We attended the Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival this past weekend.

It was a total delight.

Here I am with the Master of Ceremonies, Robert Osborne himself:

Here is a virtual tour of some of the people who attended the Saturday morning brunch.

http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?T=1835571

After the brunch, we went to see Sunset Boulevard.  A wonderful classic film in the Film Noir genre.  I had seen it on Broadway with Glenn Close and loved to see how the film version was different and the same.  In the film you could really get close-ups of that scary woman and really see her “silent-movie eyes”, as my husband noted.

One thing that struck me about Sunset Boulevard was the comment made before the film about the difficulty in finding the right actress for the film.  She needed to have been a famous “has-been”, but couldn’t be too much like the lead part.  So they chose Gloria Swanson because she had smarts and had a lot on the ball and could bring a perspective of what it was like to be a big star, but wasn’t still living in the past herself.  They also commented that a lot of Hollywood was miffed with the film because they thought it was talking about them!  Also the audience chuckled about 50 being very, very old!

So, doesn’t this make you want to move to Athens, Georgia area?  We have cutting edge music, the University of Georgia, great pottery and the arts abound with things to do and see.  And you’ll already be living here for next year’s Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival?  What more could you ask for?

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Have a great day!    Laura  

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