Jean Hale

            On Sunday morning I finished editing in my Christian’s Translations blog “Down on Traversière Street”, my translation of Rue Traversière” by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll add an audio link to YouTube and then publish it. 

            I worked out the chords for the chorus and the instrumental of “White and Black Blues” by Serge Gainsbourg. The last verse should have the same chords as the first and most of the chorus is repeated three times so I might have the song finished tomorrow. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the third of fourth sessions and the new B string did not solve the problem of the B always going out of tune. I need to get the guitar fixed.

            I weighed 86.8 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since January 5. 

            Around midday I washed the base of the toilet and the pee-spilling area on the floor around the toilet. On Tuesday I’ll wash the northern wall tiles of the bathroom. 

           I weighed 86.65 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of homemade iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 18:20. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:09.

            I made a few more frames for my second rainbow wave animation. I’ll create five more and then upload them to my “Seven Shades of Blues” Movie Maker project. 

            I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Les Sucettes” and “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” from September 15 to 18. On September 15 I played “Les sucettes” on my Martin Road Series acoustic guitar and the take at 13:30 was good but my mouth fumbled a word at the end. On September 17 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar but it didn’t sound good because of the off chords I played on a guitar with low action. On September 16 I played “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” on the Martin and the take at 19:00 was okay but one of the chords was muffled. On September 18 I played it on the Gibson and in the take at 26:00 the Gibson didn’t sound bad but I wasn’t great. 

            I made pizza on multigrain sandwich bread with Italian sausage sauce, the second burger I made yesterday sliced in four, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 35 of Batman. 

            In this story Mad Hatter and two of his henchmen enter Bon Bon’s Box Boutique and ask for 700 hat boxes. He then uses his hat with the pop-up eyes to knock out the proprietor. Commissioner Gordon calls Batman about the theft. Meanwhile the Hatter is in his hideout in the defunct Green Derby restaurant. He is using the boxes he stole to put all his hats away. He tells his hat check girl Polly that stealing hats has lost its fascination. The only hat he wants now is Batman’s cowl and after that he will use hats to steal rather than stealing hats. He says that tonight at the headdress ball he plans to steal the Golden Buddha of Burma and its priceless ruby. Back at the Batcave Batman learns from the Bat Computer that Hatter will probably strike next at the Headdress Ball to steal the ruby in the headdress of the host Hattie Hatfield. That night Hatter comes to the ball in disguise as the three tailed Pasha of Panchagorum. The Hatter’s gang has been employed as the service staff of the ball. Batman and Robin arrive from the balcony. As soon as Hatter steals the ruby they jump in and the first big fight occurs. As Batman and Robin beat Hatter’s henchmen, Hatter shoots a radioactive spray at Batman’s cowl, then he and his gang escape. Batman’s cowl has now turned pink. They return to the Batcave where Alfred says Batman’s other cowls are being cleaned and won’t be ready for at least two hours. Bruce calls Professor Overbeck of Gotham Atomic Energy Laboratories to ask him to help Batman. Overbeck says he will try to decontaminate the cowl. He will have his assistant bring Batman a hooded protective suit. But Hatter uses his hypno-hat to knock out the assistant and take his place. Batman changes behind a screen and then passes his cowl, which Hatter grabs and then runs. Bat man emerges from the screen wearing another cowl. He confronts the Hatter, but Hatter’s men grab Robin and place him in a fluoroscopic cabinet that’s a high voltage x-ray. Then they put Batman in as well. Hatter turns on the machine. Batman and Robin will be irradiated in minutes. The Hatter and his gang leave them to die and that’s the cliffhanger. 

            Polly was played by Jean Hale, who studied under Sydney Pollack at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York where her classmate was her future husband Dabney Coleman. She paid for her tuition with income from modelling. Her first TV work was as a dancer on Singalong With Mitch. Her first film was Felicia but it was never released. Her film debut was a co-starring role in Violent Midnight. She co-starred in In Like Flint. She later formed her own production company.