On the other hand, PBS publishes their DVD's immediately, like the new Ken Burns National Parks series we're laboring through right now. I say "laboring" because this one is classic Burns. You know what I mean if you've watched his endless series: mesmerizing in a boring way, with a heavy voice-over and filled with corny sound tracks and still photos like the one below. Great for zoning out on a work night.
As for real movies, this weekend we watched Julie and Julia, starring Meryl Streep playing a wonderful and believable Julia Child. Is there anything this woman can't do? The movie had everything for me: cooking, blogging, writing, period settings, grown-up relationships. I think John liked it too, although it isn't the type of movie a man would admit being crazy about :-)
Amy Adams (below) plays Julie Powell, who cooks all the recipes in Julia Child's first book, and blogs about it nightly.
R and I have not been to the movies in years - oops actually we saw Hitchcock's "Spellbound" with some friends who had extra tickets for the CAPA Summer Series. But interestingly, we are almost 180 different because we have DirecTv; no choice in the holler. I cannot count our DVDs and hardly watch them with all the movie choices through the ether. But we do not watch most of the tv programming these days. I should say "I" because R watches tv only sporadically, although she has become hooked on the Dog Whisperer and some other programs that will go unmentioned.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see J&J; the reviews were quite positive.
As for regular network TV, there may be lots on, but little worth watching. And, you have to endure the commercials...I'll take DVD's!
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