movies
November 21, 2009
- As I hung out a wash the other day, part way through, a crow settled on the upper branches of a tree. A few clothes later, another crow, another branch. Some clothes later, a third crow but lower. Nearing the end of the line two more crows ambled across the sky, looking things over. I came in.
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November 19, 2009
- Last night after a nice but busy and often physical grueling day (yard work in the afternoon--see me with a bow saw and watch out!), I sat in front of the television and watched Love Story as the lentil soup cooked.I don't know when I saw Love Story for the first time. It came out in 1970, when I was going on nine, though I know I read the book (found it under my mother's bed). I remember ...
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October 28, 2009
- My latest remisiscence is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW. It opens:In the mid nineteen-fifties, when I was growing up in West Philadelphia, there were six movie theaters withing walking distance of my house. The Byrd, on Baltimore Avenue. The Commodore, on Walnut. And the Locust, Nixon, Rivoli, and State on 52nd Street. The Rivoli seemed to show nothing but black-and-white films no ...
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October 23, 2009
- 1Yesterday I imported this Livejournal to Wordpress.com, so there are now two mirrored versions. I will continue to post at Livejournal (I love the LJ community, can't fathom the idea of leaving) as well as over here, which means that you, dearest reader, have your pick. Sadly, during transport all my gorgeous comments got left behind. I know there are ways to import those as well, but am not so ...
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October 21, 2009
- I watched Howard Deutch's Some Kind of Wonderful the other day. The film was written by the late John Hughes and was released in 1987. I'd seen it only once, on VHS when I was in grade 9. A friend of mine had put me onto it, and he was a mad fan of the movie, writing 'SKOW' on his school bag and so on.The film is terrific and well worth another viewing, especially if you haven't seen it in a long ...
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October 14, 2009
- It took me an embarassingly long to to time to realize that before hitting Oz, the Scarecrow already had true brains, the Tin Man a warm heart, the Lion courage, and Dorothy a home wherever she went. The realization came when I watched the film for maybe the third or fourth time. I was 18 and on acid.This was the second of about four or five acid trips I took in the 1980s while in college. I ...
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October 5, 2009
- So this weekend I heard two inspiring stories of people who defied naysayers and succeeded. They're the kind of stories that make you want to applaud, and they make you think yes, I can do anything!At the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association trade show, I heard author Garth Stein speak. He heard his agent say about the manuscript for his third book, "No one will read a book with a ...
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October 5, 2009
- This whole thing started with an email exchange last Summer. It went like this: She: “I watched “Chasing Amy,” with Ben Affleck and Joey Somebody—lesbian falls in love with guy, guy is finally OK with her woman-past but finds out that she has slept with men before—she had led him to believe that he was the first. It ends messily with a gay sub-plot introduced, and in the end no one’s ...
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September 11, 2009
- Yes, I did it. I read and I LOVED IT! If you wish to question or revoke my Jane Austen credentials, they are as follows: 1. I've read all of her novels, some of them numerous times.2. I have seen three movie versions of Pride and Prejudice, two movie versions of Emma, two movie versions of Sense and Sensibility, as well as movie versions of both Mansfield Park and Persuasion. 3. I ...
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September 11, 2009
