Young girl (talking about the time since her mother's death): "In some ways it seems longer"--The White Countess
(Do real kids talk like that?)
Dreamed of an (imaginary) episode of the comic strip On Stage involving a society hostess and a former servant of hers who's become rich and fears a grudge against her; an (actual) episode of the 1970s detective show Cannon about a young man out to bring down his criminal older brother with the help of a blind friend.
The parents and I saw James Ivory's The White Countess at Bayview Village. (I saw it just because the setting interests me: the foreign community in Shanghai just before World War II.) It was an overlong disappointment, one of Ivory's misses. Natasha Richardson had a nice smile, but Ralph Fiennes was miscast.
Afterward, we ate at Swiss Chalet.
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