Some people love to brag about how they “haven’t watched the Oscars in ages” and “couldn’t care less about Hollywood.” We are not those people. We care about Hollywood. And we always watch the Oscars. But this year, the Academy Awards coincided with the Beaufort International Film Festival Awards, where Jeff and I were both presenters. We set up our TV to record the Oscars – planned to hunker down and watch the next night – but, alas, technology failed us.
Having slipped your fiancé’s mind is not a happy event especially when it’s a permanent condition. In the world premiere of Nora Leahy’s dark comedy, If You Forget Me, her husband-to-be’s memory-disabling accident sends Kate running back to her childhood home to heal. There she must fend off her mother’s self-help pep talks, her sister’s efforts to move her “recovery” along, and an old boyfriend’s attempts to rekindle the flame.
“Crape Murder.” Hmmm. I’m told it was Steve Bender, the Grumpy Gardener of Southern Living Magazine, who coined that phrase and he undoubtedly thought it was catchy and clever. Well, it was. Kind of. But overuse has made it really annoying, and it’s just wrong, wrong, wrong!
“My folks came to the U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.” – Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
As this issue of Lowcountry Weekly hits the streets the Beaufort International Film Festival prepares to celebrate its 13thyear. Appropriately enough, BIFF’s put on some serious growth as it enters its teens. This year festival runners Ron and Rebecca Tucker added an extra day to the event, significantly expanding the slate of films (and Ron’s chronic fear that no one will show up). This year more than 80 filmmakers are scheduled to attend. The festival gets under way Tuesday the 19thwith a gala at Tabby Place in downtown Beaufort.
What do you do when life gives you lemons? Easy. You make lemonade. What do you do when you end up with a bunch of leftover pulled pork barbeque? That was my dilemma earlier this week.
Pressing on with our Esoteric Wikipedia to Divine Timing and Divine Intervention. God, the Angels, and/or your Higher Self have a pristine and detailed view of what need while putting what we want in the backseat where it belongs. (The Garth Brooks’ song Thank God for Unanswered Prayers always comes to mind when I’m pondering this concept.)
I am a life coach. People pay me well to coach them to be happier and more successful. I love what I do and, when a friend asks for help, I always try, without charging them.
Henry Hill (narrating): Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn’t have to move for anybody. – Goodfellas, 1990
When Director Martin Scorsese was looking to cast the role of caporegime Paul “Paulie” Cicero in Goodfellas, he knew he needed an actor who could embody a sense of lethal gravitas. The man had to inspire fear and loyalty just by walking into a room. He found that actor in Paul Sorvino. In GQ’s 2010 oral history of the film, Sorvino recalls, “I had a sense of elevation the entire time I was making it. I've never had that before or since, making a movie. Felt I was three feet in the air.”