in which lois throws a shoe
Monday 3 May 2010 | 4 cookies in the jar
I kind of love her. This movie clip too. We should host a Rocky Horror-style viewing of this at my home group meeting, in which we all dress in forties clothing and furiously throw shoes. I think it would be cathartic.
Hard as it is to accept Winona as Lois, I have even more trouble with Barry Pepper as Bill W., just because I imprinted on him when he was the BP goon in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which is a genius small film, a gruelling film, a film we should all watch this weekend, just because, well, because you know why. Because “Show me your papers!” has suddenly become our new state slogan here in Zonie-land). Possibly Ms. Ryder has some qualifying codependent past of which we were unaware. Sandra Bullock or Téa Leoni might have been good casting choices; though perhaps they were, um, busy at the time.
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My husband and I had a blast watching that together. I’ve been meaning to write about it, but haven’t made the time yet!
Oh, please do (when you can); I haven’t seen the whole thing yet, only these few clips, which are admittedly a bit disappointing…as I said on our off-topic Goodreads thread, I’m mystified by why, for some reason, “Hallmark chose not to quote Lois’s actual utterance at the moment of shoe-throwing: ‘Damn your old meetings!’ I guess it was too fiery for their demographic”—?
I’m kind of obsessed with Lois and Anne, frankly, and one of my planned summer projects has been to read as much Al-Anon history as I can get my hands on, before they take away my university library card…!
in the play i’m in now, i have to throw a shoe (at my husband). i hate this moment more than anything else. i can’t get it. but this helps. thanks. miss you. xoxoxo
Oh, love. I know you were brilliant. Is it still running? If it is, I’ll say I know you ARE brilliant.
My tiny world is all kind of shattered by bad news tonight, plus I am terribly sentimental after reading Lipsky all day. I’ll just say, I miss you too, and love you a million thrown shoes’ worth. xoxov—