It stinks--print it

By 7 p.m the view from the top of Alta Plaza Park was all but gone.

We'd taken the 3 bus downtown to Geary & Taylor to see "The Scottsboro Boys" at A.C.T. For several blocks we had the bus all to ourselves, then on Sutter just east of Fillmore, a big group of Japanese kids got on. 

After the play, a musical, we got a ride up Pine Street from DeDe who'd had the tickets. She dropped us near Fillmore.

The street fair was raging on Fillmore. We listened to a good r&b  band play Randy Newman's, "You Can Leave Your Hat On." An old guy came up to me and said, "The Fillmore man, The Fillmore," slapped my palm, then asked for a quarter. The shops were open. Eileen Fisher was having a sale.

Over at The Clay, the movie The Intouchables was playing. We walked into the theatre. The popcorn smelled good. Alex at the counter said the movie  started in 2 minutes and there were plenty of seats. We looked at each other, asked for the senior rate. Alex took our money, we bought some popcorn and walked into the dark theatre.

It was still light outside when the movie was over. Vendors were breaking down their tents along Fillmore, the fair, kaput.

We walked home, through Alta Plaza Park, up along Jackson.

The Sunday New York Times waited there. Michael Kimmelman is always worth reading. I can also recommend the story in the Arts&Leisure section(P8) about the film director Robert Siodmak who made "The Killers" with Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster, among many other movies, and whose trademark on-set joke was "It stinks--print it."