dual personalities

Well, happy new year! Much has been said about the terrible year 2020, but I am content to have lived through it. So onward and upward say I. Tally ho.

Here is the TCM Remembers video for 2020, noting the movie stars and directors who didn’t survive the year. There are a few surprises.

For instance, I did not know Stuart Whitman had died. It may be time to view The Comancheros (1961) again.

Also, Harriet Frank Jr. died. She co-wrote a lot of good screenplays along with her husband Irving Ravetch, notably Hud (1963), Hombre (1967) and The Cowboys (1972). Check out the list to find some good movies to watch.

January may be the month to do a thorough investigation/viewing of the late Sean Connery’s oeuvre. I mean, who doesn’t love everyone’s favorite Scotsman who died this year at age 90? Granted, his type of sublime white masculinity is viewed by many as toxic these days, but whatever. Bah humbug. Come the apocalypse, I want to be on team Sean Connery.

(Not team Keanu Reeves/Stephan Colbert.)

Daughter #1 and I walked around Laumeier Sculpture Park yesterday morning. It was very cold.

Later the boy and his wee family came over for some New Year’s Eve fun. We ate a lot of chips ‘n dips and had a dance party and set off some fire crackers.

We watched Last Holiday (2006) starring our favorite, Queen Latifah, not to mention LL Cool J and Gerard Depardieu.

The OM, daughter #1 and I actually stayed up til midnight and then went outside (it was sleeting) and blew our party horns with the other rowdy neighbors. And today we start the new year–let’s count our blessings and make it a good one!

*Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin’ auld lang syne.