This weekend Lousie and I drove to Fort Collins on Saturday. Louise went to a conference on gardening. Bingo and I went and met mom and dad, then bummed around Fort Collins. We spent the night just to get away. Sunday we had planned to meet Louise's cousin Chuck and his wife Virgina. Then Sunday morning and BAMO! Snow storm! We got ready and drove back to Denver as quick as we could. Roads were bad, but passable.
When we got back home we stopped to see Louise's mom, what the heck we were in the neighborhood. Then got groceries and shoveled out the driveway. We finished all that by 1:00 PM! We then sat down on the couch all nice and warm and snug and watch "Dr Zhivago". Boy talk about a LONG movie! It was really OK until about 2/3 of the way through. Then I just couldn't buy it anymore, (I could go on and on but what is the point). Lousie had wanted to watch it to see Tom Courtenay. He is in "Quartet" so we wanted to see him in something else. He is really very good in "Dr Zhivago", ( could understand him and his motivation.) I gather he got nominated for Best supporting actor.
Here I was all anxious to check and see your review of the Oscars!!! Ah, Dr. Zhivago ... a great activity on a snowy day. Tom Courtenay ... which one was he, the bad guy? Long, yes ... but which one is the longest ... that one, Gone with the Wind, or Titantic? And why aren't James Bond movies that long?
ReplyDeleteOscar review, pffft. I haven't taken much stock in the Oscars since "Silence of the Lambs" beat "Boys in the Hood". It really upset me this year that there was no memorial or tribute for 12 dead and 58 wounded people. People who just want go see a movie on Firday night. Oscar's are about a tiny insular group of entertainment professional who think they speak for the world. All they do is echo in a tiny box.
DeleteTom Courtenay, was he the bad guy? Hmmm that is a complex question. I mean was Zhivago a bad guy? He was an adulter, he was a deserter and a thief. Did being a poet make up for all that? Sigh. Rod Stieger was the badest guy, Komarsky. Tom Courtenay was Pasha, Laura's actual husband and the scary guy on the train. He was the true believer of the revolution. Bad guy, a little, unwise guy yes. I think the only Good guys was Zhivago's brother or Zhivago's wife Tanya. Seem like another version of Othello, where love is stronger than other traits, including wisdom. Bah!