On Being Tired


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Summer, man. Actually, scratch that. Whenever...

Anytime you're working all day, you get home (maybe I should switch the point of view here...), I get home and I am so tired. Tired to the point of lacking any energy whatsoever. I can't even make myself food. I need the company of my roommates to keep me going.

In this particular scenario, I've plopped down on a couch and brought up Netflix on my computer. After aimlessly searching through the instant playlist, I decided on Brokeback Mountain. Something I've never seen but always wanted to. I started watching it and before the title even appeared I felt this weird (and totally unexpected) fear. Well, maybe fear is too strong of a word for this feeling, I guess you could call it uneasiness. Anyway, I decided it would not do for now, so I switched it to an ancient Mary-Kate and Ashley movie, but then quickly realized--it's RETARDED. So, thank heavens, my roommate caught me in my distraught state and helped me choose The Machinist and convinced me to make dinner with her.

I don't really know why I can't do things by myself when I'm tired, but it's nice to know I don't have to :)

When the King of Hollywood Met the Empress of Chinese Filmdom


Trust Clark Gable to find a stunner even in far-away Hong Kong. That girl behind the Hollywood-like dark glasses is Li Li-hwa, top glamour girl of the Chinese movie world. The stars took a cruise together around Hong Kong island, where Gable is starring in "Soldier of Fortune". — Associated Press, December 3, 1954

I really wish I could have been a fly on the wall during this historic meeting between Clark Gable and Li Lihua.





According to gossip columnist Walter Winchell, "Clark Gable left a Large Torch burning in Hong Kong. She is Li Li Hwa... Translation: Plum Blossom" (Syracuse Herald-Journal, January 3, 1955). Was there any truth to the rumor?





A previous news item suggests otherwise, reporting that "his press agents had started a story that he may marry Li Li-Hwa" (Fergus Falls Daily Journal, December 15, 1954). Evidently, it was one of many engagement rumors prior to Clark's marriage (his fifth) to actress Kay Williams in 1955.

Then again, Clark was a notorious ladies man. Were there actual sparks — and even flames — when the King of Hollywood met the Empress of Chinese Filmdom? Only the fly on the wall knows...

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