Bill Moyers Journal #1215. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,215th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).

10:00 – 11:00PM

China from the Inside – "Women in the Country". There are over 1.3 billion people in China. More than a few are women, and women in China are still fighting for equality. In rural areas change has been slower than in urban ones, but they're fighting in both places. Want to know how? Watch and learn, dear reader, watch and learn.

 
Saturday, July 26:

8:00 – 9:00PM

Austin City Limits - " Ben Folds/Ray LaMontagne.” Ben Folds, of Ben Folds Five, is off on his solo career. He's still Ben Folds, but he's without the Five. The way I see it, that means he's climbing a mountain, or the mountaing, or LaMontagne, if you will. Not in a weird way, just in the sense that he's working hard and it might just be an uphill (or mountain) battle.

The climax of The Sword in the Stone ride is a recreation of the battle between the evil Madam Mim and the wondrous Merlin. In both the film and now the ride, the two battle each other by changing into different creatures. Ideally, I'd like to see the ride do this by quickly ushering the patrons from one room to the next, with different transformations taking place between each one. I see the rooms as terribly dark, save for the wonderfully glowy transformations the purplish Mim and bluish-gray Merlin make. It of course ends, quite happily, the Merlin beating Mim. The ride will of course end with the moment that gives the movie its title, but we'll talk about that another time.