I saw Midnight Cowboy last night. I'm still mulling it over in my mind, but man, it made me really want to take a shower.

Or force Dustin Hoffman to take one.

Ah, but Beej, cutie Davies was nice eyecandy, and Nigel Bennett's LaCroix (and voice!) was all the evil Forever Knight needed.

True that. Nigel is the bestest eeeevil. His voice does me in. And that gleeful sneer! (I like Janette's character as well. World weary, sex-ay, and sewn into those dresses. Tee.)

I listened to a commentary with Nigel on his own but had to turn it off half-way through. Love the voice, but it wasn't saying anything!

As I get closer to the end of the second season, I'm liking the whole package more and more...despite all the plots being virtually the same.

And, it's not that I'm against smoochiness in general. It's just that I like my vamps with souls and either snark or smolder. Davies just comes off a little too "Banana Splits" with the grinning.

Still...for all my feigned disdain, I'm lovin' it.

I saw Mona Lisa Smile a few weeks ago too. Man, Maggie Gyllenhaal is yummy. I also kept thinking that the other brown-haired girl would have been the part to go to Brittany Murphy before she got skinny and annoying.

Picking JR over Maggie Gyllenhaal is crazy. Picking JR over Natalie Portman is equally crazy. And yet, and yet.

Cate Blanchett would have been SO much better for JR's part in Closer. Her I can see choosing over Natalie, after three years of living with the girl.

And MG was all sexy and wild, whispering dirty suggestions in his ear and stuff, and her skin is really beautiful.(I'm not saying anything about Julia's complexion here...MG just has a nice one and it really got my attention.) What guy wouldn't like that? Especially since I've never thought of JR as particularly sensual, despite photographing well for the most part. NSM with the chemistry-generating. I'm not sure why.

Picking JR over Natalie Portman is equally crazy. And yet, and yet.

Let us recall that, for both men, JR was a pile of weeping silly putty, whereas NP tied them up in knots and then tied up the knots. JR was just less of a hassle, emotionally -- figure out her buttons, beep boop boop and you get what you want.

And while I find it irritating that the NP character was this standard kinderwhore wise-stripper type, I do like that she had power, and both men recognized that, and could neither take it from her nor assert a counter-pattern of power over her.

I'd have liked the movie as a whole rather more if the whole premise weren't "Lie, cheat, and steal your way into happiness!" But, given that premise, NP is the one who came out on top.

I'd have liked the movie as a whole rather more if the whole premise weren't "Lie, cheat, and steal your way into happiness!"

You thought any of them ended up happy?

Well, for extremely cynical definitions of "happy", yes.

If she was happy, she was certainly no more happy than at the beginning. That was the point of the parallelism of the ending, I thought.

I saw the premise as "people lie, cheat, and steal in order to get happiness, but it usually fails miserably."

If she was happy, she was certainly no more happy than at the beginning. That was the point of the parallelism of the ending, I thought.

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They changed the ending from the play, didn't they?