Happy 179th Birthday Emily Dickinson!

Born December 10, 1830
Died May 15, 1886

"Dwell in possibility."

Film Scene I Love - Annie Hall

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in the lobster scene from Annie Hall

I adore Diane in this scene. Her reactions and facial expressions are so funny and I love that Annie has to grab her camera! Will Diane Keaton ever be anything OTHER than Annie? It's such an iconic role. . .

Happy 75th Birthday Dame Judi Dench!

Born 9 December 1934

"The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?"

First Fig

Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1914, photo by Arnold Genthe

First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-­
It gives a lovely light!

Wes Anderson gets me every time. . .

Wes Anderson has this knack of choosing a song and pairing it with a simple scene so that your heart is suddenly pulled by nostalgia and you feel almost a little bit devastated by it. In The Royal Tenenbaums he did it by pairing Vince Guaraldi’s Christmastime is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas to the scene where Royal takes Margot out for ice cream. In his new film Fantastic Mr. Fox, he did it by pairing the song Love as sung by Nancy Adams from Disney’s animated film Robin Hood with the lazy afternoon scene where Mr. Fox is lolling under their tree while Mrs. Fox paints a picture and the young foxes are diving and swimming in their tiny pool. The song was playing so quietly in the scene that it was almost unnoticeable, but I was immediately struck by its haunting familiarity and my brain scrambled to identify it. I couldn’t stop thinking about that song for the rest of the film. I knew it was Disney, but I couldn’t place from which film it came. I thought maybe it was from The Fox and the Hound, which would make sense, but the fact that it comes from Robin Hood, where the classic hero is played by a fox, makes even MORE sense. Even though Mr. Fox is a creation of Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson’s version of him could definitely be a direct descendant from Disney’s foxy Robin and with the inclusion of this song, I like to think that Wes is admitting that. I loved Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was unique as an animated film, but fully, wonderfully, obviously a Wes Anderson film. He may have found his true medium.

Here is the scene in Disney’s Robin Hood that features the lovely song:

Violent Sport

In case you needed a reminder of just how violent a sport football is, there was a terrible injury during the Vikings-Cardinals game last night. EJ Henderson of the Vikings fractured his femur when a teammate collided with him, resulting in a compressive and torsional force greater than the strength of his femur. Football players have gotten very strong and very fast, and the combination of these two variables leads to large forces during such collisions and often leads to injury. Hopefully he will be able to make a full recovery and return to action next season.

EJ Henderson Injury

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