Sunday, February 6, 2011

Friday, February 6th, 1976


Managed to stay out of things pretty well today. Turned in my typed up report. I have to go over another Holmes story for Monday, now. I've got quite a bit of weekend homework and I plan to see ROOSTER COGBURN, too.

It snowed off and on again and I held onto my STAR TREK record of catching at least one per week.

I watched THE GETAWAY on TV tonight. I didn't like it. But Sally Struthers as a nymphomaniac? Weird, man!

NOTES: ROOSTER COGBURN was the sequel to John Wayne's TRUE GRIT, a fun but inconsequential film marking the Duke's first on-screen pairing with the great Katherine Hepburn. It received quite a bit of pre-release publicity at the time but I was fated NOT to see it until it hit television a few years later.

THE GETAWAY was the amoral action flick from 1972 with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. Even edited for television, it left a bad taste in my mouth all around although I was obviously intrigued by the appearance of ALL IN THE FAMILY's "Gloria" in an overtly sexual role.

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  1. This was my 7th birthday!! My Mother told me that my 7th year would be a great one. She was right!! One of my favorite memories occurred during the fourth of July weekend!! I even wrote a column for ENR ( Express News and Reviews!! ) I love BOTH of your journals!! I only wish that there were more to read!!

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  2. Thanks much! I did find one I kept in 1980-81 when I was in a local comedy troupe but I decided there was too much sex and drugs in that one--not for me--and that some folks might not want their names mentioned in connection with it. I contacted one girl who was in the group with me and she denied ever knowing me even though I sent her pictures! Oh, well!

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    1. I understand . The only journal that I actually have is the one that I kept in 1995 . I do not even have the first ten notebooks that contained stories that I wrote back in Junior High . I have the rest of them , however .

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