Whoa! Late start alert!!

We caught “The Soloist” over the weekend, a movie starring Robert Downey Jr., and Jamie Foxx. You’ve probably heard about the film, based on the best-selling book by Steve Lopez, of the L.A. Times. The book was the end result of columns he wrote, about the character played in the movie version by Foxx.

Well, this flick is one powerful night out. Both stars do exceptional work onscreen, and the end result is pretty heavy by the time you leave the theatre.

Downey Jr. plays reporter Steve Lopez in the flick, whom Mrs. That Dan Guy and I will be sitting in front of, in just a few weeks. He’s a keynote speaker at my annual writing conference this year. Well, one of the keynote speakers. This year’s event may well be one of the best I’ve ever attended, but I guess you’ll have to wait until it’s happening to read all about it here.

Of course, with all this normalcy comes my usual numerical intrusions. From all the movie theatre choices in Calgary, we chose the one where it was playing in Theatre #11. See ticket stub as “Exhibit A”, submitted into evidence.

On the way home, we ordered a pizza for a late-nite snack, and discovered the morning afterward when we were recycling the box, that we were coded as #11.

On Sunday, we watched a movie from Movie Central that we had recorded. “Righteous Kill”, with Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino. Pretty good film, aside from the scene where De Niro is playing on the NYPD rec ball team, and his player number is…what are the odds…ELEVEN!!

I’ve gotta buy a book on Numerology…

Chow for now!!