Robert Mitchum: "Before I bleed to death, how about giving me a shot of whisky and some medical attention?"--Home From the Hill
Dreamed of being a British MP, coming into the House of Commons for a vote, and noticing that the place looked like Alice in Wonderland.
Father took Moira to Kingston.
After seeing Dr. Hassan, I bought a bunch more old comics, including The Twilight Zone and Magnus, Robot Fighter. (I had to get the latter just for the title!)
The Lucia-Edgardo duet in Lucia di Lamermoor has been going through my head constantly!
Distributed some cards promoting the opera show at five libraries.
Dinner was McDonald's.
Saw Yasujiro Ozu's A Hen in the Wind, about a mother surviving poverty in postwar Tokyo.
I stayed for Vincente Minnelli's Home From the Hill, a piece of '50s hokum about a Texas family. Long and enjoyably overdone, with Robert Mitchum entertaining as ever as the patriarch, and George Peppard and George Hamilton a cut-rate version of Paul Newman and Anthony Perkins. [Funny how I've totally forgotten it!]
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