Two bits of news before I traipse into entertainment.  First, the   House January 6 Committee at 1PM today announced that it will, after all, convene tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1PM EDT  for their 6th hearing.    Remember last week they said that the next one would occur in July after the July 4th recess? In the midst of this Rowe v. Wade brouhaha, they must have something crucial to share.  Why? No hint. Documentary filmmaker Alex Holder has something blockbuster to show? The FBI uncovered something incriminating in the stuff they found in Jeffrey Clark's home?  He is the person Trump wanted to install as the attorney general? Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence? The modern day equivalent of the Butterfield Tapes in Watergate? Should be interesting. The second bit has to do with sports.  I predicted that the Tampa Bay Lightning would win the Stanley Cup.  I was wrong.  They  lost to the Colorado Avalanche .  While I'm at this, Wimbledon starts today.   Tennis matches wend on to July 10.

I saw two films this weekend:                      ROTTEN TOMATOES                                               Reviewers  Audiences  My Grade Mank                   88               72               B Citizen Kane      100               91              B- Mank , premiered on Netflix Friday, while CK was released just around the time Pearl Harbor was attacked today, 79 years ago.  The two films are similar in various ways.  First, one led to the other.  Second, both are in black and white.  Third, it is entirely possible that, like Orson Welles gaining an Academy nomination for Best Actor, so will Gary Oldman.  It was three years ago that he transformed into Winston Churchill in the Darkest Hou r , and won the Oscar.  Among his past portrayals include Beethoven, Dracula and Lee Harvey Oswald. Mank was as much the life of Herman Mankiewicz as the writing of Citizen Kane .  He got his start in Hollywood in the 1920's after an earlier life with newspapers.  Known to be a functi