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Jun. 19th, 2012 10:10 amSo I guess its good that I can make myself laugh like a loon.
Being sort of apathetic about yesterday's Movie Monday, I decided I would go and see the Norwegian film playing at the Performing Arts Center where I used to work part time. Dunno exactly why. Was just in a mood for something different.
So I get there and I'm chatting to the projectionist who'm I've known and done theater with since the good old days.
Behind me in line was a local Uni theater professor who works in films and TV occasionally in addition to his teaching gig(s), and he's also currently running for local office. I do not think he actually knows who I am. I do not think we've ever formally met. But he might have a vague sense that he's seen me hanging around the theater stuff that goes on locally.
At any rate we three are having a low key chat about the crazyness of the press/news vans/etc back in my town, and then his wife arrived and we all wandered off and I didn't think too much about it.
The film ... Headhunters ... was -- save for some of the OTT violence and stabbity -- was pretty good. I hear they're looking at making a Hollywood version which will no doubt star someone like Mark Walberg ... and Benicio del Toro will be the bad guy!
Mostly it was amusing to seeJamie Lannister Nickolaj Coster-Waldau up there going to gallery openings and drinking coffee and speaking (presumably) Norwegian. (Nickolaj is Danish, so kudos if so for an acting career in at least three languages!)
Anyway, the point of all this is that as I was walking back to my car I was idly thinking ... "self, you just saw a movie with a guy (the theater prof) who's done a movie with Bruce Willis (Diehard)." And that made me smile in a vague "I know someone who knows someone whose famous" kind of way.
INSERT MANIAC LAUGHING FIT
...when my brain caught up to the fact that Theater prof KNOWS NICKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU given that he was in one episode of the short-lived series Amsterdam that starred Nickolaj. (Anyone remember that series? I rather liked it -- maybe the premise more than the execution. Theater prof played N's one-time father-in-law in an episode).
Well it made me laugh. a lot. so bonus! :D
(Also, I should hit up the PAC for more movies. They're cheaper than the local cineplex, and you can get a giant bucket of popcorn for $2. Also beer!)
Being sort of apathetic about yesterday's Movie Monday, I decided I would go and see the Norwegian film playing at the Performing Arts Center where I used to work part time. Dunno exactly why. Was just in a mood for something different.
So I get there and I'm chatting to the projectionist who'm I've known and done theater with since the good old days.
Behind me in line was a local Uni theater professor who works in films and TV occasionally in addition to his teaching gig(s), and he's also currently running for local office. I do not think he actually knows who I am. I do not think we've ever formally met. But he might have a vague sense that he's seen me hanging around the theater stuff that goes on locally.
At any rate we three are having a low key chat about the crazyness of the press/news vans/etc back in my town, and then his wife arrived and we all wandered off and I didn't think too much about it.
The film ... Headhunters ... was -- save for some of the OTT violence and stabbity -- was pretty good. I hear they're looking at making a Hollywood version which will no doubt star someone like Mark Walberg ... and Benicio del Toro will be the bad guy!
Mostly it was amusing to see
Anyway, the point of all this is that as I was walking back to my car I was idly thinking ... "self, you just saw a movie with a guy (the theater prof) who's done a movie with Bruce Willis (Diehard)." And that made me smile in a vague "I know someone who knows someone whose famous" kind of way.
INSERT MANIAC LAUGHING FIT
...when my brain caught up to the fact that Theater prof KNOWS NICKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU given that he was in one episode of the short-lived series Amsterdam that starred Nickolaj. (Anyone remember that series? I rather liked it -- maybe the premise more than the execution. Theater prof played N's one-time father-in-law in an episode).
Well it made me laugh. a lot. so bonus! :D
(Also, I should hit up the PAC for more movies. They're cheaper than the local cineplex, and you can get a giant bucket of popcorn for $2. Also beer!)
