Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 10/9 - Cuckoo

It is a sad day in Hollywood. After 41 years of togetherness, 30 of marriage, Rhea Perlman and Danny DeVito are divorcing. Perlman had a great run as the sassy waitress on the beloved sitcom Cheers. IMDB lists 115 credits for DeVito. He uttered two of my favorite film lines. In One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman), Nurse Ratched tells the inmates she is rationing cigarettes and suspending certain privileges due to gambling. She asks if there are any questions. Martini/DeVito raises his hand and says: “How are we gonna win our money back?” In Ruthless People (1986, Screenplay: Dale Launer), his character receives an office phone call, the person asking if a certain female is there, whereupon DeVito goes into an obscene description of the sexual act the woman is performing on him. He hangs up, smiles and says: “I love wrong numbers.”

Here’s a quirky bit of news taken from Yahoo and edited for brevity. The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms. About 30 contestants ate the insects during the contest. The grand prize was a python. Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, became ill shortly after the contest ended and collapsed. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death. None of the other contestants got sick. There’s a moral here, but I’m not sure what it is.

The dreary weather offered no alternative than to set up the floating book shop in the shelter of the viaduct at Avenue Z & East 15th. Only two elderly men showed an interest. Neither made a purchase. The forecast is iffy for tomorrow too. It's a discouraging period that has to be fought through.
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