Watched the 1961 film PARIS BLUES with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward, Diahan Carroll, and Louis Armstrong last night. What a difference between the two films. Newman plays a jazz musician in Paris in 1960 or so. He is not a terribly likeable person, and he sure makes a lot of the same mistakes as LD in the Coen Brothers, but he sure
takes a lot of pleasure in his music. The Coen Brothers are a little bit too cynical for my taste.

Mark Ross