You flow around all that comes in your way

[sovay]

I heard earlier this evening that John McCain had died, but I am really sorry to read about Lindsay Kemp. I saw him in Sebastiane (1976) and Jubilee (1977) and The Wicker Man (1973). "One of his favourite mottoes was 'Seagulls are the souls of drowned sailors.'" I didn't even know.

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[selkie]

I meant to tell you about Neil Simon, but we were at the pool. *sigh*

I sat and watched Child up and down the deep end while I tried to explicate the plot of The Goodbye Girl . One can't complain about his innings, but still.

[sovay]

I sat and watched Child up and down the deep end while I tried to explicate the plot of The Goodbye Girl. One can't complain about his innings, but still.

That may actually be the first Neil Simon I ever saw. I still admire the horror of Elliot's off-off-Broadway Richard III. "I was an Elizabethan fruit fly! I was the Betty Boop of Stratford-on-Avon. I was putrid. Capital P, capital U, capital TRID."

[selkie]

And then there's The Odd Couple, which taught us about representation, passing, and code switching in varied degrees.

Child's friend is also 8.5 and can't swim a lick. It was terrifying to referee and also her parents are Jewish. THOU SHALT TEACH YOUR CHILD, AMIRITE?

This is germane because the plot-explicating was how I kept her bobbing her head above the water and treading. My nerves.