. . .Wonderful on film
I saw the new Woody Allen flick, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, this afternoon. It has variously been given three-and-a-half and four stars. I thought it was great.
The shots of Paris, of the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Champs Elysses, the Arc de Triomphe, Versailles, Fouquet's Restaurant (touristy, but with a great roast duck,) and the charming streets and alleyways of Montmarte brought back wonderful memories of the half dozen times I'd visited there. Paris is probably the most romantic city in the world and certainly the most photogenic. And Paris in the rain? Magnifique!
The story is about a writer, who in 2010 visits Paris with his toxic fiancee and her parents. He longs for Paris of the 1920s and the literary and cultural giants who lived there. He "sees" Hemmingway and Picasso, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dali, Bunuel, Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas. He falls in love with a young woman who has lived with Modigliani, Braque, Picasso and Hemmingway and who, in turn longs for the days of La Belle Epoque.
It is a fun film and could well become a Woody Allen classic.
And speaking of the movies, I saw on an early morning news show today that Debbie Reynolds is auctioning off her collection of film memorablia. She owns hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of costumes including the white pleated dress Marilyn Monroe wore in SEVEN YEAR ITCH and Liz Taylor's head dresss from CLEOPATRA. I saw some of the items when Reynolds showed them in Las Vegas about 20 years ago and they are amazing relics of the films we all grew up with. The auction is set for June 15.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Travel is . . .
. . .Wonderful on film
I saw the new Woody Allen flick, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, this afternoon. It has variously been given three-and-a-half and four stars. I thought it was great.
The shots of Paris, of the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Champs Elysse, the Arc de Triomphe, Versailles, Fouquet's Restaurant (touristy, but with a great roast duck,) and the charming streets and alleyways of Montmarte brought back wonderful memories of the half dozen times I'd visited there. Paris is probably the most romantic city in the world and certainly the most photogenic. And Paris in the rain? Magnifique!
The story is about a writer, who in 2010 visits Paris with his toxic fiancee and her parents. He longs for Paris of the 1920s and the literary and cultural giants who lived there. He "sees" Hemmingway and Picasso, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dali, Bunuel, Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas. He falls in love with a young woman who has lived with Modigliani, Braque, Picasso and Hemmingway and who, in turn longs for the days of La Belle Epoque.
It is a fun film and could well become a Woody Allen classic.
And speaking of the movies, I saw on an early morning news show today that Debbie Reynolds is auctioning off her collection of film memorablia. She owns hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of costumes including the white pleated dress Marilyn Monroe wore in SEVEN YEAR ITCH and Liz Taylor's head dresss from CLEOPATRA. I saw some of the items when Reynolds showed them in Las Vegas about 20 years ago and they are amazing relics of the films we all grew up with. The auction is set for June 15.
I saw the new Woody Allen flick, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, this afternoon. It has variously been given three-and-a-half and four stars. I thought it was great.
The shots of Paris, of the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Champs Elysse, the Arc de Triomphe, Versailles, Fouquet's Restaurant (touristy, but with a great roast duck,) and the charming streets and alleyways of Montmarte brought back wonderful memories of the half dozen times I'd visited there. Paris is probably the most romantic city in the world and certainly the most photogenic. And Paris in the rain? Magnifique!
The story is about a writer, who in 2010 visits Paris with his toxic fiancee and her parents. He longs for Paris of the 1920s and the literary and cultural giants who lived there. He "sees" Hemmingway and Picasso, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dali, Bunuel, Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas. He falls in love with a young woman who has lived with Modigliani, Braque, Picasso and Hemmingway and who, in turn longs for the days of La Belle Epoque.
It is a fun film and could well become a Woody Allen classic.
And speaking of the movies, I saw on an early morning news show today that Debbie Reynolds is auctioning off her collection of film memorablia. She owns hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of costumes including the white pleated dress Marilyn Monroe wore in SEVEN YEAR ITCH and Liz Taylor's head dresss from CLEOPATRA. I saw some of the items when Reynolds showed them in Las Vegas about 20 years ago and they are amazing relics of the films we all grew up with. The auction is set for June 15.
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