Sordid Blog

Last night (Saturday) was supposed to be a Dudes Night Out, and it kinda was, though Faheem bailed on us and timing was against us.  Regardless, Jeff, Dan, and I had a few beers, some dinner @ East Coast, and then caught the 10:25 showing of Zombieland.  OMG … loved the movie!  Probably has the [...]

Monday of week two means teaching Winnie-the-Pooh.  I should probably quit teaching it; it doesn’t get easier to do.  Part of me says, ‘What is there to say?’  But it’s so much work to go beyond the obvious - how Milne represents various facets of the post-Edwardian, post-war child through Christopher Robin’s stuffed animals - [...]

Seriously?! I’m with Dlisted on this one … no real need to remake the movie (yet), though I feel certain the CGI will be amazing … course, the KIDS Inc video with Martika made my day …

It’s hard to say I’m ‘excited’ about the Lifetime movie coming on tomorrow night (Saturday, January 24) b/c Prayers for Bobby is not a happy story. It is, however, one that you’d expect Stockard Channing to be in, but Sigourney Weaver looks as though she might do a good job. We’ll see. [...]

50+ gay men (from the DC Gay Men’s Chorus) singing behind Heather Headly … seems right to me! Hate that I didn’t have HBO to see this, or U2 sing “Pride (In the Name of Love)”, which has tremendous significance yesterday, today, and for the coming administration.

And U2 …

You can’t imagine how much I [...]

One of my favorite movies is Addams Family Values, one of those rare instances when a sequel is better than the first movie in the series.  Way better.  And not just because of Joan Cusack …
When Morticia and Gomez send Wednesday and Pugsley to summer camp, they are forced to take part in a play [...]

One of the London kids, Jon, alerted me to a new movie coming out: Were the World Mine.  It would appear that Midsummer Night’s Dream ran into the boys from Dead Poets Society and decided that what the two texts really needed was more half-naked boys singing.  But then again, what movie/play wouldn’t be better [...]

Well, hell yeah you want to watch the classic 1939 George Cukor film The Women, staring a host of fabulous Hollywood dames: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and more.  That’s a given.  So imagine my surprise while surfing around recently when I notice that not only is Hollywood remaking Brideshead Revisited, but also The [...]

So I’ve been trudging through the old Brideshead Revisited epic mini-series, and while it is taking forever because it is very very slow … very book-turned-film … it has been interesting and makes me want to read the Waugh novel, which I’ve never done for some reason.
But I realized a week or two ago, while [...]

Watching Something to Talk About on TBS this morning, dogs at my feet. I?d forgotten this movie was filmed in Savannah and Beaufort. Weird to see the Six Pence Pub in downtown Savannah and think of the fun we had there, years ago, Sid and me, his dad, Lee. Good times.