I'm sitting here wondering if I should wait up for Georg to get home from the airport, or go to sleep and see him in the morning. While I make up my mind, how about a few movie write-ups.
September 5 movie: Cactus Flower. Late 60s sex comedy starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn. Matthau is bachelor who's dating Hawn, but pretends he's married so she won't make any demands on him & he can break dates whenever he wants. Then he decides to marry Hawn, but she insists on meeting his wife. So he bullies his secretary Bergman into pretending to be his wife. Like all 60s sex comedies, it was sleazy and misogynist. But at least the moviemakers seem to know Matthau's character is a heel. I think we're supposed to emphathize with him (gack) but at least we're not supposed to approve of his behavior. And it was funny enough that I didn't feel like I had wasted my time. It was worth it for Goldie Hawn alone. I've gotten so used to her current scary Botox face that I had forgotten how beautiful she was. Luminous. Her eyes were amazing. Also nice to see her playing a character who wasn't stupid. In fact her character is the most mature person in the movie.
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