Jay Adler

            On Sunday morning I finished posting the lyrics to “Slavic Soul”, my translation of “L'âme slave” by Boris Vian. I listened once to his song “L'amour en cage” (Love in a Cage) and tomorrow I’ll start memorizing it. 

            I transcribed from the screenshot I took of the Vizard transcription the lyrics it detected from “Rêves et caravelles” (Dreams and Caravels) by Serge Gainsbourg. I finished memorizing the song and searched for the chords. No one has posted them of course and so I worked out the first three chords of the first line. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions. It went out of tune two or three times in 90 minutes but sounded great. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars. 

            I weighed 86.7 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I finished editing and published my Batgirl 12 video, made of clips from season 3, episode 12 of Batman. 

            I weighed 87.5 kilos before lunch, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon since last Sunday. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown. The Pride parade was going down Yonge and so I went down Bay until I saw the parade was on Dundas and so I took Edward to University, rode south to Queen, and then west to home. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 18:50. 

            I created a Movie Maker project for my September 5. 2024 song practice. The audio was behind the video and it took over half an hour to synchronize them. Tomorrow I’ll delete all the songs before “Laisse tomber les filles”. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I had the concert video and the studio audio synchronized up to “When just one whiff of that glorious air”. After that the video is slightly ahead and so I need a small clip to push it back. I started looking for a video clip of an oxygen atom but so far there’s nothing. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Marinara sauce. basil pesto, some chopped up back bacon, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 14 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet has been nominated for teacher of the year. At first he thinks he doesn’t care but then he starts campaigning and wins. One of the teachers who is Chet’s friend tells someone he didn’t vote for him because he was teacher of the year last year and wouldn’t wish that position on anyone. The election is followed by a banquet that is sponsored by the PTA to raise money for things the school needs like motion picture equipment. The tickets are $8 each, which would be about $66 today and besides the ten tickets that Chet buys for friends and family, only six more have been sold as the day of the event approaches. Chet finds himself campaigning again to sell tickets just so he won’t be embarrassed by the turn-out. His tailor Mr. Abrams hears that he’s been elected teacher of the year and overdresses him in a tuxedo. The night of the banquet a crowd turns up after all because there is a raffle for a colour TV and another for a trip to Hawaii. 

            Mr. Abrams was played by Jay Adler, who was a small part supporting actor and a member of an acting family. His parents were well known Yiddish actors and several of his siblings were also Hollywood actors. His sister Stella became a renowned acting teacher. He co-founded the Theatre Mart Group. His film debut was in No Time to Marry in 1938.

June 30, 1995: I tried to kiss Cynthia but she backed away

Thirty years ago today

            On Friday I went downtown to pick up my Ontario College of Art and Board of Education paycheques. After depositing most of them and taking out some cash I went for a beer on the patio of the 360 Club. I chatted and made friends with Cynthia my waiter. Paul Forsythe, who had verbally attacked me on Wednesday night for my disrespectful criticism of folk musicians, was passing by and came to sit down and tell me that he agreed with me after all. We were there until evening and went to the back to hear the bands. When Cynthia was off work she joined us. Paul Forsythe and Gary 13 were buying me beers. Cynthia and I made a bet about the gender of a guitarist and I won. Cynthia, Gary and I went to The Greek’s and then to a booze can in Kensington Market. At one point I tried to kiss Cynthia but she backed away, even though she’d been so physically up close with me all night. We sang and played music until 4:00 or so on Saturday.

Isabel Cooley

            On Saturday morning I published on my Christian’s Translations blog “Slavic Soul”, my translation of “L'âme slave” by Boris Vian. I’ll post the lyrics on my Boris Vian Facebook fan page and on my personal page tomorrow. 

            I also published “The Prettiest Belle Around”, my translation of “La plus jolie fille du monde” by Serge Gainsbourg and posted the lyrics on Facebook. I searched for the next Gainsbourg song that I hadn’t been able to translate and found in my 1969 Gainsbourg file “Rêves et caravelles” (Dreams and Caravels). I memorized the chorus and the first verse. There is only one line left that is new but I wasn’t sure of one of the words and so I ran the audio through Vizard and got a transcript. I took a screen shot of that and I’ll transcribe it tomorrow. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the third of four sessions. It went out of tune only a couple of times. 

            I weighed 86.25 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since May 31. 

            Around midday I took my bike down to the street to lock it while I went back for my trailer. There was a couple that thought my trailer was cool. I’ve gotten that a lot since I bought it two years ago. They were very interested in where I got it and how it hitched to my bike. They even stood there watching as I rode away. 

            I went down to No Frills where I bought five bags of red grapes, three packs of Mexican raspberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two containers of skyr, a bag of Miss Vickie’s original chips and another of the barbecue flavour. 

            I would normally have gone to Freedom Mobile first to pay for my phone service at this time of the month but I forgot and so I went there after the supermarket. 

            I weighed 86.9 kilos at 14:00. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

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

            I weighed 86.3 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:30. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s song “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I cut out some of the video of the alveoli until the concert video was back in sync with the studio audio. They stayed lined up until about halfway through the second chorus. I added a short clip from the 1937 cartoon “Swing Monkey Swing” and then shaved that until the video and audio were back in sync for “When just one whiff of that beautiful air…” Tomorrow I’ll figure out what to do next. 

            I compared the song practice videos of my electric performances of “Leave the Naïve Alone” on October 4 and 6. I played the Gibson on October 4 and the Kramer on October 6. I think the Gibson sounds better to some degree but it’s a bit rattly. The October 4 video looks a little better but I already have the October 6 practice as a project in Movie Maker so I’m tempted to publish videos of both performances. I compared October 10 to October 6 and I think that October 6 is slightly better. So I think I’ll publish videos of both October 4 with the Gibson and October 6 with the Kramer. The first song I’ll work on in Movie Maker is the acoustic take of “Laisse tomber les filles” from September 5. I had that stored on my external hard drive and so I copied it back to my main hard drive, otherwise it wouldn’t work in Movie Maker. 

