Last night T and I saw Then She Found Me, an excellent movie written, directed, and starring Helen Hunt (also stars: Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick). Cute guest appearance by Salman Rushdie, who evidently can't be tracked down in the midst of a movie set to enact the fatwa. The movie is based on Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman. Lots of good Jewish scenes too; and by good I mean awkward.
Great movie; we loved it.
I first heard about the movie through Terri Gross's interview with Hunt from the Spring. You can listen to it here.
Egocentrism
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- Brookline, MA, United States
- I'll post rants here, and musings; articles and thoughts about articles. I'll keep it quite complex and yet astoundingly simple: whatever it is I am interested in at any given moment.
Showing posts with label Pop Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop Culture. Show all posts
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Crazy Mental Floss Quiz
Today's Mental Floss lunchtime quiz is a doozy: name all 20 current animals in the Barnum & Bailey animal crackers' box. My wife and I got 19/20 in the allotted time, and let us just say: these are preposterous choices for animal crackers. PREPOSTEROUS.
I'll give you the following hints:
1) Circuses like mammals;
2) Assume they've gotten very good at distinguishing between similar species;
3) The one T and I couldn't get can be found in an Egocentric blogpost.
Good luck - and let us know how you do.
I'll give you the following hints:
1) Circuses like mammals;
2) Assume they've gotten very good at distinguishing between similar species;
3) The one T and I couldn't get can be found in an Egocentric blogpost.
Good luck - and let us know how you do.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Are Writers Really Underappreciated? or "Just" a Newscycle Casualty?
There was an historic election going on, but Michael Crichton's early and surprising death got very little press coverage last week, which makes me wonder:
Does being a massively popular writer and novelist, and helping to create nothing less than two of the great popular culture phenomena of the 1990s (ER and Jurassic Park) mean nothing? Or did Crichton's late-career right-wing preposterousity knock him out of the public's eye? I hope that Stephen King lives a long and productive life, but don't we think more will be made of King's legacy when he dies? Or was Crichton just not that good? Or not that productive?
The other option, of course, is that the lack of attention Crichton's death received is emblematic of the phenomenon of being swallowed up in a newscycle that only has so much room, especially one as gargantuan as Obama's election to the Presidency, coupled with gazillions of other races that also mattered.
Hmmm.
Does being a massively popular writer and novelist, and helping to create nothing less than two of the great popular culture phenomena of the 1990s (ER and Jurassic Park) mean nothing? Or did Crichton's late-career right-wing preposterousity knock him out of the public's eye? I hope that Stephen King lives a long and productive life, but don't we think more will be made of King's legacy when he dies? Or was Crichton just not that good? Or not that productive?
The other option, of course, is that the lack of attention Crichton's death received is emblematic of the phenomenon of being swallowed up in a newscycle that only has so much room, especially one as gargantuan as Obama's election to the Presidency, coupled with gazillions of other races that also mattered.
Hmmm.
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