Dreamed of arriving at a prep school in Maine, and feeling I was in the wrong place; wearing the wrong clothes, including pants that had been taken up much too high; a man doing a funny commercial for Japanese markets promoting travel in the West, which had acquired a cult following; the actor in it recalling, "I kept thinking, 'Be serious! Be serious!'"
Dinner was salmon.
Father and John finished the pipe work.
Saw Oliver Stone's swords and sandals epic Alexander at the Bloor. They were right, it's a cheesy mess, the kind of movie where Darius rhymes with "try us" and harem dancers have shaved armpits. Oddly, many of the actors delivered their lines in an Irish brogue, though Angelina Jolie preferred a Sophia Loren impersonation. They moved the whole early sequence where his father got killed and he took over to the middle of the India campaign! (That's how inept it was.) The 1950s version with Richard Burton is also a turkey--if you get a chance to see it, don't. Frankly, Stone peaked early with Salvador and Platoon.
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