Claire Conger

Shine (1996) turns out to be a rather romantic movie. It’s the story of a young prodigy pianist who loses it at music college, turns into a pleasure-seeking adult without proper social constraints, an idiot-savant, if you will, and ends up getting lucky in middle age.

The movie is a loose adaption of the life of David Helfgott, an Australian concert pianist.

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I just watched a very sweet movie, Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989).

Andie MacDowell shines as a newly married housewife, Ann, caught in a love quadrangle. The movie has a slow, dreamy pace that runs at the speed of Ann’s unfolding. We follow her as she figures out what’s going on and brings into alignment what she wants and who she is with what she has.

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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a book of seven interconnected short stories by Melissa Bank, has excellent advice about dating: Be yourself!

Dr Phil, I’m sure, would agree.

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Take a powder, Dr Phil, I don’t need you! Yet.

It seems that I did not scare away Potential Boyfriend Number, whatever number he was, One!, the guy who couldn’t do a handstand. (See Scaring Men by Being too Good: What Does Dr Phil Have to Say?)

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So yesterday, while we were sitting in the sun waiting for wind, my friend Isabella and I were hashing over ex’s. We pretty much concluded that we like being single.

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