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At the tender age of 21, I moved to New York City to become a photographer. After 10 years of fantastic voyages, I escape the cold winters and live in Miami where I am from. A gal pal and I started a stationary, toy, library card company called, A HOME IN THE SKY.
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Lars and River
Recently, I saw the movie, Lars and the Real Girl, staring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. Everyone is excellent in the film and I give it 10 thumbs up! The movie focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept, delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll over the internet, Bianca, and falls in love with her.
What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.
Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.
I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands. But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light, and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.
-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles. Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.
-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.
-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.
What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.
Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.
I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands. But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light, and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.
-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles. Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.
-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.
-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.
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