Saturday, April 2, 2022, 12:39 am — Teeny Tuxedo … It’s After Midnight Movie Time! … Hey, Teeny … what’ll we watch? … Your tail’s pointing to All About Eve, 1950, Bette Davis … perfect choice! … On demand … on practically perfect Turner Classic Movies … the one channel I HAVE to have … since it first began in 1994 … uncut, commercial-free …
Teeny and I had the need to rewatch All About Eve … 1950 Best Picture Oscar … Poster on wall, Summertime, 1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, directed by David Lean, filmed in Venice, Italy.
March was “31 Days of Oscar” on Turner Classic Movies … every year a different theme … This year, every hour of every day was filled with Oscar-winning films … All About Eve had six 1950 wins … Best Picture … Director AND Writing, Joseph L. Mankiewicz … Supporting Actor, George Sanders … Costume Design … Sound … (and eight more nominations).
Ever so fortunate to have seen Bette Davis (twice) and Katharine Hepburn in person on stage … Two of my favorite actresses … All About Eve, 1950, and Summertime, 1955, are favorite films … Plus the extra fortune of staying a month alone at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, July, 2016.
Monday, March 7, 2022, 7:49 am — Teeny Tuxedo … learning about silent film actress, Barbara La Marr, 1896-1926 … born in Yakima, Washington!? [we’re in Vancouver, WA] … “In 1923 she secretly had a child. She “adopted” the little boy to save face … After her death in 1926, he was adopted by good friend ZaSu Pitts [1894-1963] and her husband Tom Gallery … and renamed Don Gallery.” – imdb … ZaSu Pitts, one of my favorite character actresses … Finnish calendar, Maaliskuu / March, upper left …
Sunday, February 13 2022, 1:07 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … dreams about all the fun she’s had … learning …
… 7:16 pm … learning … Finnish … by watching Seinfeld episodes on Netflix … with Finnish subtitles! … notes from season 2, episode 7, April 1991, “The Revenge” … “Jerry and Kramer take revenge on a dry cleaner after Jerry accuses him of stealing $1,500 from his laundry bag.” …
Sunday, January 23, 2022, 11:18 am — Teeny Tuxedo … in the fog … sneaking up from behind the computer … “So … you’re looking up “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” … I think I’D be a purrfect feline for one of the episodes … not all those orange tabbies!” …
… After “Craig’s Will,” March 6, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock Presents … Hitch says that “after the humiliation he’s experienced he feels it is time for man to regain his superiority over animals. As he bids the audience good night he slowly approaches four tabby cats on stools … Final Mewsings: Man will never have superiority over cats.”
“The cats appear to be members of Frank Inn’s team of tabby cats known collectively as Orangey. This is a rare moment to see four members of the team appearing on screen at the same time!” — Cinema Cats, Jan. 26, 2021
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 … The Daisy Sunrise Trio … singing their chart-topping “Good Morning Song” … outside Bette Davis’ Butternut Cottage … Sugar Hill, New Hampshire … July 7, 2016 …
“Good morning to you, good morning to you We’re all in our places, with sunshiny faces Oh, this is the way, to start a new day!”
Below … First heard their cheery tune in a favorite movie … The Marrying Kind, 1952 … Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Sheila Bond … George Cukor, director … script by Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin … (the parents aren’t quite so cheery!) …
Thursday, May 5, 2022 …Two married strangers meet by chance at a railway station café. They continue to meet every week in the small café, although they know their love is impossible … David Lean’s 1945 film, Brief Encounter … So intrigued to see the “Brief Encounter Refreshment Room” sign at Wymondham Station … on two trips from Durham to Norwich, Norfolk, England … Could this be the movie location?! … August 12, 1999 …
From train window … Wymondham Station … west of Norwich, England … Brief Encounter Refreshment Room sign … red and black drawing of stars, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard … August 1999 Durham, England home exchange
Below … Strangers when we meet … How long will it last? … Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson … Brief Encounter won Grand Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival … and had three 1947 Oscar nominations: Actress, Celia Johnson; Director, David Lean; Writing, Screenplay …
Brief Encounter, 1945 … based on Noel Coward’s 1936 short play, Still Life … What railway station was used? … Was it Wymondham, near Norwich, or …?
