The TV was on to keep me company, even though I was practicing the piano. Got up to hear what dear Robert Osborn had to say about the movie of the night, which turned out to be The Best Years of Our Lives. Oh, dear. I think that's one of those movies I always see the end of or maybe the middle, but never the beginning. So I sat down to watch the beginning. Which, two and three hours later, turned out to be the middle and ending respectively. Plus, my back has been bothering me and no need to practice piano in pain.

Well, I love that movie. I love the time period, the clothes, the hair styles, the neighborhoods, the way the houses are decorated, the civility (for some of the characters), the drugstore, the elegance of it all. The kitchen in the sharp apartment had me fascinated. It looked so white and sunny. I'm not one to like a modern over-done kitchen. Like Don Aslett, America's housekeeper, likes to say, My grandmother churned out the best food you ever tasted in your life and she did it with one mixing bowl and one pot. Well, that's the gist of what he said.

And I love actress Teresa Wright. My favorite movie of all time is Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. And interestingly, that's Alfred's favorite movie he ever made, too. I think that's saying something. Miss Wright starred in that, it was her fourth movie and she was so great in it. But she wasn't nominated for an Oscar, how absurd. However, I learned something I never knew tonight when I Googled her. In her first three movies she was nominated for Oscars all three times. No other actor has ever done that (she won once). And she should have been nominated a fourth straight time for Shadow, just ask KEM.

There was a remake of Shadow of a Doubt a while back. Oh brother, how pitiful. The only thing, the ending was done better than the original, I have to admit that, it was more suspenseful, really brilliant. But that's all the credit it gets. Who on earth can compare to Joseph Cotton, he was terrifying in Alfred's Shadow.

Okay, watching a three hour movie that was not in the plans has set me behind . . . 3 hours for the movie and another hour to Google and blog all about it. That's four hours gone forever. Watching this movie I noticed something about Teresa Wright, something I never noticed before. I'm afraid she didn't have the world's best posture. Rats. Good posture is one of my quirks. I was very sorry to see this and will have to watch another of her films, maybe Pride of the Yankees, to see what in the world was going on. However, she is so beautiful and talented that if it's really true she had poor posture, I shall just have to get a life. Right? Good posture is a gorgeous thing, I think. You know who has great posture, Ekaterina Gordeeva, that's who. Watch her ice skate sometime.

Sometimes I wish I didn't notice things.

KEM