May 9, 2008

So the winner of the Colette Gale book is 

REN

Yay! You can email me at books at colleengleason dot com and let me know which book you want and where to have it sent. (Or I'll be in touch via email.)

Congrats!

And so…what movie are you all going to see this weekend? You know you are. Which one?

April 29, 2008

I watched Sleepless in Seattle with my daughter a few weeks ago, remembering it to be a funny '90s romantic comedy when Meg Ryan was still cute and and neurotic…and a flick without any objectionable content.

Well, I was sort of right. The only real objectionable content was the use of the term "ho" in relation to Tom Hanks's girlfriend, and the fact that a 9 year old boy supposedly flew from Seattle to NYC alone without a hitch (pre-911, of course. Don't they have rules about that now?).

But I only enjoyed one half of the movie: the part with Tom Hanks in it. The part with Meg was…annoying. (Thank goodness they didn't meet until the end!)

I used to love her and as many of you know, When Harry Met Sally… is one of my all-time favorite movies. She was cute in that. In Sleepless, she was trying to reprise that role and didn't do it very well, IMO. Too frenetic, too high-strung, and just not as funny. 

But Tom was great.

I'd forgotten how sad that movie is, too, though. I remembered it really only being sad at the beginning, but after seeing it again with my daughter, I see that it's pretty much a tear-jerker all the way through. 

Seeing the movie also reminded me of a bit of weirdness in my life that paralleled Annie's (Meg's character).

I had dated a guy seriously for years, and just around the time we were planning to get engaged, I ended the relationship.

He looked just like Bill Pullman (the guy to whom Meg Ryan's character is engaged to at the beginning of the movie)…and my Music Man, who I started dating right after breaking up with the Bill-Pullman Look Alike, at the time bore a striking resemblance to Tom Hanks (curly dark hair, strong features, dark eyes and brows). Enough that I noticed that Meg's Annie and I seemed to have parallel taste in men.

Weird huh? So I told my daughter this, and she heartily agreed that I had made the right choice.

Anyway, do you remember that movie? Have you seen it lately? Thoughts?

Did you know you can buy that houseboat that Tom Hanks's character lived in? Excuse me while I check my bank account for $2.2 million….

April 28, 2008

I guess it's not Monday morning anymore, is it? At least here in Michigan it's not, where, after a week  of mid-60 and 70-degree weather they were talking about snow today…. (That hasn't come to pass, thank goodness.)

This is just a quick note to say hi, and that I'm still in my cave, finishing up torturing my characters in the last Victoria Gardella book.

I hope next week to rear my ugly head back in the blogosphere and get back into the swing of things!

In the meanwhile, question for you: Summer moviedom is nearly upon us. What is your most anticipated flick being released this summer?

Me? Since Mr. Damon hasn't seen fit to make another Bourne movie for me, I am all over the hotness that is Prince Caspian. Sigh. I do have a weakness for men in chain mail.

You? 

March 26, 2008

Just 'cause this is a classic. I still can't figure out why she's still friends with him. But what-evah.

March 26, 2008

So, uh…do you worship at the altar of the Mighty Oprah?

I've never been able to get into her show (of course, after years of working in an office during the day, I never had the chance to see it…and now, well, it just doesn't appeal to me).

I've looked through her magazine a few times too. Meh. It's all right. 

But she appeals to lots of people. And now with her Big Give…well, where do you weigh in?

What do you think of the Mighty Opes?