"There's only one woman in the world who says 'Ouch!' like that!"--Rally Round the Flag, Boys
Dreamed of delaying the start of a long journey from Sackville in order to shower; being on a ship; reading a People magazine article arguing that The Breakfast Club was a classic movie [some people would agree]; looking at a swimming pool on a ship that I'd fallen into earlier; writing a letter to a newspaper editor arguing that a columnist kept repeating his point with the same handful of anecdotes and statistics. [We know some of them, right?]
Got up at 9:57.
Moira went off to Kingston.
The warm weather's back.
Went to The Golden Fortress. Unlike the other Satyajit Ray movies, I've seen, it's a lightweight comic adventure. But it was overlong and I ended up with a sore back as well as a headache.
Dinner was McDonald's.
Saw Leo McCarey's Rally Round the Flag, Boys at the Cinematheque series. It's a wide-ranging 1950s satire with a lot of funny stuff, though the farce involving Joan Collins as a home-wrecker was kind of weary. Afterward Robin Wood talked about the movie, pointing out that McCarey launched Laurel and Hardy and that Jack Carson's military boor was similar to Hardy. I asked if Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, married in the movie, had already married in real life. (They had.)
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