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He was from Carl's former unit.  They ended up in Iraq, different places, same time.  I knew this man personally and threatened to send Pam home with him on a weekly basis for over indulging her in donuts when we came to feed them to unit.   I was devasted.  He was one of MY OWN and she failed to get that.  Anyone who knows me for more than two minutes knows that I take my soldiers VERY personally.

Her answer to everything is Xanax and it showed!

posted by bel_1965 on July 27, 2006 at 5:43 PM | link to this | reply

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the film was written as  a social commentary, or a thriller,  or was of this genre in the style of blah, blah film whatever and it did/did not deliver because.....
Recently I felt tempted to approach my local paper as the film reviews are shockingly bad (I wondered if we had seen the same film)  but it is no point because I am regarded as over-qualified and not only that there are so many crap films that I don't want to have to see. Book reviews are also good, a good way of getting free books and more in demand because it takes a committment to read/skim through a book enough to review it.  Plus you can carry the book around with you

posted by Azur on July 27, 2006 at 5:28 PM | link to this | reply

Bel, Yikes! There was some definite sabotage there, and yes, you are WAY

too smart for that.  (she actually said you needed to stop taking Carl's welfare too PERSONALLY?)  You're his wife?  What kind of manipulation is that?

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:24 PM | link to this | reply

And no we are not friends anymore

When one of the men from Carl's old unit was killed in Iraq last year, she told me I needed to quit taking thses things so personal and oh yeah go get some Xanax from my doctor.  I ended the friendship and discovered my stress level greatly reduced.

posted by bel_1965 on July 27, 2006 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

Wow, I'll look for that at my next trip to the used bookstore.

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:21 PM | link to this | reply

Azur, say what the movie was aiming to do and whether it achieved that..

I wonder what that was in this case.  We have Netflix, so I thought it would give me lots of practice to review what we get in the mail, plus using IMDB to look up trivia and facts on the actors, directors, etc. 

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:21 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

Yes in Chicken Soup For The Mother's Soul 2.  It was back on 2001.

posted by bel_1965 on July 27, 2006 at 5:20 PM | link to this | reply

Good Grief, Bel, friends like that really are worse than enemies, they have

the inside scoop.  Are you still firends? You got published in Chicken Soup?  Way to go!  Why not, what do I have to lose, but my chains? 

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:19 PM | link to this | reply

You need to review a bunch of movies

love'em or hate'em and find your own scale.  The other thing to consider with reviews IMHO is to say what the movie/book was aiming to do and whether it achieved that.

posted by Azur on July 27, 2006 at 5:17 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

Skip the friends.  Send it directly to the Editor or Entertainment Editor.  Friends while many may be good contacts they often feel competitive.

I have a former friend everytime I did something she had to do something.  If she found out I submitted to a publication, she was right behind me.  I finally quit telling her what I was doing because it got OLD.  We are very different in our writing and quite frankly should not have been submitting to the same publications.  When my story was printed in Chicken Soup she carried on for weeks about how she got screwed.

posted by bel_1965 on July 27, 2006 at 5:15 PM | link to this | reply

I did send this to my friend at the Seattle Post Intelligencer but he is

coy.  He's my only professional writer friend, but I only see him socially and whenever the subject of my writing comes up, he clams up.  It's pretty clear he isn't interested in helping. 

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:09 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you, Bel, I need a good swift kick to get going!

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 5:08 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

quit blogging about it and copy this.  Send it to your local newspapers and get someone to hire you!  I am ready to run out to the next showing!

posted by bel_1965 on July 27, 2006 at 5:08 PM | link to this | reply

Blondeambition, I need to review a movie I really think is worth seeing

Devil Wears Prada is fun, but it's nothing to write home about.  Except for Meryl Streep. I could care less about Anne Hathaway.  She was working it way too hard.  Aside from that, though, the moral of the story was pretty clear:  money seduces and power corrupts. 

posted by Blanche. on July 27, 2006 at 4:52 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

I wasn't sure if I wanted to waste my time watching it....now you have me intrigued.

Thanks for the post! I trust your judgement.....even though you don't like reality t.v.! I'm a fanatic

 

posted by BlondeAmbition007 on July 27, 2006 at 12:52 AM | link to this | reply

"comes out on dvd"

posted by Blanche. on July 26, 2006 at 6:27 PM | link to this | reply

Wait til it comes out on Holy Grail, Mademoiselle's right, it's not that

good. It was just the best of the mediocre picks that weekend. 

posted by Blanche. on July 26, 2006 at 6:27 PM | link to this | reply

Mademoiselle, my memory lapse required me to re-read the post, I wrote

it 3 weeks ago.  I don't know about the majority of film critics, just the one I quoted.  I thought he confused Streep's understated cat-like evil with being "soft" and didn't get it.  I agree I probably went over the top, I didn't read the book, and I don't plan to, that's going too far for a blog.

I can pretty much guess how bad the book was. 

posted by Blanche. on July 26, 2006 at 6:26 PM | link to this | reply

I don't think the (vast majority of) critics "got it wrong" at all, actually ...

Although, the problem wasn't Meryl Streep's performance, which was fine, if a bit broad and cartoonish.

I felt it was a very simple film; one of those movies where you can pretty much predict the entire arc of the plot less than ten minutes in.  Beyond that, I found it neither moving nor amusing. Not surprising to anyone who has had the misfortune of reading the awful book it's based on.

Homohobophobia (n): Fear of homeless homosexuals

posted by Mademoiselle on July 26, 2006 at 6:23 PM | link to this | reply

Some girlfriends had asked me to see it this past weekend. Now I kind of wish I had!

posted by Holy_Grail on July 26, 2006 at 3:53 PM | link to this | reply