Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 5/8 - Support

How about a coalition of Special Forces, U.S., UK, Israel, France to rescue the kidnapped Nigerian girls? The world cannot let the fanatics get away with this. It will be a hairy situation, as the monsters would not hesitate to kill them all if they got wind of a move.

And on a completely innocuous note, last night ThisTV, 111 on Cablevision in NYC, aired Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), starring James Garner, post Maverick, pre Rockford Files. I’m not a big fan of comedy, especially in westerns, but I got a kick out of the casting. The outlaw gang’s patriarch is Walter Brennan, his sons Bruce Dern, Gene Evans and Dick Peabody, who played Little John on the Combat TV series. The deputy? Jack Elam, of course. The mayor? Harry Morgan. There are several other faces familiar to film buffs: Willis Bouchey, Henry Jones, Walter Burke and Kathleen Freeman, who has 286 titles listed at IMDb. Joan Hackett is absolutely charming in the female lead. Tragically, she succumbed to cancer at 49. The 50 users who rated the movie forge to a consensus of 7.5 of ten. Contributors rave about it in the comments section. Despite some amusing lines, I rate it only 2.5 of five. It’s just not my type of flick. Here are pics of Hackett and Freeman, whose face if not name will be familiar:

It was a most disappointing day for the floating book shop. Since the forecast was for showers and the sky was completely overcast, I had to choose whether to risk setting up shop at my regular nook, where there is no shelter, or head to the viaduct two blocks down. With sprinkles in the air, I opted for the latter -- the wrong choice. In the three hours I stayed there, there were never more than stray drops. None of my regular customers passed. Only two gentlemen took more than a cursory glance at the wares. The highlight of the session was slapping skin with Miguel's toddler, who is three or four. It was neat to hear him call his dad "Popi." Miguel bakes pizzas at Delmar and lives in the Atlantic Towers co-op complex.
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