I’ve been meaning to mention that a new TV series called The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels as an anchor is really great. It was created by Aaron Sorkin who wrote The West Wing and is every bit as involving. It is on HBO every Sunday night at 10. HBO has been repeating the episodes at various times throughout the week. I watched the first one about 6 times, each time I noticed it was on again. I couldn’t get enough – but that’s me.

On holiday offerings, the 4th of July fare was old movies about colonial times, the Revolution,etc. Ed was glued to these because American history is his thing even when it is grossly distorted. It's sort of like, at least it's about muskets. They ran Drums Along the Mohawk, with Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. I have to say it does not wear well. For one thing, Colbert (who always seemed to say yes to roles that depict her as an emotional washrag) goes with her new husband to the frontier, is scared by a friendly Indian, has hysterics for a good 5 minutes (I thought they would never change to the next scene), wants her husband to take her away, away, away. I wanted him to do that too.

I never like Colbert, not even in It Happened One Night. Was it the writing? Nah.

I should say I do not have a soft spot for hysterics of any kind, emanating from anyone, male or female, but particularly not from females. Very judgmental. Sue me.

My old friend who shall be nameless, gets hysterics over a bad haircut (seriously), but took getting raped by an intruder in her building in stride. Go figure.

One of the old movies that didn’t, as it happens, appear on the screen this week, was The Last of the Mohicans. This is one of the few Revolutionary War type movies that I think holds up well and is a strong story.

Thas’ all.

xx, Teal