The year is nearly past.
Tomorrow, I leave and end this chapter in my life, as well.
Funny how in this business life can line up like that.
It has been an incredibly tumultuous year - personally and professionally.
Personally, there have been hills and valleys like I have never before experienced, and though I know there are more to come as time marches on, I really would like to just stop for a bit. You go ahead, I'll catch up. I need a breather.
Professionally, I got the best notices, exposure, and did some of the best work I've ever done in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Titanic" this year. I also did "Christmas in the Country", so there you go. I spent a lot of time in the doldrums this year trying to carve a niche for myself in a place where I just don't think it's going to happen; that doesn't bother me too much - except that I don't enjoy being led on.
I can only hope for a 2004 half as good and not half as bad as 2003.
Return of the King was nothing short of a religious experience. That also is tinged with sadness, because unless they're just teasing and they've already filmed "The Hobbit" in some under the table manner with the other films, we may never see such a lovely film again.
Mimi passed this year, and with her the idea that one day we'd connect in a more concrete way. I love her and know how hard it is for my mom to be without her mom; that's why I can't wait to get home and have a late Christmas there.
I don't like to go into "personal life" too much here, it's sort of a "professional" thing, but ... it's New Year's Eve.
Have a safe and happy new year's eve and a wonderful new year all... write me!
Monday, December 22, 2003
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Tonight, tonight, Lord of the Rings tonight, tonight I'll see Return of the King.
I cannot help but think there are kids on farms who are being formed by the Lord of the Rings experience almost as much as the Star Wars experience did for my friends and I growing up. It's a touchstone in the life of nearly every contemporary I call "friend"... I honestly meant something growing up.
Now, I'm being a bad Star Wars fan here, but Lord of the Rings is different - in an entirely different league. These films, this one "big film" as it really is... this is absolutely some of the finest work ever done in the medium of film. Star Wars is a classic, true, and wonderful, and absolute dear and original and epic... and will always hold the closest dearest place in my heart... but, let's face it, Old Man Lucas has never been the greates writer of dialogue, or director of actors. Not at issue.
However, I don't think perhaps LOTR will be quite AS formative for children growing up now as Star Wars was for me, because LOTR hasn't taken as long to present itself. Star Wars took 1977-1983 to come to reality. One movie roughly every three years. LOTR was filmed all at once, and the first movie only came out in 2001. So, maybe there isn't as much time to affect as there was with the galaxy far, far, away.
I digress.
It warms my heart to think of kids growing up in small towns everywhere finding something to love in this. My friends, most of whom I cannot be with tonight, whom I've seen every other LOTR with, and I have found that in this.
Just a LITTLE excited here for midnight tonight.
And you think I sound excited? I'm calm compared to a few people here... wow...
Anyway, to absent friends, I wish I could be seeing this with you. This is an experience to share. This is... a moment.
I cannot help but think there are kids on farms who are being formed by the Lord of the Rings experience almost as much as the Star Wars experience did for my friends and I growing up. It's a touchstone in the life of nearly every contemporary I call "friend"... I honestly meant something growing up.
Now, I'm being a bad Star Wars fan here, but Lord of the Rings is different - in an entirely different league. These films, this one "big film" as it really is... this is absolutely some of the finest work ever done in the medium of film. Star Wars is a classic, true, and wonderful, and absolute dear and original and epic... and will always hold the closest dearest place in my heart... but, let's face it, Old Man Lucas has never been the greates writer of dialogue, or director of actors. Not at issue.
However, I don't think perhaps LOTR will be quite AS formative for children growing up now as Star Wars was for me, because LOTR hasn't taken as long to present itself. Star Wars took 1977-1983 to come to reality. One movie roughly every three years. LOTR was filmed all at once, and the first movie only came out in 2001. So, maybe there isn't as much time to affect as there was with the galaxy far, far, away.
I digress.
It warms my heart to think of kids growing up in small towns everywhere finding something to love in this. My friends, most of whom I cannot be with tonight, whom I've seen every other LOTR with, and I have found that in this.
Just a LITTLE excited here for midnight tonight.
And you think I sound excited? I'm calm compared to a few people here... wow...
Anyway, to absent friends, I wish I could be seeing this with you. This is an experience to share. This is... a moment.
Saturday, December 06, 2003
Snowy! Icy! Treacherous! Beware!
Had a matinee cancelled today, which provided all of us with some much needed, morale-boosting playtime. We went out and a couple of us bought these digital cameras at Radio Shack entirely based on an ad we saw on TV. Then we went hunting for The Muppet Christmas Carol on DVD, which I've seen on shelves a hundred times, and it was sold out at all TEN PLACES we went.
Bah. Humbuzzle.
Working on booking my 2004 workload, so more info on that will be up here soon. I'm sorry the above marquee is SO out of date (I think - haven't looked in ages) but I'll correct it soon.
Everyone send the best of wishes and thoughts and feelings to my friend Adriana, her mother is dealing with intensive chemo and other treatments for cancer. They've travelled from Albuquerque to Omaha to fight this thing. www.adrianaroze.com
Had a matinee cancelled today, which provided all of us with some much needed, morale-boosting playtime. We went out and a couple of us bought these digital cameras at Radio Shack entirely based on an ad we saw on TV. Then we went hunting for The Muppet Christmas Carol on DVD, which I've seen on shelves a hundred times, and it was sold out at all TEN PLACES we went.
Bah. Humbuzzle.
Working on booking my 2004 workload, so more info on that will be up here soon. I'm sorry the above marquee is SO out of date (I think - haven't looked in ages) but I'll correct it soon.
Everyone send the best of wishes and thoughts and feelings to my friend Adriana, her mother is dealing with intensive chemo and other treatments for cancer. They've travelled from Albuquerque to Omaha to fight this thing. www.adrianaroze.com
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