            I sliced some back bacon and grilled the slices. I had two chopped up on a multigrain sandwich bread pizza with marinara sauce, basil pesto, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 13 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            In the hallway of Holmes High School some bullies are making fun of Henry for being a poet. The biggest one tries to grab Henry’s books to see a poem, then Henry punches him once in the face and once in the stomach but it has no effect. The guy grabs Henry and swings him over for Johnny to hold as he is about to punch him when Chet breaks up the fight. Henry picks up his books then Chet finds a poem on the floor and hands it to him but Henry says it isn’t his. Later Chet catches Johnny going through his papers in his office and he knows the poem is his. Johnny doesn’t want word to get out to his tough friends that he writes poetry. Chet shows Johnny some poems that he wrote when he was younger and Johnny likes one in particular: “Like to the clear in highest sphere where all imperial glory shines / Of self same colour is her hair whether unfolded or in twines / It is the fair Rosemary / Her eyes are sapphire set in snow / refining heaven with every wink / and the gods do tremble when they glow / I do tremble when I think / oh that Rosemary were mine”. This is “Beauty” by Thomas Lodge. Johnny likes the poem and accidentally takes it with him. Chet didn’t have a chance to tell him that he didn’t write it but merely copied it because it expressed his feelings. Later Mr. Halperin finds the poem had been left behind in his Math class and reads it mockingly in the cafeteria, thinking it’s a bad student poem. Miss Richards who runs the student paper thinks it’s very good and intends to publish it. Since Johnny thinks the poem is Chet’s, Chet is afraid that upon reading it in the paper he will tell everyone it is Chet’s poem. Chet goes to Richards’s office and feigns an accident to distract her while he retrieves the poem. Later Johnny tells Chet he inspired him to admit publicly that he writes poetry and he submits two poems to the student paper. Chet decides to confess to Miss Richards that he took the poem, then he gives her the manuscript of his poems and says she can publish them if she wants and she does.

            Henry was played by a 19 year old Mark Hamill. 

            Miss Richards was played by Isabel Cooley, who appeared on Broadway in Anna Lucasta, and toured Europe with the play. Sometimes she played the lead and sometimes a supporting role as she did in the film version. She played Charmian, a servant to Cleopatra in the film starring Elizabeth Taylor. On her way back to the States from Italy after shooting Cleopatra she got busted with possession of 250 grams of hashish. There is no record of her having been sentenced to prison and so chances are she got off. She appeared in I Passed for White. She made many guest appearances on television shows such as The Bill Cosby Show and Hogan’s Heroes.

June 29, 1995: I spent the day writing

Thirty years ago today

            On Thursday I spent the day writing.

John Amos

            On Friday morning in my Christian’s Translations blog I almost finished preparing for publication “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian. I should have it done tomorrow. 

            I uploaded to my Christian’s Translations blog “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg and finished preparing it for publication. All that’s left is to post the YouTube audio. I’ll publish it and post my translation on Facebook tomorrow and then look for the next Gainsbourg song that didn’t get finished either because of no French text or audio. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of four sessions and had to tune it a little about three times. It still sounds good. 

            I weighed 86.55 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded the rest of the underside of the upper shelf that runs parallel to the northern bathroom wall and the rest of the northern wall above the lower shelf. I had filled a big hole next to the left bracket on the northern wall and when it dried there was a big crack that I thought I would need to fill. But it turned out that the crack was only in the drywall compound and it almost disappeared when I sanded it. All that’s left in the northeast corner is the underside of the lower shelf and the walls directly beneath it. That might only take one session so maybe I can get that done on Canada Day. 

            I weighed 86.45 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It looks like they are getting Yonge Street ready for the Pride Parade on Sunday. 

            I weighed 86.3 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:55. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” the video was slightly ahead of the audio halfway through the second verse. I needed to find some outside video to push the concert video back a touch. Since the subject of the next line is the alveoli I looked for an alveoli animation. I found a 15 second clip called “Alvioli of the Lungs” and downloaded it with Clip Grab. I converted it to AVI with WinX and then imported it into Movie Maker. I inserted it into the main timeline before the line “till their alveoli are polished so well they shine like pearls in a bronchial shell”. As with the previous video of the lungs, the pulsing of the alveoli was slower than the beat of the song and so I doubled the speed three times”. Next I’ll need to cut out most of the video to resynchronize the concert video with the studio audio. 

            I compared the song practice video of my electric performance of “Laisse tomber les filles” on October 3 to that of September 19 and found that September 19 still looks and sounds the best. I compared October 5 to September 19, and September 19 is still ahead. I compared October 9 to September 19 and it’s hard to decide. September 19 is the best take with the Gibson but there is a lot of traffic noise. I might consider uploading two electric versions just to hear how the two guitars sound in a final recording. I compared October 15 to October 9 and October 9 comes out on top in terms of Kramer versions and September 19 is better as well. So I think I’ll upload both September 19 and October 9 or at least start a Movie Maker project for each of them and see how they sound with the audio and video synchronized. 

            I compared my performances of “Leave the Naïve Alone” on September 2 and 14. September 14 is definitely better. I compared September 18 to September 14 and I think September 18 sounds better even though it doesn’t look as good. I compared September 20 to September 18 and found September 20 sounds as good and looks better. I compared September 24 to September 20, and September 20 is still on top. I compared September 30 to September 20 and on September 30 the Gibson sounds more rattly. I compared October 4 to September 20 and now October 4 is ahead. There are two left to compare. 

