STANLEY TUCCI SHOULD ONLY WEAR GUCCI
Well boys and girls...I went to see that Prada movie. And I forgot the most important thing - people who live on the West Side DO NOT leave town on holidays. Consequently, our arrival at the formerly known as SONY theatre at Broadway and 68th Street was met with 300 people in the lobby trying to do the same thing we were - get out of the heat for 2 hours.
As I turned around there was my friend Dell with her 90 year old mother also suffering the same misfortune. Clutching her ripped out movie schedule she quickly got on her phone to her friend to try and get tickets on-line for another theatre. Meanwhile time was a-wasting as they kept announcing more sold out shows. Superman, forget it. Even he couldn't get a ticket to the IMAX version until next week!
So we bought tickets for the 7:15 show and walked up to City Grill for their Hawaiian chicken salad. And in spite of the fact that their air conditioning was having a hard time, it was as good as we remembered it - and the beer helped.
The trick was that we had to be back at the theatre to get on line at 6 - according to the guy who sold us out tickets. We were not going to get out-hustled, so we chugged down our drinks and were the second 2 on our self- created line upstairs on the second level. Needless to say we got seats together and actually sat behind the 2 girls ahead of us on line. We secretly chuckled as we watched people reduced to sitting in the front row or not seeing the movie.
After about 2 hours of previews and commercials we finally got to see how truly great Meryl Streep looked. Stanley Tucci, one of the manliest men in theatre, totally hit his character on target in this one. And Anne Hathaway perfectly re-created her role in Princess Diaries - only at age 24 with better clothes.
So the movie isn't going to win an Oscar, and the clothes were the star, but it was a fun time and worth the hassle. Oh, did I mention I had free movie tickets?
Next stop - Jack Sparrow!
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Well boys and girls...I went to see that Prada movie. And I forgot the most important thing - people who live on the West Side DO NOT leave town on holidays. Consequently, our arrival at the formerly known as SONY theatre at Broadway and 68th Street was met with 300 people in the lobby trying to do the same thing we were - get out of the heat for 2 hours.
As I turned around there was my friend Dell with her 90 year old mother also suffering the same misfortune. Clutching her ripped out movie schedule she quickly got on her phone to her friend to try and get tickets on-line for another theatre. Meanwhile time was a-wasting as they kept announcing more sold out shows. Superman, forget it. Even he couldn't get a ticket to the IMAX version until next week!
So we bought tickets for the 7:15 show and walked up to City Grill for their Hawaiian chicken salad. And in spite of the fact that their air conditioning was having a hard time, it was as good as we remembered it - and the beer helped.
The trick was that we had to be back at the theatre to get on line at 6 - according to the guy who sold us out tickets. We were not going to get out-hustled, so we chugged down our drinks and were the second 2 on our self- created line upstairs on the second level. Needless to say we got seats together and actually sat behind the 2 girls ahead of us on line. We secretly chuckled as we watched people reduced to sitting in the front row or not seeing the movie.
After about 2 hours of previews and commercials we finally got to see how truly great Meryl Streep looked. Stanley Tucci, one of the manliest men in theatre, totally hit his character on target in this one. And Anne Hathaway perfectly re-created her role in Princess Diaries - only at age 24 with better clothes.
So the movie isn't going to win an Oscar, and the clothes were the star, but it was a fun time and worth the hassle. Oh, did I mention I had free movie tickets?
Next stop - Jack Sparrow!
Say goodnight, Gracie.
posted by Gracie at 9:07 PM
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