Saturday, August 31, 2019
"Terminal"
"Terminal" is a DVD I picked up at the library and have put off watching it until tonight and now I wish I hadn't. It's dark and not that good! I was only able to watch the whole thing because I was checking Facebook and texting via Messenger throughout the whole thing! Thumbs down on this one! pazzt
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Georgia O'Keeffe
I have always loved Georgia O'Keeffe paintings so when I discovered a DVD about her life at my local library, I had to check it out. Joan Allen stars as Georgia and Jeremy Irons as her lover turned husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. I'm sure they were quite a scandalous pair in the early 1900's but their pairing may be what allowed her paintings to be showcased and flourish. It's a biography and a love story that perhaps mirrors many marriages. Even marriages made in heaven are not always smooth sailing. Allen and Irons are actors who bring this story to life and do it justice. pazt
Saturday, August 10, 2019
"The Wife"
As you may have surmised if you have read any of my previous posts, I love to read and I love mysteries but, since my husband's death in May, I have been unable to get "into" a book. Instead I've binge watched NCIS and other shows on Netflix. I think there is hope that I may be picking up a book soon. I have a mini vacation coming up and I am going to take some books with me.
I was at the library recently perusing their DVD's and chose five to bring home and decided I would watch "The Wife" today. It stars Glenn Close whose acting ability really shines in this piece.
It's about a couple who met when she was his student in a college writing class and he asked her if she was free to babysit his daughter so he and his wife could go out for the evening. What Joan sees in that home is a wife who doesnt' really respect her husband. Although the movie is set in their modern day life, flashbacks tell how they got together and enough about their past life that we can surmise the back story.
Their relationship dissolves his marriage and they marry and go on to have a son and a daughter (now expecting their first grandchild) while he becomes a famous novelist. Joan was a writer in her own right but gave it up when a woman author her husband introduced her to as a student tells her that male publishers are not going to publish female authors and they're not going to promote their books either. Instead books like the ones she has written sit unread on shelves in the college she graduated from.
Our story begins with Joan's husband receiving a phone call that he's receiving the Nobel Prize for his literary work and they will be going to Stockholm for the awards. He insists Joan be on the phone before he hears the news that he has won.
They and their son, a budding author himself, head to Stockholm and a young female photographer is assigned to shadow Joan's husband and take lots of pictures. One day when Joan has decided she needs some alone time, she is approached by a young novelist who has been asked to write her husband's biography and her husband has refused to cooperate. They have a drink together and he mentions that he's met the ex-wife and daughter from her husband's first marriage. He's also visited the college and read some of her early work that was published in the university magazine. He proposes an outrageous theory that she is the actual author of all the books - not her husband. That's when the movie becomes really interesting but you'll have to watch it and decide for yourself what is true and what isn't. pazt
I was at the library recently perusing their DVD's and chose five to bring home and decided I would watch "The Wife" today. It stars Glenn Close whose acting ability really shines in this piece.
It's about a couple who met when she was his student in a college writing class and he asked her if she was free to babysit his daughter so he and his wife could go out for the evening. What Joan sees in that home is a wife who doesnt' really respect her husband. Although the movie is set in their modern day life, flashbacks tell how they got together and enough about their past life that we can surmise the back story.
Their relationship dissolves his marriage and they marry and go on to have a son and a daughter (now expecting their first grandchild) while he becomes a famous novelist. Joan was a writer in her own right but gave it up when a woman author her husband introduced her to as a student tells her that male publishers are not going to publish female authors and they're not going to promote their books either. Instead books like the ones she has written sit unread on shelves in the college she graduated from.
Our story begins with Joan's husband receiving a phone call that he's receiving the Nobel Prize for his literary work and they will be going to Stockholm for the awards. He insists Joan be on the phone before he hears the news that he has won.
