Showing posts with label Mama Mia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mama Mia. Show all posts

29 July 2008

A Modern Happy Ending - Sort Of



I knew nothing about their story until reading a Reuters' news article on my feeder this morning. If this had been a date night movie, we all know the plot: Boy sees girl. Boy loses girl in crowd. Boy does a manic pursuit to find girl. Boy gets girl. Music crescendo and fade to black with romantic dreams spilling out of the theater into a warm summer night.

Not so fast. He's a web designer. She is a hope to be actress, waitressing in the meantime. He saw her in the swarm of Grand Central commuters and lost her in the crowd. He put up a web page and among the millions, someone recognized her. They met, appeared on TV, got acquainted and fade to black as they dated only to announce at a later date that they are now just friends.

Is that such a bad ending? Two people actually turned out to be nice human beings who took a chance rather than wonder about might have been.

Since I just saw Mama Mia, what would you do if presented with

Take A Chance On Me

25 March 2008

Many Happy Returns




For years I have been bemoaning the death of the movie musical. Finally Hollywood has come to its senses and we are getting them again. Moulin Rouge, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray and Enchanted among others have hit the theaters and coming this year two major movies: Mama Mia in the summer and Wicked in the fall.