The Apartment! & The Devil in the White City

[thoreau]

David and I will head out tomorrow to the historic Stanford Theater to see 1960's "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon and Shirley McClaine.

Synopsis:

An ambitious clerk (Jack Lemmon) has been lending his apartment to his firm’s philandering executives for their secret trysts. He himself has his eye on the elevator girl (Shirley MacLaine).

Voted Best Picture of 1960, this film also won an Oscar for Wilder as director. With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee, Edie Adams, David Lewis. Directed and produced by Billy Wilder. Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Photographed by Joseph LaShelle. Music by Adolph Deutsch. United Artists/Mirisch. 125 minutes.

Other than plans to snuggle and sleep in; have a romantic breakfast each morning over the morning paper with fresh bagels and coffee.

We have no other concrete plans. and I plan to make the best of it!

I'm reading a fascinating novel The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. It's a grisly book about two parallel careers of men before the worlds fair in Chicago - one who is a driven architect - and another who is a serial killer setting up shop before the thousands of people show up for the fair. It's a pretty gruesome look into the life of one of America's most ruthless killers. I've only just started - but it can't be a very helpful note to see that the killer is building his home complete with a dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. That simply can't lead to 'nice' things. So we'll see. It was David's pick for the book club.

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[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Leo and I read The Devil in the White City. We did some research on some of the sites mentioned in the book, and even found the site of one of the houses he staid in here in Indianapolis, although there is a new structure on it now. Very fascinating story. It's being made into a movie!