Disgrace

Coetzee's Disgrace has been filmed by Steve Jacobs, and is screened in Norway now. With Malkovich as Lurie, the leading role. Malkovich as Lurie! I'm doing a very fangirly squee. This appears to be a good review, at least they've grasped much of the book.

Disgrace

Coetzee's Disgrace has been filmed by Steve Jacobs, and is screened in Norway now. With Malkovich as Lurie, the leading role. Malkovich as Lurie! I'm doing a very fangirly squee. This appears to be a good review, at least they've grasped much of the book.

Mamma Mia

Mother got Mamma Mia on DVD, and we just saw it. I don't get the craze. It's sweet enough, I suppose. And incredibly embarassing. Is it a parody of a musical? The moves, the dancing is so horrid it has to be. Nostalgia, in part. Thinking "oh, well, I could have had that, hadn't I been sensible and left it behind". It's cheerful, and I suppose a pepper-up for miserable hosue-wives. And people we think of as stars, superhuman, almost, deign to sing as badly as we do. Is that it?

I will admit that I found an ABBA CD and am happily mouthing along (people are present, and I don't embarass myself singing as readily as Brosnan).

Mamma Mia

Mother got Mamma Mia on DVD, and we just saw it. I don't get the craze. It's sweet enough, I suppose. And incredibly embarassing. Is it a parody of a musical? The moves, the dancing is so horrid it has to be. Nostalgia, in part. Thinking "oh, well, I could have had that, hadn't I been sensible and left it behind". It's cheerful, and I suppose a pepper-up for miserable hosue-wives. And people we think of as stars, superhuman, almost, deign to sing as badly as we do. Is that it?

I will admit that I found an ABBA CD and am happily mouthing along (people are present, and I don't embarass myself singing as readily as Brosnan).