Spent yesterday rolling on the river. Here’s some pictures from the interior of the Duchess. The boat is only a year old and decorated in a rather severe modern style. No picture of our cabin which is completely overtaken with our stuff.
Dining Room Show Room Bar Library
Still no streaming on board but they do have TCM! Took the opportunity to see Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). It updates the cynical take on Hollywood explored by Minnelli ten years earlier in The Bad and the Beautiful. And what a cast! Washed-up Oscar-winning actor Kirk Douglas has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and alcoholism that put him in a sanatorium for several years. He accepts an offer from ruthless director Edward G. Robinson for a small part in a picture shooting in Rome. Evil Eddie manipulates him in just about every was possible. We also get nutso turns from Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, and George Hamilton. Let’s just say the melodrama is laid on with a trowel but Douglas and Robinson are so good that I could overlook many sins.