Below … Mystery solved! … outdoor scenes were shot at Carnforth Railway Station in Lancashire, Northwest England … Video is a wonderful combination of clips from the film and the current working Victorian station, now a Heritage Centre … with a vintage mini cinema … where Brief Encounter is shown about 1,500 times a year …
“It’s not often you can say this about a working railway station, but this place is all about love. The love of rail travel and the celebration of a great love film. Brief Encounter takes us back to a bygone era – the golden age of steam, where everything seems so innocent, and a world away from the social conventions we have today. But, luckily enough, Carnforth Station allows us to come and visit and soak up nostalgia for a lost time.”
Tuesday, November 23, 2021 … Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … my absolute, life-changing favorite … first saw it in 1964 …
Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … vintage poster … after the 1963 Academy Awards … “Best Picture of the Year!” … “7 Academy Awards” … (the mouth is more Paul Newman than Peter O’Toole!)
And I thought I was the only one … my twin! …
“First love between a person and a film can be as intoxicating as first love between two people. It can mean just as much crazy behavior, just as many sleepless nights. As a young adolescent, I became so desperately obsessed with a certain film that I saw it over and over, spent years studying the life of its hero, regarding him as a kind of role model and even dragged my family on a long, dusty pilgrimage to a place where he had lived. If one measure of a film’s greatness is its power to affect the lives of those who see it, then Lawrence of Arabia must be the best film I know.”
– New York Times film critic, Janet Maslin
August 16, 2009 — repost … on T.E. Lawrence’s birthday:
Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1888-1935
Amazing to realize that while the summer of 1964 was full of the colorful afternoon movie fun of The Moon-Spinners with my cousins, it also introduced me to the most profoundly life-changing film, Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
A rare occasion … Mom and I went to an evening showing in downtown Olympia. Why she chose it … ? We walked in late, through the heavy velvet aisle curtains and I was instantly enthralled … Lawrence and his Bedu guide, Tafas, talking under the uncountable desert stars … “I’m … different …”
On the dark drive home I was transfixed, staring out the front passenger door window. I HAD to see Lawrence again! And I HAD to find out more … An old 1920s/1930s maroon-covered encyclopedia set was waiting at home (left behind by the previous owners of our Beaver Creek farm, Tillamook, OR). In those welcoming pages was my first glimpse … the real Lawrence … the photo above.
So, happy birthday, T.E.L. / T.E.S.! 121 years old! … August 16, 1888-May 19, 1935 …
And we’ll also take a moment for a tip o’ the hat to another milestone … 1964-2009 … 45 years (45?!!) since that first Lawrencian encounter! Your trail has led to a degree in Arabic, an Egyptian ex-husband, camels and an oasis in the Sahara, Saudis, England (Oxford, Moreton cemetery, Clouds Hill) … and the most intense labor of obsession, making a surreptitious reel-to-reel audio recording at the Roseway Theater, Portland, Oregon, 1971. Transcribed, then typed on a manual typewriter. Those glory days before computers, VCRs and DVDs!
My first soundtrack album – LP, not CD!
1st encounter … Peter O’Toole as Lawrence of Arabia … Saturday Evening Post … March 9, 1963
Remembered reading this at Grandma & Grandpa Ahola’s in 1963, a year before I saw Lawrence. By 1964 it had been moved to the upstairs storage room in the old chicken house. The quest was on! After an hour of dusty rummaging, voila! Saturday Evening Post, March 9, 1963.
