On
Thursday I was at a party and in the foyer near the entrance to the house a guy
had a woman in her underwear leaning with her hands against the wall. He was
fully clothed but he was about to pull her panties down and fuck her with lots
of people standing around ignoring them. For some reason I thought it wasn’t
consensual because she didn’t look happy and so I grabbed a white dinner plate
and smashed it over his head, which woke me up.
I spent a lot of the day getting
caught up on my writing.
I watched an episode of Perry Mason.
It begins with a man named Pete dropping a young woman named Veronica off on
the highway, telling her to flag down a specific car. He undoes her top button
and tells her to put on a good show. The convertible driven by movie producer
Edgar Ferell does stop and almost immediately he suggests that he can get her
into the movies. He takes her to the movie studio beach house where he
sometimes lives but a car drives up and since he thinks it’s his wife he tells
Veronica to go in the other room. She leaves the house just after a gunshot and
runs to a nearby gas station. She tries to call Pete from the phone booth but
he isn’t there. A man named John Addison, who is also a movie executive, pulls
up who is about to use the phone but changes his mind. She asks him for a ride
to town and he gives her one. She is later arrested for vagrancy and she calls
John for help. He calls Perry Mason, who gets her out and gives her some money
to go back to Albuquerque. Instead of
leaving, John gives her a job as a contract player at his studios. It turns out
that Pete works for a scandal magazine and Veronica works for him to help him
dig up dirt on entertainment bigwigs so he can sue them. He’s trying to extort
$10,000 from John to keep quiet about him getting Veronica out of jail. Mason
tells him to sign his name on a piece of paper and then to trace that signature
onto a check for $2000. Mason arranges for Pete to come to his office and he
gives him the cheque as a partial payment. Later Mason gets a call from John
asking him to come to Edgar Ferrell’s house. Mason goes there but refuses to
enter the house if a crime has been committed there. If John tells him about
the crime outside of the house then Mason doesn’t have to call the police. John
admits that Edgar is dead and has been for two days. John had found the body
just before picking up Veronica. Mason tells him to find himself another
companion and to call the police. He brings an assistant named Myrtle under the
pretence of having her take inventory and lets her find the body. John calls
the police and is arrested for murder. Mason arranges for Veronica’s mother
Martha to fly in from Albuquerque. She is very over the top boisterous and down
to earth working class personality. In court it is found that Veronica keeps a
notebook of the license plates of all the cars that pick her up when she’s
hitchhiking and that Pete uses those records to extort money from men that
don’t want it known that they’ve picked up an 18 year old girl. Myrtle, who
considers John to be a great talent who would leave the entertainment world
impoverished if he had to go to prison, admits to having killed Edgar because
he was possibly going to fire John.
Martha Dale was played by Barbara
Pepper who started off in the dance company owned by Samuel Goldwyn known as
The Goldwyn Girls. Lucille Ball was also in the troupe and they became lifelong
friends. Early on she played hard-boiled flashy dames in B movies but after
having two children and gaining weight she played more comical character roles
on television such as Doris Ziffel on Green Acres. She was considered for the
role of Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy" but she had a reputation for
being a drinker and the producers anticipated problems.
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