More movies and WOMAN AT WORK
I watched 2 1/2 DVDs Friday night. The half (well maybe a third) was Alfred Hitchcock's misfire Topaz. I disliked it so much that I ejected it after a particularly idiot plot device.
An unpleasant Soviet scientist defects to the US with his wife and daughter. He may or may not know anything about the Soviet presence in Cuba. This is the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Based on a novel by Leon Uris. Not all that interesting cast. The only one I really knew was John Forsyth. I didn't find it very interesting nor at all suspenseful. Oh well.
Then watched the comedy Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. One of those rich bitch loses memory and gets her comeuppance learning something about herself and real people. The roughneck who finds and "enslaves" her for a time learns something about himself too. Despite the icky premise, the chemistry was great (and why wouldn't it be...the two have been living together for decades) and it has some very funny bits.
Somebody Up There Likes Me So-so biopic of boxer Rocky Graziano who came from the slums of NYC and became a middleweight champion boxer. Paul Newman's so gorgeous I don't care what he does--but I think it's kind of a crappy movie-predictable every which way.
And yesterday I went to see The Kids are All Right which I enjoyed immensely. The two kids of a Lesbian couple decide they want to meet their birth father. Trouble ensues. Annette Bening and Julianna Moore are the "moms" and Mark Ruffalo is the sperm donor. All three of them are really excellent and if Bening isn't nominated for an Academy Award I'll be very disappointed. The principals (all three of them) do things that people do --screw up their relationships and get involved with people they shouldn't. And try to hold things together.
Last night and all day today I've been line edited Blood and Other Cravings in preparation of handing it in to my editor at Tor by Thursday or so.
My dad's in the hospital for something he's had a problem with before and we hope he'll be back at Whitehall quickly. (I'm very much hoping he's fine and back there before I leave Friday).
An unpleasant Soviet scientist defects to the US with his wife and daughter. He may or may not know anything about the Soviet presence in Cuba. This is the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Based on a novel by Leon Uris. Not all that interesting cast. The only one I really knew was John Forsyth. I didn't find it very interesting nor at all suspenseful. Oh well.
Then watched the comedy Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. One of those rich bitch loses memory and gets her comeuppance learning something about herself and real people. The roughneck who finds and "enslaves" her for a time learns something about himself too. Despite the icky premise, the chemistry was great (and why wouldn't it be...the two have been living together for decades) and it has some very funny bits.
Somebody Up There Likes Me So-so biopic of boxer Rocky Graziano who came from the slums of NYC and became a middleweight champion boxer. Paul Newman's so gorgeous I don't care what he does--but I think it's kind of a crappy movie-predictable every which way.
And yesterday I went to see The Kids are All Right which I enjoyed immensely. The two kids of a Lesbian couple decide they want to meet their birth father. Trouble ensues. Annette Bening and Julianna Moore are the "moms" and Mark Ruffalo is the sperm donor. All three of them are really excellent and if Bening isn't nominated for an Academy Award I'll be very disappointed. The principals (all three of them) do things that people do --screw up their relationships and get involved with people they shouldn't. And try to hold things together.
Last night and all day today I've been line edited Blood and Other Cravings in preparation of handing it in to my editor at Tor by Thursday or so.
My dad's in the hospital for something he's had a problem with before and we hope he'll be back at Whitehall quickly. (I'm very much hoping he's fine and back there before I leave Friday).