— I am dying to see Door in the Floor. Jeff Bridges is (and has been for a long time) my favorite actor working today. Can’t get any better than Bridges at this silly job called acting. Can’t wait.
— Still haven’t seen the Metallica movie. I think I’m going tomorrow with Blind Cave Fish, which is going to ROCK.
— Finally reading Victor Davis Hanson’s Carnage and Culture. Can’t read too much of it once, because it all starts to blend together in my mind – but it’s good stuff. I am in awe of how he can make battles in antiquity seem like they happened yesterday.
— I’ve rented Indiscreet (directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bregman) and also Public Enemy to watch over the next couple of days. Seeing all of these old movies has (for the moment) ruined my taste for “modern” movies.
— In a ghoulish craning-the-neck-at-a-traffic-accident kind of way, I absolutely LOVED the pictures of Courtney Love manacled to a stretcher, wearing a white slip, being dragged off to Bellevue on her 40th birthday. It seems like it should be a piece of performance art, only it’s not. It’s real. I wish the best for poor little Frances. I can’t imagine what that little girl’s life is (and has been) like.
— Had a great night in Rhode Island out on “Beth’s deck” with the high school crowd: Beth, Mere (Green Belt Mere) and Betsy. Beth and her family are now moving – so we had to say good-bye to that deck – the famous deck – where we all convene as often as we are able! We drank wine, we ate chips, we blabbed our heads off with the dark and cloudy night sky above us. A wonderful farewell.
I can’t help feeling sadness for Courtney. It’s always seem a virtual certainty to me that she’s a pretty severely damaged person, probably from events in childhood. You hoped that she could get to a place where she’d be able to emotionally heal, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. It’s just a tragic situation, even moreso because she is very talented. I’m not saying this to excuse her behavior – I just think it’s sad that she couldn’t find the strength to overcome her demons.
MikeR: I primarily feel bad for Frances – but I know what you mean. I saw the documentary “Kurt & Courtney” – not very good, and its main theory was that Courtney killed Kurt – all rather ridiculous – but one of the things that stuck in my mind was Courtney Love’s father. He believes Courtney killed Kurt – but … well, if you haven’t seen it it’s hard to describe how disturbing the guy really is.
This is also not to excuse her behavior which is out of control and selfish – but I got such a scary vibe from her father, just awful – NO wonder she ran away as soon as she was able.