Barbara Stanwyck at BAM

This weather has me feeling a little gloomy (as does the postponement of ballfield chow), but what better way to kick a funk than a movie by the pluckiest of plucky Golden Age actors: Barbara Stanwyck. She's pretty much my favorite actress of all time--tough, smart, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. Now until May 6th, BAM is doing a retrospective of some of her best flicks. If I had to choose two favorites, I'd go with the gangster's moll vs. uppity professors comedy, Ball of Fire (Saturday), and her last movie, the Night Walker (Sun, May 6), a so-bad-its-great William Castle quickie about a woman haunted by her dead husband.