I reported back for Motion Picture Duty tonight, after being on leave for a week to watch the "Dickensian" tv series, and was assigned, by myself of course, to the first of the "Thin Man" sequels : "After The Thin Man", made in 1936. Whereas the 1934 original was more hard-boiled, about a half-and-half mixture of screwball comedy and noir crime film, the sequel is more focused on the screwball aspect, starting off with a fifteen minute run of gags involving main characters Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) and the stuffy Society Types they encounter at a New Year's Eve Party. Asta the Dog gets significant screen time, including recurring scenes with "Mrs. Asta" and her puppies who live out back in a doghouse, and the attempts of a suitor - a black Terrier - to tunnel under the fence to rendezvous with her. Asta discovers his treachery and not only chases him off but blocks his tunnel as well. The first hour is a non-stop hoot with the crime plot only beginning to develop. Once it does, though, Nick and Nora put on their detective hats to solve a murder, as the police also step in to play hardball with their suspects. The last fifty minutes is all about the mystery, the crime and whodunit.
I give "After The Thin Man" an even bigger Two Thumbs Up than I did for the original, because it seems like they perfected the formula for this one, by giving more screen time to the screwy but sophisticated antics of Nick and Nora Charles. There could not have been a better actor to portray Nick Charles than William Powell, whose every onscreen move is perfection. Myrna Loy matches him thrust for parry in the repartee department, while dressed to the nines in shoulderless satin gowns.
A collection of mooks, relatives and elderly society patrons make up the supporting cast, which includes a 28 year old Jimmy Stewart.......whose name you were given instructions as to how to pronounce in blogs of yore. (Okay, I'll refresh your memory : the correct pronunciation is "JiMmeyy SchTewartt").
Well anyhow.
Did you hear James Comey on the news today? You might've if you watch MSNBC. The former FBI director stood up to the freakin' plate, and stated the case for what is now happening in America as directly as it can be stated. He said plain as day that the Republican Trump supporters in the Senate need to find some courage somewhere inside themselves in order to stand up for what is right in America. In order to stand up for America itself.
Imagine this; that we have a major league Criminal in the White House, a mobster whose financial empire has been built on underworld ties, and who colluded with Russian criminals to steal the Presidency of The United States of America, and that we have overwhelming evidence to support all of this, even before the full Mueller report comes in, but that we also have Republicans in the House and Senate who continue to say that it's no big deal, or that it's fake news, and that we have Democrats who still say that we shouldn't consider impeachment.
We are gonna lose our country if we don't get rid of these cowards.
James Comey for President!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):) see you in the morning
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