Tears

No, actually, I'm not crying - it's the onions and curry. I made Chicken Curry With Cashews tonight, over brown basmati. Just so you know, despite recent posts, everyday life goes on - went food shopping, did some client work, took out the garbage, masqued my face, cooked one of my favorite dishes for myself.

And last night Martha and I went to see "Pride and Prejudice." I'd seen the trailers and groaned because it looked pretty overblown, and I adored the BBC version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Then I read Anthony Lane's hilarious review of the new version in The New Yorker and sent it around to all my friends to read (do read it - it's one of his best). Most other critics reviewing it gave it high marks. Martha was up for seeing it, despite Lane's curmudgeonly drubbing, so off we went. It had its good points - good actors and the story line survived for the most part. But these long scenes of Keira Knightly (who is such eye candy, though her character, Elizabeth Bennet, is not supposed to be especially good looking) standing on a cliff with the wind whipping her clothes, and the perpetually miserable Darcy become Heathcliffe striding the moors, looked like something off the cover of a romance novel. Martha kept whispering to me thanking God she hadn't talked her husband into coming with us. Not that he would have enjoyed the BBC version either. Now if Elizabeth Bennet was a biker chick...

Comments

[moose]

What's your favorite dish, do you mean the curry?

[leslee]

one of my favorite dishes! Yes, the curry recipe.

[moose]

One of, of course. I'll have to try it.

Elizabeth Bennet as a biker chick — I'm still chuckling.

[Lorianne]

Mmmm, curry! Sounds like wonderful comfort food (onion & curry tears notwithstanding!)

[Rhye]

Chicken Currry with Cashews sounds delicious... I'll have to try that, I usually make Thai curry myself, but with cashews, I'll have to take a peek at that recipe.

As for "Pride and Prejudice", I was very skeptical when I saw the trailers and just like you groaned at the thought that it can be anything like the portrayal on BBC. I am still on the fence about going to see it, though my Sister has decided to go and see it anyway. Is it worth viewing?

[leslee]

Lorianne: Yes, it is comfort food. Maybe I should wear a ski mask when I cut up the onions. ;-)

Rhye: My friend liked it anyway, and I found I enjoyed a lot of it. There are good scenes and, as I said, the actors are very good. I don't really feel like I wasted my money or time, just that I had to roll my eyes when it was over!

[grumpygirl]

i absolutely won't see the new one, i loved the BBC one and have it on tape. keira knightley? pish.

[leslee]

Yah, I loved the BBC one. It did make this one harder to take that I kept remembering how much better they did similar scenes in the BBC version.