Archive for April, 2001

Bridget Jones’s Diary

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James McNally
on April 21, 2001
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Was dragged last night to see Bridget Jones’s Diary, and actually enjoyed it. I’ve got to give credit to Renee Zellweger, who not only put on 25 pounds, but then paraded around in front of a camera in her underwear, too. It would have been better, though, if they’d been able to cast an actor who didn’t have to gain the weight. Reason? Overheard:

Woman 1: You know, she went from a size 6 to a size 10 to do the movie.
Woman 2: Well, I’m a size 10.

The Great Escape/Rocky Horror Picture Show

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James McNally
on April 6, 2001
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Stayed up until 2:00 am last night (this morning?) watching The Great Escape on DVD. Great film, but it was so influential on so many other films and TV shows, from Hogan’s Heroes to Chicken Run that it’s hard to watch it without thinking that so much of it has become cinematic cliché. Today, I’m all set to watch the 2 disc Rocky Horror Picture Show. When I was a teenager, they used to show this every Friday night at the old Roxy theatre in Toronto and some of my friends would go in costume. Remarkably, I never went. Too much of a punker, I was.