HBO also plays films! Who knew?

Tonight while continuing the Great Kitchen Clean Up of ought-four, I caught Shattered Glass on HBO. Peter Sarsgaard continues to own me, so I made an icon so that all could see his hotness. And that Hayden kid might just be able to live down Anakin. It's a great movie and I highly recommend it.

I also saw the last 15 minutes of Something's Gotta Give and damn, that movie is horrible. What a disappointment! I'm all for appropriate-aged romances, so seeing Nicholson with Keaton made me happy, but damn, those characters were uninteresting and completely self-involved, and worse, the film never showed me why they should be together except that neither of them sleep. Not to mention that Nicholson is punished for being a prick, but Keaton has those imperfections that are really only supposed to endear her to us and to him. The only lesson she needs to learn is that she's sexy, and Keanu Reeves is mystifyingly happy to teach her that lesson and equally happy to bow out in time for Jack to get her back in the last act. So smug, so self-satisfied, so ultimately anti-male, so very very disappointing.

Thankful.

Tonight I'm thankful for my friend S, with whom I had dinner tonight. She and I were roommates in college (we met in our freshman composition class) and worked together at the library. Then she went off to Prague and I went off to Philadelphia; she was the first person I emailed on a regular basis. (It was early days, 1992, but she was working at a tech company and I was at graduate school.) What we shared then was being alone in an unfamiliar city, having as she said "no one who loves you on the other side of the wall." She moved to New York two years after I did to go to graduate school and we've been palling around ever since. She's a great, great friend and I love her very much.