Saturday, January 07, 2012

On the town ...

On Thursday, Debbie and I and a coupe o friends went to see The Lantern Theater's production of Noël Coward's Private Lives. Anyone in this area who loves good theater should make an effort to attend. It's very well done. Perhaps nothing makes this plainer than when Ben Dibble as Elyot delivers one of the play's most famous lines -- "Extraordinary the potency of cheap music" -- with an introspective awe that makes it so much more than quip. Everyone is fine, and the play has more heft than you might suspect. It is also very funny. As Debbie said afterward, the laugh lines come so fast that you miss some because you're laughing so hard.
Then, last night, we went to see the film The Artist. Another gem. The leads, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, are extraordinary, but so is everyone else, especially James Cromwell as Dujardin's Butler and John Goodman as the producer. Predictable in some ways, but not at all predictable in a very fundamental way.

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