I'm guessing that you folks are seeing animation with some of these smilies that I'm just not seeing. Sorta like watching a color movie in black and white, I guess.
DR Maya--Men. Can't live with them. Can't live without 'em. Don't worry. Give up on Thanes. Your prince will come. Just keep kissing those frogs.
Dear Readers--I saw Love Actually this evening. I rather liked it, though it does have its flaws. As DR LC previously stated, there are multiple (as in quite a few) characters in multiple story lines that unfold during the weeks that lead into Christmas in London in, apparently, current time. The story lines do not really intersect, save for a very contrived denouement. (For an absolutely darling movie with multiple story lines that do intersect, take a look at Km. 0, a tiny film from Spain that was released here in the U.S for about a nanosecond earlier this year that I and about four other people saw.) The story line in Love Actually involving Hugh Grant is totally implausible and slicker than ice. The story line involving Colin Firth (be still, my heart) is Hollywood romanticism at its most predictable. Liam Neeson is rather miscast, though the kid who plays his stepson will go far. There's a rather clever line about a couple who work together as stand-ins on movie shoots. There are lines that are downright feel good, and other lines that are rather wistful, if not downright sad. Laura Linney continues to prove that she is the next Meryl Streep. Her story line, I thought, though perhaps not the most original, was the most touchingly played out.
