Hesitate To Post…

I hate to post anything, it will move Carrie Fisher’s picture from my last post further down the page. Damn, she’s looking fine.

Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking”

Carrie Fisher Finishes Our Sentences About Family, Work And That Bikini – Monkey See Blog : NPR. Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, her one-woman show based on her book of the same title, is a wry, hilarious, insightful, and occasionally touching theatrical memoir of the woman who grew up as the daughter of celebrity parents (Debbie [...]

The Neighborhood Drive In

What would a seventies blog be without a drive-in movie post? We had one in our neighborhood, about 8 blocks from home. When we were kids, if we were lucky enough to get out after dark and able to stay out a while, we would walk down there. We had to cross a highway to [...]

Walk The Line

Watched “Walk The Line” last night, the movie about Johnny Cash. I was a little surprised. It was good, but not as good as I expected it to be. And it was much more critical of him than I imagined it would be. It also had a very unsatisfying ending. The characters were not developed [...]

Peter Benchley Dies

Peter Benchley, Author of ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 65 Peter Benchley, whose 1974 novel “Jaws” turned shark attacks into a national obsession and who later used what he called his “fish story” to help promote oceanic conservation, died yesterday morning at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 65. The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive [...]