STRANGERS ON A TRAIN/Garrido's

How else do you beat this triple digit heat?  You join lots of Austinites at the Paramount to watch old classics.  Yesterday's Hitchcock b&w film (1937) was fabulous.  An ingenious story about a psychotic socialite and a pro tennis player randomly meeting on a train with murder on one's mind.  The casting of the bespectacled murder victim and the young Nancy Drew type sleuth was brilliant.  While I've heard Mr. Hitchcock didn't think much of actors he certainly knew how to pick them, elegantly dress them and for sure he knew how to pick his male actors.  A gorgeous film.  Next came NORTH BY NORTHWEST but alas two films are too much at one sitting.  So we headed over to Garrido's for delicious food and GREAT margaritas.  Summer in Austin.