            I grilled four chicken legs and had one with a potato and gravy while watching season 2, episode 12 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet has a TV on an installment plan from Ryan’s Furniture Mart but the TV doesn’t work. He goes to the company to complain and when the first salesman sees him he tells the second salesman that it’s his turn. The second salesman reminds Chet that he’s missed five payments. Chet says he won’t be making any payments until he sees something on the screen. Chet’s account is transferred to a repossession company and a nervous new employee named Swann is given the task of taking the TV from Chet. Swann first tries shows up disguised as a TV repairmen but Chet is suspicious when Swann picks up the TV without checking what’s wrong and says it needs to go back to the shop. Chet recognizes Swann’s manner of speaking from the phone and stops him. They chat and then part as friends. Later Swann shows up saying he quit his job and he’s now selling insurance. Chet is getting ready for a date and he lets Swann make his pitch while Chet is in the bathroom. Swann grabs the TV and heads for the door but Chet stops him. Swann says he’ll be fired if he doesn’t come back with the TV. This is the third job he’s had this month. Later Swann shows up at Chet’s door and tells him he’s now a swim instructor at Dolphin Swim School. Chet comes down to the pool to see Swann is legitimately trying to teach kids to swim. Swann offers to buy Chet dinner and they go first to Chet’s place. But while Chet is getting ready Swann takes the TV. Apparently he had only gotten a friend to let him use the pool. Later Swann shows up at Chet’s door to apologize. Chet lets him in, locks the door and takes his shirt off while Swann starts to panic. Next we see that Swann has come to give Chet a floor buffer that goes out of control when he demonstrates it. 

            Swann was played by Don Knotts. 

            The first salesman was played by John Amos in his first TV role. He was a Golden Gloves boxing champion. He played pro football in Canada and the US before he started to get acting work. He earned a degree in Sociology. He became a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village. This led to a job as a comedy writer for the Leslie Uggams Show in 1969. He made his stage debut in “Norman Is That You?” in 1971. He then formed his own theatre company and took that same play on tour. He made his film debut in Vanishing Point. He made his Broadway debut in Tough to Get Help in 1972. He played Gordy the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He played James Evans on Maude and then again on the spin-off Good Times. He played the adult Kunte Kinte on Roots (for which he was nominated for an Emmy). He wrote and starred in the one-man show Halley’s Comet and performed it around the world. He co-starred in The Players Club, and Madea’s Witness Protection. He starred in Because of Charley. 

 

June 28, 1995: I told the folk musicians they were all just cabin dusters

Thirty years ago today 

            On Wednesday it was the last night of the Fat Albert’s open stage before the summer break. Before I performed I told everybody that folk music is boring and that all of the folk musicians there were just a bunch of cabin dusters. Later Paul Forsythe verbally attacked me for my comments.

Jeff Burton

            On Thursday morning I uploaded “Slavic Soul”, my translation of “L'âme slave” by Boris Vian to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication. 

            I revised my translation of “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg and ran through singing and playing it in English. Tomorrow I’ll upload it to Christian’s Translations, prepare it for publication, and may even have it published. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of four sessions. It went out of tune a couple of times at the beginning but settled in for rest of the ninety minute rehearsal. 

            I weighed 86.85 kilos before breakfast. 

            At 11:45 I rode down the street to Parkdale Community Legal Services for my appointment. I had a good long talk with a student lawyer named Joseph. He said my landlord definitely needs to give me written notice if he plans to come in and tear up my walls. It’s not certain if he has the right to simply do that while I’m living here. The landlord has offered me a choice to either stay at a motel during renovations or stay in my place but Joseph says if Raja thinks I could stay there even though my peaceful enjoyment of my home is disturbed then he’s probably in the wrong. If the work he plans to do would require me to leave then Raja needs to fill out a special form that requires a hearing before he does anything. Joseph will get back to me on this once he’s consulted with his supervisor. He says I can maybe block the renovations on the grounds that they aren’t necessary, in which case Raja would have to try to prove to the Landlord-Tenant Board that they are required. 

            I weighed 86.95 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back I stopped at Freshco. The cherries are cheap but they are still from the US. The raspberries are usually from Mexico but this time they were from California and so I got a pack Mexican blueberries instead. I bought two bags of green grapes, some bananas, a pack of chicken legs, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, dish detergent, and a tube of Sensodyne tooth paste. I did a price match on the grapes with the Food Basics price of $8.77 a kilo. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 18:22. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:39. 

            I converted the “Lungs and Breathing” and the “Diaphragm” videos that I downloaded yesterday to AVI and imported them into Movie Maker. In the “Ballad of My Chest Cavity” project I decided to use the “Lungs and Breathing” video and inserted it into the main timeline just before the second verse, which features the lungs. The speed of the lungs expanding and contracting in the video was too slow for the beat of the song and so I used the effect of doubling the speed. But that was still too slow and so I doubled it again and then again. That made the lungs move to the rhythm of the song. The lungs in the video were brown against a blue human outline and I didn’t really like the look and so I added the Edge Detection effect, which made the lungs an outline as well. But that took all of the colour out of them and the whole video looked a little pale and so I added the effect of moving through the colour spectrum. The “Lungs and Breathing” video put the concert video slightly behind and so I shaved a bit of the “Lungs and Breathing” video off until the concert video was synchronized with the studio audio for the lines, “At night my lungs they take the air along the promenade and stroll the boardwalk hand in hand down to the balustrade”. After that the synchronization goes a little off again but I’ll figure out how to fix that tomorrow. 

            I compared the song practice videos of my electric performances of “Laisse tomber les filles” on September 17 and 19. I think September 19 looks and sounds better except for the traffic noise. I compared September 29 to September 19 and find that September 19 is the best so far. There are four left to compare. 

