Movie Marathon Saturday
Had to run into Studio City. Since my new ATM card has not arrived yet, I needed to go to the bank to get cash.
Its a Movie Marathon day, and a friend and I are going to catch two matinees.
I stopped and had lunch at the Koo-Koo-Roos in Studio City .
Turns out my friend was just up the street, so she met up with me.
There was some discussion about instead of doing 2 movies today, maybe did we want to see the Studio City Christmas Open House ?
But I didn't think with my Radiation Burns on my left side, and how tired I am feeling, that I would last long walking up and down Ventura Blvd.
Like I told my friend "Sitting through two movies I can do. Sitting is good. But not walking, I will tired out to quickly."
We arrived at The Arclight in Hollywood, in time for the 2:20 show of Rent in the Cinerama Dome .
We got seats in the first row balcony. Which is best for me, since I am so dern short.
Whenever I have tried to sit in any other seat in the Cinerama Dome, I always end up with a person's head in front of my view of the screen.
The Dome is a Hollywood Landmark, and a gorgeous theatre. But the seating is not on a steep enough incline for me.
But the first row of the balcony was perfect.
I enjoyed "Rent" . I really liked the music. I just thought the running time of 2 hours and 15 minutes seemed long to me.
I guess thats not to long for a movie these days. And even though I liked the movie, it just seemed like it could have ended sooner than it did.
I have never seen the stage performance, so it was all new for me.
Rosario Dawson was outstanding in this. I bet she ends up getting nomiated for an Oscar.
And I was happy to see many of the cast from the stage production in the movie. It really made this movie a "Musical".
And the Musical is one genre of film that we don't have enough of these days.
We stayed through half of the Credits, and then we had to dash over to the Arclight Theatres on the second floor.
My friend had not seen the celebrity portraits on display on the second floor, and she loves Benicio Del Toro.
I told her if she had a big enough purse, I would created a diversion so she could grab the pic. No, we didn't do it. 
The second movie of the Movie Marathon was "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" .
Its a Detective story with alot of dark humor.
Both Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer were great in it.
There were some parts (I don't want to give out a "Spoiler") in the movie, where I laughed harder than ever. Robert Downey Jr is such a great comedian.
After the second movie we ended up at Schwab's for dinner. It was very crowded.
And it was so windy and cold outside. It was just freezing walking back across the street to the parking area.
Very windy for the Los Angeles area.
Once home, in the nice warm apartment, I looked the movies up on the interent.
I went to see "The Ten Commandments" at the Kodak Theatre back in October 2004. I remembered reading that Val Kilmer had said he was Christian.
So I found Val Kilmer's Official Website . And I clicked around the links and read Spirituality.com , which is the official website for Christian Science. There is a 43 minute interview with Val Kilmer at the website. The interview talks alot about Acting and Spirituality, and thats something I find really interesting.
