An Education is a little sleeper of a movie that is up for three Academy Awards including best picture. This movie may not have gotten a nomination for best picture from the Academy if there had only been five nominees this year instead of ten; I however, have it solidly in my top five. This coming-of-age story is set in 1960′s London and stars Carey Mulligan (nominated for best actress) as Jenny. Jenny is every Read More…
My cup runneth over! What a busy couple of weeks for musing. Last week we had the President’s State of the Union Speech which, I’ve dubbed the “purple speech”, Apple introduced the iPad, and this week, Academy Award nominees were named. THE OSCARS: The good news is that one of my favorite movies of the year, The Hurt Locker, got nine nominations! I was worried about this movie because it came out so early in Read More…
AVATAR: I wasn’t planning on seeing it. I’m not a big fan of James Cameron, si-fi, or animation. After it made a zillion dollars I was still happy to stay home. But then it won the Golden Globe for Best Picture and Best Director! Reluctantly, and with low expectations, I paid my thirteen dollars and sat in the second row to take in the spectacle that is Avatar. Did I like it? Yes and no. Read More…
The Golden Globe Awards–The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly All-in-all, I found the GG’s to be UU–unusually unglamorous. The rain didn’t help anyone’s hair or make-up and with a few exceptions, I thought the dresses were a mixture of over-ruffled or space-aged mistakes. Starting with the umbrellas, moving on to Julia Roberts rendering the red-carpet host speechless with her NBC being in the toilet comment, to missed queues, and ending with Ricky Gervais and Read More…
So your college student is home for the holidays. How’s that going for you? I’ll bet that you couldn’t wait to see him/her. Me too. Funny, I’d forgotten how they stay out all night and sleep all day, which of course means that I’m up most of the night too. I’m somehow “back on the hook”; constantly asking: where are you going? what time will you be home? did you eat your vegetables? I’m exhausted! Read More…
Happy 2010! 2010–it has a nice ring to it don’t you think? If you’ve been trying to decide on the proper way to announce our current year–twenty ten or two thousand ten–the San Francisco Chronicle solved your problem on its front page today. Tom Torriglia from The National Association of Good Grammar says it’s “twenty ten”. Evidently we’ve been incorrectly pronouncing our years for the last decade. “The ’20′ should have been pronounced ‘twenty’ all Read More…
The Tiger Tornado continues. I wrote last week that it looked like Tiger was more of a Cheeta(r). Yes, I procrastinated and didn’t post what I had written. Over the weekend I read in Maureen Dowd’s New York Time’s column that the New York Post had already called Tiger a Cheeta(r). Good thing, because in light of the number of women that have admitted to having relations with Mr. Woods, I’ve down-graded him to a Read More…
Sarah Palin released her book, Going Rogue, this week to hoards of fans salivating for some “Sarah Speak”. Ms. Palin’s popularity it seems, has not waned since the 2008 presidential election. Why is Sarah so popular? Simply because she appeals to the “you can grow up and be president someday” in all of us. We were told as children, or told our children, that anything was possible with hard work–but not until the hockey mom Read More…
If you’re looking for a decadent read…The Post Birthday World, by Lionel Shriver, may not be a twinkie as much as an oatmeal cookie (with lots and lots of chocolate chips and walnuts)– it’s sinful, but not completely void of “nutritional” value. The first chapter introduces an expat couple living in London. He’s a Columbia educated PhD working for a think tank and she illustrates children’s books. Their evenings are like their lives: routine. They Read More…
Dear Mr. Krugman: I saw you on the Bill Maher show last week with director, John Waters and scandal-plagued politician, Eliot Spitzer. I don’t remember what you were talking about because I was so distracted by you dropping the F-bomb! Bill Maher uses this word so often that it’s not even effective—it disappears into the background like his pale skin and colorless hair. Jon Waters is a very cool movie director and everyone knows that Read More…
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