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A Delicate Exotic Fruit

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare.
-- Glenda Jackson

Friday, May 23, 1997

A group meeting was canceled today at work, but it was too late to cancel the treats that had been ordered to go with it. So an email went out at around two o'clock that we should come to the lobby to get the strawberries dipped in chocolate and little pastries that go with a large group meeting where I work. We even got a bonus of banana slices, orange sections, and hunks of apple dipped in white and dark chocolate, which I hadn't seen before. It was funny to see people streaming down the stairs and arriving from all areas of the building as if an alarm had gone off.

Then off to the movies! I even made an attempt at the midnight movie, since I like the maritial arts movies and weird films that turn up there.

  • Wonderland
    This documentary about Levittown was great! Director/producer/cinematographer/editor John O'Hagan started out to make a fictional film set in a Levittown-type suburb, but fell in love with the people he met while researching and changed to a documentary format. Most folks who moved in at the beginning of the town were in the same stage of life, but O'Hagan finds the differences they have now. He successfully walks the line, showing the humor here but not ridiculing these people or putting them down. One man, who allows O'Hagan to film the therapy sessions where he talks about feeling trapped in Levitttown, was actually at the screening! Thank heaven he wasn't sitting near me, since I shudder to think what I might have said about him.
  • The Full Monty
    One of my favorite films so far! A comedy set in Sheffield, England, an industrial town that has hit hard times. A group of guys led by Gaz (Robert Carlyle of Trainspotting) decide to put on a male strip show to earn some money and restore their self respect. The characters are introduced one-by-one, each in a memorable way. Highly recommended.
  • Salut Cousin!
    A young man from Algeria visits his Algerian, but French-born, cousin in Paris while on a business trip. Good mix of comedy and drama, and a very good cast.
  • The Big Heat
    This film has a great rep, and it wasn't bad, but I didn't make it all the way through; too tired! I also got confused about what was happening to the main character's different assistants, since they looked somewhat alike. Lots of action, gun fights, car chases, and explosions. The bystander body count is extremely high! Waise Lee, the main character, has repetitive stress injury so his gun hand freezes up. Or is it a psychological problem?
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