Any Women Reading This?

 

Why America doesn't put Mike Leigh on its shoulders and carry him from city to city handing out official keys to important rooms puzzles me on a daily basis.

Yes, he's a Brit, not a Yank, but he's one of the finest film directors in the world.

Do I overstate here?  No.

This guy finds what's distinctive in our routines.  Why what's common isn't.

So, women.  If you haven't seen Happy-Go-Lucky, do it today.  

Well, rent it or queue it today.

Life getting to you?  Watch this film.

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Hi-Ho, Steverino!

My name is Gordon Hathaway, and I'm from Manhattan.

Stacheless In Seattle

That scene in Whit Stillman's Barcelona where the naval lieutenant Fred, the jingoistic East-Coast Establishmentarian, the yuppified 'ugly American', ponders whether an upper lip is more effectively shaven with the grain of mustache or against it.

After 15 years, the answer: doubly.

First, with the grain. Then, against it.


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Get Me The News Desk!

In His Girl Friday where Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, and Ralph Bellamy talk over one another and hold different, frenetic telephone conversations at once, all in the same stretch of desk space,

bodies turning and bobbling to hear what's being said on the other side of the line, making definitive plans of one kind or another to advance plot machinations.

Opera ensemble.


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She's Got The Lotus In Her Hair

A Buddhist on coffee:

Mindful of 100 simultaneous projects


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Deadline

There should be writing material placed with me in the crypt

-- or even the urn.

Beyond the grave reportage! That would do tribute to print journalism!


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Moving Feet, Bobbing Head, Toga

A frivolous wish:

To live life with the joy of a continuing loop of 'Louie-Louie', 3 beers to the wind.

(. . . Uh . . . and 'babes'?)

Made In China

New slippers

Shipped from the PRC

My cat sniffs both:

A universe in two teak drawers

Of an herbalist's chest.

Sweet Nothin's

She went to bend over him, then he went over her, and in their moments of first embrace, they shared deep lustful secrets.





Hardwood floor, his stare fixing her in place.

Large walk-in closet, her retort mocking through her teeth.

Stainless steel appliances, his control losing itself in his grunt,

she finally calling out 'His-and-hers' bathroom sinks,

the experience redefining what love means.

Title Pitch For WW II-Theme TV Cooking Shows

1) Noshin' With Stalin

2) Panzer Picnic

3) Il Duce Spaghetti Feed

4) Fast-Food At Der Fuehrer's


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The Presents, As They Are Being Wrapped

What rollicking Christmas pleasure have I this day listening to my personally-compiled (jazzy, quirky) Holiday Music Mix! In paroxysms of laughter at my all-thumbs manner of scissoring, shaping, folding, taping, bowing, and handwriting!

Why do these people still want to know me? I ask, continuing, daring any and all comers finally to locate any motor-moron who wraps presents worse than I.

Riotous fun!


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