Late in the day we saw another robin, a smaller one. Club Desvelado found that there's not much to "Beginnings: a memoir" (Horton Foote), but that's okay. What's there is interesting enough, sort of a sideways glance at theatrical life in the 'thirties. This is a Scribner book, and Saroyan's name is misspelled. The book did make me want to peek at what's going on in Wharton, Texas. This just in to our department of not-so-large places in Texas: people from Itasca have been writing to comment about the N.Yorker piece. And the WSJ today had an article on Roger Cudney, the gringo villain of Mexican movies and telenovelas. We know him as the mean Texan from the ranch in the middle of the burning Waco desert in Amigas y rivales and also as the halfway decent judge in Santitos, but the IMDB doesn't credit him for either of those roles.