To end with a flourish … my very own, autographed photo of Peter O’Toole as Lawrence of Arabia … February 1966 … Actually, wrote two letters to Peter around the same time. Received the same note and signed photo … Remember comparing the signatures. Definitely handwritten. Whether by a secretary or Peter, ‘imself, glad to have it! …
Signed photo from Peter O’Toole … Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … February 1966Note from Peter O’Toole … green ink! … with signed photo … in response to my letter … February 1966 … “It was very kind of you to write to me and I am only sorry that it is impossible to reply to you personally, for were I to do so I would have to employ someone to do the acting whilst I did the writing. I hope you will accept the enclosed photograph with my compliments and best wishes.”Envelope with signed photo, note from Peter O’Toole … February 7, 1966 … London
Saturday, November 13, 2021 … Blame it on director, John Ford … his first Monument Valley film, Stagecoach, 1939, would have been enough … but he returned 8 times … 8 more films … color and black & white … 8 more visions of Monument Valley … The celluloid mirage became real on my first journey to the Navajo Nation, Arizona / Utah … and Monument Valley … I’ve returned 4 times …
Navajo horseman … on John Ford’s Point … Monument Valley … June 2, 2004
John Ford’s Point, in the photo above, appears in one of my favorite Ford films, The Searchers, 1956 … John Wayne has been looking for his niece, Debbie / Natalie Wood, for years … the search is almost over … In the near distance below John Ford’s Point … Comanche Chief Scar’s camp … and Debbie … (I lightened the 2 screenshots below, from the much darker “night” scene … begins 1 hour, 48 minutes into the movie) …
John Wayne on John Ford’s Point … Chief Scar’s camp below … The Searchers, 1956Wider view … John Wayne on John Ford’s Point … Chief Scar’s camp below … The Searchers, 1956John Ford … directing The Searchers, 1956 … on John Ford’s Point … Chief Scar’s camp below … A good book to read, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, 2013, by Glenn FrankelOn John Ford’s Point … Monument Valley … 1995 … April 7, 2019 – About Me Part 2The Searchers, 1956 … movie posterRed arrow points to John Ford’s Point … Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Red arrow points to Bette Davis’ plaque commemorating her 2nd husband, Arthur Farnsworth … Coppermine Brook … south of Franconia, New Hampshire
A natural, out of the way, non-Hollywood spot … from “a grateful one” … to “the keeper of stray ladies” … What an intriguing mystery behind the words … full inscription below …
Bronze plaque … silent stones … rushing water
In Memorium to Arthur Farnsworth “The Keeper of Stray Ladies” Pecketts 1939 Presented by a Grateful One
June 1940 … Two happy New Englanders … Arthur and Bette were married December 31, 1940 … until his death, August 25, 1943 …
Correction to photo caption above … Bette and Arthur met in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire in 1939, before she purchased nearby Butternut Cottage … He wasn’t “an old friend from Boston”
Arthur Farnsworth’s hometown newspaper, Rutland, Vermont … the day after his death, August 25, 1943 … Bette’s plaque is mentioned …
News of Arthur Farnsworth’s death … Rutland Daily Herald (Rutland, Vermont) … August 26, 1943
Saturday, November 6, 2021 … Serendipitous timing … Eleanor Roosevelt died November 7, 1962 … Sunrise at Campobello, 1960, was the movie that led me to the summer home she and Franklin shared … on FDR’s “beloved island” … Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada … June 15, 2003 … at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park …
Roosevelt Cottage … built 1897 … extension on left added 1915 … June 15, 2003
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were major humanitarian figures in American history when I grew up … so there was an immediate draw when Sunrise at Campobello was on color tv in the late 1960s, early 1970s … most memorable was the location filming at Campobello …
Back porch … Roosevelt Cottage … water … facing west
Opening scenes of the lively family … sailing, putting out a small fire near the beach, running up to the cottage … August 10, 1921 … just before FDR is stricken with the paralysis of his legs that he struggled with, but didn’t let get in the way of his political career … elected President 4 terms, 1933-1945 …
One of my favorite rooms … Roosevelt Cottage … west end, first floor
Front porch family time … 1920 … FDR, his mother, Sara Roosevelt, and Eleanor … FDR’s parents brought him to the island in 1883, when he was a year old, building their own cottage in 1885 … In 1907, Sara purchased the 1897 Kuhn cottage on the adjacent property as a belated wedding gift … FDR and Eleanor married, 1905 … The Kuhn cottage became the now known Roosevelt Cottage – source …
