BREAKING: First real snow of the year descends!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2018

Triggers what Hepburn observed:
Here in the heart of the universe, we got our first real snow of the year today.

Even that wasn't much. Still, we declared a snow holiday, and entertained more worthwhile pursuits.

We rewatched part of Love in the Afternoon, the 1957 film. We'd already rewatched it over the weekend as part of our earlier puzzlement concerning age and gender in 1950s films.

It's a Billy Wilder film; it was superbly made. It also makes no apparent sense, except to the extent that it does.

Love in the Afternoon starred Audrey Hepburn, age 27-28 in real life, and Gary Cooper, age 55-56. Within the film itself, Cooper seems to be maybe 62. Hepburn, the great gamine, third greatest female star of the classic Hollywood era, seems to be 19 or 20.

Inevitably, their characters fall in love. And no, it makes no apparent sense, except as a marker of this peculiar era.

If it wasn't Billy Wilder, you'd almost say this was some sort of hidden tribute to a cult of seducing underage girls. That said, Wilder also made The Apartment, which presents an early, remarkably unvarnished portrait of male sexual misconduct, along with Some Like It Hot, in which Jack Lemmon invades the hareem (on the train ride to Florida with the all-female band), only to discover that Marilyn Monroe is completely decent and sincere.

She's nothing like the lascivious image his all-male leering had conjured. We'd compare it to Marlon Brando's discovery, in the undercard of On the Waterfront, that Eva Marie Saint is a more admirable person than he is.

We can't explain Love in the Afternoon. Richard Brody said this:
BRODY: Billy Wilder’s 1957 comedy “Love in the Afternoon," didn’t do well at the box office. Wilder blamed, in part, his casting: “The day I signed Gary Cooper for this movie, he got too old,” Wilder said (as reported in Charlotte Chandler’s book about the director, “Nobody’s Perfect”). Cooper was fifty-six; his love interest in the movie, an innocent young conservatory student, played by Audrey Hepburn, seems about twenty...
You explain it. We can't, at least not at this point, though we plan to rewatch more.

As a younger person, Hepburn lived through the Second World War in the Netherlands. (She was born in 1929). We offer this to encourage you to ponder our previous post:
In addition to other traumatic events, she witnessed the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration camps, later stating that "more than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child."
For the full story, click here.

Last night, we saw two young women from Nigeria, each apparently 19 or 19, "sharing their stories" on PBS. As they did, the terrible people on cable news were working quite hard in their ongoing corporate-sponsored attempt to bring our world to an end.

The western world survived that war. Can it survive talk radio, the partisan Internet and the ongoing moral/intellectual squalor of full-blown tribal cable?

Also this, for whatever it's worth: "Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992.

"She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63."

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  2. "Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63."

    Ah, yes. I saw her grave; very small cemetery, near Lausanne.

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    1. Trump is a liar and a thief.
      And Putin's bitch.

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    2. Not too far from St. Petersburg, not surprising you could visit it.

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  3. Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on. Because there are few roles for older women in films. Because an age-appropriate actress would not be cast in Love in the Afternoon. Audiences were blamed but it is pure sexism, which Somerby tiptoes around and cannot bring himself to name, despite supposedly studying such practices.

    And those Nigerian girls who finally got Somerby’s attention have been around forever because rape is part of war, was in WWII and in Ancient Rome. Why are they only now important to him? Hepburn cared much sooner.

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    1. Somerby "tiptoes" around many points, in case you didn't know. Somerby's method is often to let the reader figure out and decide for him/herself. Somerby would also likely be more careful with his words than you have been here. Although you seem convinced, "pure sexism" might not actually be the only and best words to describe this phenomenon and hence, Somerby's failure to name it thusly. Your construction actually injects confusion; audiences were blamed but it was "pure sexism" instead? So studio executives/producers do not cater to the sometimes sexist expectations of the audience?

      Somerby's interest has always been to promote progressive politics. What a silly, nitpicking criticism that he hasn't named each component of his agenda every day.

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    2. Are you daft @5:57?
      "Somerby would also likely be more careful with his words"

      Really?
      Here's Somerby being "careful" with his words:
      "We’re lazy and we aren’t very smart. We exude a moral squalor.

      We’re lazy and dumb and our morals are bad. There’s little reason for people to like us. Presumably, nobody does."

      THE PROBLEM IS US: As we the liberals emerge!

      (http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-problem-is-us-as-we-liberals-emerge.html?m=0)

      "Somerby's interest has always been to promote progressive politics"

      Prove it. I haven't seen any indication of this.

