Trust davistev and his wife made it safely to Europe and are sweltering away on the Continent, passports and other documents still in hand, and no untoward other experiences to recount.

Not wishing to rub any salt in wounds, nor stir up bad memories of BA, none the less thought I might recommend a film we watched last night on the pay movie channel: NINE QUEENS. Written and directed by Favian Bielinsky, it is caper film about BA con-artitsts. About a third of the film is set at the BA Hilton, and it captures beautifully the whole seedy street culture that crossed paths with them last weekend. I realize what happened to davistev and his wife was nothing to make light of, but I would hope they could watch this film some evening and enjoy it for what it says about the straights the people in that city/country have found themselves in. And the type of crime this brings about.

[I'd be happy to dub a copy and send it off to Japan, since it may not be that easy to come by in Nagano. And since I paid the way for a group of Argentian filmmakers to come up to Canada back in the 90s, I am sure this minor violation of copyright can be taken as an appropriate payback to me.]