Just Some Random Thoughts.. 'Filler' As I Like To Call It

I'm still sorting through my book lists to see what my next theme will be; I'm leaning toward authors I've favored with my reading attention for the past few years but I've got to sort out how to present it. I hope that by Friday, I'll have it all organized. Now it might turn out that I'll take a look at the Spy / Thriller genres (if they go together satisfactorily, that is). Anyway, keep checking and you'll find out.

Lola Albright (AKA Edie Hart)

I've been taping the old Fugitive TV series and Peter Gunn on Sunday nights off of MeTV the past couple of months. I'm already falling behind on the Fugitive but Peter Gunn is perfect, a neat little mystery that is a half hour in length. The series was created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame) and starred Craig Stevens as PI Peter Gunn. It also co-starred Herschel Bernardi as Gunn's friend, Police Lt Chuck Jacoby, Hope Emerson as Mother, owner of the night club that Gunn frequents in pretty well all of the episodes (Emerson was replaced by Minerva Urecal in Season 2; Emerson died shortly thereafter), and Lola Albright as night club singer at Mothers, who was also Gunn's girl friend.

I've really taken to Lola. She has something about her, a twinkle in her eye, a great patter and a quiet sexiness. She lived from 1924 - 2017 and was a singer and actor. She had a great career both in movies and on TV, especially as Gunn's girl friend in all three seasons of the series. She had two albums, one produced by Henry Mancini and she sang regularly on the Peter Gunn show. She was married three times, her second husband being actor Jack Carson and her third husband the piano player from Peter Gunn, Bill Chadney.

So there you go, everything you want to know about Lola Albright. 😍

Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson

I regularly spend a bit of time (if you were to ask Jo, she might say, 'too much') reading various threads on 'the Twitter'. This morning I discovered a new podcast hosted by Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast, called The New Abnormal, on The Daily Beast site. Wilson is a former Republican political consultant who has become an outspoken critic of the Trump 'regime'. In 2018 he released Everything Trump Touches Dies and in 2020 released his second novel, Running Against the Devil - A Plot to Save American from Trump - and Democrats from themselves. Jong - Fast, daughter of author Erika Jong, is a liberal pundit and currently editor - at - large for The Daily Beast. While the two come from differing perspectives, they are united in their criticism of Trump. I listened to the first podcast and it was fascinating; witty and brash, a real pleasure to listen to. I highly recommend. This is the link to the first show; check it out.

So there you go, that's it for today. Tomorrow I'll post my Wednesday music medley and by the end of the week, I hope to start my new book theme posts.