January 8
I was too weary to drive out to the valley for dinner tonight but there’s nothing like a good movie to take you out of this world.
And I got to go twice. Yesterday was Ken’s birthday. We saw Dreamgirls and ate a late dinner. Today Brigitte was back in town and we saw Volver and ate an early dinner.
Both movies were exactly as advertised and certainly Oscar bound. If you like Almodovar you’ll like Volver and Penelope Cruz was particularly wonderful. The acting in Dreamgirls was really surprisingly very good too. I was not as taken with the Diana Ross character, but that woman from TV was hot, and Eddie Murphy took to his James Brown impersonation like the proverbial duck.
I’ve still got quite a list to go before Oscar time!