Notes From All Over, End-Of-Week -- Early Evening Edition -- June 12, 2020

TCM: tonight's feature presentation, Our Betters, 1933, pre-code. Wiki entry here. TCM's theme tonight: LGBTQ. This could be good. My hunch: it's all dialogue. A stage play on film. Apparently, the "draw": seeing Tyrell Davis as Ernest. He is the reason the picture was selected by TCM to be shown tonight, and yet Tyrell Davis only shows up in the last five minutes of the movie, a movie that runs one hour, 23 minutes. But apparently he "steals" the show. "No one" knows anything about Tyrell Davis, and even in this movie he is uncredited. Apparently he starred in many movies but was uncredited.

My hunch: it would be like Boy George showing up in the last five minutes of Tootsie.

Minnie Pearl. The last two words in the movie, Our Betters, "Minnie!" "Pearl."

Minnie Pearl first used that stage name, as far as we know, in 1939. She would have had to come up with this name somewhat earlier. Our Betters came out in 1933. This, alone, is worth the price of an annual subscription to this blog.

For the archives, our local DDAZ:

Reality sucks: quick! Name the most dangerous "profession" in the United States. Driving trucks. Maybe not the most dangerous, but certainly among the top ten. See this story.

As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.

Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. In 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.

Truck drivers have spent the last year on the front line of a global pandemic and protests. Now many are fearful of what might happen if police departs disband or are defunded.

Insurance: I can't even imagine the insurance rates on private automobiles if one lives in a zip code which has defunded police departments. I have paid for auto insurance in several different states over the years, and location, location, location drives (no pun intended) the premium. Southern California rates are horrendous. I imagine auto insurers are looking at Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, to name just a few.

Restaurants: you really want to go out to dinner in/near an autonomous zone, or in a city with no police department?

College campuses: no city police department? Have you seen college "police" departments? LOL.

Theater or movies in a defunded city? Walking out into the dark after the show lets out. LOL

Little Movies, Aaron Lee Tasjan