Well, back to movie time. We talked about Rooney Mara (and her sister). And Argo.

How about “Silver Linings Playbook”?

Really a great movie. I mean really outstanding. Bradley Cooper won the academy award for Best Actor for this one. It started off kind of slow and everybody’s life in this movie is a complete train wreck. I mean out of control about to fall off a cliff. He ends up at his best friend’s house and his friends wife’s sister shows up. Not a big arrival on camera. I never saw this girl before. But over the next hour and a half this girl took over. She killed. She owned this movie and it was Bradley Cooper’s movie.

Jennifer Lawrence. What a find she is. What a character. Intense, incredible actress. Beautiful in a haunting way that doesn’t hit you at first but grows on you very strongly. She also won an academy award for best Actress. I did not even know that before walking into the theatre. Her talent and her beauty hit me like a ton of bricks. Where did this girl come from?

A movie about people with bi-polar disorder, and completely non-conformist, brutally honest way of living and behaving. Also a movie about tough times we live in and how this can crush people. A guy who finds out he’s got some undiagnosed bi-polar disease but won’t take the lobotomizing medication so he’s always doing stupid, spontaneous stuff but always with a altruistic intentions with his own invented code of honor. She the same but from a completely different set of tragic circumstances to overcome but with an equally beautiful sense of grace under pressure.

The more I’m watching the more uncomfortable I’m becoming. These people’s lives, their parents, their friends, are all virtual train wrecks and you’re cringing more and more about to watch these people's lives that you're starting to like go completely over the cliff.

Not to give you too many details but at the end I was so energized I was triumphant. At last, a Hollywood movie with a happy ending. Everybody wins in the end, not just over comes but complete and total triumph!

And what a sweet and honest and so true love scene at the end walking the streets of old town Philadelphia. It turned into a beautiful love story right before your eyes. So touching.

Robert DeNiro and Chris Tucker. Two more eccentric, crazy people who win in the end.

I walked out of that theatre totally energized. Total affirmation of the power of the human spirit to triumph over circumstance, outer and inner, of the beauty of human nature and love itself. I’m not big into the “chick flick” thing but this movie will bring you to your knees then send you out like you just scored the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.

Brilliant! Classic! I thought Argo was great. This one was far greater.

Go see it. Don’t ask. Just get yer butt into that theatre.

(By the way, my local theatre is under major renovation and they’re adding super lounge chairs and a fully stocked bar! (!!!). As in beer before the show and during the show. I’ve been saying that for years. Why not serve Beer at the movies!)

Check out this YouTube video of her interviewing with George Stephanopoulos and Jack Nicholson pokes his head in. She had never met him before. He says to her, “you look like an old girl friend”. She fires back immediately with, “yeah, do I look like your new girlfriend?” “I’ve thought about it”, he says. She turns to George with a look of complete shock, “my god, that’s Jack!” Meanwhile, George is laughing his head off uncontrollably. Funny, funny stuff!





What a great movie. I think it should have won best picture over Argo.

And Jennifer Lawrence. Omigod what a character and what a beautiful and talented girl. She bumps out Catherine Heigl as my favorite actress.