            I had a potato with gravy and my last slice of roast beef while watching season 2, episode 11 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            This is part two of the story of Chet helping Dolores Winters have her baby. She’s going into the second stage of labour but is not as confident as she was before. Chet reassures her and she’s okay again. He helps her through the contractions by describing her climbing a mountain and each time it’s a slightly higher mountain. Chet says he needs to boil some water but Dolores says that’s just in the movies. Mr. Tyler comes and says he found a cop who says he’ll come after he evacuates some old people from a flooded building. Tyler occupies Dolores’s kids with cacao and games. Dolores starts yelling. The cop arrives and when Tyler tells him Dolores is mountain climbing he recognizes natural childbirth. He says he had one who was fantasizing about the heavy weight championship while giving birth. The cop heads for the bedroom to help but Chet is standing in the doorway looking pleased with himself and announces, “We had a baby!” and then we hear the baby crying. Later Chet and Tyler go to see the baby with presents. They’ve both bought baby mobiles to hang over the crib. The father says they’ll put one at each end. Dolores says they have narrowed the baby’s name down to three: “Philip”, “Vernan”, or “Chester”. Chet thinks “Chester” would be best but that it should be shortened to “Chet”. The father says he likes it but his son Harold tells him, “That’s what you’ve been calling him all morning!” 

            The father was played by Jeff Burton, who spent the 1950s in the US Army and retired with the rank of captain. He started acting in summer stock theatre. Between 1964 and 1974 he played supporting guest appearances on TV series and in Blacksploitation films. His TV debut was on an episode of Hazel. He played Lieutenant Thomas Dodge, who was one of the three astronauts that landed on The Planet of the Apes but his character was killed, stuffed and displayed in a museum. He co-starred in Street Sisters (aka Black Hooker). In later life he became a parole officer.

June 27, 1995: I hosted my writers open stage at the Gladstone Hotel

June 27, 1995 

            On Tuesday night I hosted as usual my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage in the Art Bar of the Gladstone Hotel.

Gloria Foster

            On Wednesday morning I ran through singing and playing “Slavic Soul”, my translation of “L'âme slave” by Boris Vian and revised some of my translation as I went along. Tomorrow I’ll upload it to my Christian’s Translations blog to start preparing it for publication. 

            I finished working out the chords for “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. I ran through singing and playing it in French and then worked on revising my translation. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice. The volume pedal stopped working and I thought it had died but then I realized I had the cord that runs from the pedal to the amp plugged into the wrong hole in the pedal. 

            I weighed 86.8 kilos before breakfast.

            Around midday I removed again the things from my lower bathroom shelf and sanded the drywall compound from the underside of the shelf above it that runs parallel to the north wall. I had hoped to do the north wall that is between the top and bottom shelf so I could put everything back on the lower shelf. But sanding upside down, especially around the brackets is very time consuming. I should have time to finish that area on Friday and after that I’ll just have the underside of and the wall under the lower shelf to do, and then the rest of the southern wall and the bathroom door and door frame. Maybe I’ll have the first coat of compound sanded by mid-July. The second coat will be a lot less, with less sanding and so I hope to have the bathroom painted with at least the primer by the end of summer. 

            I weighed 86.75 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back had planned on stopping at Freshco to buy some grapes, but I forgot. I remembered before I was passing Queen Fresh Market and so I stopped there and bought one bag of red organic grapes. 

            I weighed 86.25 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:40. 

            I searched for more animations of the lungs in motion and found a couple. I downloaded them and tomorrow I’ll convert them to AVI and upload them to Movie Maker to insert one of them into my “Ballad of My Chest Cavity” project. 

            I compared the song practice videos of my Martin acoustic performances of “Leave the Naïve Alone” on September 4 and 6. September 4 is a better looking video but I look kind of mean at the end. I think September 6 is the best so far. I compared September 10 to September 6 and I still think September 6 is on top. I compared September 16 to September 6 and September 6 continues to be ahead. I compared September 22 to September 6 and I think September 22 just wins by a hair. I compared September 26 to September 22 and we have a new leader in September 26. I compared September 28 to September 26 and September 26 looks slightly better. I compared October 2 to September 26 and I think October 2 is better. I compared October 8 to October 2 and found October 2 looks a little better. I compared October 14 to October 2 and the winner is October 2. That’s the one I’ll probably upload to YouTube. It’s interesting that with “Laisse tomber les filles” the earlier take beat all the later ones, whereas with my translation a lot of the later takes get progressively better. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, basil pesto, Genoa salami, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 10 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Los Angeles is in the middle of a torrential downpour and the streets are flooded. The phones are out and so is the power most of the time. A neighbour boy named Harold Winters knocks on Chet’s door and tells him his mother wants him with her because she’s going to have a baby. Her husband is out and busy working on repairing the phone lines. Chet goes over there and finds Dolores in the bedroom doing some work because the contractions have given her a burst of adrenaline. It’s better to be up and around during the first stages of labour. She’s very calm and knows how to breathe and ride through the contractions. She wants Chet to take her to the hospital but he tells her the roads are not workable in the flood. She calmly accepts that and resigns herself to having the baby at home. Her first two children came by natural childbirth and that’s what she wants this time. Chet goes out in the rain and gets a reluctant neighbour to go looking for a cop. When Chet gets back Dolores and her kids Harold and Carolyn are having cookies and chocolate milk. Dolores explains that the contractions have stopped because the baby is taking a rest. The kids are put to bed and then the contractions return. Dolores acts like she’s in ecstasy. When she’s resting Chet decides to go back to his place to see if his first aid manual has anything about childbirth but it doesn’t. He’s heading back to the Winters’ house at the end of Part 1. 

            Dolores is played by Gloria Foster, who studied at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. She moved to New York in the early 60s where her first stage role was also her Broadway debut in A Raisin in the Sun. Her next play was In White America for which she won an Obie. She won another for Having Our Say in 1995. Her film debut was in The Cool World in 1963. It’s there she met Clarence Williams (who would later co-star in The Mod Squad). They married in 1967 but divorced in 1984. Her TV debut was on I Spy. She co-starred in Man and Boy. She played The Oracle in the first two Matrix movies.

