Author Archives: James Higham

Sun Mat

 

“A really great movie for one of Bogart’s last pictures. His character is hard-nosed, but low key, a man who doesn’t feel the need to prove how tough he is. An excellent supporting cast includes such reliable actors as Paul Stewart, Ed Begley, and Jim Backus as newspaper staff, with Joe DeSantis as the weaselly crook in hiding. Ethel Barrymore is superb as the widow of the paper’s founder, watching as her obnoxious daughters sell off the paper they care nothing about. Martin Gabel hits just the right note as mob boss Rienzi, smiling and affable one minute, snarling and growling threats seconds later.

One of the best scenes has Rienzi pick up Bogart’s editor Hutchinson off the street and offer him a drink in his luxurious limousine. Bogart asks half seriously if he’s being ‘taken for a ride’, and Rienzi claims he’s not a gangster. Moments later, Rienzi loses his temper and smacks Hutchinson in the face. Hutchinson smiles that crooked Bogart grin and says, “That’s more like it”, telling Rienzi he’s showing his true colors at last. The would be respectable businessman is nothing more than a gangster, after all.

This movie is both an antique, in the way it shows how big city dailies were still operating fifty years ago, and surprisingly up to date in its concern with how the public often doesn’t really care about the news, and that a lot of what’s packaged as news is just entertainment. Bogart’s great speech at the hearing to determine the paper’s future is a rouser, as he talks about the importance of a free press.

This movie deserves a wider audience on home video than its occasional cable TV showings. It’s a great Bogart vehicle, and a fascinating story of the newspaper business, and just a fine picture in general.”

Sunday [11 to 15]

(0913) Cunning plan is some more politics, find some baroque to play, can’t think past that at this point. Brek metamorphosed into early brunch. (0932)

 

15. Pink awareness day


14. Hardly trustworthy, Grisly


13. Some more shorts

12. Thought this might be worth running for readers


Obvious missing piece in that is “family”. I have none living that I know of, so up there with the Lord, others could be anywhere.

11. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/08/getting-around-inheritance-tax.html

Sunday [6 to 10]

(0527)(0613)

 

10. Khan’s London


9. Why is Donny doing this?

This looks very bad for Donald Trump. He’d be better off shutting up about it. The idea of one central file … maybe Dem hoax. The abuse happened and all know it. Bad move, Donald and Pammy. Wendy P is a dissident alt-journo just as we are, largely pro-MAGA, no way a Demrat.


8. You might recall that young lad being entrepeneurial


Well, this happened (see Sun 2, fifth item) …

There were Lamborghinis, Porsche, Aston Martin, Maserati, Corvette etc. (see Sun 8) … lad said all his birthdays had come. Well that sort of thing gets me right here (points to heart) … so many others too. Those firms would have been insane not to join in for what it cost them. The publicity would be the diametric opposite of Cracker Barrel’s and Bud Lite’s.

7. IYE concerning Sat 22

22. Robert Malone claimed he was the inventor. Hmmm. Not so.
3 mins watch 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vfFMleqhC8

Side note – RM claimed mRNA shots were dangerous. What has always puzzled me is why as he claims did he have two of them anyway?

6. DAD at 1138

a) In the UK, I understand, that there are plenty of barbers and nail bars; in France it is fast-food dives.

b) Notre Dame is still burning. Though the French retain a fair bit of cultural conservatism, the acknowledgement of its roots in Christian anthropology and transcendent moral objectivity is largely absent.

c) German welfare state ‘can no longer be financed’ — Merz. The German chancellor has called for a welfare reform, putting him on course for a possible clash with the SPD.

d) Kaura Taylor, 21, left the United States last May and has not heard from her family since. Their family recently discovered she was living in the “Kingdom of Kubala” and is worried about her.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0443) Morning all this Sunday. (0522)

 

5. Cracker Barrel again


4. Former page three gal quotes the ed stats

… that’s not disparaging by the way, it shows another avenue if one wishes to improve.


3. Hence Trump’s targetting strategy


2. Snippets

  • Malia arrested again for shoplifting … $40k bond
  • Rayner buys 3rd £800k home on MP’s salary
  • Meanwhile, repotting going on across the country by home gardeners
  • Reeves heading for IMF bailout
  • There were Lamborghinis, Porsche, Aston Martin, Maserati, Corvette etc. (see Sun 8)
  • Tulsi officially labels Brennan, Schiff, murder invesgn of Fauci
  • Oprah took $40m grant, though fire did not touch her in Maui
  • Bolton’s deep ties to City of London financiers, role in the 2019 coup attempt revealed.

1. Steve at 1138

  • 1700 National Guardsmen from 19 States Mobilizing
  • Germany’s Economy Contracts Further Amid Trade Tensions and Polish Repatriation
  • 4chan Refuses to Pay Fines to UK’s Media Regulator Ofcom
  • DNI Tulsi Gabbard Bars Intel Community from Sharing Classified Intelligence Regarding Ukraine Negotiations with Five Eyes Partners
  • Neil Gorsuch Delivers a Stinging Message to the Black-Robed Tyrants Who Are Sabotaging Trump and Defying Rulings
  • “Chicago Will be Our Next” – Trump Says Chicago, New York, San Francisco Crime Crackdown Incoming
  • Diplomatic Deadlock Unleashes New Cycle Of Violence And Desperation In [The] Ukraine
  • Trump Threatens Sanctions Pulls Back Diplomacy; Kiev Faces Military Crisis
  • The vaccine circus rolls on: Why medical groups are still pushing unnecessary shots that cause heart damage
  • Trump administration expands offshore drilling
  • Much more.

Saturday [16 till close of play]

(1730) Evening all.

 

22. Wheels within wheels

21. In one

20. Neutrality


19. What are the odds?


18. Contrived and arranged theatre, all of it

17. Save the Pallets


16. Steve at 1138

“Worth listening to the whole episode. Begins with Professor Betz and the Telegraph’s Tim Stanley and ends with two Greeks talking about the end of democracy in the birthplace of democracy.

War Room Battleground EP 835: UK academic says US and “all the major countries of Europe” face civil war over mass migration.”