Sunday, we were in arctic chill. A warm spot in town is Rockefeller Greenhouse. The sun was causing the snow to slide down the glassy roof, and snow and clouds overlapped in view.
Orange tree in fruit, in Cleveland, the middle of January.
A few feet away were some garish ornaments saved from an old railroad station.
Old St. Mary Romanian Orthodox is part of Cleveland Public Theatre.
Nativity of Mary has a very strong balcony/choir floor, but the building can not stand for long.
St. Casimir had a Christmas Pageant (Jaselka) performed by children form Polish school.
On a cold and snowy Monday went to the early show at the pictures. They had a pretty good crowd, people applauded during the movie. Meryl Streep's Katharine Graham reminded me of her Florence Foster Jenkins role. Tom Hanks chewed a little scenery. The best actor, i thought, was Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, “Ben, I might have something”, and “It’s just...government secrets”. The movie begins in the jungle of war in Viet Nam, and ends in the Watergate break-in. In between is the publication of the Ellsberg papers [and Graham's leadership in maintaining the paper in business]. It hit Ben Bradlee...“the lies...the lies...”.
Some have this as the best movie of the year. I thought Dunkirk was better, but this may be the most important movie of the year. “The only way to protect the right to publish is to publish”. “70% (of the reason we stayed in Viet Nam) was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat.”
There were a few fun points. [unfortunately, i am not sure of the wording] “Well if you were a reporter, and not a novelist, when would it be ready?”. The girl who delivers the shoe box is the director's daughter, “Are you somebody important?”.
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