11/14/08

Life in Pictures

It's a great time of year to see a movie. Autumn clouds have moved in over our mountains, the trails are too muddy for mountain biking, the ski resorts aren't open yet and darkness sets early. What better to do than sink into a cozy theater seat and get lost in your imagination?

My love for the movies started early. When I was a girl, my grandfather was president of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. I was spoiled. The first big screen movie I ever saw was there. Riding in a yellow cab through grey Manhattan on Saturday afternoons - subway steam oozing up through sidewalk vents, pigeons flapping their wings on stone window ledges - made me feel like I was the star of some gritty black and white film. And then to slip from the grey steaminess into the warmth of Radio...

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