...when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age...
With so much discussion about turning 30 and so many (too many to link) of you having babies and such, it has drawn in sharp relief the inescapable fact that I am biologically old enough to have given birth to the whole lot of you. OK, well most of you anyway (the exceptions shall remain nameless, of course). In any case, I usually try to avoid acting my age, but the effort has become futile of late. So today I'm coming out: I'm 44 and I think I'm having a midlife crisis. The good thing about this is that if you do the math, having a midlife crisis at 44 means you've still got a long way to keep going, baby. Granted you all have entire decades ahead of you before you have to worry about this, but I still feel it's my duty to prepare you for what lies ahead, Forewarned is forearmed. Or something like that. Here's a short guide to the upsides and the downsides of middle age: Downsides first: Midlife crises are a sexist phenomenon. Cases in point: Harrison Ford...
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The movie was good and I had no idea it lasted for hours.) I did, however, feel like the previews lasted for hours.
Re: the 2-minute trailer for "World Trade Center:"
TOO SOON!!!!!
I had tears rolling down my face from the very beginning and I relived every horrible moment of how I was feeling on September 11: Shock, Horror, Fear and devasting pain over all those lives lost in an instant of insanity and how it feels to have your 13-year-old son look up at you and ask, "Mom, will I have to go to war?"--And I was across the continent.
Here's my take on the poor reviews for Da Vinci Code:
This is a good movie. Even when you know what's going to happen next. The problem is really that it was over-hyped. Because the book was such a phenomenon, people expected the blockbuster book to be a mega-blockbuster movie. Didn't happen.
But it was still a good movie.
Ian McKellan is so overused I didn't see him as Teabing, but as McKellan playing Teabing. I kept wondering "What happened to Gandolf. When did he turn so bad?" And I half expected him to add "sexual orientation" when he started on the list of minorities who would be "saved" by the revelation of "the secret."
Tom Hanks--maybe because I haven't seen him for awhile--was Langdon, not Tom.
But the other character whom I had a problem with was Alfred Molina. His role as Aringosa was well played, but it was too close to another role he played of a man obsessed, possessed and a little too strident in the name of his religion.
I kept thinking I was watching "Chocolat" all over again too and was looking for a glimpse of the beautiful Johnny Depp.