Dreamed of travelling to Halifax by ship; losing track of which day of the week it was (while watching Brigadoon I wondered what day of the week it was in the village); arriving there and realizing that I'd failed to take any pictures; disembarking and meeting Moira; a TV critic's actual line, "Captain Kirk's inability to dominate a situation was paralleled by William Shatner's inability to dominate a scene."
Saw Josef Von Sternberg's silent The Last Command, about a Tsarist general who (improbably) ends up an extra in Hollywood. Some realistic studio scenes. Emil Jannings often played a big bug who ends up ground down and humiliated. (See The Blue Angel.)
The weather today was incredibly mild! I wore my spring shoes for the first time.
Dinner was McDonald's.
Saw Yasujiro Ozu's silent The Lady and the Beard, a comedy about a bearded samurai who doesn't fir into 1931 Japan. It had an interesting insight into Japan's old vs. new schizophrenia.
Never a Day So Bright is an enjoyable book. I've been telling the parents some of its stories.
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