Miscellaneous stuff--Downton Abbey, Hugo, animals
From the "I am overthinking this department": Downton Abbey and its agenda. Oh, come ON. (And if you comment, please remember that I haven't seen all of Season 2 yet!) Look, I know it wasn't a perfect, golden tinged world, but I don't think that's what the show depicts. And surely, part of the interest in Lady Mary is that her character grows the most? Yes, she did start as an impossible, entitled, privileged catty-and-bratty bitch. That's not who she is now. Also, I'm not sure that she's the only focus of the show. There are so many side stories, if that's what you're going to call them. Anyway, I would rather focus on the hats.
I went to see Hugo for the second time today. Amazing. Go, if you haven't already. This is one you do really want to see on the big screen. I went just to slow down and enjoy all the incredible detail, but what really sold me on going again was Martin Scorsese's editorial last week, about the discrimination and basic unfairness of Academy recognition of certain kinds of (dog) actors. The Doberman in Hugo did not get a nomination for the Golden Collar Award! For your consideration, Blackie. Around here, this is the season of bitching about who and what doesn't get nominated and recognized and awarded. Everybody inevitably knows someone who knows someone in "the business" or "the industry," and trust me, the complaining goes on and on and on.
So I figured Scorsese's article was just a parody of that kind of complaint. He might have a point: Jack Russells do get a lot of the love. BTW, Blackie has now been nominated via write in, and Antonio Banderas wants to know why no love for Puss in Boots, but since the Golden Collars are run by Dog News Daily, I think that's a losing battle. Anyway, I am pulling for Blackie, big time. Oh. yes, and Ben Kingsley's performance does not suck, either. It's filled with juicy little nuggets for film enthusiasts or tiny details--look fast, that's Django Reinhardt!---anyway, amazing. You can over use the word "magical," but it applies here.
Behind on grading, finished a major paper submission, getting up to speed on the London program. It's hard to get psyched for London after three years of nonsense, but the World Shakespeare Festival in London this summer does look awfully good. Time for bed.
I went to see Hugo for the second time today. Amazing. Go, if you haven't already. This is one you do really want to see on the big screen. I went just to slow down and enjoy all the incredible detail, but what really sold me on going again was Martin Scorsese's editorial last week, about the discrimination and basic unfairness of Academy recognition of certain kinds of (dog) actors. The Doberman in Hugo did not get a nomination for the Golden Collar Award! For your consideration, Blackie. Around here, this is the season of bitching about who and what doesn't get nominated and recognized and awarded. Everybody inevitably knows someone who knows someone in "the business" or "the industry," and trust me, the complaining goes on and on and on.
So I figured Scorsese's article was just a parody of that kind of complaint. He might have a point: Jack Russells do get a lot of the love. BTW, Blackie has now been nominated via write in, and Antonio Banderas wants to know why no love for Puss in Boots, but since the Golden Collars are run by Dog News Daily, I think that's a losing battle. Anyway, I am pulling for Blackie, big time. Oh. yes, and Ben Kingsley's performance does not suck, either. It's filled with juicy little nuggets for film enthusiasts or tiny details--look fast, that's Django Reinhardt!---anyway, amazing. You can over use the word "magical," but it applies here.
Behind on grading, finished a major paper submission, getting up to speed on the London program. It's hard to get psyched for London after three years of nonsense, but the World Shakespeare Festival in London this summer does look awfully good. Time for bed.