by Sam Juliano
And so it came to pass. Inauguration day 2021 has installed some reason and hope in the White House, while the isolated former Chief Executive stews in his Florida estate, still in denial as he faces an impeachment trial for the second time, even though he is out of office. The nation faces some extraordinarily difficult challenges in the days, weeks and months ahead in negotiating the raging pandemic and how to administer vaccines to a population still largely unattended on the inoculation front. Our new President the ever-reasonable and confident Joseph R. Biden Jr. has signed a slew of executive orders, practically every one a huge step in the right direction, especially the return to the Paris Accord and the WHO. The prior President of course put us at odds with the rest of the world during his divisive four year tenure and our government needs to reverse so many dubious or outright terrible decisions. Meanwhile the arrests continue as the FBI zero in on the criminal perpetrators of the unconscionable assault on our Capitol building on January 6th.Lucille and I have been glued to CNN the entire week, so we didn’t get to any new releases but we watched plenty of classic television episodes on DVD of Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show and My Three Sons in tandem with my ongoing FB pollings.
R.I.P sports icon Hank Aaron and talk show legend Larry King.
This past week J.D. Lafrance published a splendid essay on John Woo’s 1987 A Better Tomorrow II.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week.
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Hysteria (Freddie Francis, 1965).
Tired: Amnesia as a plot device.
Wired: Cassavetes actor Lelia Goldoni as a glamour girl.
“He…was…my…BOYFRIEND!”
Farewell to wonderful Cloris Leachman (or Clorox Bleachman as one of my nitwit friends once called her), winner of one Oscar and 807 Emmys.
Mark I am not able to remember the film enough to be confident in a serviceable response but as always loving to have your impressionistic framing here! Yes dear Cloris passed a few days after my post as did Cicely Tyson and I was a huge fan of both. R.I.P. Thank you as always my good friend!