June 26, 1995: I met Paul and Anna on our way to the Sopra Sotto open stage

Thirty years ago today

            On Monday evening I went for the first time to Jill Ann Maybe’s new open stage at the Café Sopra Sotto. On the streetcar I met Paul Goldberg and Anna Montedioro who were also heading there.

Beulah Quo

            On Tuesday morning I ran through singing and playing “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian in French. I revised some of my translation and tomorrow I’ll run through the song in English. 

            I worked out the chords for the first two verses of “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s half the song and so I should have it finished tomorrow. Then I think I’ll need to do a major revision of my translation. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since May 31.

            I left at around 13:00 to go and visit my old friend Raven in Bridgepoint Hospital at Broadview and Gerrard. She wasn’t in her room on the 8th floor but her roommate told me she’d gone to the lounge and gave me directions. But those directions were to the north lounge and since Raven is a patient on the 8th floor south I was directed to the south lounge from which she saw me and came out to greet me. She’s in a wheelchair and looking frail but she has an incredibly positive attitude. We got glasses of ice water and went down to sit outdoors on the patio of the main floor. We chatted for about two hours and got caught up. She’s there until July 17 and after that where she lives depends on what her social worker can find her. I gave her a copy of my book. Someone came to wheel her to the Mindfulness session. 

            I headed back to Parkdale along Gerrard as far as University, then went south to Queen and west to home. 

            I weighed 85.05 kilos at 16:30. The same as in the early afternoon of April 16. 

            I took a siesta at 16:50 and slept for two hours. 

            I weighed 85.35 kilos at 19:12. April 4 was the last evening I was that light. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 20:20. 

            When I power my amplifier or my fan I’ve been running an extension cord across the middle of the kitchen floor to the outlet above the kitchen sink. But today I remembered that there is a plug on the south wall that I’ve never used behind the credenza where I keep my comic books. I rerouted the extension cord along the southern wall and plugged it in. This way I don’t need to plug and unplug the cord above the sink and can keep it permanently connected. Plus there’s no unsightly cord sticking off to the side and there’s nothing to trip over. 

           It was too hot to use the stove but I had already thawed a slice of roast beef and so I just used the oven enough to warm it up for supper. I had it with some barbecue flavour chips, salsa, skyr and a beer while watching season 2, episode 9 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet has volunteered to take a group of urban children camping. Someone associated with the camp provides Chet with the names of the kids and tells them where to pick them up. He has to get them to the corner of 3rd and Adams, take the #7 bus to the last stop and a truck will pick them up to take them to the camp site. The kids have been told to wait for him at the basketball courts. He gets there and calls for the boys to stop their game and gather round. He says they are all going on an overnight camping trip and they say, “Right!” Then takes the roll call and only Harold Rogers is on the list. The other kids he’d called over were just there to play basketball. Harold says the other kids for the camping trip are at the playground. He finds them there but some are reluctant to go. Once he has them all ready to leave he asks for their permission slips signed by their parents. Harold has his but it’s not signed. He says his mother is at the laundrymat and so they go there. She signs it but before they leave two of the boys have already stripped to their underwear and put their clothes in a washer so they don’t have to go. Mrs. Rogers gives them some of Harold’s big brother’s clothes to wear. They get to the bus stop and all get on but have to get off again because they don’t have the right change. Chet goes to a nearby second hand store to get the change but the proprietor won’t give him the change without a purchase. Chet buys a yellow flag with an antelope on it and tells the boys they are now the Antelopes and gives the flag to Harold to carry. Back at the bus stop Chet learns that there won’t be another bus for two hours but they can walk to Wilshire and take the #9, which will be there in a half an hour. They are told to take that to where they can transfer to the #12. They go there and on the way two older boys on bikes try to pick on them. Chet says all his boys know karate so they back off. When the bus comes the driver won’t allow the flag pole onto the bus. Chet says they’ll leave it behind but the boys refuse and so they end up camping out in Chet’s apartment. They roast hot dogs in the fireplace and have beans from the stove. They say they all want to do it again sometime. They tell ghost stories after Chet falls asleep in their chair. Just as he drives a convertible Mustang that’s far beyond the means of a public school gym teacher, Chet’s apartment is way too snazzy for someone with his income. 

            Mrs. Rogers was played by Beulah Quo, who had a Bachelor’s degree in social welfare and a Masters degree in Sociology. Her thesis was “The Occupational Status of American Born Chinese Male College Graduates”. During the 1940s she and her husband were involved with leading the lake Tahoe Chinese Christian Youth Conferences. They spoke out against the Japanese internment camps. They were teaching in China in the late 1940s when the communist revolution began and escaped on a US destroyer. She was teaching Sociology at a community college when director Henry King hired her as a dialect coach for Jennifer Jones who was playing a Eurasian in Love is a Many Splendoured Thing. She was also given a small role in the film. Her TV debut was on Hawaiian Eye in 1961. She co-founded the East West Players in 1965. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1978 for her performance in Meeting of Minds. She played Olin on General Hospital from 1985 to 1991. I finished my eleventh Batgirl video based on season 3, episode 11 of Batman, but didn’t publish it. I was exhausted from the heat and went to bed a little after midnight.

June 25, 1995: My daughter and I cooled off in the Kew Gardens wading pool

Thirty years ago today 

            On Sunday it was another hot day and my daughter and I cooled off at the Kew Gardens wading pool.

Janet MacLachlan

            On Monday morning I finished working out the chords for “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll run through singing and playing it in French, then I’ll see if I need to revise my translation. 

