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Brenda and I saw two great movies this weekend. Friday night, I was in the mood to get out, so we walked down to North Hills to the Regency and watched 3:10 to Yuma. It’s possible that you would have to be my age, having grown up on westerns, to truly enjoy this movie. It was the closest thing I’ve seen in a long time to the classic western formula — that wasn’t spoofing the classic western formula.
3:10 to Yuma has it all: a greedy land baron, made up saloon lady, prairie mom, prairie youngster coming of age, really nasty mean bad guy (played by Ben Foster), unscrupulous Pinkerton (played by Peter Fonda), eccentric doctor (played by Alan Tudyk), strong quiet Gary Cooper hero (played by Christian Bale) and Henry Fonda-type bad guy/maybe good guy played by (Russell Crowe).
The movie also had the loud percussive gun fire that I enjoyed at the end of Open Range. I’ll see this one again.
Last night we watched a NetFlix that I’ve been holding for weeks, about to send back. It was A Face in the Crowd, staring Andy Griffith, who brilliantly plays a jailed hobo who is discovered and coaxed into a media stardom. It’s said that Griffith got the part when he was invited to dinner with director, Elia Kazan, and, in audition, took on the roll of television evangelist Oral Roberts, took Kazans head in his hands, and healed him — “be healed!” (Simon)
It’s one of those great movies that I wouldn’t want to watch again. When it was over, Brenda and I both said, in low voices, “Wow!”
Simon, Scott. “Andy Griffith, Back on the Big Screen with ‘Waitress’.” Movies. 12 May 2007. NPR. 9 Sep 2007 <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10145664>.
Don’t know how to reply to your questions when you send something out on Twitterrific if you aren’t following my Twitter, so I will post it here. I haven’t tried Mybloglog.com but just signed up for it today. Should be an interesting record of visits to my blog. Don’t know if the count is limited to mybloglog members or the public.
I will experiment on it aloing with you.
BTW, what benefits do you derive from using Twitter? I just started but it seems to be quite popular.
Leigh Zeitz
Dr. Z Reflects
drzreflects.blogspot.com
Actually, I was trying to comment on the post referring to A Face in the Crowd. My dad introduced me to that movie a couple of years ago and I loved it, too. I’ve recommended it to everyone I know since. To me it is especially germane today in light of the “cult of personality” that all too often informs our opinions of leaders, celebrities and the like.