Random Thoughts and Comments Watching TCM

Here are some random thoughts and comments/notes on a sweltering hot day.

Last night on TCM, “The Essentials” series, aired “The Candidate,” starring Robert Redford. The movie was well done and ahead of its time.

I thought about “The Essentials” series co-host, Sally Field, and her association with one of the movie’s stars, Don Porter.

Field overcame early roles in “The Flying Nun” and “Gidget” to win an Academy Award (“You like me, you really like me”) and become a star.

Porter, who was excellent in “The Candidate” as Robert Redford’s political opponent, played Field’s father on the television show “Gidget.”

Next up on TCM last night was “The Last Hurrah’ and in it Spencer Tracy has loved “Kate” his late wife since he was 6.

In real, not “reel” life, Tracy loved another “Kate,” name of Hepburn and thinking of that, maybe, “the Calla Lilies are blooming,” even in this heat.