just found out i had a very minor writer/director in the family, chester erskine, which was changed from eckstein. he was my great uncle. looks like the egg and i starring claudette colbert and fred macmurray was his best known work. but he also worked with spencer tracy, robert mitchum, william powell, shelley winters and groucho marx.
his papers are at the nypl.
Chester Erskine (1905-1986) was a director, writer, and producer for theater, film, and television. He was active from the late 1920s through the 1980s. In his early career, he wrote under the pseudonym Paul Leslie. The Chester Erskine papers (1870-1991, bulk 1930-1987) consist largely of scripts, outlines, and film treatments written by Erskine. Not all scripts were produced; some are annotated. Programs, clippings, contracts, and other materials are present for some productions. Productions represented in the collection include Double Murder, Satyr (a script for the original 1930 play and a later screenplay), The Seven Who Resisted, and The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn. A photocopy of an annotated script for Harlem (1929) is present. The collection also contains biographical material and articles about Erskine; his notes and poetry; letters to Erskine; and photographs of him and show business colleagues, including two small photographs of Spencer Tracy. One cabinet card, depicting Edwin Booth and dating to about 1870, is also present. Letters date from 1952 to 1991 and discuss Erskine's scripts as well as personal subjects. Correspondents include Robert Whitehead, Garson Kanin, Robert Parrish and his wife Kathie, Arlene Francis, Irwin Shaw, and Vivien Leigh. Some letters are addressed to Erskine's wife, Sally Erskine.
LB made amazing chicken breasts for the kids last night, sadly Alice became vegitarian again and missed them. Sir Ken Mayo + Chimicurri.
Well I loved it, but want some skin in the mix, plus I added awesome heat, so excited!
hollywood circa 1900
casa co coffee shop Brazil
heavy......sad
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/25/world/americas/coronavirus-brazil-amazon.html
This weekend I watched High Anxiety and The Elephant Man
another civil rights leader has passed. rip, regis philbin.
there was some article on eater about the provenence of the food timeline but too lazy to find it.
the arthouse cinema on ludlow, metrograph, has gone online with screenings for the time being. free week trial. 5 bucks a month. some live screenings, others vod.
get the feeling they were trying to get this out of the way and get on with the start of the baseball season but baseball players are not among the more woke of professional athletes.
Every player and coach on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight in D.C.
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 23, 2020
(via @MarkZuckerman)pic.twitter.com/PrPKv4Gs1Z
https://bittersoutherner.com/the-short-and-brilliant-life-of-ernest-matthew-mickler
author of the white trash cook book one and two
quiet quite a little thunderstorm we are having. is it summer already?
Covid times soccer watching?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/13/michael-glickman-obituary?CMP=share_btn_fb
RIP Michael Glickman
The Federal Police Operations Will Not Stay In Portland
Estimates vary, but analysts Gregg Girvan and Avik Roy found that as of June 29, 50,779 of the 113,135 US deaths from Covid-19 (or 45 percent) were deaths of residents of nursing or long-term care facilities. Their numbers suggest that about 2.5 percent of all nursing home residents have been killed by the disease; in New Jersey, which is particularly hard hit, the share is over 11 percent.
these cake vids have been making the rounds.
good morning, sunshine.
