Thursday, 19 December 2024

Monique Lemaire


            On Wednesday morning I memorized the fourth verse of “Amour jamais” (“No More Romance”) by Serge Gainsbourg. There’s just one verse and the chorus left to learn. 
            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions and it continued to go out of tune. I’m going to take it back to Gian at Li’l Demon today to see if he can fix it. This is ridiculous. Before I took it to The Twelfth Fret to have the action lowered a couple of weeks ago it was staying in tune. Nothing has changed in the humidity level at home to cause this. The only difference is Brian’s setup. 
            I weighed 85.6 kilos before breakfast. 
            Around midday I packed up my Martin and went to Li’l Demon to have Gian look at it to see if he could get it to stay in tune. He didn’t think there was much wrong with it but he applied some glue in places and tightened the tuners, which were loose. Hopefully that will help.
            I weighed 86.1 kilos before lunch. I had a toasted Montreal style bagel with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea. 
            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 
            I weighed 85.65 kilos at 18:30. 
            I was caught up on my journal at 19:24. 
            I completed frames 5 to 6 of my second rainbow wave animation and started on frame 7. I’ll do another 20 frames and see if those are enough for the instrumental intro of my song “Seven Shades of Blues”. 
            In the Movie Maker project for my song “Vomit of the Star Eater” I continued cutting out the early takes of the song from that October 1 song practice session. It’s amazing how many takes I did that day and I still haven’t made it to the beginning of the final take. 
            I made pizza on two halves of a Montreal style bagel, each with a slice of salami to cover the hole. I added Italian sausage pasta sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had them with a beer while watching season 1, episodes 13 and 14 of Batman
            In episode 13, the Mad hatter walks into a kitchen with his two henchmen and grabs the hat from the chef’s head. Then a mechanical device emerges from the lid of the Hatter’s top hat with two eyes that shoot a mesmerizing beam at the chef that renders him unconscious. Both the chef and his hat are taken. Next the same thing happens to the owner of a sporting goods store and his deerstalker hat. The same abductions are carried out of the owner of a silver shop and others as well. Commissioner Gordon concludes it’s the work of Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter. He says it was a sad day when the word “parole” was coined. He calls Batman, who arrives with Robin and while they are discussing the case, Gordon gets word that the fire chief and his hat have also been stolen. Meanwhile in his warehouse hideout the Mad Hatter is with his two henchmen and his adoring girlfriend Lisa. We see that the Hatter has recreated a jury box and seated inside are twelve dummies. We learn that he has collected ten of the twelve jurors who convicted him who are now all bound and gagged in the jury room and that he also aims to acquire the cowl of the star witness, the Batman. His next victim will be Lisa’s employer the milliner Madame Magda. He also plans on dismantling Batman’s body in his hat factory to be used for hat parts. As ransom for the jurors he will demand the presidents’ hats on loan to the Gustonian Institution. Meanwhile Batman and Robin are interviewing Babette the hatcheck girl about the fire chief’s abduction. Gordon tells Batman that the Hatter’s been spotted at Magda’s Hat Shop. Before Batman can get there the Hatter has seized Magda and her hat. Lisa hands Batman a piece of paper she says the abductor dropped as he was leaving. It is the name of Octave Marbot the sculptor. Meanwhile the Hatter enters Marbot’s studio and takes the sculptor’s beret before mesmerizing the artist. Batman and Robin arrive to find Hatter posing as the artist. But Hatter does not realize that Batman knows Marbot and that the Hatter is masquerading as the sculptor. Batman finds Marbot in a closet. Batman confronts the Hatter and there is a fight. The Hatter tries to mesmerize Batman but he holds up a mirror to bounce the beam back. However Robin is standing behind the Hatter and is mesmerized. While Batman is distracted by Robin’s plight, the Hatter covers the Batman in fast hardening liquid plaster. That’s the cliffhanger. 
            In episode 14, the Mad Hatter has tasked Octave Marbot with chiseling Batman’s corpse free of its plaster tomb. Meanwhile Robin is gagged and bound to the life size sculpture of a horse. Suddenly Batman breaks free of the plaster. The Mad Hatter and his men escape. Batman frees Robin and explains that he survived in the plaster by holding his breath, which is ridiculous. Batman finally figures out that Hatter is collecting the jurors from his trial. Batman learns that the identity of the 12th juror is Turkey Bowinkle who owns Bowinkle Bowlodrome. Something is off here. In episode 13 Hatter said he already had ten jurors and that Magda and Marbot were the two remaining. Batman gives Alfred a transmitter to plant in Bowinkle’s bowler hat. Alfred goes to talk with Bowinkle. Then Lisa arrives to also get at Bowinkle’s hat. She tells Bowinkle that she works for Male Modes the men’s fashion magazine and that he is this month’s prize winner. Meanwhile Alfred sneaks up to Bowinkle’s office and places the transmitter in the hat band. Then Hatter comes for the bowler. When Bowinkle sees him with it they struggle over the hat until the transmitter falls out. Hatter mesmerizes Bowinkle and his thugs take him away. Hatter uses the transmitter to lure Batman to his hideout. They smash through the window but they are ambushed at close gun point. Hatter is about to run Batman through his hat making machinery when he turns the tables and the big fight happens. The Hatter and his men are defeated and Lisa then shows Batman where the jurors are being kept. 
            Magda was played by Monique Lemaire, who began as a basketball player, singer and model in France. She became Miss France, was a second runner up in Miss World and a finalist in Miss Universe. She moved to New York and studied with Lee Strasberg. She acted on television and then in films but in 1966 she moved to England where she got married. She played Marie Antoinette in an episode of Time Tunnel.




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