Blythe Danner makes me believe it’s possible to age gracefully. In I’ll See You In My Dreams, she plays Carol, a 70-something widow who lives with her beloved old lab, Hazel. Her friends try to convince her to move to their retirement community but she’s comfortable in her home, in her routine, in her skin….
What’s truly amazing about this documentary is that, even as you watch Caroll Spinney painstakingly don the 4000 feathers and all the accompanying regalia necessary to become the iconic character, it’s still virtually impossible not to believe that Big Bird is real.
Can you believe I’ve lived in Southern California for almost 17 years and still haven’t been to Mexico? I’m happy to say that changes today as I head to Puerto Vallarta for the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) conference with my good friend, Ruth.
I love Jenny Craig! I’ve lost 20 pounds since starting the program at the end of January — despite the fact that I’ve been on a lot of press trips, including two weeks in France.
If you want to understand why some movies are referred to as art films, just take a look at that image from Tangerines, above. It could be hanging in a museum. The first foreign-language film from Estonia to be nominated for a Foreign Language Academy Award, Tangerines is — in both its message and its…
