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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Celeb Breaking News From the Grassroots People

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM

Guess who's coming to town? Lauren Ambrose! Many know her from the part she played in Six Feet Under; I know her from the major role she played in this wrongly unappreciated movie...

...my review of this remarkable film:

The professor is old. His health is poor. He has written four novels. All are out of print. He has one marriage behind him. This marriage produced an only child, a daughter. His daughter is about to turn 40. She has no children and wants one before it's too late. She has a lover who wants no children. The professor dislikes his daughter's lover. The lover, however, admires the professor's last novel, The Lost City. The professor's work has another admirer—a young woman. The young woman is a graduate student. The young woman entered his life from out of the blue. His forgotten books give meaning to her existence. She looks up to him. She is writing a book about him. She wants to revive his career. She has pretty eyes and fresh lips. She will do anything he wants her to do.

The professor of this story is Frank Langella; his daughter is Lili Taylor; his daughter's lover is Adrian Lester; and his young admirer is Lauren Ambrose.

In Grassroots, Ambrose will play our paper's former arts editor Emily Hall. (The universe is getting smaller.) I will be reading with Emily Hall's husband, Phil Campbell (the author of the book that forms the base for Grassroots), next week, July 8th, at the always aristocratic Sorrento.

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that reading sounds boring as hell, although i do enjoy Lauren Ambrose and the Sorrento. Will she be there Charles?

After coping it out, that movie looks duuuuuummmb.

Posted by ho-hum on July 1, 2010 at 1:14 PM

Lauren was also in a very short lived TV Series call the "Return of Jezabel..." (can't remember the rest of the title) But she was in the series with my future husband Michael Arden **sigh!!** He's soooo cute and soooo the guy you take home and show mom!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 1, 2010 at 1:16 PM

And you will bring a pie for a date!! I get it!!

Posted by gloomy gus on July 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM

I wonder what Professor Mudede found so intriguing about a movie about a professor getting frisky with a sexy young grad student.

Posted by Fnarf

on July 1, 2010 at 1:39 PM

DEAD LAY.

Posted by Telsa on July 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM

"Many know her from the part she played in Six Feet Under; I know her from the major role she played in this wrongly unappreciated movie... "

Ok Charles you forget to replace the word movie with film so you can achieve maximum pretentious potential.

Many people know her from this TV show, I know her from this film, you have probably never heard of it, its so exclusive." -Charles (The King of the Hipsters)

Posted by Packeteer on July 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM

I didn't know her name, but I know her face. She is really gorgeous.

Posted by Dee on July 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM

She'll always be Chicklet to me.

Posted by paulus on July 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM

Word, @8. Psycho Beach Party was the first thing that came to my mind when Charles wrote "wrongly unappreciated movie".

Posted by laterite on July 1, 2010 at 2:58 PM

ditto 8 and 9..
also, Lily Taylor was in 6 ft under as well...interesting sort of...

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