HE'S ONLY JUST BEGUN

The Wife, The Kid and Your Humble Narrator are deep into Olympic mania. Indeed, I even liked Danny Boyle’s unhinged Opening Ceremony spectacle.

The Wife and I did, however, take time out this past weekend to go to the Valley Art for the documentary Paul Williams: Still Alive…

I highly recommend this one, which plays there through at least Thursday; it’s worth the difficult pilgrimage to downtown Tempe. You can read my review of it here, at Jabcat on Movies.

If you have a few million dollars lying around, you should check out my story in the August edition of Phoenix Magazine, about a strange investment opportunity involving the movie business and the treasure of a Spanish conquistador. It’s on pages 33-34, or you can read it here.

RIP to Lupe Ontiveros, who played innumerable maids—perhaps most memorably in As Good As It Gets—as well as the murderess of the title character in Selena, passed on at 69. RIP also to French experimental filmmaker Chris Marker, of A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soliel and the masterly, chilling photonovela short La jetee, passed on at 91.