GOOD MORNING!
As per the topic of the day, after finishing the novel WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, I felt compelled to watch a movie which I had never seen in its entirety:
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH - which is certainly not as bad as I have been led to believe; it definitely is NOT the worst film to take home the Best Picture Oscar (AMERICAN BEAUTY and CRASH come to mind), but it is quite the entertainment from that director of spectacles, Cecil B. DeMille. It is overlong, to be sure, and what plot there is could have taken a brisk ninety minutes to tell, but that cast! Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charleton Heston and the top-billed Betty Hutton. It's interesting to note that those are not usually stunt doubles doing the high wire antics that Hutton and Wilde do. Paramount's dvd has no extras whatsoever, though the transfer is sparkling and clean!
Also this week, I watched
WATER, which I spoke of yesterday. Set against the rise of Gandhi, the story takes place in an ashram for widows and is seen through the eyes of an eight-year old widow.
SHIKHAR - another ashram, another time, as a corrupt builder uses every means necessary to steal land and build a modern city. His greed goes so far as to try to swindle the land away from Shahid Kapur and his family by making him a business partner and introducing him to the world of high-stakes gambling, carousing, wine, women and song.
DIL MAANGE MORE - Shahid Kapur finds that he is irresistable to three very different women; chaos ensues.
CD-wise, I've been listening to nothing but Judy Kaye since Sunday night.