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With a long weekend on the horizon, blogging is likely to slow down for a few days.

As should you. Push away from the screen and go enjoy yourselves! Have a great weekend.

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  1. Doing exactly that. Kids and gkids all home for weekend. Lots of barbecuing and visiting. Although we will stay away from politics with the Manitoba bunch.

  2. I won’t have much time for a holiday. I’ll be back at the house I inherited, digging through more of the stuff that my father left.

      1. According to the will, I’m the sole beneficiary, so I got everything, including having to sort through his possessions.

        I have to travel to B. C. periodically to work on the house and the only immediate next of kin I have left in this country are in no position to help due to either age or health. I’ve been at it for more than a year and a half now and I figure I’ve got at least another year’s worth of work left.

        2. B A Deplorable Rupertslander, when you are dealing with the banks and closing your father’s account be very careful. Try and have a list of any and all accounts, GIC’s, savings bonds, and retirement funds. A friend that I know has been involved with a financial institution for over six months because they overlooked an account and it languished on their books for almost ten years. Now he has to deal with CRA and re-file tax statements for the last ten years. Not fun in any-ones books. Meanwhile the financial institution is no-where to be seen in trying to straighten this mess out.

          1. I did a thorough check when I gathered information for the probate application. Fortunately, I worked with my father’s accountant and the gentleman filled in any missing details. Still, I had asked a lot of questions and I’m sure I irritated a few people because I was very persistent in getting the information I needed.

            As for the bank not being on the ball, I’m afraid I’ll have to agree with you on that. I sometimes have to rattle a few cages in order to get an answer to an e-mail inquiry.

            Being the sole beneficiary made the probate process a lot easier for me. I can imagine what some poor executor might have to go through if there are several, some of whom might not like each other.

  4. Kate and squad:
    YOU have a relaxing weekend and forget us proles. ☺
    Don’t think about Justin etc ad nauseam.
    CAS

  6. Turner Classic Movie Channel is featuring Clint Eastwood all day Saturday. Looking forward to “Coogan’s Bluff” and “Where Eagles Dare”.

    1. I think you’ll notice how Coogan’s Bluff inspired the Dennis Weaver TV series McCloud.

      1. @ 9:17 B A : re: Coogan’s Bluff and others:
        Had no idea that this movie spun to ‘McCloud’. I can’t remember whether I saw it nor the movie ‘Where Eagles Dare’ so I will record these two tonight. The other ones featured today are the Westerns which are great too. Watching ‘Every Which Way But Loose’ @ this moment from 1978, on widescreen, it is awesome, like being in the theatre. There is a restored version of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ @ 2:45-600 pm MT….can you just hear that hauntingly wonderful music now?

        P.S. read your other posts- don’t work too hard, my friend, have a few home made brews!

        1. Had no idea that this movie spun to ‘McCloud’.

          Let’s put it this way: much of the plot background of Coogan’s Bluff clearly shows up in McCloud, so I figured CB must have been the inspiration for the Dennis Weaver series.

          I’ve got a boxed set of Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns and later got the restored version of TGTBTU. I didn’t think the newer material really added much to the plot, but it did fill in a few blanks in the original edition.

          As for the other movies today, I’ve seen most of them already but I didn’t like them as much as the Dirty Harry series (which I’ve also got on DVD).

          Regarding Where Eagles Dare, I recall that the emphasis was more on Richard Burton’s character, with Eastwood’s being secondary. I saw the movie for the first time while I was in high school and later read the novel. By then, Alistair Maclean was writing pot-boiler thrillers rather than concentrating on good stories like he did in his earlier works. (Compare WED with his first book HMS Ulysses. Quite a difference.)

          1. Re 11:21 am to B A :

            It’s all good stuff. The ‘Dirty Harry’ series was terrific as well. In comparing the style from Westerns to Cops & Bad guys, Eastwood’s character was sarcastic and irreverent in the latter. In the former he hardly had any dialogue, some choice words like “Bravo.” The Malpaso Company, Eastwood’s own Production Co., marked the end of the Sergio Leone collaboration starting with ‘Hang ‘Em High’ in 1968.

            I agree with you about how certain movies may have inspired television shows. There are many examples. Similarly, I believe that the tv show ‘Cagney & Lacey’ must’ve evolved from Eastwood’s third movie in the ‘Dirty Harry’ series, as the same actress, Tyne Daly is in both the tv show mentioned and the movie, ‘The Enforcer’ ( ” Go ahead, make my day.”)

            You mention that ‘Where Eagles Dare’ (the book) was written by one and the same writer as the book ‘ H.M.S Ulysses’, namely Alistair Maclean. Unfortunately the latter has never been made into a movie. It probably would not have been a boffo box office certainty without some tweaking, mainly due to the fact that it is semi-autobiographical. The best stories are the true stories, though. I read that it was first submitted as an essay and Maclean was not interested in writing a book, but of course, did so later. So, there- in lies the difference between his first book and his others, as you say, pot-boilers.

            Next Saturday, August 11th, T.C.M. channel is featuring that “strong and silent guy,” none other than Gary Cooper all day.

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