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November 07, 2004

The Weekend so Far

Proud

Kate is competing in her first Ballroom Dance competition down in College Park, MD. This has become her passion since the beginning of the semester but has been plagued with the lack of a partner. The first one crapped out and the second, some kid from Georgetown named Andriy, canceled Friday night. So, my intrepid daughter heads to the competition and at the last minute is paired up with Dave from UPenn. They enter the Newcomer American Cha Cha competition and survive round after round of elimination, even though Kate was trained in International Cha Cha and had to eliminate some moves. Still, she and Dave took fourth place in the competition.

Later, she pairs up with some other guy and winds up taking fifth place in Beginner American Cha Cha.

When she called with the delirious news, I almost didn’t recognize her voice since she had cheered herself hoarse. I gather, though, GWU’s team faired particularly well. It concludes today so we’ll see what surprises are in store.

Done

“Command Code” is finished today and off to Marco. I feel pretty good about it especially since I have never written these characters before.

And now, it’s on to Ancient China.

At the Movies

Speaking of dancing, Deb really wanted to see Shall we Dance, which I was not at all interested in, especially given the reviews. However, I was intrigued to check out Garden State which did not appeal to her. She finally suggested that we just go and see separate movies.

This is how I wound up spending Saturday night alone in the theatre. The movie was quirky and interesting, with a terrific and subtle performance from Zach Braff. I don’t find Scrubs particularly appealing, but this movie had such a buzz that I figured it was worth seeing. What I particularly liked about it was that few of the characters were entirely obvious, behind the cliché were some interesting dramatic twists and turns, none of which felt forced. It’s also a tender-hearted love story and it was nice to see both Ian Holm and Natalie Portman play different characters.

I was reminded, though, of the scene from the second season of Six Feet Under when Nikolai and Ruth go see separate films. The difference was Deb didn’t come marching into the theatre to break up with me. For which I was very grateful.

Posted by Bob Greenberger at November 7, 2004 09:26 AM

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I strongly strongly strongly recommend renting the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance? which is a great great movie. I, too, have no interest in seeing the American version, partly because a lot of why the original worked has to do with peculiarities of Japanese culture that simply don't exist in the U.S.

---KRAD

Posted by: KRAD [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 7, 2004 11:40 AM