April 28, 1993
Dear Everyone:
A short letter for a short week. Today
is my last day in the office. Tomorrow,
I'll work in “Livermore” so that I can get away in time to pick up
“Jeannie” and make it to the airport before our flight leaves.
Yes! We’re going to Disneyland®!
But, before we do, my Team did succeed in sending out the Annual
Destruction Review. Of course,
some of those Reviews have already come back.
Not completed, you understand.
The ones that came back the
fastest are always the ones marked, "Not mine!!!
Must belong to somebody
(anybody!) else."
Movies…
“Jeannie” and I did get to
see a few movies over the past two (hectic) weeks.
Born Yesterday.
Should have been titled, "Bored
Yesterday".
“Jeannie” said it might have been better if there had been more
sparkling conversation. (It
doesn't matter how much chemistry there is between the actor and actress
if there's nothing much for the audience to do but watch them watch each
other.) But it's hard to have a
lot of sparking conversation in a movie about a "dumb blonde" who, when
asked her opinion of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, wants to know if
anyone got hurt, or was it just "property damage"?
Melanie Griffith
spends so much time carefully enunciating her words that she comes
across as slightly stoned and trying not to let it show.
Don
Johnson's character is a stick-in-the-mud and he plays it like a
stick, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's not
William Holden.
Bottom line: If you want to see
this movie, go rent the
original.
Strictly
Ballroom.
In a word,
daffy. This is your typical
coming-of-age, boy-meets-girl love story set against a background of
(ready?) Australian amateur competitive ballroom dancing.
If it were Olympic skating, or
The Big Game, you might have to take it seriously.
But as soon as it starts, you
realize that taking any of it seriously is completely out of the
question. Just sit back and enjoy
it. Even when the young man goes
after the girl and winds up dancing with her father instead.
And besides, as “Jeannie” pointed
out, this is one
young dancer who could clear up your complexion in next to no time.
Love, as always,
Pete
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