Called Uber after the cartoon ended. I wasn't going to make the 11:05 showing of Superman, but I might make the 11:35 one. The driver arrived in 7 minutes and got me there in less than 12. No trouble anywhere, no traffic on the road. I arrived with just enough time to buy my ticket before the commercials started. Thank heavens the theater was right as you came in and I didn't have to wander around for long in that maze!
I'm not going to go heavily into Superman because of spoilers, but I did enjoy it. I liked Lois and Clark's relationship, I liked Hawkgirl's role (Hawkman and Hawkgirl are some of my favorite DC characters, both as a kid and when Hawkgirl turned up in the Justice League cartoon), I liked the sense of humor that extended to the heavy use of Superman's dog Krypto as part of the plot. I also like that we jump right into the action. That super-slow plot-heavy half-hour from the original 1978 film that covers Superman's origins is thankfully replaced with a few lines of type in the opening here. I have to agree with Linda Young that I don't like how Superman's birth parents are treated. For the most part, though, I really enjoyed this and hope it means DC has finally figured out how to make a universe out of their Justice League gods and aliens.
There were tons of commercials in front of the film, including for movies that aren't debuting until next summer like the animated Cat In the Hat. I wasn't initially crazy about the idea of remaking The Naked Gun, but Liam Neeson is having so much fun in the commercial, I might have to change my mind about seeing it next month. Definitely want to see The Smurfs next week, too, if for no other reason than I think it's supposed to be a musical and I'll want to review it for my blog.
Went straight next door to Applebee's for lunch after hitting the bathroom. Needless to say at 2 PM, they were dead as a doornail. I had a quick ranch and bacon grilled chicken sandwich that was surprisingly thick and juicy for them, with salty and heavily seasoned fries. The iced tea came so long to brew, they gave it to me for free.
Headed up the hill to Wal Mart after lunch. I was hoping to find the soundtrack for Superman, but they had almost no records. They had restocked their complete series collections, but I didn't see anything I really wanted, and I've got at least five or six I haven't watched yet anyway. I ended up getting flavors of Poppi Soda I hadn't seen elsewhere, two Peanuts DVDs (Charlie Brown and Friends and one of the collection of French shorts, Snoopy's Tales), and soft sandwich cookies from the bakery on clearance.
I made it down the hill...just in time to miss the bus. Oh well. Fortunately, I only had to wait about 15-20 minutes for the next one. And it was a hot day to wait! While not quite as hot as it has been, it was still sunny, windless, and incredibly humid. The bus was a bit of a pain, too, with people wanting to get off at every other stop and the bus having to dodge road work in Audubon and Haddon Heights. Thankfully, it still only took 20 minutes for the bus to pull in at Oaklyn. Someone even got off with me.
Put on Remember WENN when I got home. Scott more-or-less creates CNN when he comes up with WENN's all-news day. It turns into "Some Good News, Some Bad News" when they can't find anything earthshaking to report, Betty rebuffs his attempts to write his own, and his creating news on the ledge of the building just gets him into trouble. Meanwhile, cheerful former stripper Maple LaMarsh (Carollee Caramello) replaces Eugenia as the daytime organist, to the delight of most of the men at the station.
"Don't Act Like That" brings in Hilary's mentor Giels Aldrych (Roddy McDowell), who runs the Giels Aldrych Academy in Pittsburgh. Betty and Scott are hoping to use some of his students as interns to give their regular actors a break. Giels first assumes that radio and stage acting are the same, which they most definitely are not...and then the regular actors go on strike when Scott and Betty bring in sweet teen Enid (Melissa Dye) and truck driver Gus Kahana (Jeff Bergman), who specializes in celebrity imitations.
Switched to Romance On the High Seas after "Don't Act Like That" ended. I go further into Doris Day's first movie, a complicated romantic comedy set on an ocean liner, at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Worked on Hilary and the Beasts for the rest of the afternoon. Hilary and Maple do manage to get Eagle (Victor) to let them into his office. Hilary can't make hide nor feathers of his coded papers or his wing gestures. Maple the musician manages to understand Eagle's frustrated "wing talk" well enough to deduce that the papers and records are his broadcasting work on the situation in Europe, and Troll and Bear helped him with the broadcasting and decoding before they were cursed. He blames himself for not getting the information out sooner or moving faster to save his friends from being hurt. Maple angrily points out that it's not his or the other's faults. It's whomever attacked them that's to blame.
Hilary leaves Maple snuggled in Eagle's wings. She's still determined to get to the bottom of this...and she's not overly happy that her sisters seem to be falling for flirtatious critters. She doesn't want to see them get hurt, like Jeff hurt her.
Put on Match Game '75 while eating dinner. They skipped way ahead to the week with Bob Barker and Arlene Francis where Carol Bartos became the biggest all-time winner up to that point. I liked Arlene kindly telling the gentleman contestant that she had his answer...which the audience had soundly booed before...and giving him a hug.
Finished the night with a shower and listening to Dean Martin: All Time Greatest Hits. A friend of mine gave me a couple of CDs yesterday, including this one. Of the songs I didn't already have of his elsewhere, the charming "Inamorata" (from Artists and Models) and his lovely version of "Non Dimenticar" were probably my favorites.
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