act.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site: We make trouble for these critters, lets help 'em out too!
Weather: Twenty below (F) this morning. Those weather services were right. (%$#@!) We've had more than a foot of snow since Wednesday morning, but luckily got about 30 hours to clear the sidewalks and roads before the deep-freeze hit us. The Missoula region, about a two hours drive south of us, was pounded with snow all day yesterday.
Wildlife: We are spreading out suet for the birds on the rail of our back deck, as well as peanuts. The deer are very active in the dawn hours -- watch out, that's DRIVE TIME! I saw a spiked buck this morning. Those antlers were supposed to have dropped by now.
Media Watch: Michael Moore on IFC, conducting some kind of town meeting. I somehow got the idea that it occurred after the horror of 11/2/04.(Note from later in the day: The show was At the Angelika, which usually runs shallow semi-advertisements. Not this time!)
I was underwhelmed by Queer Eye's show for women. The crew redecorated the client lady's house, and bought her new clothes, but it was all superficial. (The client even said so.) It wasn't a good imitation of Straight Guy at all.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
The Semester BEGINS! It's snowing like the White Devil himself, and the forecasters say that we're due for sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures for the next couple of days. Since Christmas we have had a constant parade of snowstorms -- it's starting to mount up, if you get my drift.
Charity Alert: The Children's Health Site All you have to do is CLICK!
(Donate actual $$$$$ to an ethical Tsumani Relief Organization if you can.)
Wildlife: The deer are welcome to whatever the birds don't eat on the ground below our feeders -- they just move on, since those flying rascals don't leave much.
In The Community: We are working our tails off at the Hockaday Museum of Art, trying to get our shows ready for the next opening reception on January 20. I'm going to be using my new SLR-style Sony DCS 5828 digital camera that night.
Hockaday Museum of Art -- New Year, New Shows! See the EXHIBIT page.
I'm turning THIS particular site over to someone else soon, she's bright and capable, their museum has a new director, and I can't do it for no money anymore: NW Montana Historical Society
Flathead Valley Community College almost had to declare a "snow day" on the first day of the semester. That would be hilarious -- FVCC Home page
Media Watch: Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Girl had an inauspicious "sneak preview" last night. It's a new show, but acting out, and being a character doesn't necessarily mean a person actually has character.
Make up your own mind: Meet the Gal Pals
Cable-ubiquitous actress Gina Gershon showed up again -- as co-star in a pretty-good movie called Picture Claire with Juliette Lewis and Mickey Rourke. It was a crime flick, with enough movement to keep things interesting, but most of all, it was made with a unique visual flair that appealed to me. Congrats to director Bruce McDonald.
Reminder: I'd never heard of Gina Gershon before she was a guest on Dinner For Five last August. The "indie" networks have been showing her films and TV shows since then. She's also a voice actor on the less-than-laudable Tripping the Rift cartoon series. She's frankly just another actor, but since I wish all of those folks well, I'm tracking her newly-revived career on this blog as a curiosity.
C-Span: Ain't watchin' no Chris Hitchens, thank you. Jackasses are only good as pack animals. CNN: Good riddance, _ucker Carlson! (Let's hope PBS cancels his waste of spectrum there too. MSNBC is welcome to him.)
Charity Alert: The Children's Health Site All you have to do is CLICK!
(Donate actual $$$$$ to an ethical Tsumani Relief Organization if you can.)
Wildlife: The deer are welcome to whatever the birds don't eat on the ground below our feeders -- they just move on, since those flying rascals don't leave much.
In The Community: We are working our tails off at the Hockaday Museum of Art, trying to get our shows ready for the next opening reception on January 20. I'm going to be using my new SLR-style Sony DCS 5828 digital camera that night.
Hockaday Museum of Art -- New Year, New Shows! See the EXHIBIT page.
I'm turning THIS particular site over to someone else soon, she's bright and capable, their museum has a new director, and I can't do it for no money anymore: NW Montana Historical Society
Flathead Valley Community College almost had to declare a "snow day" on the first day of the semester. That would be hilarious -- FVCC Home page
Media Watch: Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Girl had an inauspicious "sneak preview" last night. It's a new show, but acting out, and being a character doesn't necessarily mean a person actually has character.
Make up your own mind: Meet the Gal Pals
Cable-ubiquitous actress Gina Gershon showed up again -- as co-star in a pretty-good movie called Picture Claire with Juliette Lewis and Mickey Rourke. It was a crime flick, with enough movement to keep things interesting, but most of all, it was made with a unique visual flair that appealed to me. Congrats to director Bruce McDonald.
Reminder: I'd never heard of Gina Gershon before she was a guest on Dinner For Five last August. The "indie" networks have been showing her films and TV shows since then. She's also a voice actor on the less-than-laudable Tripping the Rift cartoon series. She's frankly just another actor, but since I wish all of those folks well, I'm tracking her newly-revived career on this blog as a curiosity.
C-Span: Ain't watchin' no Chris Hitchens, thank you. Jackasses are only good as pack animals. CNN: Good riddance, _ucker Carlson! (Let's hope PBS cancels his waste of spectrum there too. MSNBC is welcome to him.)
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