many many movies

I hang out with Shari watching RUSH.  It's a great way to spend a cold afternoon.  Then, my friend Julie comes in from Connecticut to see a screening with me at night of ANCHORMAN 2. Both films are enjoyable, in entirely different ways. 

I see more movies in the last quarter of the year than I do in the previous nine months combined.  I take my voting privileges with BAFTA seriously, and make an effort to see all the award-worthy films of the year.

I grew up wanting to be an actress, but I never pursued it beyond college.  There were too many students in Tuft’s drama department who were far more talented than I was. So being an active member of BAFTA’s screening committee, and having voting rights, provides me with some tangential relationship to an industry I’ve always wanted to be part of.

Instead of working in the film industry, I ended up in television.  Had I to do it over, I probably would have chosen banking. I graduated business school in the 80’s — a lucrative time to be on Wall Street. 

Ah, but then I probably wouldn’t be getting 40 free pre-release screeners, thus providing 40 good reasons to invite friends over. 

I suppose it all works out in the end.  I just wish I had the private screening room and Dom Perignon to go along with the screeners.