THE REALITY SHOW # 37

YESTERDAY
Karla Rover, the soothsayer, recommended a movie: Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” calling it refreshing, since it was her wont to predict the future, this one was a treat to watch a film dealing with the past, a yearning for the Good Ole Days. Owen Wilson plays a successful, but frustrated, scriptwriter who longs to publish a novel. He and his fiancée are on a visit to Paris where he falls in love with the city and decides to stay, but honey bun won’t hear of it. She spends her nights on the town with friends, because he prefers to mope around Paris by himself looking for inspiration and, by chance, steps back into the 20’s where he meets all the great writers and painters. Ernest Hemmingway introduces him to Gertrude Stein who critiques his book, leading to a rewrite. He takes a shine to a young 20’s beauty, but she finds the 20’s dull and longs to go back to the 1890’s, which causes him to realize that he needs to live his own life and stop obsessing about other times. Stein alerts him to fact that his fiancée is unfaithful and he breaks off the engagement, goes out and finds a girl he had previously met at an antique shop, who, like him, finds Paris most beautiful when walking in the rain. Karla said she enjoyed the script, especially when Wilson calls his fiancée’s father, a Republican, a Cripto-Facist, Airhead Zombie as an example of showing respect for each other’s opinions. Despite the respite she enjoyed from the flick, Karla says she’ll be back on the crystal ball tomorrow, coordinating with the tarot cards.