Arctic
File this under: An Ingenuity I Never Hope To Conjur
Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen with his first wife Navarana Mequpaluk ca. 1912. Freuchen was once trapped in ice for 30 hours and escaped by making a chisel out of his own frozen feces.
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent”
Paris When It Sizzles
I caught “Paris When It Sizzles” on TV recently. Pretty sure it’s the first (and only time) I’ve ever seen a Perfume credit. Seems this was done at Ms. Hepburn's insistence.
The picture is ... not good or as The New York Times commented at the time, it’s “a rockhard chestnut that is hard to savor or swallow”.
Hepburn however is flawless as always and it’s set in Paris so who’s to grumble?
Seriously though - it’s a terrible film.
Attitude Adjustment
An Hungarian woman going through an attitude adjustment program in 1937
Grouchos
Me, trying to get to sleep at night, is Grouchos all the way down.