Anyone going to watch My Boy Jack tonight? Kim Cattral is apparently a big Kipling fan (she plays Jack Kipling's mother). And then there's Daniel Radcliffe, as Jack, in yet another pair of glasses, and a somewhat silly-looking mustache, and smoking. I've heard good reviews about this film. David Haig, who plays Rudyard Kipling (and looks eerily like him), wrote the stage play and the screenplay. The title is taking from a poem that Kipling wrote about looking for his son, who went missing in the Battle of Loos in World War I. Jack's grave supposedly was found in the early '90s, although there's some dispute about that. Only one of Kipling's children, Elsie, lived past age 18.
Right now, I'm watching One, Two, Three - a Billy Wilder film with James Cagney. It's funny, weird, a little kitschy. Communism, Socialism, Capitalism - yes, they can be funny.
TCM is showing Another Thin Man. The TV magazine blurb describes it as "Nick and Nora Charles visit a Long Island estate, where Nick drinks Scotch and solves murders."
My friend, Gwen, (ha!) is hosting a weekly movie quote contest on her blog. You can win a pendant from her etsy shop.
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