Posted By Russ Emerson on April 8, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Spring has sprung… the trees are leafy again… and apart from rain nearly every day for the last week and a half, the weather has turned nice.
One problem: I have a serious pork deficiency.
I sense the need for a barbecue sesson. My stomach demands it, my smoker demands it. As will my neighbors, when they get a whiff. And now that I’m more mobile, I think it’s doable.
The 2008 Barbecue Season is going to be great.
Posted By Russ Emerson on April 6, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Film legend and past NRA president Charlton Heston has died.
Though he was best known for his iconic roles in such films as Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments and Planet of the Apes, the lesser-known El Cid
I can’t imagine Hollywood these days making an epic-scale movie about a hero fighting the Muslims. Pity. If you haven’t seen El Cid, rent it. Heston is great, and Sophia Loren provides some tasty eye-candy.
One day back in the early ’80s, while I was home on a break from college, our family got dressed up “spiffy casual” and drove down to L.A. to see a show. We’d done so many times previously, and this particular time we were off to see “Nicholas Nickleby.”
I remember nothing about the play itself… but I remember that the Hestons were sitting in front of us, and I remember that Mr. Heston was very gracious to those few people who dared to approach him.
He was a legend, while pretty much all we have these days are over-hyped “stars.” They don’t make many like Heston any more.