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Books, Introspection

Discomfort books

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marjorie
Jennifer Byrne from the First Tuesday Book Club on ABC1 says her comfort book is Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk.

She read it when she was a teenager and it resonated.

It’s the story of a Jewish teenager  in the 1930s, living in New York with dreams of becoming an actress – she falls in love with this glamourous songwriter – look I could go on but perhaps Wikipedia has a more fulsome description…

…are you back with me?

SPOILER ALERT

Anyway many readers – in particular young teenage girls are completely disillusioned by the ending.

This is because Marjorie doesn’t fulful her dreams of becoming an actress, preferring to follow her dreams to marry this charming writer – who is a wastrel and a bit of a bastard if you ask me.

He skives off to Paris and she follows him, eventually finds him and when he asks her to marry him… turns him down.

She then goes back to New York and marries someone else, has four kids, goes prematurely grey and lives happily ever after.

Jennifer says she found this book very empowering as a teenager.
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Here is this young girl with big dreams living in New York, a working girl.  A girl forgoing the hunt for a husband in order to be a broadway success.

Maybe you have to be a teenager to see that.

I read a completely different story.

I read about a young girl, very beautiful but with not that much acting talent in a co-dependent relationship with a cad and who is more concerned about marrying said cad than her acting career.

Eventually she becomes worldly wise, realises the acting thang just ain’t never going to happen and realises that Noel is a complete loser as well.

Maybe it’s because I’m a grey-haired (though dyed a fetching brunette) mama from the burbs reading this and not a young 17 girl full of dreams.

Or maybe as a 17 year old you can’t see the old and cynical tone of Herman Wouk’s world?

For me, this book is about acceptance.  Acceptance of your limitations and those of others.

Have you read it?

What do you think?

Film

Slumdog Millionaire

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Go and see this movie.

You might think it is some worthy foreign flick but it is not.

It’s gritty, inspiring, pacey, uplifting and shocking all at the same time.

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Compared to the last Hollywood flick I’ve seen – The Dark Knight – well, lets say I got bored half way through this supposed action movie whereas with Slumdog Millionaire I was on the edge of my seat.

It’s the story of a kid from the slums who wins Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but it so much more.  A story of the slums, a love story, a gangster film, a story of police violence, a story of corruption and a story of hope.

Most reviews have been kind to this movie with good reason – it is brilliant.

Random

If you’re going to fight… clash!

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This is an Australian Federal Police car.  I don’t see them very often. 
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For some reason whenever I do, this quote from Robin Williams in Vietnam springs to mind:

We’ve got a special man in the audience today right now. It’s Mr. Leo. He’s a fashion consultant “Thank you, i’m just very happy to be here. I want to tell you something.” What’s that? “You know, this whole camouflage thing, for me, doesn’t work really well.” Why is that? “Because if you go in the jungle, I can’t see you. You know, it’s like wearing stripes and plaid. For me, I want to do something different. You go in the jungle, make a statement. If you’re going to fight, clash. You know what I mean? 

Dippity, Film

Not scary enough

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You know I liked the Twilight series, so it should come as no surprise to learn I went to the movie.

In fact I went with three other mums in Dippity’s class – with the four girls who sat a few rows in front of us.  Sit with their mothers?  You’ve got to be joking.

The movie follows the plot of the first book pretty closely.  The scenery is breathtaking.  The character of Bella looked exactly like I imagined.

But as you’ll have guess from the title of this post, I felt it lacked a little in the scary department.

Edward goes on and on about being a monster and dangerous to know but he just looks like a cute teenager, and the bits in the book where you “see” the monster just look a bit silly in the movie.
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I guess I was expecting it to be a bit more Van Helsing.  A bit more scary teeth and hissing.

Especially in the vampire v vampire scenes.

With the scary scenes looking a bit silly it lost a bit of gravatas for me.

Still that said – sans menace – I enjoyed the film and I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do in book 2.

Maybe this time find some money for some CGI.  🙂

Extracurricular, Family, Film

Un-fayre

Swimmer statue in PerthWe’ve had 63 mm of rain in Perth today. The wettest start of April which more than doubles the previous record set in 1964. 90.6mm. W00t. Not good news for those promoting the second desalination plant in Binninup – always easier to get those things through when the dam levels are low, and not good news for those planning today’s Medieval Fayre.

Today I woke up at about 10am… I heard the sports guys on the radio going on about the rain and how it would probably clear by the afternoon in time for the clash between the Dockers and the Eagles and I rolled over and congratulated myself for taking the washing off the line.

I got up briefly. Made myself a coffee and crumpet and slothed back to bed and read a bit more of my (unexpectedly racy) novel.

A girlfried called and we chatted for awhile…

And as we were chatting, there was a knocking at my door…

Another friend had dropped by. I LOVE the drop in, although it was slightly inconvenient as I was as I say, on the phone and in my pjs. I made plans with my friend on the phone to catch up tomorrow, pulled on some jeans and went to see my visitor.

I had a lovely morning. We ended up going to Spotlight where I’m considering buying a sewing machine. Yes yes I know I’m not the world’s most obvious dressmaker and lets face it – do I really have the time – but oh those machines… I just love them. The fancy stitches which I’d never use, the LED lights, the bobbin racks and pull out accessories drawer.

I said to my friend… “Hmmm the NS10 only has a single needle. Do you really need the twin needle option?”
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She said yes.

Sigh.

