The Little Girl Recovers

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Ros seems to be over whatever nastiness she's had the last three days, and is now down for her bedtime. Which is awesome. I don't think any of us was looking forward to another night like last night. (At the worst, Ros was waking up about every 2 minutes, wimpering and crying in utter misery.

It was difficult, but at least she never hit the go straight to Emerg, do not pass go warning signs that the Telehealth gave us. Which was an axillary (armpit) temp that hits 104 or a dose of Tylenol that doesn't bring down the fever at all. Her axillary temp peaked around 103.4, and the last Tylenol took the fever down a grand total of 0.5 degrees, so we came close to throwing her in the car and running to the hospital, but we held off.

Now I just have to convince myself to go to bed early. We didn't get much sleep at all until 3 a.m., and not much quality sleep after that. Not with a thrashing, feverish little girl between us. (We don't usually let her sleep with us, because she usually takes that to mean it's playtime and why aren't we getting up to play with her.) Though I've been extraordinarily alert considering just how little sleep I've had the last two nights.

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Anthony Mann is also a favourite of mine. I love how he mines the vein of nastiness that lurks within Jimmy Stewart. (My favourite moment in It's a Wonderful Life is where Jimmy loses it and turns on friends and family.) And Ford's The Searchers is what turned me around on Westerns. (As a kid I was never fond of the genre. I was friends with too many kids from the local Ojibway reserve for the Cowboys & Indians thing to work for me.)

Have you seen any of Budd Boetticher's westerns? He made a number of films in the '50s with Randolph Scott and they are a revelation. Definitely in the same key as Mann.

I'm also a huge Jackie Chan fan. (I've got a framed insert from the Drunken Master 2 soundtrack hanging in our living room.) Also Jet Li and Chow Yun Fat. And Lau Ching Wan. (Lau Ching Wan is a genius!)

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I think Mann and Boetticher are the origins of the Spaghetti westerns. I obviously didn't grow up near a reservation -- not unless there was one on Clapham Common that nobody told me about -- but even as a small child I refused to join in games of cowboys and indians as it just struck me as wrong.

I love Chan, Li and Yun Fat... I'm much less familiar with Lau Ching Wan. The Hong Kong action film isn't as popular in the South as it is with me. *g*

I'm also a big fan of film noir and recently while watching Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid I was laughing twice as hard as my mates because unlike them I was very familiar with all of the original films as well. *g*