Came in for the second half of Press Your Luck. In the first episode, the one guy finally beat the lady from yesterday, landing himself a pool table. The one lady in the next episode screamed so loudly when she got a trip to Paris, Peter Tomarken joked she broke all the lights at CBS. Alas, she hit a Whammy and lost her trip. (And screamed again.) A young man eventually won a speedboat, a trip to Tahiti, and a ton of money.
With the five-time winner having retired yesterday, the field at Split Second was wide open. The first episode came down to the ladies. The one man didn't get anywhere near them. The lady who won opted to continue into the next show to get the car. Alas, she lost to the one guy, who came from behind in the Countdown Round. He said he'd never been to the Bahamas and took the trip instead.
Watched part of Let's Make a Deal before I realized I'd already seen it and headed out for a walk after taking out the trash. I didn't get more than a block and a half before I saw some really nice furniture piled on the curb. I didn't need the pretty blue dresser, but the long, heavy shelves might work for books, or if I could turn it upwards, records. The gentleman was nice enough to help me get it home.
I left it on the porch as I went for my walk. By quarter of 3, it was cloudy, humid, and windy, though not cool like last week. I just strolled around the neighborhood and briefly in Newton Lake Park. It's gorgeous out there now. The roses have debuted, in brilliant shades of pink, red, and orange, and the azaleas are even prettier. Likely thanks to the rain we've had, everything is fresh and green. The leaves get bigger every day. I saw a few people out walking dogs and a mother playing with her tiny toddler daughter in their backyard.
I had a far harder time trying to get that shelf upstairs. It was just too darn big and heavy for me to deal with. After twenty minutes of pushing and pulling that left me with nothing but sore shoulders, I gave up and left it downstairs. I told a friend she could have it, sell it or use it in her own home.
Spent the next few hours having lunch and watching La La Land. I go further into this hit love letter to jazz and classic musicals of the 50's and 60's at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Worked on writing for a while after the movie ended. The kindly old woman is Mother Nature. She knew Kathleen was going to come. She knows everything about the happenings on Earth. She also knows Kathleen is the only person who knows what Lady Jacqueline is up to, and thus, the only one who can stop her...
Broke for dinner at Match Game '77 at 7:30. Tom Poston, later of Newhart, and Mary Anne Mobley turned up in this episode. Betty ribs Richard in the opening for his crush on then-newscaster Connie Chung. Richard reminds Gene that while Gene is happily married, Richard himself was then single.
Finished the night with recently acquired jazz albums in honor of La La Land while I worked on writing that review. I'm so fond of Ray Conniff's bouncy version of "Younger Than Springtime" on my two Columbia spring records, I thought I'd try a full album with his orchestra. S'Marvelous is a collection of standards from not only the Gershwins, but also Jerome Kern, Rogers and Hart, and Cole Porter. We also get a nice version of the big band standard "Moonlight Serenade" and the then-film hit "Be My Love."
Stan Kenton is probably closer to what most people think of when they hear "traditional jazz." Back to Balboa has some lovely bluesy or rollicking songs that work with the island in southern California that give this album its name. "Rendezvous at Sunset" and "Out of This World" are especially lovely.
The Modern Jazz Quartet was known for their elegant, restrained sound, and we get that in The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays for Lovers. Their version of the classic ballad "All the Things You Are" in the opening is a delight. I also liked "All of You" and a medley of Gershwin songs on side 2.
(Oh, and it did finally start raining around 6 PM. It's been showering off and on since.)
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