The Latest Numbers . . . and An Announcement

Here are the latest statistics showing the top ten posts for this blog, based on statistics kept since May 2010.  Feel free to click on the image.

No real change, but AccuWeather forecaster Stef Davis is still rising.  Possibly with good reason.

As I write this, a hurricane may be headed to New Jersey in a repeat of Sandy in 2012.  That could mean that I spend all of next week in the dark, unable to post here.  I might get in a couple of posts to start the month of October before Monday, October 5, when the storm would likely hit, but if I'm not around for a week and change after that, well, know you know the reason.

Back soon.

The Beauty of Retrospect, September Actress Edition: Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon has remained active in the movies since I last featured her on this blog in December 2011.

In fact, she made one of the most rewarding and demanding movies of her career in 2014.  Wild, based on writer Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail," featured Ms. Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, documenting the author's hike up the Pacific Crest Trail  from southern California to the Columbia River an effort to find herself and achieve inner peace in the aftermath of her mother's death and her own divorce, as well as to get away from her personal self-destructive behavior.

The film was a success with critics, and it is easily one of Reese Witherspoon's best movies.  This movie is not to be confused with the 2007 survivalist film Into the Wild.

That's it for my retrospectives of famous actresses.  Coming in October - more new subjects. :-) 

The Beauty of Retrospect, September Actress Edition: Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet has remained active since I last featured her on this blog in June 2010.

The actress, who turns forty in October 2015, is a star of the science-fiction Divergent movie series. She plays Jeanine Matthews, the leader of a superior faction of human beings in a dystopian, futuristic Chicago.  She played the role in the original 2014 Divergent movie and reprised it in Divergent Series: Insurgent, released in 2015.

She also played Adele Wheeler in 2013's Labor Day, where her character is forced to take care of of an escaped convict who fought in Vietnam.