[“Happy Eva Marie St. Day, aka White Slavery Day!”]
Lee Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and the conversation (mug shots)
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 12:31:00 a.m. edt
Lee Grant, is 99. I just saw that bit of info this week. What do Lee Grant and Eva Marie Saint have in common?
I don’t know, but besides not having to work for a living, I haven’t a clue what it could be.
--GRA
N.S.: Each won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), and Grant for Shampoo (1975). I’ve seen Waterfront maybe five times, and currently rank it as the 12th greatest masterpiece in movie history. When I was 16, I ranked it fourth, after Mr. Roberts (1955), High Noon (1952), and From Here to Eternity (1953), but in recent years dropped it several pegs, due to Rod Steiger playing an Irishman who spoke with a German accent.
Some time during the 1990s, I tried watching Shampoo on TV, but only made it about 15 minutes in. Warren Beatty, as faggy yet womanizing hairdresser Jon Peters, had just gotten fired, and was throwing a tantrum on a street in Beverly Hills or L.A., stomping on his hand-held hairdryer. The Shampoo shoot was presumably the time when Beatty and Grant did the nasty.
Lee Grant is a major fake blacklisting “victim.” She could sell her story (and did she, ever!) early in the existence of imdb.com. At the time, her TV and movie credits had years-long gaps. However, over time, people sent in so many of her credits that one sees that she was constantly working in both media (where the blacklist held), and the only gap was late in the 1950s, when she had a hit Broadway play for a one-year run (Broadway producers never supported the blacklist).
In middle age, she had a profitable second career, making communist propaganda “documentaries.”
To my knowledge, Saint never went red.
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 1:26:00 a.m. edt
Last year, she told people magazine how life was at 100. Now 101.
(people.com) “‘I certainly don’t feel 100 years old,’ she said. ‘I continue to take walks out in the fresh air, like watching baseball — especially the los angeles dodgers, and enjoy time with my family and friends. A good life.’” GRA: She has that longetivity gene—Mel Brooks has it, Bob Hope had it. I KNOW I don’t have it [chuckle].
--GRA
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 11:41:00 a.m. edt [N.S.: I deliberately posted this one out of order.]
“longetivity”—my Archie Bunker malapropism of the day.
--GRA
By RM
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 2:13:00 a.m. edt
If she still watches baseball, then not much bothers her-that’s certainly the key to longevity! Giving a damn is the quick path to an early demise....
“the la dodgers will again be hosting the largest lgbtq pride night in all of sports when the team hosts mlb rivals the San Francisco giants on june 13...” (NOT providing a link for this headline!).
I wish her well, anyway.
-RM
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 10:45:00 a.m. edt
Both teams wearing dresses on the field? Panty hose in (for) support? I wonder what the jap players think of it all.
---GRA
By RM
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 6:30:00 p.m. edt
And poor Tommy Lasorda, how he loved his team! Just as well he didn’t live to see what’s going on now. When I read about 100-year-old veterans still alive, I couldn’t begin to imagine what goes through their minds-are they traumatized by what their country has become, or just grateful to still be drawing breath? -RM
PS-Just remembered, Lasorda (reportedly) had a gay son. That must have hurt him deeply.
1 comment:
What I'll always remember about Lee Grant is when her TV series FAY was cancelled after one season (late 70s?), she went on Carson and gave the finger to some higher-up from the network. That was a big deal at the time, but I don't know if it affected her career. Good looker, intense actress... but strictly low-class in my mind. Not surprised she was a Red. (DETECTIVE STORY, with one of her early career-making roles, was certainly Leftist propaganda, from one of the maestros of same, Sidney Kingsley.)
-RM
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