Precious
Spoiler Alert: You might not want to read this if you plan to see the movie. Details will, no doubt, be revealed. Mariah Carey plays me at 25. That's only one of the wonderful surprises in Precious . The Little Cuter took herself on a date to see it earlier this month, and she was on the phone to me that night encouraging me to take myself, too. ( "Do not bring Dad.... it is so not his kind of movie." ) So, today, feeling bereft, I took her advice. TBG didn't want to sit in the dark, anyway, so there wasn't even any guilt at leaving him to fend for himself on this first Cuter-less day. I went in smiling. That lasted about 3 minutes. Awful doesn't come close to the life lived in that 3 room duplex, and Alfred Hitchcock could take lessons about what happens at the top of these stairs. Every time I though it couldn't get worse, it did. It wasn't over-the-top horrible, it was believable and wretched and it felt true. That was how it got unde...