5 kids … and a dog! … 1920 … Roosevelt Cottage … Photo of photo in cottage
Expanded cottage … 1920 … FDR didn’t return to Campobello for over 10 years after 1921 … His final brief visits occurred in 1936 and 1939, before his death in 1945, though his family continued to use the house until 1952 … By 1957, the Hammer brothers, who purchased the property, began to lobby Congress for the creation of an international park … which opened August 24, 1964 … jointly owned and managed by both Canada and the United States, created by a treaty that honors the memory of FDR and the legacy of friendship between the two countries … the only such international park in the world. – source …
“Our house Campo 1920” … In 1915, FDR enlarged “the Roosevelt cottage” with an L-shaped extension (on the left in this view) … Photo of photo in cottage
Will the real Eleanor Roosevelt please stand up … 1960 … Eleanor visiting Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson … Hyde Park, New York location … Sunrise at Campobello …
A special visitor … Eleanor Roosevelt with Ralph Bellamy, Greer GarsonSunset, actually … at Campobello … Ralph Bellamy … reprising his Broadway role … Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello, 1960 … nominated for 4 Oscars: Actress – Greer Garson; Art Direction, Color; Costume Design, Color; Sound … But first, it was a 1958 Broadway play … winner of 4 Tony’s: Best Play; Actor in a Play – Ralph Bellamy; Featured Actor in a Play – Henry Jones; Director – Vincent J. Donehue (also directed film) …
Movie poster … Sunrise at Campobello, 1960 … makes FDR and Eleanor look a lot younger than they were!
The journey to Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada … June 2003 … train from Vancouver, Washington to Buffalo, New York … rental car through New York and Massachusetts … up the coast through New Hampshire and Maine … a night at a Lubec, Maine B&B … the easternmost edge of the U.S. … then across the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Bridge to Campobello … the only bridge to the island … southern end of the Bay of Fundy … but wait! … The Bay of Fundy is one of the 7 wonders of North America. The highest tides on earth, the rarest whales in the world, semi-precious minerals and dinosaur fossils – source …
Map of Maine, with Lubec … and New Brunswick, Canada, with Campobello Island and Bay of Fundy
Monday, August 2, 2021, 6:58 pm — A 1955 treasure trove! … Celebrating the original cast of tv’s Lassie … George Cleveland as Gramps … Tommy Rettig as Jeff … and, of course, Lassie! … Plastic playset figures by Robert Maxwell Associates, 1955 …
TV Guide … July 2, 1955 … Lassie and Tommy Rettig on cover, with Lee Aaker and Rin Tin Tin … Plus, a “paw-ographed” photo postcard, thanking a boy from Mankato, Minnesota, who entered a “name Lassie’s puppies” contest, signed by “Jeff Miller” …
One important person is missing … Jan Clayton, as Jeff’s mother, Ellen … The original cast, 1954-1957, the very BEST! … Syndicated as “Jeff’s Collie” … When George Cleveland died in 1957, his character, Gramps, died as well … Jeff and Ellen moved to the city and quickly realized Lassie would have a better life back at the farm with the new family … The following Timmy / Jon Provost years were sadly disappointing, lacking charm and natural spontaneity …
Sunday, July 18, 2021, 6:05 pm —The man … The movie … The picture frame … Ramon Novarro, a favorite 1920s-1930s film star … Son of India, 1931 … The MOST exciting antiques shop find, 1991, at the very bottom of a stack photos … vintage MGM Studios … by George Hurrell, “master of Hollywood glamour photography” … Then, the unthinkable … to fit the lovely frame (a gift from Kevin) … I CUT the photo! … Ramon doesn’t look too pleased … But I still have the piece “left on the cutting room floor” … See description and incriminating evidence below …
“Vintage 1931 10″ x 13” doubleweight study of Ramon Novarro by Hurrell. The photo bears Hurrell’s embossed stamp on the lower right border and a credit stamp on the verso. There is also an MGM stamp and a typed snip announcing Ramon’s role in Son of India.” … How far back does my Ramon connection go? See The Mysterious Ramon Novarro, Dec. 28, 2009 …
June 9, 2021, Wednesday … What I’m Reading … history and movies, all in one … nice to have a stash at hand … the switch this past year, with libraries closed to in-person browsing, led to these purchases … details below …
Teeny Tuxedo says … “I’ve been practicing my dance moves … How ’bout it, West Side guys? … Can I join the gang??” …
Saw Glenn Frankel discuss his books:
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, 2013 … one of my favorite John Ford films … set me on the trail to Monument Valley, Navajo Nation … 6 times!
