2005-05-04 - 2:23 a.m.
I hate school, I hate my life, I hate everything, and my ass is numb from this goddamn chair.

On Warm Springs:
I liked. I'd forgotten how much I adore Tim Blake Nelson ("Gopher, Everett?). I've liked David Paymer since he played one of the ice cream guys in City Slickers. Cynthia Nixon was really good as Eleanor Roosevelt. Kathy Bates was in it too. Kenneth Branagh was FDR. I don't really think all those people called him "Franklin" to his face, but who knows. It's the beginning of the conspiracy to cover his disability. The review above may be more interesting than the movie itself. I wonder how far the place is from where I'll be.

On Riding the Bus with My Sister:
I knew about this book because Rosie excerpted it in her magazine. She was good. Richard T. Jones from Judging Amy was as stellar and dignified as you'd expect. Andie MacDowell has done more acting in her Performing Preference by L'Oreal commercials, I think. I found her absolutely wooden. While I find her South Carolina accent charming (she's from Gaffney), it didn't make much sense here, given that the family is supposed to be Jewish and presumably not Southern. The music is by...Stewart Copeland. The movie calls people on their stereotypes but then doesn't really do anything about them. What pisses me off is the poll that's still up at CBS.com: "Has a developmentally disabled person ever touched your life?" (Insert any other demographic in there and ask yourself the question again. Now are you offended?)

woogie - woo