It's interesting that this year marks our second year in Palm Springs, and I'm beginning to notice things. The most impactful is people leaving. Now that the temperature gets up to around 100 each day (about 37 C), life slows down.
Last year, we were in England in late May and June and missed this. If my ribs weren't fractured by a stupid fall, we would be gone too. But there are some interesting things you hear about.
For example, the Desert Cultural Center / Theater has shown a screwball movie every Sunday since about January. This year's program ends Sunday with "Morocco".
Morocco is a beautiful movie about two beautiful people. It was an early Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper movie - actually shot on location in France and Spain, rare at the time - and some pick-ups here in Palm Springs.
The image below is of the director Ernst Lubitsch, with Albert Einstein, Samuel Untermyer (of New York - I have posted pictures of the gorgeous Untermyer Gardens we visited), and Phyllis Pinney - wife of the owner of the El Mirador Hotel, in the background. That hotel tower and building are still there and have been converted into the Desert Regional Hospital, where my surgery was just done. Cool, right"
The movie Morocco doesn't stream anywhere, but I have it on DVD. The two leads are stunning. The entire movie is visually beautiful. Now it is a little fuzzy, but it was made in 1930 - only a year after sound was invented. It is also the movie famous for putting Marlene Dietrich in a man's suit for a song.
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