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, 2017 … High Noon’s not a favorite, but intrigued to see the Hollywood Blacklist connection
Saw Peter Fitzgerald’s documentary, West Side Stories, 1996 … great behind-the-scenes footage, interviews (both stage and film) … sadly, has been removed from you-know-where. This led me to:
West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic, 2020, Richard Barrios, Turner Classic Movies … LOVE the soundtrack … first heard in high school English Lit class, vinyl LP record album (what a terrific teacher, Mr. Somebody, just out of college) … the only weakness of the 1961 film (10 Oscars!), Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer (Maria and Tony)
Friday, April 30, 2021, 9:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … thinks she can hide behind the comforter on laundry day …
… found you! … in front of Italian movie poster … Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi … David Lean’s Summertime / Tempo d’estate, 1955 … filmed in Venice … Signorina Teena, sembri una star del cinema! …
Teeny could take an Italian movie actress lesson from Lucy Ricardo! … I Love Lucy … “Lucy’s Italian Movie” … season 5, 1956 …
Lucy’s Katharine Hepburn “The calla lilies are in bloom again” connection! … Stage Door, 1937 … (Lucille Ball as Judith Canfield) …
… 10:43 pm … Perky welcomes the newest DVD set … all the way from the UK! … Nanny, complete series 1 to 3, 1981-1983, BBC, Wendy Craig …
“A divorced woman decides to train as a Nanny in 1930s England. The series is unique as, not only, is she a more mature person but she is also modern with ‘progressive’ ideas.”
Saw it over 30 years ago, PBS, recorded one episode, VHS … well worth the wait, still mesmerizing … 1st purchase from Amazon UK
Hooray for my Panasonic DVD-S700EP-K Region Free DVD Player, 1080p Up-Conversion with HDMI Output, Progressive Scan … purchased Dec. 2018
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 7:03 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … lamplight … Mom’s Stiffel lamp (a pair) …
… Ramon Novarro, 1929 … by George Hurrell (1904-1992) …
… Ramon Novarro as Parcivil, with Pancho Barnes’ horse, Lightning. When Pancho saw this photograph, she exclaimed: “If George Hurrell can make my horse look as beautiful as the most handsome man in America, then everyone should be using George Hurrell as their photographer.” — George Hurrell: Master of Hollywood Glamour Photography …
Monday, November 16, 2020, 3:15 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … “Andy’s Play … Sweeney Todd” … The Office, s7, ep3, 2010, Netflix … Teeny says, “If this was CATS, I’d be purrfect for a part!” …
… Andy and the Scranton Playhouse cast … doing a “wee bit of viral marketing!” … “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” … Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim …
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:18 am — Perkins … and awaaaay she goes! … sorting junior high, high school papers … from old cardboard box to sturdier plastic container …
… Mad’s “Late Show” Cliché Movie Script: The “Society” Movie, p. 42 … stars bordering the script: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart …
Look closely … the swirls between the drawings are names of other movie stars … a galaxy of ’em! …
Sunday, November 22, 2020, 12:15 am — Katharine Hepburn … in her kitchen at the family home on the water at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut … where she whipped up many a batch of brownies … Lights! Camera! Action! … Brownies! … followed her recipe … scrumptious! …
[Book … The Private World of Katharine Hepburn, 1990, pp. 34-35]
Recipe … 6 years ago … Kate’s Brownies, Nov. 17, 2014 … “The brownies don’t have a lot of height, but are supremely moist and chewy, quite fudge-like.” … BACKSTAGE SECRET: don’t use too much flour!
