That's very cool that you brought up the Seventh Victim, Luciaphil.  That's such an intriguing movie.

I always wonder whether Polanski had seen it in film school.  The banality of the Satanists in the final scene of Rosemary's Baby reminds me a lot of the 7th Victim.

G.

Wow.  Joe and Chris would have made a HOT couple.

didn't I write a story about that, once upon a time???

G.

What wonderful news!  Congratulations!

Gothele

The closer he gets... the better HE looks!

(only his hairdresser knows for sure!)

Cheeky babe?  Jean Claude, sweetie, is that your new nickname?  (GREAT CARD, H--you WENCH!!)

Hope the birthday boy enjoyed his present!  Some guys have ALL the luck!

Many good wishes for a new year of health, prosperity, joy and hope!

hugs Gothele

It's one of my typical hairsplitting bits of metaphysics, but where behavior is concerned, I prefer to think of depravity (in the sense of energies directed towards ignoble ends) rather than evil (which I regard as at best a phantasm).

In any event, Trask wins hands down, and Gregory trumps all the other Trasks in spades.  After all, Blair was fairly honest--he was a minister of Satan, and in his debonair way, he was fairly up-front about that.  (One of my all-time favorite scenes is the climactic confrontation between Blair and Julia in the Collinwood drawing room in which he reveals the true nature of his plans for Adam and Eve.  The good doctor exclaims "That's monstrous!" and Blair, with a quiet leer, purrs "It's SUPPOSED to be.")

Trask, on the other hand, CLAIMED to be working on behalf of the Almighty.  We all know what his REAL agenda was.  And there are so many like him abroad in our nation today...

G.

Agreed!  I was very impressed with the quality of Marmorstein's early 1967 episodes.  I think he started around the time of the Laura storyline?

G.

Rainey, you Minx!  Shame on you for making me cackle so raucously in the office!  now people are STARING at me.

your admirer,

G.