Page on the right is what I did today. My neighbours will recognize him, it is Gerald, the illustrious president of the Riverdale Historical Society. And I am not the first artist he assigns to do a portrait, he has a whole collection. Gerald showed me a book with cartoons by a Dutch cartoonist yesterday. Cartoons about the first world war, a period Gerald knows everything about.
Very harsh cartoons, the Germans put a price on the cartoonist's head. A German fatwa. I told Gerald my maternal grandmother had the same last name, Raemaekers. Gerald wondered whether I was somehow related to Louis Raemaekers, but I thought not, because Louis worked for an Amsterdam newspaper. But when I googled him I learned that he was born in Roermond. And so was my grandmother! And I decided that we are related after all. We totally have the same nose. A long line of illustrators!
Another gorgeous film last night, with a young and handsome Jack Nicholson. And Gloria from All in the Family, I recognized her instantly. I want to reduce Michiel's list project to only seventies films I think. I love the seventies. I have searched all over for an Afghan coat like the one Susan Anspach is wearing in the picture above, to no avail. I would look lovely in a coat like that, I am sure of it. Did I mention Tammy Wynette in the soundtrack? We'll be seeing our next film later tonight on the big screen.
