Gloria Talbot

            On Thursday morning I memorized the third verse of “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian. There are six verses left nail down. 

            I published “Flashcube Light”, my translation of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog. I also posted it on Facebook. The next Gainsbourg song I didn’t finish translating is “À poil ou à plumes” (Naked or in Feathers). I have most of the lyrics but in the Zizi Jeanmaire YouTube audio there are more lyrics sung at the end. I downloaded the song with ClipGrab, and converted it to AVI with WinX. Tomorrow I’ll make a still video in Movie Maker of the last part of the song and then upload it to Sonix to get a transcription. 

            I weighed 88.15 kilos before breakfast. 

            After several months I set up my humidifiers because the temperature has dropped and the heat needed to be on. The warm mist humidifier was cleaned and ready to go but I had to give the cool mist humidifier a cleaning and change the filter.

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back I stopped at Freshco where all the grapes were too soft. I bought a pack of raspberries, some bananas, Bavarian sandwich bread, three bags of skim milk, a pack of Full City Dark coffee, marinara sauce, black olive spread, a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips, shaving gel, Burt’s Bees lip balm, and a lint roller. I walked across the street to Metro where the grapes were $4.39 a kilo. Most of them were also too soft and so I only got four bags. 

            I weighed 88.55 kilos at 18:45, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since October 8. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:35. 

            I finished reviewing the cassette tape that I started listening to yesterday. It’s just all stuff someone lifted from the radio, including a snooty BBC game show, news, and various kinds of music. It has nothing to do with me so I won’t keep it. 

            I imported to Movie Maker my audio and video song practice recordings from October 10, 2024 and saved it as a project. The video is only from part B and so I’ll have to delete a lot of the audio until it’s synchronized with the video. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a couple of slices of roast beef while watching the series premier of the 1961 TV series Cain’s Hundred. 

            Nicholas Cain is a lawyer for organized criminals and the main one is the boss George Vincent. Cain has become very successful and has a fancy office but he has decided to go straight. He informs George of his decision at one of George’s lavish parties. George is worried because Cain knows too much and has files on a hundred organized criminals that he’s defended. Cain leaves with his fiancé Stella and when he takes her home a bottle is thrown at his car window. The police contact Cain and play him a tape they made from bugging a meeting. He hears the bosses mostly vote to hold off on killing Cain. Only the Krajac mob wants him dead. Cain says lawyer-client privilege prevents him from giving them information about his former clients. Vincent secretly makes a deal with the Krajacs to get rid of Cain. Cain has rented a new, less fancy office and shows it to Stella. He goes to get the key to his private office and leaves Stella alone. A gunman named Harry Deiner arrives, looking for Cain. Stella runs to Cain and the gunman fires but hits and kills Stella. Harry goes to tell Phil Krajac who is very upset about the botched job. His girlfriend Bobbie tries to comfort him. Cain goes to see George and tells him Stella is dead. George is angry about that and Cain demands he find out who killed her. George is pretty sure the Krajacs were behind it. Cain goes to the police and finds Deiner’s picture in the mug shots. George meets with Cain, tells him Deiner was working for the Krajacs and gives him a gun. He tells him he’ll try to find proof it was the Krajacs. Later he calls Cain to tell him to meet him but it’s a trap. George seems to know Cain and the cops have set their own trap. Al Krajac arrives at a rendezvous point along with Deiner. Phil drives up, senses a trap and drives away. George had asked them to meet him there but he’s not there. Cain and the cops bust in on Al and Deiner. Deiner runs but Cain catches him and beats him until the cops pull him off. Deiner tries to get away but is shot and the stuntman makes a fake looking fall from the fire escape. For Cain it’s the beginning of his new mission of bringing in the hundred mobsters he has in his files. 

            Bobbie was played by Gloria Talbott, who started acting in high school. At 16 she was crowned Miss Glendale, California. Her film debut was in Maytime at the age of 6. She had small parts in films. She formed her own little theatre company that performed in clubs. She was an accomplished equestrian and so was a natural for westerns. Her TV debut was in Sneak Prevue in 1956. She co-starred in The Daughter of Doctor Jekyll (her favourite), We’re No Angels, The Cyclops, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, The Young Guns, Taming Sutton’s Gal, Cattle Empire, Oklahoma Territory, and Leech Woman.