"He invited Mama, but Mama could not go, she was indisposed. Mama said, 'Take Lara. You're always cautioning me, "Amalia, see to Lara." So go now and see to her.' And he saw to her all right! Hahaha!"-- Doctor Zhivago (whoopee, a triple-iterated quotation!)
(after a handshake) "You have quite an imagination! That's what comes from writing movies." "You have quite a grip! That's what comes from counting cash"--In a Lonely Place
I finally finished the philanthropy issue of Lapham's Quarterly and now I've started the fashion issue. I've also started reading Doctor Zhivago in its new translation, for John Snow's book club. In the first chapter he introduces two important characters who aren't in the movie!
I've had mixed feelings about the movie--beautiful but a bit superficial--but the novel is starting to grow on me. The description of the protest march is pretty vivid. (When I was reading it I missed my subway stop and had to get off at Eglinton West to return to St. Clair West!)
Sunday afternoon I was going to see the movie of South Pacific at the Event Screen, but I was an hour late! (Bloody Daylight Savings Time...) But at least I wasn't late for a Meetup event. That evening I saw the documentary Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr at the Bloor. He clearly should have been treated as a child soldier instead of being railroaded for murder and subjected to a show trial. His case reminds me of a classic Apocalypse Now! line: "Charging a guy with murder here was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500!"
Last night I saw Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (for the second time) at the Lightbox with the Movie Meetup. It has one of Humphrey Bogart's scariest performances, and great dialogue by Andrew Solt. Today they'd put Bogey in "anger management." Which reminds me, it's always seemed to me they should have something like anger management for people who make other people angry!
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