Vital Viewing (Good vs Evil Edition)

 

1930-2025

Did you hear that? The Pasadena Playhouse didn't think Gene Hackman would make it as an actor? Cancel my Rose Bowl tickets! Hackman proved himself to be one of the greatest actors of his generation, able to play heroes or villains. To demonstrate, I'm going to show you two clips. The first is of him as the heroic Popeye Doyle (for which he won an Academy Award) in 1971's The French Connection. The second is him as the villainous Lex Luthor in 1977's Superman. Watch:

I don't know. Hackman seems a bit safer to be around when he's the bad guy.

Quips and Quotations (I Heard She Sang a Good Song Edition)

 

1937-2025

To be moved, to be moved constantly by your own songs. You need it to be in tune with them, and I don’t mean in tune musically, but I mean in tune with the lyrics of the songs, with the words of the songs, and with the meaning. You need to be in tune with all of that, and that takes a little bit of doing.

--Roberta Flack

The Past Recast

 

Stonewall Inn, 1969

 

 NEWS FLASH: The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday, which now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual. According to a Park Service spokesperson, “The National Park Service is implementing Executive Order 14168 and Secretary’s Order 2416,” referring to orders entitled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and “Ending DEI Programs and Gender Ideology Extremism.”

With that in mind:

 Who controls the present controls the past.

--George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Quips and Quotations (Who Says Empowerment Can't Be Fun Edition)

 

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

--Susan B. Anthony

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

  

 

 

"911. What is the address of the emergency?"

"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A little girl just bounced off the roof of a Tesla parked out front."

Quips and Quotations (Renaissance Man Edition)

 

 

I play it cool

And dig all jive

That’s the reason

I stay alive.

 

My motto,

As I live and learn,

            is:

Dig And Be Dug

In Return.

--Langston Hughes