Weekend in Banff, June 2015
On the afternoon we arrived in Banff there wasn’t a lot of time until dinner so we climbed Tunnel Mountain, a sort of local “Grouse grind” in the late day heat; 4.8 kms but only 260 meters. Gorgeous views and…
Words Fail Jake Gyllenhaal
Or so says the NYT. We found he handled them quite well. As for the four day weekend, I could get used to this. In 1927 the entire cast (all 57) of the Mae West production The Pleasure Man was…
A Delicate Balance on The Twentieth Century
Happy Valentine’s Day! Pier-ing across to Jersey We scheduled four sessions of sitting for today so first thing we headed out to the High Line, the re-purposed elevated spur of an old railway, now a 2.5 km park, for…
A Helluva Town
Helluva, used on Broadway, was changed to “wonderful” for the movie as Comden and Green’s lyric was too racy for Hollywood. New York is many spectacular and awe-inspiring things, but, truthfully, wonderful “honk honk” isn’t one of them. Still, where…