the drowsy chaperone - friday's entertainment

kirsten thought she'd lost the free tix, but at the last moment while not searching for them, they appeared!
also, i had dinner plans at pf chang's with my parents, but they cancelled the easter trip down here due to the weather.
point being, the stars aligned and i got to be escorted to broadway!!!
i certainly hope she doesn't get a boyfriend anytime soon. (sorry dear ;)
cause, i'm getting some great invites and as her first friend in minneapolis, and i'm taking advantage & hope to continue!!!

what do you think when you have plans to go to the theater (in this case, add that it's a frickin musical! ahhhhh!) ???
- snoozer! ... i hope i don't fall asleep
- please don't be long enough to require intermission
- must pray the person next to me isn't large enough to spill into my seat
- crossing my fingers that the person in front of me doesn't have huge hair

and except for the latterest, all prayers were answered!

the drowsy chaperone was marvelous, simple wonderful.

it was entertaining, funny, witty and charming. the plot was unique and interesting. the songs were cute, the voices great. the set was simple, yet elegant. the costumes perfect.

1 hour and 40 minutes Flew by :)

lovity time. and now that it is no longer in town, there's my raving, details omitted, review!

rendition - das movie

so B and i are chugging along in the movie, liking it rather much. toward the end you know things are winding down, and we're definitely excited to find out how this thing is gonna end.

when all of a sudden you're back at the beginning!

wait ... what?

for some reason the producers, directors, whoever decide to ruin a perfectly good plot. an understandable and chronological story. don't get me wrong, i like twists, turns and surprises. when they make sense.

so, there's the beginning, which is further developed at the end, but the end can't happen without the middle, but the middle can't happen without the beginning, which is changed in the end, so the middle's possibility of happening goes away.

...like i said - nonsense. maybe imbd, er Someone can explain?!?!? not very many answers out there, i tell you. for the most part i agree with Peter Rainer, oddly enough since he's from the Christian Science Monitor. huh. he says:
About two-thirds of the way through, Rendition takes a bad turn and sells out most of what made it worth watching in the first place. Witherspoon is given little to do except look weepy, Freeman's change of heart is Q.E.D., and the radical Islamist subplot overwhelms the action, which becomes so confusingly structured that I thought the projectionist had misplaced a reel.

thumbs down, i'm thinking.

a hurricane ... brought down

so i watched a movie last night & the story was great, but unfortunately true, so it somewhat pissed me off, all the while completely frustrating me.

BUT, after reading wikipedia and its critic's ... ummm criticisms, i'm not so sure those feelings should be ... ummm felt. damn - i so very much wanted to cheer for Rubin "hurricane" Carter and hate the asses who were not letting him up for air, ever. in the movie he was soooo set up for murder after leading an already rough childhood. there's a detective way out to get him and, well, does. so rubin (denzel washington (yum)) turns his anger around, stating that hate put him in jail, but love will get him out. aaaaaawe! bob dylan even wrote a song about the ordeal, which i've always liked, but didn't know that it was about this. anyway, after coming across some amazingly helpful friends AND nearly 20 years in jail a federal court judge in new jersey finds that rubin had not received a fair trial, that the prosecution had been "based on racism rather than reason and concealment rather than disclosure," and then sets aside the conviction. is he bitter? no. wow.
i shouldn't have research this story in (wikipedia kinda) depth, cause now i'm not sure i buy rubin's (shoddy???) story.
Lesson: enjoy the film and leave it at that, dammit!