There's No Business Like Show Business

I read the other day in a book about a lady who had a collection of 10,000 books. Keeping up the plan I read one book per week, which means 52 per year. At this rate, it would take me 200 years to read those 10,000 books. So I figured there's not much time left and I have to be picky (well, not picky but smart or lucky) in choosing those books. Not to mention I've read some of them twice or even more. And the same goes for films.

Yesterday I finally watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by George Clooney, and concluded it's a must-see, so try and fit it in your agenda for the last couple of decades. The story is about a guy called Chuck Barris, and I assume it'd ring a bell in the U.S. but I don't know much about him. He was a showbiz man and according to his journals worked for C.I.A. as well, which they deny of course. Anyway, it's based on a true story, and tells the life of this very complex and exciting character, and Sam Rockwell (whom I've seen in Matchstick Men) is just terrific as Barris.
First time we started to watch it like months ago we didn't get past the first two minutes as it has a very strong start and we were both too depressed to watch it. There's a monologue on deciding what you want to do with your life, and that's why it was so hard for us to sit and stare in front of it. Cruel as it is, it is at the same time something people in this situation must face, so I say go and see it for yourself.
It was not only cruel but hilarious and deep and compelling, with lots of sixties songs and hippie stuff. Drew Barrymore played the female leading role, Penny, and Penny and Chuck's relationship was just so interesting and ... well, original right from the beginning. And I liked our wonderful dubbing actors in it, too, though I suppose you should watch the real thing with real Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and George Clooney. And did I mention J. Roberts also starred in it? For some reason that I don't understand she can be brilliant in some films and totally conventional and americanized in others. Well, this one was the amazing type, and she played a real femme fatale, something like what you'd see in a Dick Tracy story.
Walking home from my boyfriend's place (well, his father's) we kept talking about the movie and all the movies we loved, and it turned out there's still lots I want him to watch. And he wants me to watch. Like, for example, Stalin, which I've been succesfully dodging for years now.

P.S. Something I've got to tell is that Rockwell is brilliant even in the way he smokes. I wonder what he's like in real life.
You can watch my fav scene here.