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thatcrazycajunAnother week, another movie screening at the palatial Alpharetta manse of autographedcat and kitanzi. This time my Songbird singing_phoenix got to come too, being as she's in town until next Friday. Also present were Shannon from last week and a new couple, the male of whom was also named Matt. Amazingly, this did not produce any undue confusion.
autographedcat and kitanzi. This time my Songbird singing_phoenix got to come too, being as she's in town until next Friday. Also present were Shannon from last week and a new couple, the male of whom was also named Matt. Amazingly, this did not produce any undue confusion.This week's film, by vote of the majority, was writer/director Bill Condon's Kinsey, a 2004 biopic on the famed sex research pioneer Alfred Kinsey, Sc.D. (who actually looked more like William H. Macy than the actor who plays him in the film, Liam Neeson; wonder if they considered Bill?) and his wife Clara (played here by the always lovely and watchable Laura Linney). The Songbird actually has a close friend who is a psychiatrist working part-time for the Kinsey Institute, the good doctor's eponymous research facility for the investigation of human sexuality.
The film is a serviceable depiction of Kinsey's early marriage and efforts to end what, when he began, was a truly ludicrous level of ignorance and misinformation concerning human reproduction and sexual behavior prevailing in both general society and academia. His work to separate the gathering of information about sex from moral judgments of people and their behavior laid the foundation for the later work of Masters & Johnson, Nancy Friday and all the rest who followed. Also featured are Chris O'Donnell and Timothy Hutton as members of Dr. Kinsey's staff, who are shown participating not only in the groundbreaking research work, but also in the Kinsey family's, um...shall we say, unconventional marital arrangements. And turning in scene-stealing support are Oliver Platt as the university prez who backs Kinsey and his work and John Lithgow as Kinsey's appalling minister father.
This week, a delicious dinner was also served beforehand, as Kit whipped up rotini pasta and garlic bread with a beef/veggie sauce, green salad and chocolate/caramel cookies for dessert. Many thanks to the host and hostess for their hospitality and company.
The film is a serviceable depiction of Kinsey's early marriage and efforts to end what, when he began, was a truly ludicrous level of ignorance and misinformation concerning human reproduction and sexual behavior prevailing in both general society and academia. His work to separate the gathering of information about sex from moral judgments of people and their behavior laid the foundation for the later work of Masters & Johnson, Nancy Friday and all the rest who followed. Also featured are Chris O'Donnell and Timothy Hutton as members of Dr. Kinsey's staff, who are shown participating not only in the groundbreaking research work, but also in the Kinsey family's, um...shall we say, unconventional marital arrangements. And turning in scene-stealing support are Oliver Platt as the university prez who backs Kinsey and his work and John Lithgow as Kinsey's appalling minister father.
This week, a delicious dinner was also served beforehand, as Kit whipped up rotini pasta and garlic bread with a beef/veggie sauce, green salad and chocolate/caramel cookies for dessert. Many thanks to the host and hostess for their hospitality and company.
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Date: 2007-10-04 02:27 pm (UTC)Nate B.
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Date: 2007-10-04 03:00 pm (UTC)About half of the guys at both Three Left Feet and the Friday night gaming group are named "Steve".