Sweaty couch spat sends Port St. Lucie woman to slammer
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Overlooked Movies: Summer of '42
As I've mentioned many times, I'm a sucker for a good coming-of-age story, or even a mediocre one. I liked this one quite a bit, but there's no accounting for taste.
The truth is that even I am not old enough to remember the summer of '42, but there wasn't really much difference between that era and my own 15th summer. Much of what's depicted on the screen with Hermie and his friends as they try to figure out what growing up is all about could have happened just as easily in the latter 1950s. Anyone seeing this movie now might find the innocence of these boys hard to believe, but it's a pretty accurate depiction.
Gary Grimes is very good as Hermie, but he hasn't made a movie in decades. If Jennifer O'Neil never had another role as good as this one, she's at least continued working right on up until the present. What an interesting life she's had. I suppose the character she plays in the movie would be arrested for her behavior today, however tastefully it's handled, so be warned.
I've never seen the sequel to this movie, and I've never been tempted to watch it. I've never read the novelization, either, though for years after the movie's release there were dozens of copies of it in every used-book store I went into.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Archaeology Update
GlobalPost: The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said on Monday.
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