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Jill, Savage*
*The judges will also accept “Campaign Supernova”
As her husband owned Super Tuesday, so too did Dr. Jill Biden own this protester in Los Angeles. Talk about having your running mate’s back. In other news, Michael Bloomberg can now be elected tribal chieftain of American Samoa while our favorite candidate, Liz Warren, the person you’d most likely put in charge of your junior high science project or senior prom decorating committee, finishes a distant third.
Still, considering the two candidates ahead of her are past their 76th birthday, four out of five actuaries are recommending she remain in the race.
My President
Jurgen Klopp, football manager, Liverpool F.C.
Do You Know INO
We don’t own Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), but if you own the biotech stock you’ve had a good week thus far. It closed at $4 per share on Monday. Today it will open at $8.69 per share. Why?
The company announced that it will accelerate its trials for a coronavirus vaccine to early April, as opposed to June/July, which is accepted. Of course there’s nothing in that statement that says the vaccine has a chance to be any more viable than anyone else’s, but that’s the crazy stock market we live in.
The Dow: Down 3,000 points last week. Up 1,295 on Monday. Down 800 yesterday. Scheduled to open up 700 this morning. Enjoy the ride. Here’s your air sickness bag.
Jack and Jake
One more reason to love Jack Nicholson, from Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye, which is all about the making of Chinatown and the Hollywood scene in the early Seventies. Nicholson returns to L.A. from shooting another film in Spain on October 13, 1973. The next day he’s in wardrobe for Chinatown. The day after that he’s in an orange grove an hour or so east of Los Angeles for the first day of shooting on Roman Polanski’s film.
It’s literally the first morning of shooting. The scene calls for the farmer to knock Nicholson’s character, Jake Gittes, out with his crutch. “Hit him over the head as hard as you can,” Polanski directs the other actor.
The next shot calls for Gittes to be laying in the dirt, knocked out. “Keep your eyes closed,” Polanski tells Nicholson as he sets up the shot. Polanski spots an ant and places it on Nicholson’s face in hopes of capturing it crawling up his cheek. All the time he reminds Nicholson to keep his eyes closed.
“Roll camera,” Polanski orders but the ant changes direction.
“Cut,” Polanski says, and places the ant back on Nicholson’s cheek.
“So let me get this straight—” Nicholson drawls.
“Eyes closed,” Polanski reminds his star.
“When the ant gets this right, we’ve got a take?”
“Correct.”
Loving Cup
While we’d never pretend to be an expert on the Rolling Stones (direct all your queries to our good friend, college classmate, former SI colleague and now attorney-at-law Martin J. Burns), we will say this: If there’s one Stones song we’ve come across in our later years that we don’t understand why it didn’t get more air play in the Seventies (and beyond), that tune would be “Loving Cup.” From the 1972 classic album Exile On Main Street.
It’s so bluesy and jangly, you know it’s them before you even have to ask.
You be the judge.
That kid’s nickname is “Snacks”. Perhaps not as ‘musical’ as “The Owl Without a Vowel” but definitely a name bestowed on a GUY by some other GUYS. Maybe in a couple decades he can write an article in GQ detailing how it prevented him from being a success & he can get all his past “tormenters” fired from their current jobs… 😉
My nominee for Stones “why didn’t I hear this on KCLD in 1977?” song would be Salt of the Earth (Beggars Banquet). Lyrics would make it a good Bernie campaign song, too.
Dray, I’m guessing KCLD called itself “The Cloud” and what a lovely reminder for Minnesotans enduring Seasonal Affect Disorder.