Hanging on the eve of Beautiful Girls
Many of my closest friends will know my feelings about the movie "Beautiful Girls" - a simple movie about a nearly 30 something part time piano player who returns home for his class reunion. While at home he stumbles across all his old friends and their old drama, and a few unexpected curves in the form of a 14 year old neighbor girl and a beautiful late 20 something "cousin" who's in town for the weekend.
Closer examination of this movie and my life will draw many similarities, some too close to be laughed away perhaps - the lead (played perfectly by Timothy Hutton) is questioning his current lot in life, plays piano, returns home to a mother-less house and isn't sure how long he should stay in a world that once was home but now seems quite foreign. It's true, I play piano, I will return to a motherless-house, and things that used to make sense don't so much any more back in H-Town. However, I don't expect to fall for the underage neighbor girl next door, nor do I have the perfect "good solid seven and a half" to return to back in the big city. That's where the similarities of the Hollywood story depart my own.
No doubt many stories will sprout from the weekend that is approaching, and I hope to relay at least a few here - but in the mean time, I wish you a happy weekend as I set off for Minnesota for my 10 year reunion. If you haven't yet, rent (or add to NetFlix) Beautiful Girls, crack a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer and enjoy and think of me as I'm maneuvering my way through the weekend.
Closer examination of this movie and my life will draw many similarities, some too close to be laughed away perhaps - the lead (played perfectly by Timothy Hutton) is questioning his current lot in life, plays piano, returns home to a mother-less house and isn't sure how long he should stay in a world that once was home but now seems quite foreign. It's true, I play piano, I will return to a motherless-house, and things that used to make sense don't so much any more back in H-Town. However, I don't expect to fall for the underage neighbor girl next door, nor do I have the perfect "good solid seven and a half" to return to back in the big city. That's where the similarities of the Hollywood story depart my own.
Though tonight, while sitting at my desk attempting to write a screenplay that I have been working on for, well it can be said now "years" - I just had to sit down and reflect on the fact that either life is imitating art or vice versa. I really don't know what to expect from this weekend and the reunion, but I doubt it will compare to the
Hollywood fireworks that go down in 'Beautiful Girls.' That said, I must say that as quickly as we often dismiss the stories that the Hollywood system turns out, as nonsensical and so removed that no one could ever relate, in this moment I have to wonder if Willie was thinking the same things I am, only hours before his class reunion, returning home and shining a spotlight on the past for a few days.
Hollywood fireworks that go down in 'Beautiful Girls.' That said, I must say that as quickly as we often dismiss the stories that the Hollywood system turns out, as nonsensical and so removed that no one could ever relate, in this moment I have to wonder if Willie was thinking the same things I am, only hours before his class reunion, returning home and shining a spotlight on the past for a few days.No doubt many stories will sprout from the weekend that is approaching, and I hope to relay at least a few here - but in the mean time, I wish you a happy weekend as I set off for Minnesota for my 10 year reunion. If you haven't yet, rent (or add to NetFlix) Beautiful Girls, crack a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer and enjoy and think of me as I'm maneuvering my way through the weekend.
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