Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of the Washington Post, was planning to invite guests to her home for off-the-record dinners with reporters, lobbyists, and Washington luminaries. But she has a few things to learn about running a salon. The first is that you attract guests by your wit and wisdom. The second is that you don’t make them pay to attend!
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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July 4, 2009
July 4, 2009
Watched a lovely movie, Happy-Go-Lucky, with Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan. Sally plays Poppy, whom the Netflix blurb describes as “a perpetually cheerful 30-year-old London teacher” who decides to take driving lessons after her bike is stolen, and finds herself in a car each week with her polar opposite. The film was made in London and it takes a while to tune your ear to the accents, but it’s worth it. (Actually, I watched it twice, the second time with subtitles for the hearing-impaired, which solved the accent problem.)
Netflix has been supplying some weird and wonderful items lately, among them Synecdoche, New York and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The title (I had to look it up) is from Alexander Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard:
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
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