Reading and Roaming
DC SOCIAL SCENE ON SCREEN Georgetown (Amazon Prime) Georgetown, a movie offering from Prime, is inspired by shocking real events. Mot, an immigrant to the U.S., aspires to grand adventures and a role in the diplomatic world. Charming and debonair, he meets a grand dame socialite and former journalist, invites her to lunch and flatters her. When Elsa’s husband dies, …
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MOMENTOUS MOMENT This has been a dramatic week with the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion upending Roe v. Wade. For many of us who were of age in 1973, contemplating a return to when abortion is no longer a legal right/option is positively medieval. It feels so very wrong. Pro-choice protests erupted in cities near …
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GOOD TIMES WITH OUR GRANDDAUGHTERS Our granddaughters, Eleanor and Frances, had not been to Florida since February 2020 just before Covid. That year we celebrated Frances’ March birthday (she would turn 4) super early with a heart-shaped, pink-frosted cake. The Chief Penguin, aka Grandpa, is the resident baker and works his wonders to create memorable birthday desserts. …
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CLASSIC THEATER Our Town Most everyone of a certain age has been exposed to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in junior high or high school. I recall that we read it in English class and may even have acted out a scene or too. When we were young, many of us (theater folks included) found the whole business dull. Therefore, I …
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