(2) Sir Alec Guinness

"Lovecraft was in New York when an earthQuake that affected the entire Northeast occured on February 25th, 1925. His only contemporaneous account of it is found in a laconic diary entry for that day: "house shakes 9:30 p m"--- Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi


I mentioned last time that I had watched "Great Expectations, " and that it had Alec Guinness in it. The man cannot be stopped. I read a hilarious story about when he was in that pussy Lucas' "Star Wars, " and played Obi Wan Kenobi. He told Lucas that it would strengthen the character if Obi Wan died and became a ghost. What actually happened was that he just wanted to get out of having anything to do with the subseQuent "Star Wars" movies. He said, "what I didn't tell him was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo." Bwah-ha. Lucas is a faggot. He also refused to sign an autograph for this guy who had seen "Star Wars" 100 times unless he agreed to never watch it again. What a hard-ass.


"A Christmas Tale"--- Yet ANOTHER modern-day French movie I have seen in like the last month or so. This was another example of things becoming over-French and disgusting. Everyone makes eyes at each other and hits on each other and it had this really annoying "look at how life is such a beautiful, nutty thing. What a crazy world, can you believe it!?" etc. It was like "Rachel Getting Married" in that it assumed you wanted to see family portraits of and hear inane stories about a family that is imaginary and that you actually don't give a shit about. It's like someone you don't know sticking their baby pictures in your face.
It was half standard American sappy Christmas movie and half weirdo-Frenchness. It was kinda cool how they don't mind breaking character expectations. The mother character openly just didn't like one of her sons. She was like, "you're the son I never loved." And he's all, "yeah you're gay too." And then they laugh and it's whatevs.