What I’m reading…
Yesterday I picked up two new (or new-ish) releases: Sarah Water's The Little Stranger and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies. Both of these of books were Man Booker Prize Finalists. That's a pretty solid accolade (last year's winner was Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger - an AMAZING book), but these things are not necessarily a given. So I'll check in with some review action as soon as I'm done.
I'm currently 205 pages into the Water's book which I started last night and I'm about 80 pages into the Ghosh that I started this morning on my way to work...
I love you John Cassavetes…
I have a crush on a dead man, his name is was John Cassavetes and he made movies. Many people are familiar with his acting work in such classics as Polanski's Rosemary's Baby - he played Mia Farrow's husband (devil pimp) or Paul Mazursky's 1982 Shakespeare adaptation Tempest where he played Prospero in the midst of a mid-life crisis taken in extremis. I also love his work as a director. From his earliest films like the 1959 release Shadows, to 70s classics like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Cassavetes was married to Gena Rowlands who starred in some of his films, I'm thinking particularly of A Woman Under The Influence. He was also a frequent collaborator with Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk. He even co-starred in a Columbo episode with Falk (Etude In Black).
I leave you then with many suggested viewings via the magic that was Cassavetes.