Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Manitou (1978)

John Singing Rock: What does a

white man want with Indian magic?

Harry Erskine: There's a 400-year-old

medicine man that's being reincarnated

on the back of a woman that I know.

John Singing Rock: How well do

you know this woman?

Harry Erskine: Quite well.

John Singing Rock: Well, that should help.

Love is one of the strongest medicines there is.

I hadn't planned on saying anything about the fact that I re-watched the utterly ridiculous 1978 trash called The Manitou yesterday, because the fact that I have seen this garbage two or three times more than I have seen any Ingmar Bergman movie is kind of embarrassing. (And "kind of" is me being very kind to myself.) But then I saw that today would have been the 85th birthday of the actress Susan Strasberg -- the daughter of famed thesp-teacher Lee Strasberg, she played the woman with the 400-year-old medicine man growing on her back mentioned above -- and it seemed to big a coincidence not to bring this movie up. Do you think she asked her father for advice on how to play this character? "Daddy, how do I convincingly shoot lasers out of my fingers at a gigantic eyeball while topless on a hospital bed floating in outer space?" The mind boggles. What a movie!