If you will voyage with me to an earlier day, you will receive an education in early to mid-20th century economics. As your first lesson, the $1.75 you will pay for a full meal in your local Chinese restaurant will be paid in cash – probably with a twenty-five cent silver coin added as a tip.
The population of five million persons in Melbourne, Australia is being held hostage by an unidentified gunman. Not only is the sniper’s identity a mystery but the reasons for his attacks, the victims chosen and the times and places selected remain unknown.
Every two weeks my 14-year-old Chihuahua-mix dog, Molly, and I head off to deliver newspapers to a half dozen carrier homes as well as a few dozen bulk drops to businesses. The mid trip, 5:30 a.m.
“Mildred Pierce,” the HBO five-part miniseries now streaming on HBO Max, is premised on the 1941 novel, of the same title, by James M. Cain. This is makes twice that Cain’s potboiler has been adapted to the screen.
With a flashlight in one hand, an art scavenger creeps around a darkened art storage warehouse in New Orleans. His other hand is leafing through old books and piles of drawings and paintings.
