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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

One Man's Unending Quest Comes To An End!

As I wrote a couple months back I am currently one film short of being able to hold claim of seeing every film Kate Winslet, our greatest working actress, has made. The one film holding me back was a musical called "Romance and Cigarettes" and I had not been able to view it because, well, in the words of the esteemed Roger Ebert - "how did one of the most magical movies of the 2005 festival season become one of the hardest movies to see of 2007?"

And how do I know what Roger Ebert had to say about this movie? He has posted a review on his web site, that's why, and in his review he also indicates "Romance and Cigarettes" will be coming to Chicago at the Music Box Theater (where I saw both "Casablanca" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on the big screen for the first time) on December 7th!!!

Cinema gods? You lose.

3 comments:

Rory Larry said...

are you really sure you want to mock the cinema gods like that? I can only see it ending badly.

Nick: Doctor, how can it be that my appendix can burst twice?

Doctor: We were as surprised as you were.

Anonymous said...

Hilary Swank's Agent: Nick, we'd love to produce this script of yours.

Nick: Great!

Hilary Swank's Agent: But we will need a karaoke scene.

Anonymous said...

Nick, I'm still trying to understand the problem. A Hillary Swank karaoke scene could be hilarious. She could sing "I'm Every Woman," and punctuate it with occassionally pointing out that she is, in fact, actually a woman. Comedy gold!