Sheer Genius

If you want to make a man a fan of Sophia Loren, tonight is the night on TCM to achieve this lofty goal. Boy On A Dolphin is on at 7PM CST. Right about the part where Sophia hoists herself outta the water in her orange shirt dress is where Sophia Fandom begins. I swear.

Tonight after Fun with Sophia is the premiere of the Bravo second season of Shear Genius. I loved the first season, it was really neat to see how the different hair stylists interpreted their challenges, plus it is all visual - at least you can see the results and judge them, unlike Top Chef where you can't taste the food.

I'm off a couple of days from work so I will devote myself almost whole heartedly to movie viewing, whether at home or in the theater. I've promised a friend that we'll go see WALL-E this weekend, which isn't a hard promise to keep mind you, and depending on how close The Visitor gets I'll try and see that too.

Carlin is dead but he lives on HBO tonight and all weekend.

You're just not couth!

Cripes, the weather sucks. How wonderful it is to live in the Midwest and get our yearly below freezing wind chill, blizzards, hardly any spring, hot humid summers, tornados, floods, and microbursts. Yay!

Lord love those people in Iowa. Okay God, time to let up, they've had enough. By the time this all actually crests it'll be dumping into southern Illinois. The corn prices are gonna sky rocket, that's fer shure.

Finally I've taken the time to start in on the pile and a half of vhs tapes and play the conversion game again. Yesterday I did a couple of smart Alice Brady flicks, Broadway to Hollywood and Metropolitan. I need to rewatch Metropolitan, it's got the great voice of Lawrence Tibbett in it, and a decent performance by Virginia Bruce. Very irrational, but I don't normally like her, probably because of how badly she treated John Gilbert. Stupid way to be but I can't help it. She is rather decent in Downstairs also.

I've got Ian Richardson in the House of Cards series here for the weekend viewing - so nasty, so delish. And he was in one of my all time faves Dark City. Now there's one I need to pull outta the vaults! There was supposed to be a special edition of that released but I haven't seen squat about it finalized. Another pipe dream.

I got the husband to sit down and watch Born Yesterday with me a couple of weeks ago and he really liked it. I dunno what I'm going to try next, maybe I'll get him going with some good John Wayne. Maybe I'll get him hooked on Stagecoach, or pick something in color like The Sons of Katie Elder. Don't want to put the man in total fear of black and white by showing it too much, a little break of technicolor won't hurt.

Double negative right? Right!

More sense than money...

So I keep telling myself anyway. Though, if I was compensated for IQ points, hopefully I'd have that big mansion with the three hundred thousand movie room. And a ceeeement pond!

I have in my hot little hands (thank you Netflix Gods) the PBS doc on the Jonestown Flood, which I haven't seen in eons, as well as the LBJ bio from American Experience. I know it's popular or seen to be the 'right' thing to do to throw darts at LBJ's image and legacy. The whole Vietnam thing, the woman thing, the good ole southern boy thing...yes, this is all not exactly a recommendation on a job application. However, I can't help myself for liking that good ole boy. I think he came into office under horrible circumstances, had to get his footing together, and just made as many bad decisions as good. When I think about it, it's possible that Bill Clinton is our generation's LBJ - no, no Vietnam, but the covert work adds up to near the same possibilities as body counts. I kinda feel sorry for LBJ...and felt even more sorry for him after I watched that Robert McNamara doc. I know my feeling sorry for the guy doesn't amount to a chili dog and chips but what the hell...not until a hundred years from now will the 60's be judged correctly.

On the bright side of life, the near finals are happening for us Top Chef viewers. Oh Lord, please let Lisa be getting knived tonight. Please?

There's word that A Matter Of Life And Death is definately coming out this year, plus Charlie Chan Box Set Number Son Five. My list of the things I'd do for a dvd release keeps shrinking. Maybe the studios were afraid I'd really show up wearing that bikini.