… on Sharon Osbourne’s man … sorry. Which leads to a reflection … so many people I know have warm feelings towards artists who leave me cold … let me list some … AC/DC, the glam bands and artists, Bowie, Mercury, Oasis … yet friends feel the same way about, say, Betty Boo … but I quite liked her.
23. Shocked? It’s their policy
22. The bstds are provoking us every which way
21. Steve at 1114, war room
“Japan’s Populist Wave Is Real.” Matt Braynard On The Sanseito Party’s Anti-Lockdown Platform
Gen. Flynn: “The Biggest Crime In Political History.”
Julie Kelly: “FBI Had 8 Thumb Drives Of Data Collected From A Major Breach, Including A Trove Of Hacked Emails From Obama”
“There Is A Very Good Chance” Former CIA Officer Sam Faddis On DNI’s Russiagate Bombshell Producing Indictments
Benny: “General Flynn demands FBI raid Obama’s DC Mansion immediately and strip passports from every Russia-Gate co-conspirator due to flight risk: “All of these people involved, starting with Obama Should have their homes raided and their passports revoked. Absolute flight risk. Raid Obama’s Kalorama mansion immediately. There is a lot of evidence there. He’s been running the White House through the Biden regime.”
“A film noir does not have to be totally realistic to become a classic; All it needs are the elements that make film noir the gritty and riveting thrillers they are. This plot surrounds amnesia, money laundering, and mistaken identities. George Taylor (John Hodiak) is an amnesiac veteran who finds a letter from a friend he doesn’t remember named Larry Kravat for a bank account in Los Angeles.
When he goes to the bank, he becomes nervous over the suspicious nature of the bank teller and flees. Mysterious encounters with several others makes him wonder about his own identity and who the mysterious Kravat really is. With the help of a kindly nightclub singer (Nancy Guild), he sets out to solve the mystery. What he finds he may not like.
In a year of such classic film noir as “The Big Sleep”, “Gilda”, “Decoy”, “The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers”, “The Killers” and “The Blue Dahlia”, “Somewhere in the Night” has been somewhat overlooked until recently. It has a somewhat convoluted plot line, and its structure moves all over the place like the roads in the mountains above Los Angeles. Characters come in and out of the script like bees out of a hive. Who is good and who is bad will have to be waited out until the ending revelation, but this isn’t the L.A. of movie studios and sunny days at the beach.
Sure, Taylor ends up at the beach, but it is to go into the bowels of an old wooden dock, not to catch rays between Santa Monica and Venice. Film noir vets like Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan add color, while Margo Woode is an interesting supporting “femme fatale”. (“Whose the character with the hair?”, she squawks upon meeting Guild….)
Guild does have an interesting look, sort of like a younger Kate Mulgrew. Veteran 30’s leading lady Josephine Hutchinson is memorable in one key scene as a seemingly middle aged recluse who dresses and lives like Whistler’s Mother. Look too for Harry Morgan as a rough character Hodiak encounters while investigating.
This was only the third film for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and he already shows signs of being a master story teller. With truly dark photography, a moody hero, a Lauren Bacall like heroine and other archetypes that make for essential film noir, this is worthy of becoming a small classic. I would like to have seen more films of this nature with Nancy Guild; She had the ability to make you trust her in spite of her involvements of unsavory characters, but appears to have had a very limited acting career.”
A different version of the first, in London, by Hillary:
Midnight on the water:
This popular composition is usually credited to Texas fiddler Luke Thomasson, although it has been published that Luke’s son Benny (a famous Texas-style fiddler who popularized the melody) long remembered the night he heard both his father and uncle composing the tune on the family porch (c. 1900?).
a) American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira films migrant street vendors and scammers. He is attacked and chased by a horde of Africans.
b) French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.”
c) According to the Daily Mail, an investigation reveals that 312 m1gr@nts housed in hotels funded by the British taxpayer were charged with 708 criminal offenses over three years.
d) Paris : la Place de la République become the Place de la 1slm1c prayer.
26. The insanity is not just in what’s politically happening
… it’s even in War Room. Bannon is hosting and Mike Davis is on as guest. Now, as he speaks, someone turns on music, louder and louder, until he has to raise his voice over it. It’s not just in America, other media types do it but it’s de rigeur in America to drown speakers out with music.
ALINA HABBA REMOVAL FIGHT
“This is purely political by Hakeem Jeffries.” @mrddmia warns New Jersey judges: fire U.S. Attorney Alina Habba and you’ll face judicial misconduct complaints.@Bannons_WarRoompic.twitter.com/n2xYGlnva5
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) July 21, 2025
As for the topic, they have yet another bizarre situation where 15 of 17 judges, voting on confirming Alina Habba as AG of that state are combining to be rid of her. How do they get themselves into these situations?
25. Sundance, demonrats and lies
“Four lies immediately stand out below. (1) Marco Rubio was not chair on the SSCI investigation of Trump-Russia, Richard Burr was. (2) John Durham was not appointed by Donald Trump. He was appointed by Bill Barr. (3) There is no evidence that “Russia hacked” the DNC servers. Even the FBI said there was no evidence. (4) Russians did not “buy reams of Facebook ads”, there was an indication that someone, who was likely Russian, spent $4,500 dollars on one ad promoting Jill Stein.”
Sundance does not seem to have post-specific urls. Never mind, you’ll find it.
24. Steve at 1113
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Richard Taylor
“Wanting to make peace with a racketeer named Big Jim, Scott Brady returns to Chicago and ends up being implicated in his murder, obviously framed. What better time to kill someone than when one of their worst enemies all of a sudden makes it come back? Brady was once involved with the niece (Dorothy Hart) of the dead man, and ordered to shy out of Chicago quickly, but comes back hoping to marry her. He happens to meet an old friend, John Russell, enroute, which he hopes will smooth the reunion with Jim, but you can’t smooth things out with a corpse. Things get more deadly for Brady because not only is he wanted by the law, but by racketeers who worked for Big Jim as well.
This one has some colorful supporting players in this William Castle film noir, most notably Daniel Ferniel as Gene, Big Jim’s henchman who remains loyal to his dead boss for having given him a chance when no one else would. Peggy Dow and Bruce Bennett are quite good two in major supporting roles, with Dow a teacher Brady needs on the plane and Bennett a detective who believes Brady’s story of being framed when presented with evidence. Ferniel is memorable as one of the few black characters on screen in the 40’s presented completely realistically and without any stereotypes, and it’s a very good performance. A complex B noir that marked Rock Hudson’s first time on screen, even though it’s a teeny tiny role.”