For baking ambiance, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 … livingroom tv … TCM OnDemand … not my favorite Kate, Spence film, but the only readily available.
BONUS! … Woman of the Year, 1942 … Kate’s accomplished Tess Harding is a shambles in the kitchen … (first film with Spencer Tracy) …
Sunday, July 12, 2020, 12:55 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … dreaming about the rabbit she saw …
… yesterday evening … Saturday, July 11, 8:59 pm … through the bedroom window screen …
… or MAYBE she was dreaming about … Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd … Wabbit Twouble, 1941 … (from Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie, Aug. 2014 … GWEAT blog by an “amateur reviewer watching every Warner Bros. cartoon”) …
Wabbit Twouble, 1941 … Looney Tunes Golden Collection … vol. 1, disc 1 … (6 volumes, 24 discs, 350+ cartoons!) … from Amazon, April 2012 … with Perkins, Hollywood Cartoons Cat, July 28 2019
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 1:20 am — Teeny Tuxedo … rehearsing her stern Warren William as Perry Mason face … 1930s Warner Bros. movies collection … How about watching the very first? … The Case of the Howling Dog, 1934 …
… or how about the other DVD behind you? … Foxfire, 1955 … Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler … on location in Arizona … hot, hot, hot!
Saturday, March 28, 2020, 1:21 pm — Perkins … and jolly old Saint Nick … Christmas present from Wendy over 10 years ago … used to be full of an assortment of flavored popcorn … an almost yearly tradition …
… looking out at the deck …
Ames Brothers sing Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, 1951 …
Marilyn Monroe has nothin’ to do with Saint Nick … but this is a good pic of the Ames Brothers … the most famous, Ed Ames (also an actor), second from right …
… except … in 1946, as Norma Jeane, before she was Marilyn …
From … Bonhams auction … June 4, 2007 … “entertainment memorabilia, including property from the estate of Carl Barks” (1901-2000) [cartoonist, best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories … worked anonymously until late in his career … born, died in Oregon] …
A Marilyn Monroe group of never-before-seen black and white snapshots, 1946:
“Four vintage prints showing the twenty year-old starlet participating in a publicity event to promote the new Darrin/Kaiser-Frazer car (a short-lived company that manufactured cars for only nine years before going out of business); the first shows the then-named Norma Jeane standing by the car as Santa Claus and dozens of children surround her, the second shows NJ and Santa holding bags as children look at them, the third is a similar shot of NJ but with a few added adults in background, and the fourth shows a dozen kids about to throw snowballs at NJ, who is wearing a white shorts/jumper suit outfit that she often wore in cheesecake photos from the same era [see Lot 1019]. One extra snapshot from the same day is included, and though NJ is not in it, actresses June Haver and Peggy Ann Gardner are as they were part of the event as well.”
Footnotes “The current consignor’s father set up this publicity stunt back in 1946, and because he had fake snow brought in for it, he was touted as being “the man who brought snow to Hollywood.” Both B&B’s client (at age ten in 1946) and his father can be seen in the background of two these snapshots, along with the young model who showed up for work that day – the soon to be Marilyn Monroe.”
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 12:29 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … disappointed that she couldn’t go see Fritz Lang’s silent film, Metropolis, 1927, at the Hollywood Theatre, across the river in Portland, OR … special screening by the Columbia River Theatre Organ Society, with organist, Dean Lemire …souvenir program, Nov. 30 … invited by Bob H … Photo from Hollywood Theatre
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10:51 am — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … investigate the new Finnish DVD from ebay … Joulutarina / Christmas Story, 2007 … how a little Finnish boy becomes Santa Claus … streaming on Amazon Prime, but dubbed in English (no!! … HAD to get the original in Finnish) … grateful for the region-free DVD player purchased a year ago …
Hannu-Pekka Björkman (Nikolas), Kari Väänänen (Iisakki) … director, Juha Wuolijoki
Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 1:11 am — Perkins … staying up late … watching tv … latest season of British series, Peaky Blinders, 2013-2019 … What are those Birmingham lads up to now? … … season one, 1919 … season 5, stock market crash, 1929 …
Movies, Of Course! 