Old school: letters were in. Hand-written letters. New school: email is in, blog posts, cell phones. As plot devices and as real life devices. A Letter to Three Wives (1949) might be updated to An Email Message to Three Significant Others. Ha! Twelve Angry Men becomes Twelve Angry People!
A Letter to Three Wives revolves around a letter from "the other woman" -- she's gonna run away with one of their respective husbands! But which one? It's soul-searching time!
These days, government agencies might slap a wireless wiretap on all of their phone calls, all of their email.
Verizon Communications, via "an October 12 [2007] letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce . . . says that from 2005 through this September there were 63,700 such requests, and of those, 720 came from federal authorities" (AP/CNN). Nice!
I'm sure the three wives would have liked access to their husbands' land line logs back in the day. Maybe.
Linda Darnell in 1944: a tonic for the troops. Who needs technology, anyway?
Nico the femme fatale, circa 1960 -- before The Factory, The Velvet Underground and heroin. La Dolce Vita, baby!
Erin Brown in Masters of Horror: Sick Girl (2006). Beware of bug bites, among other things.
Today's Rune: Movement.
Birthdays: Noah Webster, Oscar Wilde, Michael Collins, Alice Pearce, Kathleen Winsor, Günter Grass, Mary Daly, Nico (Christa Päffgen), Suzanne Somers, Bob Weir, Tim Robbins, Bob Mould, Wendy Wilson, Erin Brown.
Ciao!
2 comments:
Hi Eric, I'd never seen that pic of Nico before. Wow! She's a typical pretty office girl there...
Sometimes I think you're making some of this stuff up, Erik. The only thing here I've heard of is La dolce vita, although I've never seen it.
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