"How many of our politicians dare to talk like adults about the problem of Red China?"--Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"Let's go say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as me"--closing line, Angels With Dirty Faces
Dreamed of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
My second improv class was the first with our regular teacher Sandy (who resembles Nate on Six Feet Under). We did a fun exercise in which we stood in a circle and took turns passing the direction around, and if someone said "Freakout!" we'd run into the centre and all yell at the same time. We also took turns producing fragments of a story.
Dinner was McDonald's.
We rented the video of Michael Curtiz' Angels With Dirty Faces. (We'd taped it off TVOntario a week ago, but it got taped over.) James Cagney's terrific as the gangster contending with his childhood friend, Father Pat O'Brien, for the allegiance of the Dead End Kids. It's the first Cagney movie I saw, back when I was 19, and what a revelation it was!
Finished Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Original.
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