I
didn’t go to the food bank on Saturday because I’d gotten some last minute work
at OCADU. The gig was for the alumni open studio and so that would mean short
poses and so I was a little worried because my shin is still bothering me ten
days after slamming it into the opened door of a blue Subaru. The young guy
that coordinated the event was a bit overly assertive with an inability to
temper it with being human. He seemed like he’d be right at home in the army.
There’s a core group of senior students that seem to volunteer for different
roles for the session such as setting up the lights. I took a nap during my
long break but the coordinator woke me up. I thought I had two minutes left but
it turned out that it had been a fifteen-minute break instead of the usual
twenty. One guy who has been in charge in the past thanked me at the end in a
much more friendly way, saying that he knew that I was called at the last
minute and so they really appreciated me coming, while the other guy just kind
of mechanically thanked me.
I stopped at Freshco on the way home
where I bought grapes, a chicken, a ham, a pack of hot Italian sausages, milk,
some spoon size shredded wheat and some Greek yogourt that was on sale.
That night the wind was howling so
loudly that I couldn’t hear the screaming woman. I think that it must have
blown her away because I couldn’t see her or her cart on the corner.
I had an egg with toast and a beer
for dinner and watched Peter Gunn. This story begins with Lieutenant Jacoby
being lured by a telephone call to leave the station and meet an informant.
While walking he is shot and is in the hospital through the whole episode while
Gunn tries to track down the shooters and who hired them. Captain Loomis tells
Gunn that they’ve picked up the car. At Mother's Edie sings "You're
Driving Me Crazy" by Walter Donaldson and "Straight to Baby" by
Henry Mancini, Jay Livingston and Henry Evans. A woman comes to see Gunn but as
she is about to speak with him a man walks in the door and steps between them
to go into the club. When she sees him she panics and leaves. Gunn gets a call
from a key maker named Alfie who says he saw the men that shot Jacoby but it
would put his life in danger to be seen near a police station so he won’t go
look at mug shots. Gunn offers to bring the mug book to him. He persuades a cop
named Davis to breach regulations and let him take the book. It was the first
speaking part for a Black person on Peter Gunn. Oddly, with all the jazz
musicians that have played on the show, very few of them were Black either.
When Gunn gets back to Alfie he finds him almost dead but he is able to say the
name "Donniger". An armed man on the street forces Gunn into a car
where he meets the mobster named Donniger. This is the man that scared the
woman away from Gunn earlier. Donniger tells Gunn that he’d remain alive if he
were to move to another state. Gunn goes to Captain Loomis’s address and is
surprised when the woman that had run away answers the door. She is Dora,
Loomis’s daughter. She tries to stop Gunn from coming in but he does anyway.
She avoids his questions until there is a noise at the door. It’s Loomis and
he’s been badly beaten. Loomis admits that he’s been on the take from Donnie. After
his wife died Dora stayed on to take care of him. He felt that she’d been
robbed of a life and so he wanted to have some money to leave her. Jacoby was
hit because Donniger was afraid that the DA was going to give him Lommis’s job
and since Jacoby can’t be bought it would be bad news for Donniger. Loomis gets
a call of a car that’s circling the hospital where Jacoby is. When Loomis and
Gunn arrive there is a man with a gun on the hospital steps. There is an
exchange of fire and Gunn shoots him. Meanwhile Donniger tries to shoot Gunn
but Loomis steps in front to take the bullet. Gunn shoots Donniger.
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