Rainmakers ! ! ! with a beer chaser

Hey, how come none of the weatherjerks knew that the rain was coming this morning . . . rather than later in the day? Don't know. Don't care. It was nice to get a little wet this morning, and it might have been nicer to have it hang around until beer-thirty. Then we could sit around the bar and discuss rainmakers, like Burt Lancaster and Matt Damon. Movies, that is. Or rain songs: Dylan's "Rainy Day Women" or the Beatles' "Rain." Or others.

Perhaps one of the most popular (and most dippy) rain songs of the Sixties was Burt Bachrach's "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," which was popularized by the legendary (cough!) B.J. Thomas. The only saving grace to that song, though, was Paul Newman's bicycle scene from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

Always love Newman; always will. Guy had class. And all that Newman's Own stuff was for a good cause. And often tasted pretty damn good. (Exception, that crappy frozen pizza! Sorry, Pablo.) But I digress.

So, below you will see that scene with Newman's lead actress in that film, Katharine Ross. You know, the same one that Dustin Hoffman wanted to marry in "The Graduate" (after he was seduced by her mother, Mrs. Robinson.) But I had to look up her name, because I always confuse her with Ali McGraw, who made more motion pictures (talkies!) than Ross. After falling for that Harvard hockey player (Mr. Farrah Fawcett) in (gag me) "Love Story," she redeemed herself by marrying a real man, Steve McQueen. But, again, I digress.

I need to find a rainy day barstool somewhere soon and sort this all out with Harvey. I sure hope he doesn't get going about "Bonnie & Clyde."