Movies 25-26

The P/F is whether it passes or fails the Bechdel Test 1) there must be 2 female characters, 2)who talk to each other, 3) about something besides a man.

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25) Sinbad the Sailor. Technicolor with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara and the perennially ethnic Anthony Quinn. Kinda long for what plot there was. Entertaining and pretty to look at. Douglas, like his father, is at his best laughing his way through an improbable escape. (f, 3. The princess and her servant talk, but only about Sinbad)

26) O Brother Where Art Thou? Lovely period piece filmed in hazy atmospheric sepia. Ulysses Everett McGill leads two friends on a jailbreak to stop his ex-wife's wedding. Loosely based on the Odyssey, very entertaining. Great soundtrack. (f,3. Ulysses' wife and 7 daughters talk of how he was hit by a train)

Books 28,29

29) The Path of Iro by Mike Shade. Chulu is led to devote himself to the gods at the temple of Iro. In the temple, there are many ways to worship and each comes with a shard. Immediately taken as a novitiate by the master of the Ivory Shard, Chulu is told the stories of the other masters of the other shards and their novitiates. I wanted to like this. I like good fantasy. This was sex in a fantasy setting. Sometimes the sex got overwhelming and I skimmed. But I had the pattern down by the story of the second shard.

28) International House of Bubbas, Selina Rosen, ed. Pure silliness as Bubbas from around the world cope with the Y25 virus that turns people with too much exposure to computers into zombies. Japan and Scotland, Russia and Antarctica, we're goin' round the world with the Rubber Duck here. Great fun.

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