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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...

After almost a week on antibiotics I am finally over that horrendous C-diff.  My plastic surgeon took the drains out on Tuesday and I went back to work on Wednesday.  I'm doing pretty well but I still can't walk very fast and as the day progresses I get a little sore.  My core muscles are still weak and I have to keep reminding myself that I did spend a little over two weeks in bed. Riding the subway is a little scary.  If someone bumps into me it could be very painful. 

Nevertheless I did go out to see a film at the Angelika on Friday.  I saw the previews for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on the IFC channel and have been wanting to see it ever since.  The film is based on Jean-Dominique Bauby who at age 43 suffered a massive stroke that rendered him completely paralyzed and unable to speak.  The only way he could communicate was by blinking his left eye.  In spite of this he was able to write a book about his experience. An assistant from his publishing company recited the alphabet, and he would blink whenever she spoke the correct letter.   Each word took about two minutes to interpret.  (and I have trouble keeping up with short little blog posts a few times a week.)

Too cold to go outside...

I went out to run some errands this morning and ended up doing just one before going straight back home.  It was way too cold to be out today so I stayed in and caught up on netflix.  I watched the film Clean starring Maggie Cheung and Nick Nolte.  I had never heard of this film it stumbled accross my reccomendations. It was quite moving and I highly suggest it. 

 

The Bell Witch...

While surfing the net today I came upon this new movie that was released just this past Friday.  An American Haunting is a film based on The Bell Witch .  Those who live or are from Tennessee or probably familiar with it.  Actually there have been rumors that The Blair Witch Project was based on this story as well at least very loosely based. 

Years ago I played Betsy Bell in a theater production based on this legend.  The play was called Our Families Trouble, The Legend of the Bell Witch.  I had auditioned for the part of Kate the ghost.  The truly evil character that I thought would be much more fun to play but for some reason the director wanted me to play Betsy which was strange because I was rarely cast as ingenues. 

I remember at the time I was temping during the day and rehearsing plays at night.  I rarely told the co-workers at my temp jobs that I was acting on the side.  They found out when my picture  in a staged scene with the director (the actor playing John Bell was not available for the photo shoot) was in The Tennessean.  I came into the office with my coffee and my ass dragging from having been at rehearsal until well after midnight the night before.  My co-workers were standing over my desk holding up the photo.  It was quite unexpected because I didn't know it was going to be in the paper at all, publicity photos often don't  actually make the papers.

You can watch the preview of the movie here.  Watching Rachel Hurd-Wood getting thrown around brings back memories. 

Celebration of Chinese Cinema..

Looking for something to do in this rainy weather? Like Chinese movies?

Bi-weekly screening of never before seen (in the US anyway) Chinese movies are held at Imaginasian located at 239 E. 59th Street. The showing times are Saturday and Sundays at noon.

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