            I searched for the chords for “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg but no one had posted them. I worked them out for the intro and the first verse. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of two sessions and it stayed in tune for most of the time. It sounded great and was a joy to play for the first time in six months thanks to Alex Wood. 

            I called McClelland Insurance Brokers to ask about liability insurance. The person I spoke with was extremely helpful but not with a solution to my problem. She pointed out the flaw in the landlord’s offer to not renovate my place if I get liability insurance. He seemed to think that a million dollar liability policy would pay out to him, but it would pay to me. The broker told me one can’t get a liability plan by itself but it would be part of an apartment insurance package that she said I should have to protect my possessions. She didn’t understand exactly what the landlord was expecting and neither did I. She said that the landlord should submit his expectations in writing so they could be maybe interpreted if they make any sense. I thanked her and called Raja, who now says the offer is off the table and he’s going to go ahead with the renovations. He even said he would raise my rent by 20% afterwards, which I’m pretty sure isn’t legal. He continues to blame the bedbugs on me because I’m the one who complains about them. He thinks that if he renovates every apartment there will be no more bedbugs in the building. He ignores the fact that the last few times pest control was here they confirmed that I had no bedbugs whereas other units that he’d already renovated and that had fewer cracks in the walls had bedbug nests in their mattresses. 

            I filled out an appointment request form to Parkdale Community Legal Services to ask if there is a way to stop the landlord from tearing my home apart. They got back to me fairly quickly with an appointment offer for this Thursday at noon. 

            I weighed 86.6 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since June 14. 

            I weighed 87.35 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back I stopped at Home Hardware where I bought some clear silicone sealant for the base of the toilet and a box fan that was on sale for $28. When I got home I applied the sealant and then set up the fan under the mantle in the kitchen to provide extra circulation since I can’t open the deck door anymore. 

            I weighed 85.7 kilos at 17:53. I haven’t been that feathery in the evening since April 13. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:11. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of the Brian Haddon song “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I synchronized the video with the audio for the line, “keep on making love to you”. That kept them mostly lined up for the rest of the first chorus. But for the beginning of the second verse the video is ahead of the audio so I need to add some outside video to push it back. I looked for anthropomorphized animated human lungs but so far didn’t find what I was looking for. I’ll try again tomorrow. 

            I compared the song practice video of my Martin acoustic performance of “Laisse tomber les filles” on October 7 with that of September 5 and still find that September 5 is better. I compared October 11 to September 5 but September 5 is still on top. I compared October 13 to September 5 and the winner is September 5. If I upload an acoustic version of “Laisse tomber les filles” to You Tube it will be that one. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast beef while watching season 2, episode 8 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet has a different girlfriend in every episode that features a girlfriend. This time it’s an art teacher named Laura. Chet goes to her place of work to escort her to the beach but she’s busy with a student named Peter, who is finishing up a painting of some flowers that he will be entering in a contest, the winner of which gets a scholarship to art school. Chet impresses Laura when he mentions he’s friends with the famous artist Fletcher Rodenberry. Suddenly Peter paints a black X through his painting because he doesn’t like it. Laura asks Chet to take Peter to see Rodenberry. Chet calls him but he doesn’t remember Chet at all from the navy ship they served on, which carried 4,600 men. But Chet brings Peter to see him anyway and Rodenberry looks at his portfolio. There is a nude female model that we see from the back and Chet keeps trying to shield Peter from looking at her. Rodenberry asks Peter to draw a circle and then tells him that Leonardo Davinci said that if you can draw a circle the rest is easy (there’s no record of him saying that). But Rodenberry observes that Peter can draw a circle. He tells him to only paint what he wants and not what people tell him to paint. Peter paints a nude portrait of Laura and she is upset. She tells Chet to have a talk with him. Chet tells him there is nothing wrong with the painting but he didn’t have permission to use Laura’s likeness. Peter’s final painting is a nude portrayal of Chet as a discus thrower. Chet doesn’t see it until the day of the show and wants it removed. Laura refuses because it’s Peter’s chance at a scholarship. Then the judges give Peter first prize. Chet buys the painting from Peter for $20 because he thinks he can take it down now but Laura tells him that prize winning paintings have to go to the state capital for the state contest. If it wins there it is entered in the nationals. If it wins there it goes to Paris for the world competition. 

            Laura was played by Janet MacClachlan, who earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology in 1955. She made her professional debut in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1965. She played Charlene Masters in the Star Trek episode The Alternative Factor. Her film debut was in Uptight in 1968. She played a supporting role in the film Sounder. She won an LA Emmy in 1981 for her performance in Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry.

June 24, 1995: My daughter and I went to the wading pool

Thirty years ago today 

            On Saturday I would have had my daughter with me and we probably went to the wading pool at Kew Gardens.

Lynn Hamilton

            On Sunday morning I worked out the chords for the fourth and fifth verses of “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian. There is only one verse left to do. 

            I finished memorizing “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll search for the chords but I doubt anyone has posted them and so I’ll start working them out. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first time since Alex Wood repaired and upgraded it. It was out of tune after each of the first two songs but then it settled in and stayed in tune for about five songs, then after tuning again it was in tune for the remainder of the session. It sounded good as well and it’s a lot quieter than the Epi. 

            I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I washed two pairs of shorts and put them out on the roof to dry in the hot sun. 

            I sanded the eastern wall in the bathroom from the underside of the upper shelf to the top of the lower shelf. I sanded the entire underside of the right upper shelf. On my next free day I’ll sand the area between the upper and lower shelf on the northern wall. 

            Normally on a hot day like this I would have opened the door to the deck to let the air circulate. But the landlord says it’s a fire door and my neighbour Benji complains if I open it, even though he used to prop it open all the time. Also since I no longer have friendly second floor neighbours it’s no longer pleasant to have my apartment door open. I’ve got to buy some more fans. 

