For the Weekend

I have an active schedule for this weekend, depending on how well my meds hold up. Saturday is household cleanup and errand day; going for groceries, Howe’s True Value for a new furnace filter, haircut for me, nail trim for Ted at Pampered Pets, and no doubt a few more things I’ll remember as I make my rounds. I’ll try to watch some late afternoon college basketball, or pro hockey; there are several good games on tomorrow.

Saturday is dinner and a movie night with the some of the usual friends. Have not yet decided where we will eat, but the movie will be Walk the Line at the Warren Cinema Series at the Library Theatre. I’m not a Johnny Cash fan per se, but the movie and its actors have garnered quite a few of the top film award nominations.


Walk the Line
Winner: NY Film Critics: Best Actress, 3 Golden Globe nominations incl. Best Picture (musical/comedy). Beginning in depression-era Arkansas, the film traces the origins of Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) sound back to his beginnings as a sharecropper’s son; moves through his wild tours with rock and roll pioneers Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Waylon Jennings; and culminates in his unforgettable 1968 concert in Folsom Prison. Primarily the story of the love that grew over the years between Cash and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon), the film is the result of intense collaboration between director James Mangold and co-writers Gill Dennis, Johnny Cash, and June Carter Cash prior to the death of both Cashes in 2003. “Equally packed with music and frustrated love, 'Walk the Line' goes from compelling to enthralling.” - Mike Clark, USA Today. “Johnny Cash sang like he meant business...'Walk the Line', with its dead-on performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (including vocals) helps you understand that quality.” - Roger Ebert. “A passionate, warts-and-all chronicle of an extraordinary American artist, not to mention a love story that can’t be beat.” - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle. (PG-13, 136 min.) Paul's View: Amazing, simply amazing! The opening 10 minutes in the empty corridors Folsom Prison is one of the most atmospheric movie sequences you'll ever see.

After church services Sunday, it’s lunch at noon with Vicky at Erickson’s. Probably more college basketball for the afternoon. At 9 p.m. PBS Masterpiece Theatre presents Dickens Bleak House, so I’ll catch that.

Bleak House TV PGAiring in six parts: Sundays, January 22 through February 26, 2006 on PBS(Check local listings; dates and times may vary) An epic feast of characters and storylines, Bleak House is Dickens' passionate indictment of the convoluted legal system that is as searingly relevant today as it was in the mid-19th Century. The court of Chancery becomes the center of a tangle of relationships at all levels of society and a metaphor for the decay and corruption at the heart of Victorian England.Starring Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Alun Armstrong, Ian Richardson, Nathaniel Parker, Richard Griffiths, Phil Davis, Joanna David and Carey Mulligan. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/bleakhouse/index.html