Like sands through the hourglass

A&F comes to W&G. Did anyone catch Will & Grace tonight… with Eric McCormack in a muscle tee? Rowr. Also on tonight was My Best Friend’s Wedding. The only reason to watch this: Rupert Everett. It’s a cute movie, but it periodically slides into a sleepy tedium, from which we and Julia Roberts are repeatedly saved by Rupert’s appearance on the scene. Maybe I’ve seen it too many times. But back to clothes, I’ve decided I must have this coat. I was originally dreaming of something in suede and shearling, but this will do nicely and is friendlier to my wallet.

They don’t make them like this anymore. Last night, Adam, his woman, and I went to the Uptown to see Lawrence of Arabia. Great place to see a movie like this. You definitely get a sense of what it must have been like to see this movie when it was released back in the 1960s. Be forewarned, though: including the overture, intermission, and entr’acte, the whole epic experience runs about four hours. (With the great score by Maurice Jarre, I think the only thing to make it more over-the-top would be a live orchestra. That would be sweet.) I don’t begrudge the length, but still, the movie ends a bit weak. Dare I say there should have been a sequel? Yikes, it would be like the Ring cycle or something, where you’d watch the entire thing over a couple of nights. In any case, not having seen it before, I had expected the movie to be lighter in tone (which it is, at the beginning), but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it gets darker as it trudges on. Great acting and a wonderful production overall (yes, lots of sand).