Glenn Close plays a woman pretending to be a man so that she could get a job and then just kind of never stopped pretending. Like Yentl, this is a story set in the bad old days when a woman couldn’t expect much out of life. And, also like Yentl, this was a film that didn’t make much sense. Our hero/heroine is a small man working as a waiter at a residence hotel in Dublin in around 1918 or so. This story was actually written in 1918, which makes me wonder, how common was this whole transvestite thing to get…
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The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I think she did a very good job, but her makeup artists where the real stars of this show-they also won an Oscar. We shift from the past to the present and the actors playing the principals all undergo some dramatic changes. At one point I mistook another Minister for Margret’s husband, who has a co-starring role as a ghost/hallucination. You’ve seen one old British guy with huge glasses and you’ve seen then all. Not being an expert on Margaret Thatcher, I had to google her to find…
Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, Texas
An hour or so West of Houston is the small town of Brenham. It is well known throughout Texas as the home of Blue Bell Ice Cream, where the cows are reported to believe that Brenham is Heaven. The commercials are filled with images of good-looking models and good looking cows. The company tagline is:We eat what we can, and we sell the rest. Like all factory tours, the Blue Bell Ice Cream Tour takes a bit of the romance out of the ice cream dreams inspired by the commercials. It is a manufacturing plant filled with shiny steel tubes,…