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Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed communications officer lieutenant Uhura on the original 'Star Trek' series has passed away at the age of 89.
She had gone on to appear on other Star Trek movies and had a few other acting gigs.


I'll remember her for having the first Bluetooth earpiece.



"Uhura, open a hailing frequency..."

It was a cold overcast day in central London when Crown left his apartment and drove his AC Cobra to the secret service building and parked it in his usual spot. Instead of using the lift he climbed the stairs to the third floor and entered his office where his secretary Lois Proudfoot immediately looked relieved to see him The chief of staff wants you. He's with Mr Noon now so can you go to see him now. Crown didn't stop to question her but went straight to Noon's office. Noon was the head of the secret service and had Crown's great respect.
Noon's secretary told him to go straight in. The chief of staff was on his way out and greeted Crown. See you for lunch hopefully he said and made way for Crown.
Come in Crown and sit down. Noon was looking through the office window and slowly swivelled round in his red leather chair. He had a folder in his hands and handed it to Crown. That's for you to study after this meeting. Something's come up, and I need you to take charge of the matter. We have a double agent working in the Russian embassy in Mumbai. She is really one of ours and we have been feeding her information of sufficient quality to make her appear to be effective in working for the Russian service. The FSB. She has been accepted by them and she has access to something of great value, which she says she could obtain. But that would be the end of her operation there and she would need to leave the place pretty quickly for fear of retribution.
This is where you come in Crown. I want you to help her carry out the procurement of the vital machinery and get her and yourself out of the country.
You will find travel tickets in that folder. You will leave for India tomorrow morning
Are you happy to do this operation BLUE9?
Noon sometimes called Crown by his code number and usually when there was a job to be done.
Yes sir. Of course.

Part 4 next and the excitement builds. Crown meets double agent.


BLUE9 Jack Crown

"A Widow’s peak is a well-known English term for a V-shaped protrusion of hair at the forehead. There has been a widespread superstition recorded in Britain, Ireland and North America. It was probably at one time a common belief throughout the English-speaking world, that a woman with this shape of forehead hair is destined to outlive her husband."



Actress Yvonne De Carlo played Lily Munster in the 1960's TV sitcom may have been the first woman I noticed to have a Widow's Peak. De Carlo who died at the age of 84 didn't have a Widow's Peak in real life. A small peak via wig and makeup complete with white streaks.

Much of Yvonne's career happened before I was born, but I see from the documentaries she was quite a beautiful woman and appeared in many films. She was in the right place at the right time when color came to movies and earned the title of Technicolor Queen.

This song makes me think of Ivar The Boneless. Dunno why. I don't care for that character at all.

I dig this song though:

Prakash (Rajesh Khanna) is a son of a rich father (K. N. Singh) who wants to become an artist. His father challenges him to earn a one-time meal from his profession. He accepts the challenge and leaves his father's house. He tries to sell his artistic paintings but fails.

Princess Kamini (Helen) a playgirl introduces him to the glamour world and he changes his painting style to modern demands. At heart, he remains an altruistic person. Jyoti (Tanuja) an eye doctor arrives in Bombay from London. Prakash though a gifted painter now a playboy falls in love with her. They become lovers.

His past.... (a close friendship... but... no relationship with kamini)
creates problems for him. Kamini turns up at Prakash's house drunk and whilst she was flirting with him, Jyoti arrives and finds them together, she storms off. Prakash insults Kamini and asks her to leave. Dejected Jyoti spurns his attempts to reconcile initially, but when he feigns a suicide attempt by supposedly taking poison and being told the reality of Kamini she reconciles. He proposes to marry her.
Jyoti's father (Nazir Hussain) visits Prakash with a bribe and is disgusted with his paintings of the females
almost nude paintings.

and rejects him. However, after seeing Prakash's altruism, he apologizes and they start planning the wedding.