I got home eventually and as I logged online remembered that it was the day of the Medieval Fayre. Hey nonny nonny and all that stuff. Having watched Gladiator (isn’t that a surprisingly good movie?) the night before I was even ready to watch a couple of geeks in armour throwing a sword around. I was.

Pulling the kids in the car we headed off to the city. “Isn’t this exciting!” I enthused as we passed the statue in the river, today sporting a towel and beach spade… “Something new to do together!”

Yes, full of the joys of spring we drove until reaching Supreme Court gardens where we saw the remnants of the fayre packed up. Stacks of white plastic chairs (oh so medieval!). The odd scattered tent. Puddles.

It was only 3.15 and the Fayre was supposed to finish at 5pm. It was so unfayre!

We went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles instead. Which was fayrely entertaining movie.

Youtube

Freeze! You’re on candid camera.

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This is a brilliant improv: 207 actors froze in place – on cue – for 5 minutes – in Grand Central Station – perhaps the busiest train station on the planet.

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Film

The Other Boleyn Girl

One of the great things about my job is I get to go to the occassional movie preview. Today as The Police warmed up at the Members Equity stadium nearby, I and a few privileged others – about eight of us in all – were invited to The Jaffa Room. It’s a bit like an oversized home theatre room, but with a proper projector and real films, not dvds, being shown. We knew it was film because a light broke and we had to restart the film and then when the reels were changed had to wait for them to change the film on the projector.

You feel special.

The film was one I have been looking forward to: The Other Boleyn Girl adapted from the book by Philippa Gregory.

From Sony Pictures

If you haven’t read the book – and I do recommend it – this is the story of two sisters. Both desired by the King of England. Both desiring him… but for different reasons, one for love, the other for power. This is at a time when the King is at his prime. Masculine, sexy, handsome, young… well in his mid 30s anyway. His queen – played brilliantly by Ana Torrent – is aging – she’s slightly older than the king but worn out through multiple miscarriages and still births. The King’s eye is set to wander.

It’s a story of how young women are manipulated through marriage and sex for the advancement of families.

Sisterly rivalry.

Betrayal.
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The thing with historical fiction is you know the ending, but this not often told tale is intriging.

from Sony Pictures

I liked the way Eric Bana plays King Henry: bold, brooding, sometimes petulant, completely entranced and yes sexy.

Scarlett Johannsen is perfect as the younger sister Mary – just 14 when she first comes to court to be offered up to the king.

And Natalie Portman is stunning in her bitchy, scheming, frightened, unravelled girl-queen.

When this comes out late February – if you like historical films at all – it is worth a look.

King Henry does not come out of it well.

Books, Film

The Jane Austen Bookclub – Film and book

The book coverComing home from Sydney the other day I picked up The Jane Austen Bookclub by Karen Joy Fowler. I had a five hour journey and I love Jane Austen so I figured it was the perfect match. 🙂

Settling into my upgraded business class seat (the best use for FF points about to expire) I started to read.

I was immediately sucked in. While you might think it’s a book about reading books it is more than that. It’s about life and love and generational conflict. About being married, about not being married, about relationships. In short it has the same themes as any of your favourite Jane Austen novels. No doubt intended.

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The film takes a far less structured form than the book – crafted around the six books as it were – and loses some detail – but still I thought it was a reasonable interpretation and quite a good film. Not a bad chick flick.

The book is easy to read and quite entertaining and has inspired me to read Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park again.

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean

We went to see the third Pirates movie yesterday and while it was beautifully filmed etc etc it was a most poorly put together movie. The story was all over the place. Scenes were inserted that just didn’t make sense… like the opener… what was all that about? And Calipso? What a huge lead-up to a very anticlimactic finish. What was going on there? And it took sooooooooooo loooooooooooong.

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The only bit I really liked was the cameo by Keith Richards. Neat.

Books, Film

Read the book? Forget the movie.

Went to see The Da Vinci Code last night. Yes I’d heard the reviews but I wanted to see for myself. That’s the kind of girl I am. So it’s well made. And I’m sure if I hadn’t read the book I’d have found it quite mesmerising. But I had. And I didn’t. I suspect also that seeing the movie will spoil the book. And that is a pity because if you don’t know what is coming – the book is a good read. Not high literature by any means, but fun.

They did a good job of explaining all the history without you feeling too much like you were in a lecture. And it was really nice to see the places they were talking about and the art as they are explaining the Holy Grail theories. I imagine the Da Vinci Code in pictures does the same thing.

Tom Hanks was okay – once or twice I even thought of him as his character. The French girl was good. Sir Ian McKellen (is that how you spell his name) was very good I thought.

Yesterday I wandered down Oxford St – went to the Paddo markets (so expensive!) and window shopped. I found a groovy little gift shop called Via Alley which had opened only the week before. They are an online store – experimenting with being offline. Some very cute stuff from around the world. I now carry a Poketo wallet. Very hip.

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It was the gallery owner’s first night too. He is an artist as well. I’m not sure that really works. Artists are not salespeople and galleries are all about sales. So a few lessons to be learned. The gallery itself is a lovely space though.

Work on Friday was great. Shadowed my opposite number and found a few ideas to steal. We even came up with a plan which I hope will be adopted by the network. One can hope anyway. It was really beneficial to see how another station worked… well I think so anyway.

Well I fly back to reality tonight. I’m about to head down to Bondi with some friends for a coffee (I’m missing my coffee machine) and this afternoon… my mission is to by Groover a present. I’ve already found something for the small people.