I removed the Paypal button at the bottom of this page. It was a bit embarrassing to have it there, particularly when (I feel as though) I haven’t had an original thought in months.
The rainy season is a fickle thing. As I emerged from underground this morning, the sun made me wish I had worn a hat.
Watching Harvey last night for the first time, I was pleased by the ambiguity about the rabbit’s visibility to others; the effect was somewhat spoiled by the movement of doors at the end. The production notes on the disc point out that most scenes are single shots, without closeups, imitating the stage; someday I’ll watch it again and pay attention to camera movements.
Mom’s other offspring gave her a DVD player in December; for her birthday (a bit late) I found a bargain box of movies with Alec Guinness: Kind Hearts and Coronets (a favorite of hers), The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit, The Captain’s Paradise (which I first saw a week before) and The Ladykillers. I was surprised that she had seen only one of these. — As I suspected, The Captain’s Paradise is the only one of these not made by Ealing Studios, where there was a rule that crime must not go unpunished.