Slacker

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From: Dorothy Dotson
To: 'hantenhoney.sundance@blogger.com' <hantenhoney.sundance@blogger.com>
Sent: Wed Jan 24 15:56:09 2007
Subject: Slacker

I have been a big slacker. Not in movie-going but blogging.

Let's get caught up. Last night saw Shiri and I attending two mediocre screenings.

Dark Matter starred Meryl Streep (not in attendance) and Aidan Quinn and I did not particularly care for it. The plot involved a Chinese exchange student going for his PHD iin cosmology, going head to head with his advisor and struggling to prove himself and make his parents proud. MEH

Summer Rain, directed by a very long-winded Antonio Banderas, was touted by him to be more poem than prose. According to him, it lived in "dreams and memories" and in that way, it worked. And although it had gorgeous actors and steamy sex scenes, the movie was too long and the story was difficult to follow.

This morning, we began with Never Forever, a drama about reclaiming one's sense of self, which starred Vera Farmiga as a white woman who enlists the help of a Korean illegal immigrant in order to get pregnant after she learns her husband is impotent. We liked this one a lot!

Next, a movie break for a few hours. Whew!! We trekked up to Main Street to claim some lame goodies from the Airborne lounge. Plus, we laughed at the gaggle of paparazzi waiting for Gwyneth Paltrow, and then later couldn't resist the urge to snap a photo of her when she crossed our path.

Now we are on the shuttle headed to the Prospector where we will try to see the new Luc Besson. We just got out of an autobiographical comedy about a black guy struggling to make it as an actor called If I Had Known I Was A Genious. Light-hearted and cute. A nice break from the wrist-slashing heavy melodramas we have been subjected to all week!