Marcia and I have been joking around, or more like hoping, that we would run into Sen. Barack Obama somewhere in the last six weeks with the focus being on Pennsylvania. Well, we missed a golden opportunity yesterday. Sen. Obama showed up at one of my favorite establishments: The Bethlehem Brew Works.
Of course, even if he had shown up at a much lesser liked restaurant, we still would have loved to have been there.
On Saturday afternoon, Marcia and I watched “Bang the Drum Slowly”, starring Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, and Vincent Gardenia.
Thanks to David Landers and his post at IMDB, here is the plot description:
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen (Moriarty) is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson (De Niro) is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the...
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