Awards season over!  Now, we can finally move onto 2025.

Hopefully, my being sick will be over soon as well.  I did nothing this week but sleep and feel miserable.  It was the perfect storm of asthma, congestion, hormonal pain, ankle pain, and — as of Sunday night — back pain.  I always tell myself that, whenever I get like this, I’m going watch a hundred movies.  It’ll be fun!  I’ll just stay on the couch and watch whatever.  Instead, I just end up feeling gripey and sleeping.

*sigh* Well, I’m running behind.  Here’s a quick week in review, from me to you, babe.

Films I Watched:

1. The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1961)
2. Gammera: The Invincible (1966)
3. Moonshine Country Express (1977)
4. The Seven-Ups (1973)
5. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Dark
2. Devil In The Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
3. Kitchen Nightmares
4. The Oscars

News From Last Week:

1. The big news has, of course, been the death of Gene Hackman.  Until we have more firms details on what happened, I have been avoiding the stories about the investigation into the death of him and his wife.  The speculation that I’ve seen online has just been too heart-breaking to consider.
2. The passing of Michelle Trachtenberg, at just 39, also broke the hearts of those of us who grew up alongside her on television.  I related to Dawn Summers.  Michelle had recently had a liver transplant and had been in poor health for a while.  The tabloid attempts to make her tragic death into something sordid was our media at its worst.
3. David Johansen of the New York Dolls and also the man who wrote Hot Hot Hot passed away at 75.  Remember Michael Scott singing, “Hot!  Hot!  Hot!” after returning from Jamaica?  A true New York character, Johansen was also an actor.  He’s in Scrooged, driving Billy Murray into the past.
4. Author Joseph Wambaugh died at 88.  I have several Wambaugh paperbacks in my collection.  I may give them a read and also watch the movies based on them over the upcoming month.  Brian Dennehy reportedly modeled his performance in Best Seller after Wambaguh.

Links From Last Week:

1. Want To See What They Eat At The Academy Awards? Celebrate “Oscar Sunday” By Eating Food With The Stars! — I always enjoy John Rieber’s posts about what goes on behind the scenes!
2. At House M, find a look at Tituba, the first person convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials.
3. The World’s Common Tater has a moving post about Adjusting, one to which I think we can all relate.
4. Here at TSL, be sure to check out Arleigh’s review of The Monkey, Brad’s look back at the 2000 Oscars, Jeff’s review of Twice In Lifetime, Leonard’s review of Emilia Perez, and Erin’s story of the two horses!

Want to check out last week?  I was pretty sick then too!  Click here!