They and their son, a budding author himself, head to Stockholm and a young female photographer is assigned to shadow Joan's husband and take lots of pictures. One day when Joan has decided she needs some alone time, she is approached by a young novelist who has been asked to write her husband's biography and her husband has refused to cooperate. They have a drink together and he mentions that he's met the ex-wife and daughter from her husband's first marriage. He's also visited the college and read some of her early work that was published in the university magazine. He proposes an outrageous theory that she is the actual author of all the books - not her husband. That's when the movie becomes really interesting but you'll have to watch it and decide for yourself what is true and what isn't. pazt
Sunday, August 4, 2019
An "Un Birthday"
Yesterday would have been my husband's 80th birthday but he died in May after receiving confirmation on his birthday last year that the tumor in his esophagus was cancer. Later he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer because it had spread to his liver so all he was offered was palliative care.
He never had any pain and we were able to have lots of quality time with our children and grandchildren before his final 2 1/2 weeks when he was bedfast at home with Hospice helping me care for him.
I had hoped to have a big birthday bash for him (which he probably would have hated) but instead we had a Celebration of his Life in June.
Our oldest granddaughter was also born in August and he and she shared a love for "Alice in Wonderland." When she was small, they would watch it over and over together. She does not like to be the center of attention and her husband is taking her away on her birthday weekend but her mother (our daughter) still had a party for her today. However, so she wouldn't feel the focus was entirely on her, it was called an "unbirthday" party for her and her grandpa. There were framed Alice in Wonderland pics as well as a framed pic of my husband with our granddaughter when she was small.
Yesterday was a hard day for me but today I weathered well surrounded by family and friends. pazt
He never had any pain and we were able to have lots of quality time with our children and grandchildren before his final 2 1/2 weeks when he was bedfast at home with Hospice helping me care for him.
I had hoped to have a big birthday bash for him (which he probably would have hated) but instead we had a Celebration of his Life in June.
Our oldest granddaughter was also born in August and he and she shared a love for "Alice in Wonderland." When she was small, they would watch it over and over together. She does not like to be the center of attention and her husband is taking her away on her birthday weekend but her mother (our daughter) still had a party for her today. However, so she wouldn't feel the focus was entirely on her, it was called an "unbirthday" party for her and her grandpa. There were framed Alice in Wonderland pics as well as a framed pic of my husband with our granddaughter when she was small.
Yesterday was a hard day for me but today I weathered well surrounded by family and friends. pazt
Friday, August 2, 2019
A Rant About Justice
Last month a father in his 50's was shot to death in what is being called a road rage incident. I don't have the details about what happened before but here's the news from the local paper: A man was driving along and another man came up behind him going 60 miles per hour and rammed the back of the first man's car. Witnesses say that the 70 something man who rammed the other vehicle got out of his vehicle with a gun by his side and walked up to the vehicle he'd rammed. The driver rolled down the window and they had a very brief conversation before the other man raised his gun and shot the driver in the head twice killing him at the scene. When the police arrived, the man with the gun was standing in the crowd of onlookers and was identified to the police by one of the witnesses. The man who was killed had a wife and three daughters waiting for him at home - he'd gone out to pick up dinner from a local restaurant.
The driver who shot him was involved in a similar incident in California 20 or 30 years ago leaving a man he shot paralyzed. The jury had to find him not guilty per jury instructions but a number of those jurors said it did not sit right with them.
What is disturbing to me (beyond this incident) is the fact that the driver who shot the other driver has only been charged with 2nd degree murder and he is out on bail. Do I feel safe? NO!
Would I be able to be impartial if asked to serve on that jury? NO! If he is convicted, he could be sent to jail for twenty+ years which, at his age, is basically a life sentence.
Thanks for letting me rant! pazt
The driver who shot him was involved in a similar incident in California 20 or 30 years ago leaving a man he shot paralyzed. The jury had to find him not guilty per jury instructions but a number of those jurors said it did not sit right with them.
What is disturbing to me (beyond this incident) is the fact that the driver who shot the other driver has only been charged with 2nd degree murder and he is out on bail. Do I feel safe? NO!
Would I be able to be impartial if asked to serve on that jury? NO! If he is convicted, he could be sent to jail for twenty+ years which, at his age, is basically a life sentence.
Thanks for letting me rant! pazt
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