Today I happened to come across this photo of me taken more than three decades ago at Rehoboth Beach -- I'm the one on the right -- and it got me thinking: Maybe Rafael had a point.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Remains of the Day (04/30)
Out: Needless to say I'm really excited about Benito Skinner's "Overcompensating," coming soon to Prime Video. Watch the trailer HERE.
The Randy Report: Democrats reintroduce the LGBT Equality Act in Congress
AP: Stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji -- then rescued again days later after he returned to get his phone. (Right up there with my colleague's friend who returned to her ex-boyfriend's house who had JUST RAPED HER to retrieve hers.)
Wrestle Wednesday: It's always Ohio State
Greg in Hollywood: Perry King is your Morning Man Classic
Battle of the Bitches: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert truly did despise each other!
Tennis: Grand Slam doubles champion Max Purcell accepts an 18-month doping ban -- but again we're to believe no one ever intentionally cheats
RIP: Heartbroken to hear about the death of Mike Peters, who battled cancer for some 30 years. Although the Alarm weren't really "my" kind of band, I so loved them as a kid. (Was there ever a better anthem than "The Stand"?) Am forever grateful I got to see Mike with a revamped version of the group in 2004 opening for the Psychedelic Furs. What a huge loss.
Hot Cat of the Day: It's hard not to love Lucy!
‘Valley Girl’ Premiered on April 29, 1983
The 42nd anniversary of something usually isn't very noteworthy. But because we live in a content-crazed world, this photo of director Martha Coolidge on the Sunset Strip in front of a billboard for her movie "Valley Girl" the day it opened back in '83 is making the rounds.
My pal Adam Sank even marked the occasion, writing:
Folding laundry while watching "Valley Girl" (1983) a forgotten treasure of the early '80s. It stars a then-unknown Nicholas Cage, alongside a cast that would remain unknown forever. This includes his costar, Deborah Foreman. She would go on to appear in a few low-budget horror films, but it was all downhill for her after "Valley Girl."It's a shame, because Foreman gives such a subtle, natural performance as the titular Valley girl who must choose between her vapid friends (and douchey boyfriend) and Cage's charming Hollywood punk. The whole cast is better than you'd expect for a teen romp such as this, and the soundtrack is outstanding -- including "I'll Melt With You" by Modern English and Josie Cotton's classic novelty song, "Johnny, Are You Queer?" Definitely worth a watch or re-watch.
He right, as it certainly left a lasting impression on me. (And he didn't even mention Bonnie Hayes's "Girls Like Me" or "A Million Miles Away" by the Plimsouls. The "Valley Girl" soundtrack is only rivaled by "Pretty in Pink" as the best new wave compilation of all time.)
I wrote up my memorable experience seeing "Valley Girl" at the AMC Lakes in the summer of '83 -- movies stayed in theaters that long back then! -- with "the punk kids" from Dobson High School HERE, marked the film's 25th anniversary HERE and lamented the death of the foxy dad HERE. And I just might introduce Damian to it this weekend -- he was 5 when it came out -- assuming he doesn't surprise me and tell me he's already watched it!
For more humiliations, follow HERE.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
(Post-)Weekend Tennis Roundup
With Madrid running into this weekend I held off posting this on Monday. But as the photo count grew -- largely due to the players' exhibitionistic behavior -- I decided it was time to pull the trigger. See the fruits of their/my labor BELOW.
Imposture Syndrome
Even worse: I have horrible posture and "two limóncitas" in the trunk, as my tactful Colombian ex once told me.
For more humiliations, follow HERE.
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