Prakash has a car accident and Kamini finds him and takes him back to her palace. He becomes her prisoner. Jyoti receives a telegram informing her of Prakash's death. Jyoti and her father mourn his death. The bandages on Prakash's face are removed and he discovers that he is blind. She whips and hits him during captivity and vows to behead him. Jyoti is wooed by Captain Vinod (Sujit Kumar), who buys her gifts and says the same lines as Prakash had said. All these remind her of Prakash. To win his heart Kamini takes Prakash to horse riding from where he escapes. He hides behind a rock, and in "hunting" him, Kamini falls off the mountain and dies. He makes his way to the road and is eventually picked up by Captain Vinod, who takes Prakash to his father's house, where he learns that his....

father died a month ago and now has a new occupant. Captain Vinod takes Prakash to his family home where he and his family nurtures him and allows him to recuperate. Captain Vinod goes to the hospital and asks Jyoti to visit his family home, where he has a friend in need of eye care. Before she can see Prakash, she leaves in a taxi after Vinod's parents pressure her to become their future daughter-in-law. She arrives home and discovers her father has a heart attack and overhears her father saying of his desire for his daughter to marry. She agrees to marry Captain Vinod and the engagement party ensues. Prakash attends the celebration, where he is requested to sing. Jyoti sees him
(in the distance.)
performing and
starts crying.

Later, Vinod rings Jyoti and informs him that he is sending his friend to her eye hospital. Prakash and Jyoti reconcile, and Prakash undergoes eye surgery operated by her.
While recuperating, Captain Vinod overhears them in the garden and Prakash stating that he wants to love her not as an invalid, but as a normal man. Both men
become tormented, Vinod that he has lost the game of love, and Prakash that he doesn't want to ruin Vinod's happiness, for all that he has done for him.

Despite Prakash vowing to leave, Vinod beats up Prakash, and Jyoti arrives and witnesses it. A fight ensues, and just as Vinod is about to kill Prakash, his father (Utpal Dutt) shoots him in the leg.... and
apologises for his sons
behaviour.
finally...
Prakash and Jyoti marry.
And jyoti says in his(prakash) ear....

mere jeevan saathi.... meaning my life partner.

this is a memorable
movie for me.... hence
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So, even though the BBC no longer beams its short wave dribble to Gringoland, still can catch some of it on my powerful, VERY powerful, amateur radio rigs and treetop antennas. Still climbing those 40 meter pines, I be. Too much of a show off for my own good, as neighbors gather to watch. And to pray for a slip downward.. Not to worry. Merely another covert hypnotic induction technique, just the mention of it. Just watch as well. I do digress.
Mostly African and Asian services now, and these, on the lamb at the speed of light, which arrive after circling Mother earth herself, (the long paths), come in crystal clear. And not as on old crystal sets. The trance thickens, as I rant on. .
As with the dreadfully somniferous Australian broadcasts, most is generated by degenerates. Kiwi land radio still rocks, though, each morning here. Leftie for sure, but much more balanced.
Years ago, as with spot on coverage of the war in the Malvinas, these waves are largely things of the past. Although there's still some stuff worth listening to. Of course, it's all on line now, and on NPR---National Proletarian Radio. Even on my dumb, VERY dumb, smart TV.
So today, among the near total Trump -hate nonsense, some little gold toothed, gum smacking, reporterette of color, went on, and on, and on. As it seems are 90 % of the staff. And this, since being hired from the Communist faculty propaganda set ups in schools of "journalism", ---well she tried to explain the huge, VERY huge, "silent support", beginning with Trump 2016, and now there once more.
Quoth she, with her M style down under grammar, that in her interviewing of Yanks, few seemed to admit to being Trump supporters, in spite of standing room only (outside, and around the blocks) rally's.
She got it partly right. After all, with all the violence, looting, arson, etc., from the alt leftie peaceful demonstrators, such as fascist BLM and antifa, and the destruction of Trump campaign signs, on personal home property, ---well, many are silent indeed.
But she overlooked the effects of that big, VERY big, BBC banner on her microphony. Folks know what cooks on such main stream biased media. Why be interviewed, only to have things cherry- picked, or simply ignored, if at all sounding powerfully valid and cogently spoken?
The clueless, mistrusted, media.

