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Sep. 18th, 2005 10:04 amI just discovered I'm an idiot. I never re-subscribed to the Newberry Consort series, and it starts this week! I think I was dithering about whether I wanted to attend at the Newberry (which I usually do) or their new venue at the University of Chicago, and just plain forgot. I'll call tomorrow. I can't believe I forgot to do this.
Saw Moulin Rouge at the Siskel Film Center last night. Why Colette Marchand got an Oscar nomination, I can't fathom. Her performance was seriously over the top. And I continue to be unimpressed with Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting. Jose Ferrer was good though, as was Suzanne Flon. As with most film biographies, this one takes some liberties with facts and chronology, but is probably more accurate than many, and the factual flaws don't take away from the overall truth of the story. It is beautifully photographed and costumed, and, with the exception of two songs poorly lip-synched by Gabor, the music is splendid.
Friday, I went to the opening of a show at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, called Stand & Deliver: Engineering Sculpture Into a Book Format. There are some marvelous pieces in the show, but go to that link and see for yourself.
My car is lovely and clean (which means we'll get rain). The local high school senior class was having a car wash yesterday, so for $5 I got a bunch of very enthusiastic kids doing an excellent job, though I think at times they were getting more water on each other than on the cars.
Saw Moulin Rouge at the Siskel Film Center last night. Why Colette Marchand got an Oscar nomination, I can't fathom. Her performance was seriously over the top. And I continue to be unimpressed with Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting. Jose Ferrer was good though, as was Suzanne Flon. As with most film biographies, this one takes some liberties with facts and chronology, but is probably more accurate than many, and the factual flaws don't take away from the overall truth of the story. It is beautifully photographed and costumed, and, with the exception of two songs poorly lip-synched by Gabor, the music is splendid.
Friday, I went to the opening of a show at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, called Stand & Deliver: Engineering Sculpture Into a Book Format. There are some marvelous pieces in the show, but go to that link and see for yourself.
My car is lovely and clean (which means we'll get rain). The local high school senior class was having a car wash yesterday, so for $5 I got a bunch of very enthusiastic kids doing an excellent job, though I think at times they were getting more water on each other than on the cars.
