I saw the movie "Calendar Girls" tonight. It was hilarious! And it's based on a true story. Great movie for us Boomers- even if there were a few naked 'bums' in it.

Donna

"Something's Gotta Give" has an ongoing theme where Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton keep getting their readinf glasses mixed up. It was a hysterical movie and definately for us "Midders".
It was good to go to a movie where the audience was laughing out loud so many times. Enjoy!

"Something's Gotta Give" has an ongoing theme where Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton keep getting their reading glasses mixed up. It was a hysterical movie and definately for us "Midders".
It was good to go to a movie where the audience was laughing out loud so many times. Enjoy!

I saw Something's Gotta Give last week and loved it! The timing between Nicholson and Keaton is impeccable.

My daughter saw it a few days later and she loved the part where they traded the glasses back; but she also loved the part where Keaton is crying and writing, crying and writing, but she wanted to know why she was so hysterical... I told her that on some level, she knew what she was writing was good and she had to keep the momentum going so she wouldn't lose it.

But I loved their homes too. I really enjoy movies and when they take such care to create the environment around the person's character... well I just love it. And their homes were almost exact opposite. Her's had the softer, calming colors, buff and sand, yellow and white and gave a fresh, clean, wide open, expansive feel, while his apartment was dark, sleek, modern, with a sophisticated, yet knife-cutting chill to it.

And it was nice to see Keaton has grown a little out of her blustery, apologetic, unsure persona to a more confident woman who's really blossomed into herself. I just love that. I've seen most things she's done and always enjoyed her but She's just such a classic personality, I don't think she actually 'acts' parts, I think she embraces parts and they become her, not the other way around. But then the same holds true for Nicholson. He's so in touch with himself that you have to write 'Nicholson' parts, not parts that he can become.

I just love the movies!

Calendar Girls is next but one of my six 'girl-trip' girls is in the Bahamas this week so we have to wait til she's back. There's certain things we all see together.

~end of daily drivel~

DreamrKate - how were the Bahamas? Lucky gal! That's what I miss most about living in the boonies. Girl friends. Getting together with women and having a silly time over lunch or drinks or at a bookstore. Talking about life and love and men and whatever. sigh...

While we were in Winston Salem, we saw Calendar Girls...fun movie! Both of us really enjoyed it and would see it again if (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!) it came to Tazewell. During the first of the movie I was laughing so hard I cried when they were talking about their programs...brocolli, rugs, etc. Been there, done that! Only it was the garden club. Gee whiz. Little fingers are rapped quickly and hard when they color outside the lines! Those WI women...met their kinfolk too.

Hey, did anyone except me see any symbolism in the mixed up glasses in "Something's gotta' give"?

I saw it as a symbol of them seeing the world from a new perspective. Diane began to see younger men in the way Jack had seen younger women. And Jack began to see older women in the way Diand had once seen older men.

And Love made the see the world in a whole new way.

Maybe I'm suffering from one too many literary criticism classes.

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Smile, I didn't think of that. Makes sense to me. Good thinking!

Anyone else want that beach house from the movie? Wouldn't mind writing there!