Little Women II - the movie!

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So, the 1933 movie of Little Women does a decent job of smashing all that plot into 2 hours, but boy is it dated, and thus hard to watch. The acting styles, the close-ups of the women with vaseline lenses, the EXCESSIVE makeup on Laurie (he was wearing more makeup than anyone else in the movie), the silly over-plucked eyebrows of Amy - there was a sad amount of MST3King. One woman who saw the Winona Ryder version said that was well done and more in tune with current naturalistic tastes. Also, she noted, that Prof. Bhaer was played by Gabriel Byrne, which made THAT part of the plot suddenly more understandable.

I told them that large numbers of my friends, when asked about Little Women, said, "I love it and read it every year." The response was, "Those are all LIBRARIANS!" I refrained from explaining that they were actually (mostly) my invisible friends, and also did not point out that since this was a BOOK CLUB it would not be entirely surprising to find book lovers among this group!

In good news, the Dillo has slept WELL (4-hour stretches, no insane early wakeup) for TWO nights now. He is again un-stuffy, which is why, but I praised him to the skies this morning. Unfortunately I didn't get to bed until 11 last night, so I am still tired. Book club is full of Night People.

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