Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Zap!
I tried for the second time to watch "The Upside of Anger" on DVD, and, as much as I love Joan Allen (pictured left), I find the characters unappealing, the dialogue mediocre, and the plot boring. Woman left by husband, old baseball hero going to seed... Eject! Life's too short to waste one's leisure time. I'll try to catch Allen in "The Contender," about the female Senator who's nominated to be Vice President when it comes out that she participated in an orgy as a 20-year old. I liked Allen very much in "Nixon," "Pleasantville," and, above all, "The Ice Storm." And it just hit me, first time ever, that Allen played Toby Maguire's Mom in both "Pleasantville" and "Ice Storm." Toby Maguire is talented and delicious, like Jake Gyllenhaal, only my height. Like Jake, he's also played a gay role - as the student in the delightful "Wonder Boys" who hooks up with Rob Lowe. "The Ice Storm," of course, is among the 1990s ten best films - and merits a separate post at some point.
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