In deference to my mother's distaste of Harry Potter and witchcraft, something her church has decided is evil, we instead went to see "Shallow Hal" for our holiday movie outing. I had already seen HP, but was thinking it would a be a fine choice. Wrong.
Shallow Hal is a sweet little movie, with emphasis on the word sweet. Hal is only attracted to beautiful women. They all hate him. One day, Tony Robbins, the infomercial guhru, puts a hex on him to only see the inward beauty of women.
He falls in love with Gwyneth Paltrow, lithely played. He sees her as a skinny blonde beauty. The world sees her as fat.
Jason Alexander, the unexplainable slimey friend, tries to set him straight. There is a bit of a "Shrek" like ending. And the only gross-out trick is played on Alexander.
MGleason
TheBedfordIncident
The Bedford Incident
November 26, 2001
I saw an old Richard Widmark film, The Bedford Incident, over the weekend, about a determined Cold Warrior hunting for a Russian submarine encroaching on our waters. Very tense, with a bang! of an ending.
MGleason
OperationCrossbow
Operation Crossbow
November 26, 2001
Another out-of-the-way selection was Operation Crossbow, about the infiltration of the German rocket works by the British, starring a hunky George Peppard. Not your usual feel-good war flick with unbelievable escapes. Duncan Sandys, Churchill's son-in-law, was one of the characters; he's the man many hold responsible for destroying Britain's aviation program with his insistence that unmanned rockets were the wave of the future.