Earlier today, I went to the cinema to catch the 25th Bond film, No Time to Die. With me was my mother, my two uncles and my two aunts. The cinema we chose was Imperial in Copenhagen, one of the biggest cinemas in Northern Europe.

As we sat down in the cinema, my mind began to wander. "I hope it's as good as they say. How will the villain be?"

The lights went out, so I was about to get answers to all these questions.

The movie is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, and the synopsis is as follows: Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Reprising their roles from previous films, we have Daniel Craig as Bond, Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomie Harris as Moneypenney, Ben Whishaw as Q, Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter and Christoph Waltz as Blofeld. Newcomers to the franchise are Ana de Armas as Paloma, Lashana Lynch as Nomi (007 for most of the film), Billy Magnussen as Logan Ash, Davic Dencik as Valdo Obruchev, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as Mathilde and Rami Malek as Lyutsifer Safin, the main villain.

As usual with a Bond film, there are huge set pieces, and exotic locations. Of course there is a villain with his own island, who is bent on world domination. It gets old very quickly, and it keeps Rami Malek's character from being terrifying. He's actually quite boring, now that I think about it. Now, this being a Bond film, there is naturally going to be some explosions of some kind, and this movie has a few. It mostly relies on practical stunts, however, and there is one sequence that's almost near perfection. It's a car chase that starts on the side of a mountain, and ends up in a forest. Absolutely fantastic stuff, with some amazing car stunts. It never gets old seeing a Land Rover Defender fly through the air, at speed!

However, this movie is not without any flaws, sadly. One of the flaws is with the villain. As I wrote a while back, his villain is just plain boring. The Bond franchise really need to reinvent their villains. Give me a terrifying villain, who is looking for revenge for something either Bond or MI6 has done, kind of like Silva in Skyfall. That villain worked so well, because he had a personal score to settle, and not trying to take over the world.

In the end, No Time to Die is a great Bond film.Lots of exotic locations, good looking cars and great action sequences. The real star of the show is Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, who is super adorable. An absolute joy to watch on the big screen.

8/10

After the meeting with Noon, Crown returned to his office in a buoyant mood. He looked at his secretary who was wearing a pink and white shirt and light grey skirt, and said you look beautiful today Lois.
She laughed and replied, Don't I always? You look happy with yourself.
Of course Lois you always look great. Yes, at last I have something special on. I'm off tomorrow to India.
You lucky thing. Escaping this weather. I hope you bring me something nice back.
The chief of staff entered the room. Everything go ok with Noon, Crown?
Yes I'm off tomorrow.
I need to tell you a few things before you leave the office. When you arrive in Mumbai, you will be met by our man there called Tarak. He is totally reliable and knows the place like the back of his hand. He'll sort your accommodation and eventually arrange a meeting with this agent Teen. At some point you will be approached by a man from the CIA. The Americans are very interested in this cypher machine and will be happy to support you, if you need help.
That's good. Said Crown. Nice to know there's back up if I need it.
Ok then Crown I'll leave you to it, and keep in touch. I'll do all I can to help at this end.
Now what about lunch? You can read that file after.
Let's go then, replied Crown.
See you later Lois.

Crown returned to his office later in the day and studied the details in the dossier marked Top Secret.
His eyes were draw to the picture of Lana, who appeared very glamorous. Long dark hair. Shapely figure. Wearing a turquoise dress and stiletto healed shoes. He read the information regarding the cypher machine, which apparently was Russia's most valuable piece of coding apparatus, and realised the value if it could be captured. After a period of intense reading he closed. the folder and looked at his watch. It was 6pm. Lois had left the office earlier and wished him good luck. Crown picked up the document and on his way out, deposited it with Noon's secretary. Said goodbye and left the building for home.

Don't miss part 5 of this adventure. Arriving soon and on location in Mumbai. Meeting with characters.
Jack Crown BLUE9 in operation.
Glamorous agent Lana soon featuring.
Uncensored.