A Summer Night in July

Hello there, fans and devotees of this blog. We are here again blogging just for you or for me. This will probably be a really impressionistic (wow, what college lingo) rehash of current events in the past 2 weeks, because I have done little paper or internet news research, and have been relying on tv news for what has been going on. I need to start looking at a lot of the web newssites I have bookmarked, but have been busy at earning and spending my pay, and have been either working or sleeping. So, what has been burned into my brain about what is happening on earth is that the US is due to be attacked by Qaeda in a big nasty way, according to Chertoff, who said he had a "gut feeling" we were due to get attacked sometime soon. And the liberals jumped all over him for not producing paper facts to prove his gut feelings. And NewsMax is promoting a book by Paul Williams contending that Qaeda has a full arsenal of nukes ready to be set off, if they do not decompose in their metal shells from the radiation leaking out. The Pakistan army is supposedly trying to move into the wilderness to finally get Laden and Zawahiri, so we will see what happens. And a big earthquake has done a job on Japan. And McCain's campaign is about to crash, due to lack of money and interest by voters. Opera singers Bev Sills and Regine Crespin have both died, and opera tenor Jerry Hadley the other day shot himself and is now off life support. He lost his voice and career; what a sad mess he was in.
Recently rented a tape of The Jolson Story and a tape of Top Banana. Was not as bowled over by the "classic" Jolson Story as I had hoped to be. A very cleaned up version of Jolson's messy life, even if it did have some bite to it at the end. Top Banana was a filmed version of Phil Silvers' broadway play about a vaudeville comic doing an early 50s tv variety show(supposedly based on Milton Berle). Interesting to see Silvers do a full movie as the star, and a young Rose Marie had a small part in it, but more of a curiosity piece than a good movie.
Jolson is a big item on Youtube now. Supposedly he was an awful human being, but from the videos of him on U he was a great entertainer.
We are having a hot spell in the midwest in July, with temps in the 90s, but that is actually par for July. Farmwork weather--haying and chopping weeds time.
I do not know what I have accomplished with this blog entry, but I am going to send it out into cyberspace as it is. I have found a web list of all the people on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in the next blog I may discuss some of them I find it interesting that they are honored--some of the old silent movie stars no one remembers anymore, but are in the Wikipedia.
This will be all for right now, friends. Di di mau!