What have I been doing instead of finishing my NaNoWriMo WIP? Numerous procrastinatory and one or two legitimate activities. Going on a DVD buying binge falls firmly into the former category. And what did I find at the bottom of a big box of movies I was rifling through at my favorite illegal DVD shop? The 2006 special edition release of Romancing the Stone. Call me maudlin, but I love this movie. It's lost none of its luster with time. Michael Douglas is not my type at all, but he's just plain sexy in a swaggering yet sheepishly sweet kind of way. And I'm such a sucker for a makeover. Any makeover will do (note to self--include a makeover in next MS). Watching Kathleen Turner transform from frowsy, scatterbrained writer to machete wielding, thigh-baring tigress will never get old.
Now if only Joan Wilder could write me out of my NaNo funk.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI, too, love Romancing the Stone -- sometimes I watch the movie and it's the book I wish I could write. It's corny and predictable but just such a lot of fun!
Just found your blog. . .
Hi Pam!
ReplyDeleteGlad you found me. Did you know that the screenplay to the movie was written by a waitress who had never published before? The tragic thing is that she died in a car crash only a few years after the movie was made. The 2006 release has a bunch of extras all about the making of the movie and the cast and crew.
I'll go check out your blog now.
Pam--for some reason I wasn't able to comment on your blog. Blogspot is blocked in China so I'm going through Anonymouse, but normally I'm able to comment. I don't know what the problem is. But anyway, I hope you read this because I wanted to say congrats on getting your latest story accepted!
ReplyDeleteI still have DVDs from my last Shanghai illegal-DVD-buying binge that I haven't gotten around to watching yet! But I remember there was one week there that I watched 11 movies, all by my little puffy-vested woolly-hatted self.
ReplyDeleteHang in there, sweetie! If I can get past my Ch. 9 stumbling block (and my 11 one, and the one in 15, oh -- and the one in 19, and... ;?)) you can get past this. Remember Maiden? I never thought I'd finish that. But I made myself quit self-editing and just plow through. You can do it! We're here cheering for you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kerry! It helps to know I'm not alone.
ReplyDeleteYou know... I've never seen it!
ReplyDeleteTeri