            I weighed 86.6 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since June 13. I had saltines with five-ear-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

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

            I weighed 85.95 kilos at 17:55, the same as the evening of June 12. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:41. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s song “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I added two clips from the 1937 animated short “Swing Monkey Swing”. At the beginning of the first chorus, while Brian is singing, “It’s all I can do, it’s all I can do…” I’m scatting “Babadabadoobap babadoobabbap”. I inserted a clip of a monkey swinging from the left towards the viewer while scatting and then swinging down to the right. Then I added another clip of the monkey swinging and scatting back up from the right and then down to the left. Altogether it really looks like the monkey is singing my part. At that point the video is behind the audio and so I worked on deleting bits of the video so it will line up with the audio for the line, “keep on making love to you”. The video was still a little behind when I stopped for supper. 

            I compared the song practice video of my Martin acoustic performance of “Laisse tomber les filles” on October 1 with that of September 5 and I still think September 5 is the best so far. There are three more to compare. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, basil pesto, Genoa salami, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 7 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Mrs. Carter has asked for Chet’s help because her son Raymond has run away from home. His father has been in the hospital for a year and a half and they don’t have much money for Raymond to have the things his friends have. Also Raymond’s hero is the character of Bronson from the TV series Then Came Bronson in which the hero travels around the country on a motorcycle. Chet drives around looking for Raymond and finds him on the side of the road with a sign that says “Frisco”. Raymond doesn’t want to get into the car but when Chet stops, five hippies climb in. Chet tells them to get out but they are oblivious. They tell him to take them as far as he’s going. He drives three meters forward, then stops and tells them, “That’s as far as I’m going.” They thank him and say “Every little bit helps”. Finally Chet offers to drive Raymond to Ventura and so he gets in. Chet tells Raymond he used to run away every Tuesday when he was a kid because his mother made brussels sprouts and okra every Tuesday. He said his parents got so used to it that they just accepted it so he got bored with running away. Chet stops in a park but then Raymond starts running. Chet catches him and asks if he could postpone running away for two weeks because he has two tickets to a Jimi Hendrix concert (This was filmed while Hendrix was still alive but aired a month after he died). Raymond asks, “Who’s Jimi Hendrix?” Chet suggests they both run away together. They are on a back road and an old man in a pickup truck gives them a lift to his place. He tells Raymond he ran away when he was 11 and it was the best thing he ever did, because now he is rich. He offers Raymond work painting his fence and Chet helps him paint while talking to him. Raymond gets paid $6 and takes Chet to lunch. Afterward Chet and Raymond say goodbye. A motorcyclist offers Raymond a ride to Oakland but he can’t get his bike started. Raymond is worried that Chet won’t be able to get a ride unless he has a kid with him, so he helps him out. Raymond thinks his mother must be worried and decides to go home. He says he wants to stop and buy her some paint for the kitchen. 

            Raymond’s mother was played by Lynn Hamilton, who started in Chicago community theatre. She made her film debut in Shadows in 1958. She made her Broadway debut in Only in America in 1959. She spent three years with the New York Shakespeare Festival. She played Donna Harris, Fred’s girlfriend on 22 episodes of Sanford and Son. She co-starred in the TV series Dangerous Women. She played Verdie Foster on The Waltons.

June 23, 1995: I spent the day writing

Thirty years ago today 

            On Friday there was no work so I probably spent the day writing.

Rupert Crosse

            On Saturday morning I worked out the chords for the third verse of “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian. 

            I could have memorized the third verse of “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg but I made a push to try to nail down the entire song and didn’t quite get it. I should have it all in my head tomorrow. 

            I weighed 87.05 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Saturday. 

            Around midday I rode to No Frills where I bought three bags of green grapes, two bags of red grapes, two packs of organic raspberries (that were the same price as and in better condition than the non-organic raspberries), a watermelon, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a pack of cheddar sausages, kitchen garbage bags, spoon sized shredded wheat, a container of skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips.

            I weighed 87.1 kilos at 14:00. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of lemon iced tea. 

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

            I weighed 86.8 kilos at 17:30. 

            At around 18:30 the landlord came by with a contractor and walked him through my place telling him to rip out all my beautiful antique walls and put drywall everywhere. He even wants to cover my wood floors with vinyl. He also said he’d remove the big mirror in the kitchen that adds so much light and a sense of space to my home. Those changes would break my heart. He told me if I were to get liability insurance for $1 million he wouldn’t do anything. At first I said that was absurd but when I looked into it I saw that it might not be that expensive: between $450 and $2000 a year. If I can get that and he agrees to keep his grubby hands off my place it would be worth it. It would still be less than paying rent on a place this size somewhere else. I’ll look into it on Monday. 

            Later I called Raja and told him I was going to try to get the liability insurance. He said he was okay with it but he’s going to try to prove I’m a liability and if the insurance company is still okay with it he doesn’t mind not spending the money on the renovations. Anyway I figured I’d call him so he doesn’t go ahead with the contract. He said he’d give me five days. If it doesn’t work out at least I tried.

            I was caught up with my journal at 19:30. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s song “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I started editing the video montage of musical Tom and Jerry cartoons. I had almost half of it done when Movie Maker crashed but only for that section. I decided to copy all of the Tom and Jerry bits and to paste them into another Movie Maker project. I’ll publish that Tom and Jerry project, then import it back into “Ballad of My Chest Cavity”. I’m pretty sure that’ll work. 

