KimberlyFDR's Blurty

Subject:	Love! Valour! Compassion!
Time:	12:24 pm.
Mood:	relaxed.
Music:	Television.

I just watched Love! Valour! Compassion! and I am amazed at this movie. For those of you who don't know this movie, the summary is that eight male friends, all of them gay, leave the city behind for three simple weekends of rest and relaxation. Gregory (Stephen Bogardus) owns the house they stay in and he's the narrator of sorts. One by one Gregory's circle of friends arrive for the weekend, ready to unload their own worries and anxieties. There is Gregory's much younger, blind lover Bobby (Justin Kirk), and there is Arthur and Perry (John Benjamin Hickey and Stephen Spinella), an accountant and lawyer who have been a couple for more than a decade. "We're role models," Perry proclaims. "It's very stressful." Then there is John (John Glover), the overbearing, angry English composer whose arrival almost everyone is dreading. With John comes his latest lover Ramon (Randy Becker), a hot, young dancer with a perfect body. Finally, there is Buzz (Jason Alexander), who lives for old Broadway musicals and swears he will fine anyone who even mentions the word AIDS this summer (he is in teh beginning stages of the disease). Later, the group is also joined by James (John Glover), John's identical twin who is his mirror image but his exact opposite in every other conceivable way (he is in the later stages of AIDS). It takes place over three summer holiday weekends-Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day.

The interaction of all the characters was an emotional event, but John Glover's ability to portray James and John Jeckyll in depth is what brought the whole thing together. As soon as I started watching it I was not liking John. He was rough, stand-offish, and totally unloveable. And then his twin brother came and I realized that while James was his complete opposite, John wasn't so bad. He was just scared, insecure in who he was, and afraid of what was to come. I am so glad I finally got to see this wonderful movie.

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Subject:	He's Aging Well
Time:	9:28 pm.
Mood:	bouncy.
Music:	Silence.

Martin Shaw is on Mystery...now! Oh my gosh. He's playing Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh in Death in Holy Orders. Let me bracket this by saying, I'm not a PROS fan. I have seen many songvids and people have attempted to pimp me at various times, but the visuals never really grabbed me as much as other shows. In fact, the first PROS vid I ever saw at MediaWest, my first reaction was "these two don't even like each other." So, I surely thought there was no way that I'd get into the show. However, Barb Phillips gave me one of her off-set photos of Martin Shaw as he looks today. And she showed me a magnificent vid she did with his PROS character aged, as he was today. That's one way to pimp me into the show, show me what they look like now. MUNCLE's the same way. I'm not really into the show, but David McCallum now? NCIS is one of my weekly programs. Martin Shaw has aged very well and to see him on Mystery? Yeah, recording it:) Part One is tonight, Part Two is next Sunday. And I love British mysteries because I can pick out actors, but it takes me an hour to realize what I've seen them on before (priest tonight was off of All Creatures Great and Small). I remember Roy Marsden when he had the role of Adam Dalgliesh. I must say, Martin Shaw's better. And about ten minutes into it I realized that with all the PROS vids I've seen? I've never heard him talk until tonight. I like his voice. This is a good television viewing night.

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