on the one hand, i feel awfully bad for not only semi-spurning him and his arrogant air when i met him but also for consistently lambasting his films, especially when the english patient won all those oscars.  on the other hand, i am sorry for the loss at such a young age.

Anthony Minghella dies, 54
Director suffers brain hemorrhage

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just a recap of all the convos i've had in the past two days...
Oscar's Errors of Omission?


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had a blast this weekend.  yesterday is a post in itself b/c i want to share melanie's peectyores.  so let me recap the weekend around that here.

drove the boys to the circus friday nite.  met up with gina and her sis outside.  i haven't been to the circus in prolly 17 years or so.  was pretty fun!  we caught the bellobration show and discovered the ( Read more... )

how depressing that i walk into the office only to be greeted by a friendster reminder that dan epstein's birthday was yesterday.

having no other way to respectfully segue from that news into my holiday yesterday, i will now write about, well, my holiday.

tuesday evening shelby had to work until 9pm which totally blew, but i got to catch up with phil ( Read more... )

I just found out the news randomly searching through film websites today, but Dan Epstein, who briefly attended CSF in the fall of 1996, passed away a few days ago. I am in shock. My last communication with him was through Myspace about a month ago when he updated me on how good his life was with his wife and writing.  He was talking about going to ( Read more... )

two things i've known this day to be for some time now:

anniversary of the alfred p. murrah bombing
tim curry's birthday

happy 61st, tim!

and a sad 12 year anniv to the okies back home...

last nite i stayed up with
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i like craig ferguson.  his show is funny.  i wish it wasn't on so late.

the holiday - what the hell was that?  no really - why in god's name was kate winslet in this movie? (paycheck.)  how did jude law get such an awesome tan living in surrey, england?   when will everyone realize cameron diaz lacks talent and jack black can only play jack black ( Read more... )

okay, i'm not so upset about last nite now - spoiler article re: lost episode - i was totally going to tell the writers to eff off for punking out all in the name of sweeps.  granted, they did punk out, but at least it was expected.

after watching claire's mother throw out that batch of cupcakes on heroes monday nite (i literally cried out "NOOOO!" ( Read more... )

As I checked my LJ this morn, I discovered bizczarstuff 's mother had passed during the night.  It brought back a lot of memories from Thanksgiving 12 years ago.  My grandmother had been suffering from ovarian cancer for about four years (I think Mom can tell me whether that's accurate or not), she had suffered a couple of strokes and could not take care of ( Read more... )