ok, so i am rereading the hours by michael cunningham, pulitzer prize winning author that wrote the book on which the current movie is based.......it is a book for virginia woolf buffs, of that there is no doubt...i have a hard time believing that the average joe off the street will enjoy the movie without first having read mrs.dalloway, the book on which the hours is based, ;let alone the hours itself.......the 3 women in the movie/book do not actually meet each other, and are not on screen together......but each are essential to the plot.....there is a place in the third chapter at which i burst out laughing, in the hot bathtub, no less........the meryl streep character..clarissa dalloway...is standing on a corner waiting for a traffic light, holding a bouquet of flowers......there are two girls also waiting...and debating on the movie shooting taking place across the street and down some......'i think it was susan sarandan' says one ot the other.......no i think it was meryl streep. says the other.....in the movie they must have surely included this joke, as meryl streep is standing right beside them when the line is said.......maybe they chose her because of the mention in the book, or maybe because the role called for a truly intense female.......i hope that i have not already blogged on this....i am getting older by the moment, it seems.....