            But it didn’t work. It froze in the exact same places. I tried rendering the whole converted WMV file into a video in Movie Maker but that froze in the same place as well. Finally I used Winx to convert the original downloaded MP4 file to AVI and that worked. I finished editing all of the clips I wanted. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, pesto, Genoa salami and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 6 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet, his mother, his brother, his Aunt Bertha and several others attend the reading of the will of Chet’s Great Aunt Harriet. The others each receive an item of value but Chet inherits all the rest of her possessions including a prized Abraham Lincoln letter that was handed down to her from her mother. The letter’s value is estimated to be $15,000 and that was in 1970, which would be $124,000 now. Harriet’s lawyer who read the will is Felix E. LeBlanc and he immediately injects himself into Chet’s life with investment plans for the money for the sale of the letter. Chet however just wants to spend the money on a high end car. Felix says that’s sudden death and that putting the money in the bank is like striking a match to it. He suggests buying a Mexican racehorse, investing in raw alcohol which increases in value ten times after seven years, or a pistachio nut farm. Meanwhile the letter is somewhere in one of several crates and boxes that are delivered to Chet’s place. They go through them over a few days until finally in a Bible they find a letter. But the letter is actually addressed to Lincoln and not from him and it is worthless. They accept that it was a wild goose chase but then they read the letter and it refers to having received a letter from Lincoln and so the show ends as they start looking for the letter again. 

            Felix was played by Rupert Crosse, who studied acting under John Cassavetes. He made his film debut in Shadows in 1958. His TV debut was on Johnny Staccato. For his performance in The Reivers in 1969 he was the first black actor to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He co-starred with Don Adams in the short lived sitcom The Partners. He was one of the actors to whom Jack Nicholson dedicated his As Good As It Gets Academy Award. He was a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He married the daughter of Cab Calloway.

June 22, 1995: I posed for the Ontario College of Art

Thirty years ago today

            On Thursday night I posed from 18:30 to 22:00 in room 214 at the Ontario College of Art.

Darlene Conley

            On Friday morning I worked out the chords for the second verse of “L'âme slave” (Slavic Soul) by Boris Vian. The third and fourth verses might have the same chords as the first and second. 

            I memorized the second verse of “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. The third verse is almost the same as the first except for two lines and the fourth verse is almost the same as the second except for two lines, so I might have the song nailed down on Saturday. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions. I had to unlock the Floyd Rose system and tune four of the strings then after that it stayed in tune. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded the drywall compound I’d used in the area under the top shelf in the bathroom that’s still to the right of the bottom shelf, including the underside of the shelf and the sides of the brackets. On Sunday I’ll try to do the rest of the area under the top shelves that meet at the northeast corner including the top of the bottom shelf. Maybe by the end of next week I’ll be finished with the sanding until I add a second coat of compound in a few places. 

            I weighed 87.15 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on the way back. The grapes were all too squishy and the cherries are from the USA and so I didn’t get any of either. The BC cherries should be in season soon. I bought three bags of Egyptian oranges, a pack of raspberries, some bananas, a bag of wedge oven fries, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, a tub of olive oil margarine, a jar of salsa, three bags of skim milk, and a lint roller. 

            I weighed 87.05 kilos at 18:21. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:00. 

            In Movie Maker I edited the cartoons “One Froggy Evening” and “Swing Monkey Swing”. Parts of the latter might be perfect for the scat part of the chorus of “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity”. Other parts where the monkeys are wearing clothing and singing jazz might be racist because the implication seems to be that they are portraying black people. But the segments in which the monkeys are naked might be okay.

            I compared the song practice video of my Martin acoustic performance of “Laisse tomber les filles” on September 21 with that of September fifth and so far September 5 is still the best. I compared September 25 to September 5 and September 5 is still on top. I compared September 27 to September 5 and September 5 is still ahead. 

            I made a fresh batch of gravy with drippings from the Australian eye of round roast. I had some with a small potato and a slice of roast beef while watching season 2, episode 5 of The Bill Cosby Show.

            Chet rushes to get ready for a date but finds he is out of shaving cream. His date says she is going to call in ten minutes and he runs to the local market to get the shaving cream. But an old man butts in front of him at the cashier. He hurries home where the phone is ringing but by the time he reaches it his date has hung up. Then the old man Mr. Kane walks in to tell Chet he got his shaving cream mixed up with his whipped cream. Kane knows where Chet lives because they are across the street neighbours. He comes in and sits down uninvited in Chet’s living room. He invites Chet to come over to his place for dinner. Kane’s wife died 23 years ago and he lives in a room with no kitchen but plugs a hot plate into the light socket. After dinner Chet wants to leave but Kane gets him to play a game of chess. The next day Kane catches Chet about to leave the market in his car and Kane says he can give him a ride. But Ken hears something wrong in Chet’s engine and opens the hood. When Chet says he neither has a wrench or a screwdriver Kane asks for a key. Chet hands him his ignition key which Kane fumbles and loses inside. Then Kane walks home. Kane visits him again that night. Chet tries to make it clear he doesn’t want company but Kane says he can entertain himself and sits down to watch TV. Chet lies that he wants to go to bed but Kane just says he’ll keep the volume down. Kane keeps coming over every night. Chet tries to hook Kane up with his landlady but they just argue. The next night Chet has a dinner date at his place but Kane comes over again and thinks the dinner is for him. Chet finally tells him he doesn’t want him there and he leaves, but Chet feels bad and later comes over to tell Kane he’s boring but only because he sees him every night. He says once a week would not be boring and they arrange to meet and play chess every Wednesday night. Kane is happy with that. 

            The market cashier was played by Darlene Conley, who made her stage debut at 15 in a touring production of The Heiress. Her film debut was in The Birds. Her TV debut was on Ironside. She played Rose DeVille on The Young and the Restless, Warden Edith Hopkins on Days of Our Lives and Trixie the mature sex worker on General Hospital. She started playing Sally Spectra on The Bold and the Beautiful in 1989 and continued with the role until she died in 2007. She was nominated for two daytime Emmy’s for her performances. She is the only soap opera star to be honoured with a wax figure at Madame Tussaud’s.