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    3. "Somerby's interest has always been to promote progressive politics. "

      Somerby's interest is to attack liberals and progressives, defend Moore, defend Trump and generally act like a true Trumptard

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    4. Well in my opinion Somerby is correct where you have quoted him, but even if you don't agree with him there, and even if you think it is too strongly worded, it doesn't create confusion on my part. The same can't be said for "Audiences were blamed but it is pure sexism," which I find to be an unhelpful construction.

      You have obviously read all of Somerby's blog since 1998 and his proposed chapters for "How He Got There." If reading all of that didn't convince you that Somerby's politics are Democratic/liberal/progressive then nothing I can say will change your mind.

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    5. Somerby’s past and current politics may not be the same.

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  6. Speaking of media giving air time to stories of little importance...I just watched a major segment on the PBS NewsHour about whether or not Trump should have congratulated Putin on his election victory.

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    1. They didn't devote nearly enough time exploring Trump's treachery.

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    2. On this point I am sure Somerby would agree with you. Somerby has made it quite clear that he has no patience for this kind of nonsense.

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    3. Hey Comrade DinC, have you ever figured out why General Barry Mccaffrey said what he did about traitor trump.

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    4. Former CIA Director Brennan sez Trump is being blackmailed by Putin.
      Ain't that a bitch.
      Former CIA director!
      I think he knows more than DinC.

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    5. David, this article includes a concise history of the United Nations:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

      You can see that that it begins before the charter entered into force in October, 1945.

      Last time we discussed this, you told me that the USA and USSR were enemies at that time. How did they become enemies so soon after their great allied victory? What did they do that demonstrated enmity?

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    6. You're a busy guy, David. Must've been more than of little importance for you to watch the entire segment.

      Now answer imp's questions before he/she/it gives you a Noam-smack upside the head.

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    7. Caesar -- I was only 3 years old, so I have no independent memory. I do seem to vaguely recall that General MacArthur suggested marching on into the USSR once Germany surrendered. Fortunately, Truman turned him down.

      I kind of think the problems with the USSR was that American conservatives disliked communism and that the USSR was in an expansionary mode. That's why the US left troops in Europe after they were no longer needed to control Germany.

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    8. mm and Anon 8:27 -- I don't know nuthin', just like the rest of you. I discount Brennan, because he seems to be an enemy of Trump. McCaffrey, I just don't know. I have no way to figure out what McCaffrey's basis was. I would like to hear or read his explanation of his view.

      Here's the one fact I know: after almost a year of investigation by the Special Prosecutor plus whatever investigation was done by the Obama Administration and the Hillary campaign, there are so far no publicly reported facts showing collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Maybe such facts will come out later, but it seems to me that as more and more time passes with no evidence of collusion, the likelihood of collusion goes down.

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    9. Comrade DinC, you treasonous bastard. Mueller hasn't even questioned president pussygrabber yet. What are you going to say when president chickenshit refuses to testify and invokes the 5th?

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    10. Leon, thanks for the support, but I’m trying to deepen my relationship with my good buddy David, so violence would be counterproductive.

      Mm, Mr Trump don’t need no fifth. He’ll just refuse to talk, then maybe he’ll fire Mueller for laughs. After a misspelled tweet, his base will love him more than ever.

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    11. mm- what did you say when Hillary Clinton didn't testify during the e-mail investigation?
      See FBI didn’t record Clinton interview, did not administer sworn oath
      http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/286849-fbi-didnt-record-clinton-interview-no-sworn-oath

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    12. Hillary Clinton? She's so corrupt 8 official GOP-led investigations found she might have been sloppy with her emails.
      What, in the name of Jared Kushner and Ivana Trump's private servers, does Hillary Clinton have to do with this?

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    13. mm- what did you say when Hillary Clinton didn't testify during the e-mail investigation?

      David, you lying sack of shit. There is something seriously wrong with you. She was interviewed by the FBI and it is standard FBI practice that they do not record the interview or administer the oath. It would have been extraordinary if they had done so in her case. (It is a federal crime to lie to the FBI in an interview, no prior administration of the oath required) But you already knew that, you dishonest treasonous bastard. That point has been made repeatedly to you in the past when you have made the same dishonest representation. She came in and answered all the questions and Comey testified to Congress under oath that she was truthful in her answers during their interview. But you already know that too.

      When are you goint to fucking grow up by the way? Why does what traitor tRump do have to be seen in comparison to Hillary Clinton. Just like the little shitstained overgrown adolescent conman you worship who sounds like a 3rd grader on the playground whining every time he gets detention. "But you let Hillary do it!!! wawawawa " That's the little fucking coward chickenshit you defend.

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    I wonder what happened with him in Russia?

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  8. Trump is a liar and a thief.
    And Putin's bitch.

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