It was still raining when I called Uber. Considering this is my first of three busy days in a row, I had no trouble here. The one going to work came in 7 minutes and got me there just in time. The one going to Thomas Sharp arrived in 10 minutes, and I was actually early. I had a harder time getting a ride home. I had to wait nearly 20 minutes for prices to come down, and then it took 16 for the driver to arrive. And there was a little traffic going home on the White Horse Pike.
The rain stopped shortly after I arrived. Even so, we were quiet the entire morning. No trouble whatsoever, other than navigating the newly expanded and rearranged self-checkout area. I swept the store and gathered carts with no fuss.
Went across the street to Rexy's for lunch. This time, I went with a nice, simple Rexy Burger, their steak fries, and yummy Parmesan-crusted rolls. The burger was juicy and flavorful, with huge lettuce leaves and tomatoes and lots of cheddar. The fries were only ok, a bit on the bland side. Washed it all down with unsweetened iced tea before going back across the street to the Acme to rest and pick up Uber.
The kids were a lot more energetic. Thank heavens this will likely be their last full week in the library. The snow is almost entirely gone from the playground, and it'll be warm enough next week for them to get outside. I had 6 kids at my table, and we had 22 all together. My kids were just fine, cleaning up quickly when we went first and not making too much of a ruckus in the bathroom. Once again, we had a harder time afterwards, especially in the cafeteria before we went to the library. I spent most of the time in the library drawing, admiring the kids' work, and explaining my Legendary Tales of WENN story to two of the girls. The other kids built magnetic tile skyscrapers that got way too tall and danced to the themes from Bluey and the 60's Batman show, "Ghostbusters," and songs from Moana, Trolls, and Encanto.
Went straight into Incendiary Blonde when I got home. I go further into this biography of Roaring 20's "queen of the nightclubs" Texas Guinan with Betty Hutton in this week's Musical Dreams Movie Reviews entry.
Switched to Charlie's Angels while I started the review. Bosley is furious and beside himself with grief when Kelly is shot in the head during a routine case in "To See an Angel Die." He, Kris, and Julie keep a vigil at the hospital while Kris and Bosley explain some of their earlier cases to Julie. Yes, the series finale is another clip show, but at least this one has a more interesting plot than the previous third-season clip show "Angels Remembered."
(Oh, and it started raining around this point...and when it rained, it monsooned. We had quite a storm going for about an hour, including some very noisy thunder!)
Finished the night with the cast album for Woman of the Year. This updating of the 1942 Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy turns Tess Harding (Lauren Bacall) into a celebrated TV journalist and Sam Craig (Harry Guardino) into a cartoonist. They still get married and still have trouble relating to one another, but the Greek child Tess adopted is now a Russian dancer she's helping to defect, and she has a number with her normal housewife neighbor (Marilyn Cooper) whom she envies. Their song "The Grass Is Always Greener" was so hilarious and such a hit, Cooper got a Best Supporting Actress Tony for 20 minutes of stage time. Sam gets the other great Kander-Ebb number from this show, the gorgeous ballad "Sometimes a Day Goes By."
The rest of the score isn't nearly at that level. Sam's numbers with his comic strip character Katz are more annoying than funny, the chorus numbers are dull, and the dated side plot with the Russian dancer assures that this is rarely seen nowadays. Even so, if you're a fan of Bacall or Kander and Ebb, this does have a few numbers worth hearing.
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