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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One Second After
“I’ll sleep with you for a meatball.” Julia Andrews said in Victor/Victoria. But that deal falls flat when there are no longer any meatballs to trade. One Second After by William R Forstchen is a blow by blow account of how one idyllic little community in the hills of North Carolina becomes a Masada under seige from the rest of America after an EMP attack knocks out all modern electronics. This is a Conservative fairy tale, where everything would have been fine if everyone had voted Republican, kept a stockpile of weapons in the basement, and drove a classic car…
Lift that barge, tote that bail
My dear sainted mother was a big fan of musicals of all forms and sizes. As a result I grew up watching TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and so and so forth. I also got to see such turkeys as The Little Prince and Paint Your Wagon. The last new musical I watched and really loved was Victor/Victoria and that was twenty-five years ago. I might have liked All That Jazz, if they had hired someone who could sing or act…