Switched to It's a Pleasure after the cartoon ended. I go further into Sonja Henie's only starring movie in color at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Worked on writing for a while after that. The lion (Avery Schreiber) admits that yes, he is a coward. He's afraid of everything, and only gets by due to his loud roar. Richard the Tin Man invites him to Oz with them. Even if the Wizard can't give him courage, at least it'll be a nice trip.
Broke for lunch at 1 PM. Watched Tattletales while I ate. Greg Morris and his wife Lee join comedy writer Jack Douglas and his sweet wife Keiko and soap opera pair Janet Lynde and William Gray Espy. Considering they were behind most of the episode, William and Janet ended up making a brilliant comeback and winning everything on the last question.
It was pouring at 1:30, and had been for hours. I would have called Uber regardless of how my wrist and toe felt. Surprisingly, considering the weather and the flood announcements, I got a driver going there in 5 minutes and coming home in 11. Neither ran into any flood water and were able to drive home using their regular routes.
It continued to rain hard for pretty much the entire afternoon at work...and yeah, I was out in it. The head bagger had been out in it earlier and wanted to remain inside in case she was needed to take over a register. I pushed carts and got soaked. I did get called in after break because apparently, the baggers are now expected to clean the bathrooms and employee break room along with everything else they do. After I finished the men's bathroom, I went right back out and got wet pushing carts again.
(And I'm glad I finished when I did. I was just connecting to an Uber driver when I heard the college-age boy in charge of self-checkout announce that every register in the store had gone down. Neither the regular registers nor self-checkout worked. The moment I overheard the night manager say she intended to shut the doors until they could get them fixed, I ducked out, rain or no rain.)
By the time I got home, not only was the rain still coming down, it was gale-force windy, too. Some of those gusts shook the house so hard, I thought it would be blown half-way to Camden! Thankfully, the rain seems to have subsided by midnight, though it continues to be windy.
Had dinner while watching Match Game episodes. Match Game PM was on the Jon Bauman marathon Sunday on YouTube. This was the one where, to comply with a request that he "dress up" for the show, Bowser donned a giant red and white polka-dot clown bow tie and his black leather jacket. Match Game '79 began with Fannie admitting that she swiped Gene's striped tie. Richard Deacon was happy to help a lady finally become a winner with "Which Way Is ___" on the Head to Head.
Finished the night with a charming German TV version of Snow White from 1992 on YouTube. Snow White is played younger than usual here, barely more than a child. She's good friends with the jester from her father's court, who is far more than he seems. Her stepmother is a vain and spoiled creature, obsessed with the mirror given to her by the Black Knight. The Knight himself is a mysterious fellow who never takes off his armor. The Knight encourages Snow White to flee. She ends up with seven dwarves, who create inventions and are mourning one of their own, who wanted to be taller than he was. Meanwhile, the jester seeks her out...but so does the queen...
Charming fantasy has some interesting touches. This retains Snow White being attacked by her stepmother three times and how she awakens from her poisoned apple sleep from the original fairy tale. It's also the second version I've seen where the "prince" was someone else before finding Snow White after Snow White and the Three Stooges, and the only one where the huntsman is a mysterious knight who works for the queen. This was dubbed into English, and while the dubbing isn't great, it's still worth looking around for on YouTube if you love fairy tale adaptations.
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