Luigi gave me three options for what movie we were going to see in the
last minute Saturday Night. He got his info from the L.A. Weekly. We can
see /Merci pour La Chocolat/, or an Italian movie about unfaithful
husbands or the one with Jennifer Anniston. We were running very late so
basically the choice was made for us. The closest theater was the French
movie. I scarfed down some cold chicken and avocado, brushed my teeth
and raced down to my car. ( wonderful on a full stomach) We arrived on
time. Luigi got to the ticket window and fished around in his wallet for
the Lammele passes. He was fishing around so long the ticket guy said he
was going to take the next person and the next . He didn't find the
passes so he shelled out $9.00 apiece for the movie. We don't go that
often and usually we have some kind of passes from Luigi's employee
benefits. I swear, paying $9.00 for a movie is outrageous. Especially if
you don't like the movie. The movie was kind of a mystery, but very slow
and somewhat tedious. At some level, thinking back, it was also
predictable. The only outstanding feature of the movie was the acting.
Isabelle Huppert is usually always in top form. The other notable was
the young actress who played the 18 year old daughter. She looked like a
young Ava Gardner. The story is about a weird, female C.E.O of a
chocolate company in Switzerland who is spiking her young stepson's hot
cocoa with a sleeping drug. And about a girl who may really be the
daughter in that family and not the son as they may have been switched
at birth. Get it? Enough tedium................the movie had potential
but never quite lived up to the promise. I think in this case you really
feel the $9.00 each. Ouch! The Italian movie or /The Good Girl/ were
probably better. Sunday we went to Costco. We looked longingly at a
Panasonic flat screen, beautiful resolution, 32 or 37 inch T.V. for
$1500. Maybe next time. (A lot of next times) I usually hang out for a
long time in the book, and DVD section. I was looking at a photography
retrospective of L.A. then and now, when I noticed Luigi had picked up a
copy of /Slander/ by Ann Coulter.(Oh no....not her again!) "I thought
you didn't like her?" Luigi assured me that in fact he did not. He was
just curious about what she had to say. So was I, so I began to skim
through it but managed to end up on the first page. The end of the
second paragraph read something like this:/ It's all the Liberals
fault./ Please, what kind of factual gathering is that? Making
generalizations like that ain't kosher in scholarly pursuits. You know I
always said she was attractive and that was why the Republican Males
liked her and for nothing else. (They have absolutely told me in my
comment section that it helps, but that it is for her wondrous
enlightening writing and her many honors as well) But I must say when I
saw her picture, she looked very ordinary to me. There are so many women
out there, celebrity or not, who make her look so plain in comparison.
Luigi said he thought she was ugly. He said that if he saw her 'au
naturel' he would then decide her worthiness. "What the hell does that
mean?" I said. "Well, there's nothing else about her that's worthy, so
that's the only thing left." Well those are Luigi's unique thoughts. But
I was surprised because Luigi is a Gentleman and it sounded so raw. But
then again he must really dislike Ann Coulter for speaking like that. I
told him someone had said that JFK Jr. had stated that she was one of
the 20 most fascinating women in politics. Luigi replied:" that's
probably because he slept with her."...........Well enough of Ann
Coulter bashing( I don't feel guilty.....she does it to us liberals as
clearly stated above) I was happy over at the DVD's, picking up about 10
of them and showing them to Luigi. I was only going home with one and
decided on /Sunny Dayz/ a film about surfing with Sunny Garcia, the
world surfing champion. I love surf movies. Luigi wheeled the cart up to
the long lines at the registers. "What's that?" I asked picking up two
video games. Hmmmm.........Blow up the Aliens and Kill the Green Army.
Heck, I don't remember the real names of the Video Games but the content
probably matches those names well anyway. I told him no more of that and
said that I wouldn't even get the DVD. I cheated though, because I hid
the DVD behind my back and didn't let it materialize until we got to the
check- out stand. He was not too happy about it. But I told him he
didn't need those stupid video games anyway. I was elated to have my
surf film . I'll admit that was a very juvenile trick to pull. But hey,
there's always next time. Word to the wise, don't see /Merci Pour La
Chocolat/. If you have any comments about /The Good Girl/ or any recent
film, let me know. Anyone see /Possession/ this week-end? p.s. For some
reason Enetation (Comment Section) is down tonight. I hope it will be up
again tomorrow. Please e-mail me if the comments are still out when you
read this. Peach