Wednesday, August 31

            Mom asked what she could get for my birthday and I said it would be great to order a few items I had been wanting on Amazon.  The first just arrived, Breaking Away, the 1979 film about friends who enter an Indiana bike race.  It won for best screenplay at the Oscars that year.  The main character attempts to “become” Italian since they are often the best bicyclists.  So he listens to opera, speaks Italian to his confused parents and shaves his legs for added speed.  He and his rag tag teammates manage to overcome the better equipped and trained kids from the best part of town.