Thankyou Marianna

Really appreciate this Marianna. So enjoy your musings. It's so strange that on three occasions,
only when reading your thread has this happened. No problem with any other threads.
I am technically challenged, basically know how to point and click!!
Maybe someone else, with more expertise, can explain this.
Thanks again
S

Computer problem with BB

For the third time whilst reading Marianna's thread my computer has crashed.
Not being technically savvy, is it possible that someone can "hack" a thread and cause this to happen?
Love reading your musings Marianna but hesitate to do so now. Can you post on this site?
Susan

Interview with Reid

If you didn't see this on the MB, here is a really nice interview with Reid.

http://www.943thepoint.com/pages/4889010.php

Jake's home

Several BB posters have commented on the mysterious rose featured in this ET clip with Jake. In addition to that detail, I wanted to share this video as another side of Jake. I must admit, he's really growing on me. He just seems like he's a simple, nice guy. He might not have much to say, but he cares so much about the things he loves. I hope that, if not on the Bachelor, he finds a woman who will love him for that wonderful quality.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/01/82425/index.html

New article....nice "Reid" :)

http://television.glam.com/articles/detail/qa_with_reid_rosenthal/

Away We Go

To date, of all the couples I've watched, including reality, fictional, and reality-TV, this couple--Burt and Verona--are my favorite. Their love is what Leen-in-love looks like. In Away We Go, we journey with these self-professed "eff-ups" as they try to pave a "straight-and-narrow" prior to the birth of their baby. When Burt's family decides to move to Belgium, the mid-30s couple decide to travel the country in search of a place to call home. Most locations bring the couple closer to a relative or friend many of whom cause the 'eff-ups" to realize who really is eff'd up. With hilarious supporting cast that put the "whack" in "whacko," the couple--and the audience--experience a range of lifestyles, climates, and parenting styles that provoke meaningful dialogue about family and love. Much of this thoughful discussion stems from the screenwriting done by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. Eggers, a memoirist, short-storyist, and editor, ranks among my top 10 favorite writers with his witty banter and invaluable perspective. These screenwriters crafted a couple who not only deeply care about each other but about the world that inevitably affects the other. And even when Verona continuously refuses to marry Burt the audience believes wholeheartedly that these souls will never--can never--part if true love ever did exist. They are completely adorable and mismatched and bohemian and unconventional, but they are also entirely grounded and loving and true. Often times that is the way of life, that the very people who think themselves the "eff-ups" following this very winding, wandering road, often are the very people who have it all together in life and love.
I just loved it. I hope you will too :)

Julie & Julia

Immediately after watching this movie, I decided I wanted to be a chef. I wanted to cook phenomenal food that no palate in the world had ever experienced. But I was too tired and the next morning I was back to reality.

Julie & Julia provides a look into the things--better, the people--who inspire us; in aspiring toward those idols, we often reach the greatest heights of ourselves. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams play charming women with a zest for the spice in life. They both embody the resilience that transport us through life's challenges. They craft mouth-watering delicacies that make you want to eat through the TV. Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child so closely approximates the larger-than-life woman that you almost believe the great chef is once again on your TV screen in all her buttery friendliness. Julie and Julia is one of those films in which one helping might just not be quite enough :)

(500) Days of Summer

Nothing holds my attention better than a good story; (500) Days of Summer is a good story. It's a story in which each of us, at some point when trying to be a lover, has been the protagonist. As the movie opens, the voice-over narrator perfectly summarizes the movie: this is the story of boy meets girl. It is not a love story...well sort of. By my estimation, it is a love story, just a lop-sided one. It's the classic mismatch of desires contradicted by the inevitable, irresistable allure of attraction. You don't hear what he or she is saying; you don't absorb the actions they are taking or not taking; you're just playing out the fiction in your head: of course, he/she loves me as I do him/her. Tom falls for Kate under this very illusion. We jump through time with him when the film opens with the breakup then cuts back to the love's first sight and subsequent flight. We then follow their chronology of relating that ends sadly and with questions. Ultimately, it is the story of the way we grow--earnestly, eagerly, or painfully--with any attempt to love another; how we often grow the most when on the other end of unrequited love; how love's loss pushes us into ourselves.
Aside from its message, (500) Days of Summer is refreshing. If not for its time-jumping chronology nor its witty dialogue than just plain see it for the story about the guy not getting the girl but getting something better.
Good suggestion, Jim and Nadya!