Alain Robbe-Grillet 100 -- August 18, 2022

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A professor at San Francisco State had us read Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel La Jalousie. It took us all a while to figure out the narrator. In a film class we saw Last Year at Marienbad; Robbe-Grillet wrote the script. I have never seen any of the movies that he directed. Alain Robbe-Grillet was born 100 years ago today, on 18-August-1922.

Danny Glover 75 -- July 22, 2021

 

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Happy 75th birthday to actor, activist and San Francisco native Danny Glover. He was born on 22-July-1946. He went to George Washington High School, up the hill from where I grew up. He went to San Francisco State during the tumultuous period and participated in the strike which led to the creation of the Department of Black Studies. He has worked for peace in many countries. 

He is dyslexic.