WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEKEND

Today is National Constitution and Citizenship Day.  Tomorrow, that abominable conservative wing, also known as super-Trumpers, will be rioting in DC, although I suspect the day will come and go with a few speeches and nothing much else.  Saturday, however, also offers other opportunities for all of you.

2021 Daily Holidays that fall on September 18, include:

• National Thank A Police Officer Day--HOW IRONIC!
• Batman Day -

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  Big Whopper Liar Day
• Boys and Girls Club Day for Kids
• Chiropractic Founders Day 

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  First Love Day 
• Hug a Greeting Card Writer Day 
• International Coastal Cleanup Day 
• International Eat an Apple Day 
• International Read an eBook Day 

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  International Red Panda Day -  go visit your zoo
• Locate An Old Friend Day 
• National Ceiling Fan Day 

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  National Cheeseburger Day: just figured out what I will have for lunch today 
  
• National Clean Up Day 

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  National Dance Day --something to do tonight
• National Gymnastics Day
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  National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day :  I still haven't figured out why celebrate these two are linked on the same day
• National Museum Day -  Also on May 18
• National Respect Day 
• Puppy Mill Awareness Day

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  Responsible Dog Ownership Day 
• Rice Krispies Treats Day 
• Software Freedom Day 
• US Air Force Birthday 
• World Bamboo Day 

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  World Cleanup Day 
• World Water Monitoring Day 

As you glance down those topics, one might make you wonder.  What is First Love Day?

• This day specifically reflects the first butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling, the first date, and that first spark with a romantic partner. We all encounter love with someone we admire and this is the day to look back on the first time we ever did. It’s a bittersweet day that can be celebrated in multiple ways. Do you remember who your first love was?
• Of course we already have Valentine's Day on February 14 and National Love Day on September 30, but those are with a current partner.  National First Love day is more a trip down memory lane.
• First celebrated in 2015.
• There is an official song, Barry White's You're the First, the Last, My Everything.

Amazon Prime has a movie list for you.  I gather they should be free for Prime members.  

Similarly, here are the 85 best films on Netflix.  They are always free.  The only noteworthy new one is Worth, with Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan and Stanley Tucci.  Rotten Tomatoes have 80/80 ratings.  It's timely, following the life of Kenneth Feinberg (Keaton) serving as the mediator for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

Yesterday I was having lunch and got bored with what was on TV, but noticed that just starting on TCM was To Have and Have Not.  I thought, surely I've already seen this, for I remembered that whistle scene with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.  Rotten Tomatoes gave it 97/90 ratings.  This I did not know until I just checked.  Also, turned out this might have been the first time I saw the whole film.  That scene appears whenever any compilation is synthesized.

I won't bother to review it except to say that it was made in 1944 during World War II, two years after Casablanca.  But I do say something because this was like another re-make of that film:

• Bogie and a love interest.
• As a neutral operator of a fishing boat who of course ends up helping the Free French, and, in particular a couple similar that in Casablanca.
• Hoagie Charmichael (he wrote Stardust, among many others) playing Dooley Wilson on the piano.
• Instead of Casablanca, they are in the French colony of Martinique, which is in the Caribbean.

I can go on and on and wonder how the public took so well to what kind of looked too close to Casablanca.  For one, involved in the script were two Nobel prizewinners, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, who wrote the book with the same title from which this movie was adapted.  Also makes me wonder if he got lazy and borrowed from Casablanca to write THaHN.

And speaking of remakes, THaHN was remade as The Breaking Point with John Garfield and Patricia Neal, and the production received 100/86 scores from Rotten Tomatoes.  Hmmm, I might try to find it.  

But that was not all, for in 1958 came The Gun Runners, with Audie Murphy and Eddie Albert, which was so bad that Rotten Tomatoes reviewers did not bother, and audiences gave it a 29 rating.  But finally, the end of remakes for THAHN.

Bogart was 44 when he made the film.  Bacall was 19 and this was her first.  They got together during the production, he divorced his third wife (Mayo Jane Methot, to the left also an actress, but an alcoholic and paranoid schizophrenic who had attempted suicide even before Bogart and Bacall met--you would think this would make for a fine movie), and they were married in 1945, staying together until he passed away in 1957.  They immediately went on to together star in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).   Her personal success came in 1953 with How to Marry a Millionaire.

Well, enough of that. What about NCAA college football?  The two highlights are Alabama at Florida and Auburn at Penn State.  Will Fresno State upset UCLA?  If you're from Hawaii, the first NFL game Sunday on Fox will be Buffalo at Miami.  My three fantasy teams all lost last week.

Here a flicks store that draws attention.  Maybe it was conformed so on purpose.

My favorite, 9-year old Victory Brinker did not gain victory in America's Got Talent.  The champion was magician Dustin Tavella.  Here is an 11-year old Russian ice dancer.

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Typhoon Chanthu finally made landfall over Kyushu:

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