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On my way to the movies...
Going to go see Knocked Up, simply because it is getting really good reviews. Like this one here, from Salon:
"Knocked Up"
Don't expect cutesy diaper jokes or starry-eyed mooning about innocence -- Judd Apatow's hilariously honest comedy refuses to fetishize parenthood.
By Stephanie Zacharek
Jun. 01, 2007 | Great comedies work on us the way great dramas do: They burrow deep inside, planting timed-release capsules of mood and feeling that may self-activate hours, or even days, later. Writer-director Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" is that kind of comedy, hilarious from moment to moment, but leaving behind both a warm glow and a sting. This is a picture that refuses to fetishize either the ability to conceive or the significance of our place in the universe once we've done so.
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In other news... I intend to order a Dirty Martini before the show to see if I like them or not. This from a person who, as a child, would drink the brine from the olive jar after the olives were gone and now adds that brine to pasta water.
"Knocked Up"
Don't expect cutesy diaper jokes or starry-eyed mooning about innocence -- Judd Apatow's hilariously honest comedy refuses to fetishize parenthood.
By Stephanie Zacharek
Jun. 01, 2007 | Great comedies work on us the way great dramas do: They burrow deep inside, planting timed-release capsules of mood and feeling that may self-activate hours, or even days, later. Writer-director Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" is that kind of comedy, hilarious from moment to moment, but leaving behind both a warm glow and a sting. This is a picture that refuses to fetishize either the ability to conceive or the significance of our place in the universe once we've done so.
( Read more... )
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In other news... I intend to order a Dirty Martini before the show to see if I like them or not. This from a person who, as a child, would drink the brine from the olive jar after the olives were gone and now adds that brine to pasta water.