Trish, there was alot of Junebugging going on in Current Film a few days ago. The movie hasn't sat well with me. Lots of exaggerated Southern stereotypes, and exaggerated actions. Noone capable of making a simple compromise. Noone aware of how their behavior effects others. Mostly I fault the script-writing.

Celia Weston is a marvelous actress who still was a complete washout as Mom in the Philip Seymour Hoffman-John C. Reilly True West on Broadway. Sam Shepard wrote two great roles, a sorta okay one in the agent, and a real stinker in Mom. Weston was in a no-win situation. It's a case of bad writing happening to good actors.

The most extreme example of the no-compromise thing was George's last-minute insistence that Madeleine get all involved in the baby to the exclusion of her sealing the deal which was the reason they came down there in the first place. I found George's actions reprehensible--and completely, utterly believable.

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While watching, I thought about how simple it would be for her to stop in the hospital with her husband for 15 minutes or whatever, and then continue on, solo, to deal with the artist. Either one of them could have offered up such a simple and obvious solution. Mostly, they were just waiting around the hospital lounge anyway. 15 minutes or slightly more wasn't crucial to getting the artist to sign. It seemed like a rather contrived dilemma.

When heading home in an unnecessary rush, it would also have been easy to hit the hospital for a while.

.....I wasn’t impressed that “D was making something of himself.” The song about how hard it is being a pimp wasn’t inspirational to me......