December 8, 2005

Leading lady explaining why she's late for a performance: "I've been getting acquainted with some real beer"--Exit Smiling (This was the time of Prohibition.)

Dreamed of driving through San Francisco; passing over the bridge that was in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Vertigo (a scene takes place at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, but the bridge in the dream was closer to the city centre); passing by a miniature version of New York's Chrysler Building; saying that Vertigo is the sort of movie you have to see more than once to appreciate it [very true!]; sticking my legs out the front of the car (which someone was driving from the back); the car going off the road and stopping near some destitute scavengers.

Saw another silent comedy from Turner Classic Movies, the funny Beatrice Lillie vehicle Exit Smiling, about a theatrical troupe's maid who aspires to become a leading lady. (Like The Rag Man, it was a print well scored by Linda Martinez, who recently died at only 29.)

We went out to dinner with Donald at the Red Lobster.