The Bracket du Futur

For the first time ever, I've filled out my NC2A B-Ball bracket on ESPN,
And I have to say, I've nailed it.

But this is the future of course.
And only a few might ever envision it perfectly...

Mizzzzzou meets Kansas for the last time
In my bracket.

And that means the finals, because they can only meet there.

The future can  always be nailed; it's only the past that fails us.

Musical Interlude

I've been watching Boy on a Dolphin on the installment plan.  Sophia Loren is quite young and beautiful. Tonight's installment has her and Alan Ladd in a musical interlude.  They're at a greek cafe/night spot, and the singer guitarist serenadist, comes to their table and serenades Miss Loren.  It's bizarre cinematographically as Ladd's sitting on one side of the table looking at the camera but not at all at Miss Loren.  Ladd exhibits other rather bizarre behavior in this movie...

In any event the serenadist raises his foot on a stool and sings directly to Miss Loren, in greek, presumably; and then Miss Loren sings a verse or two herself.  Knowing Hollywood, I'm not 100% the voice is Miss Loren's (I don't ever remember her being known for her voice...), but nevertheless, the voice is quite as beautiful as the face and figure, and the song too is beautiful, though full of words I did not understand.  May I say, if the voice really belonged to Miss Loren, I think it a pity more films didn't take advantage...

All, the time of course, Mr. Ladd sits with his back to the lady... and generally oggles the rest of the universe with a tumorous smile.  At some point the song ends but a new one begins and Miss Loren jumps up to dance a greek dance with four or five other greeks, and well, dances better than Zorba.

All in all, I'm quite impressed with Miss Loren.  All in all, I'm quite impressed with Greece too; and not to mention there's actually very nice color/high def underwater cinematography in the movie; presumably also greek, though who knows...  Worth a greek peek at least.

Musical Interlude

I've been watching Boy on a Dolphin on the installment plan.  Sophia Loren is quite young and beautiful. Tonight's installment has her and Alan Ladd in a musical interlude.  They're at a greek cafe/night spot, and the singer guitarist serenadist, coming to their table and singing to Miss Loren.  It's bizarre cinematographically as Ladd's sitting on one side of the table looking at the camera but not at all at Miss Loren.  Ladd exhibits other rather bizarre behavior in this movie...

In any event the serenadist raises his foot on a stool and sings directly to Miss Loren, in greek, presumably; and then Miss Loren sings a verse or two herself.  Knowing Hollywood, I'm not 100% the voice is Miss Loren's (I don't ever remember her being known for her voice...), but nevertheless, the voice is quite as beautiful as the face and figure, and the song too is beautiful, though full of words I did not understand.  May I say, if the voice really belonged to Miss Loren, I think it a pity more films didn't take advantage...

All, the time of course, Mr. Ladd sits with his back to the lady... and generally oggles the rest of the universe with a tumorous smile.  At some point the song ends but a new one begins and Miss Loren jumps up to dance a greek dance with four or five other greeks, and well, dances better than Zorba.

All in all, I'm quite impressed with Miss Loren.

LCEGR

I'm a half an hour into Little Caesar, and I'm inspired to send it kisses and kudos.  There is something genuinely maniacal about Edward G. Robinson's homicidal little Rico...

A number of years ago I tracked down the book Little Caesar on Ebay, paid $25 or so.  Like Tom Costain's Black Rose, the movie had made me wonder about the book.  My recollection is that Burnett's book had pretty much followed the same story line as the movie.  Rico dies of course, and I think the same line ends the flick and the book.  Ah, memory often fails...  But there is something beyond eerie about EGR's performance.  I always admired him in his other movies; I think he was always on the  savvy side;  but well, Little Caesar is really someone suprahuman on a supraevil level, and yet he evokes some pathetic pathos of pathetic humanity.

There is something else about this movie;  there is an innocent stupidity to the characters.  It is slightly gothic; with characters trapped in a universe of dust and diamonds.  It's as if the film makers weren't aware how much the world might change in just a year or two;  AMC's preface to the movie indicates it was pulled from distribution a few/couple years after release, and was off the air until the year I was born:  1953.

Danwood

Danwood has shared my dream...
At a table last night I dreamed of frenchmen.
And at some point I said quelque chose francais.


The dream contains three dogs; well, there are hundreds of dogs.
There is Alice, the Bean, Whimper and Garth, Sheba, and Lady and
The dream never ends.

In the middle of Greenlake we splashed.
Canoe, capsized, I was sure we would die...
But then help came to fetch,
And we laughed till we wretched.
Or we fetched...je ne souviens pas.


And Chauncey, and Maxi, and Peyton, and, je ne souviens qui de plus...


In the middle of Greenlake we splashed.