scarlett

ok, so mm anticipates the opening of the girl with the pearl earring, a new movie with scarlett johannson and colin firth...............it will open in our neck of the woods sometime in january 2004.......even though it opens in nyc this weekend.....yet another reason to live in nyc...........i read this book 2 years ago, prior to our trip to northern europe, which included amsterdam...i actually saw this picture in the hague in 1976, when i was traveling with my parents and we went to the art museum in the hague, with the name i cannot pronounce..........anyway.........the book is stellar, with a luminescence (sp) that is palpable.........i can picture scarlett johannson in this role, though i thought she was wasted in lost in translation........i am a colin firth fan, of course, given that i have watched pride and prejudice on vhs...all 6 installments........at least 12 times.........i went to the authors web site.......to read what she has to say about her book turned movie.........the bottomline.......she sold the rights before the book hit it big.....which is means that she got next to nothing for a film that will be both visually beautiful and emotionally stirring.......the book is about passion that goes beyond the casual sex pandered in most films........it is about an artist who understood true beauty, and about the girl/scullery maid he chanced to paint who understood art/lighting/texture/placement/color etc........the result is a compelling study in both innocence and guile.....like mona lisa with a turban..........there is a chance that i could see the movie in paris, as it may hit that market before it makes it to the kentucky....alas, this is not a movie that will play danville............