Elections & Illness - or "It'll make you sick......"

Just when it seems the clan is getting back to normal from the holiday illnesses, one member comes down with high fever and has to go to the emergency room,where she is diagnosed with pneumonia and shot full of antibiotics and sent home with prescriptions for more. Playing nurse, as well as I'm able at my age, I get soup, decongestants, cough supressant, Nyquil, and Tylanol to take to her, and after she gets settled down for an afternoon of sleep and TV, leave for home.
So far, she is recuperating, and no one else has caught anything that I have heard about. I am, meanwhile, staying away from crowds, and using hand sanitizers constantly. Cause ya never know what you have on your hands that'll "make you sick."

My viewing for January started with one of my purchased tapes when I first became interested in Chow Yun Fat. I purchased a lot of the films that he made during the 1980's in Hong Kong. First was:

"Yun hung book sik (A Better Tomorrow)" a1986 Starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheong, and Chow yun Fat as Mark Gor for the 1st of 3 films he was in, directed by John Woo. The heroic bloodshed films that made Chow a international star, and Woo and icon for action fans. The characters of Mark Gor and Ti Lung's Tse-Ho are heart breaking as they are caught in the underworld web of deceipt which leads to double crosses and gunfights that are amazingly choreographed. Enjoyable mayhem. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092263/


Next I watched two films off of TCM: "The Talk Of The Town" (1942) with Jean Arthur, Cary Grant and Ronald Colman. A schoolteacher, an escaped political prisoner and a law professor, in a story about the meaning of law and who it prosecutes and persecutes and who it helps. All with a touch of comedy. The 3 leads are very good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035417/


and "Miracle Of Morgans Creek" (1944) starring Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken. Written and directed by Preston Sturges during the time he was doing brilliant satires in Hollywood. This is one of the most far-fetched - until you realize that the hook for the story, so outrageous in 1944 - has come to reality 60 years later. All his films are collection worthy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037077/


Yesterday, I watched "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) with the great Myrna Loy, William Powell and Clark Gable. The same year Powell and Loy gave us "The Thin Man, they played a politician district attorney and his wife. His life long best friend, who went the criminal side, played by Clark Gable, ends up saving his career but sacrifices his own life. A "greater love has no man....." story, very well done by the principles and you can see why they all three had long starring careers in the Hollywood of the studio era. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025464/


Also, "Legally Blonde, Red, White & Blonde" starring Reese Witherspoon. Same formula as the 1st, but when a character is so much fun, why not? She goes on a crusade to free animals used in testing. Hooray for our blonde! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333780/



I must comment on the New Hampsire primary. Hooray for making the Pollsters and commentaters look like the fools they are. I hope people all across American will lie about their votes just like they did there. Why should people take all the suspense and fun out of the one time we, the voters, have the ball in our court? Proud of you New Hampshire!!