The way your hair goes wavy when you wake up

[sovay]

All elements of the day pertaining to doctors or insurance were awful, including the hour of the morning at which I was awoken by a phone call canceling an appointment I had been waiting nearly a month for, even after I offered to pay out of pocket, which you would think a doctor's office would go for.

In the evening, however, spatch and I walked into Porter Square and not only was he delighted with the paperback of Matthew Kennedy's Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (2007/2014) with which I presented him as soon as I had collected it from the bookstore, the sight of it inspired one of his coworkers at the Somerville to whip out their phone and order their own copy on the spot, which I recognize is not Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood levels of influence, but it still makes me happy. The bookstore clerk also spoke effusively of the biography's subject and especially recommended Desk Set (1957). Rock on, Joan Blondell.

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JB

[lauradi7dw]

My first memory of her was from the TV series "Here come the brides" from the late 1960s. I am amused that her photo is the first one on its wikipedia page, even though as a pubescent person I must have thought that (then) heart-throb Bobby Sherman was the main star.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Come_the_Brides

[yhlee]

*support support*

[oracne]

So frustrating and awful about the appointment. I am glad about your book triumph.

[asakiyume]

The Bigolas Dickolas Wolfood story is such internet goodness. I brought it up to the ninja girl, and even though she's not in SFF writing circles, she had heard about it because she's in anime circles. Very fun. I'm glad you had a similar effect in person. Matthew Kennedy will be grateful, even if he didn't rocket to No. 3 on Amazon.

[gwynnega]

Yay Joan Blondell biography! Ugh doctor's office.

[kore]

Disappointing doc appointments, or even the lack thereof, are a whole new level of suck.

Joan Blondell! I remember her in Tree Grows in Brooklyn, she was fantastic as Sissy.

I am tickled by a "book influencer" (or whatever the awful term is now) scale that goes from 0 (what would that be, the Amazon algorithm?) to Bigolas Dickolas.

[mrissa]

In my heart Joan Blondell is always Peg from Desk Set. I love Peg so much.