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Movie Review: The Miracle Worker (1962)

The story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan is very effective thanks mostly to the ferocious performance of Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. The movie feels very stagey, which is understandable since it’s an adaptation of a play. The secondary characters are nothing to write home about either, but it’s really Bancroft’s movie, and she delivers, as does Patty Duke as Helen, so it’s all good.

Farewell to the House of Teeth…

I’ve been getting my teeth attended to here in his extremely dated and weirdly isolated building since I’ve had teeth in my head. I guess I’m sufficiently old that it wasn’t dated when I started out. I guess that makes me old.

It screams mid-century, doesn’t it?

Farewell little dental office!

March starts with a recommendation…

I’ll admit, I don’t watch any traditional TV programming any longer, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing good on. There’s a lot of terrific YouTube channels with amazing content out there, and I’d like to recommend my favorite:

Itchy Boots – YouTube

Noraly Schoenmaker is a thirtysomething Dutch woman who travels around the world solo by motorcycle. Her current journey targets the Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia thus far), and it’s astonishing. As was her journey through West Africa last year.

Targeting more rural routes, as opposed to big cities, Schoenmaker encounters sights and cultures that few Westerners are exposed to. There are wonders aplenty, not the least of which is Schoenmaker’s indomitable good cheer and resourcefulness in the face of adversity (of which there is no shortage), and the kindness and decency of almost everyone she runs into.

This is truly great stuff, and I can’t recommend the channel highly enough.

She objects…

…to being told when to nap.

And no, I’m not letting that thing, whatever it is, out of her little pen. I think it might be a small, nippy demon.