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Love is Strange “Downer Movie”
Oct 6th
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
LOVE IS STRANGE stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as two gay men who have been living together for years and have been partners for even longer than that, and it is about what happens to them after they can finally get officially married.
The movie begins with the wedding ceremony for Ben and George, which is held outdoors in New York City and attended by their families and friends.
At the reception afterwards, held in the roomy apartment that Ben and George own together, Kate, played by Marisa Tomei, who is married to Elliot, Ban’s nephew, makes a toast and says, “May this marriage last forever and beyond.”
Well, unfortunately, their official marriage causes problems for Ben and George, because George, who teaches music at a Catholic school, loses his job, and their loss of income forces them to sell their apartment and move out.
So, while they are looking for another apartment, Ben moves in with Elliot and Kate, where he sleeps on the bottom bunk in the bedroom of their teenage son, Joey, which causes privacy problems with Joey and his friend Vlad.
George moves in with two policemen friends of theirs, who are also gay, and he sleeps on the couch in their living room.
Now, Kate is a novelist who works at home, Ben likes to talk, and he doesn’t realize at first that his talking to Kate is interrupting her concentration and getting on her nerves.
As Ben tells George, “Sometimes when you live with people, you know them better than you care to.”
Ben is a painter, but when Kate suggests that he do some painting to keep him busy, he tells her that he can’t work if someone else is around, because he can’t concentrate.
George is also having difficulties with his new living arrangement sleeping on the couch, because the policemen have a lot of parties and a lot of friends over for activities that don’t interest George at all.
Now, you might get the impression that this sounds like a pretty depressing movie, and you would be right.
Even though other incidents break up the main complication of Ben and George looking for a new place to live, and even though something lucky happens for them, it gets even more depressing.
LOVE IS STRANGE is a downer movie.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
St. Augustine – Lighthouse Park Tree Trimming
May 2nd
Parking restrictions will be required for Monday-Friday, May 5-9.
Starting on Monday, May 5 and continuing through Friday, May 9, K&S Tree Service, a city contractor, will be trimming trees within the rights-of-way along streets lying in the Lighthouse Park area. Trimming will be done from 8:30am to 4:30pm each day.
Because of the trimming, there will be no parking along these streets during the times of trimming, and vehicles remaining in the area will be towed at owner’s expense. There will be no exceptions.
Specific streets affected are: Inlet Pl., Ocean Way, Salt Run Ct., Ingram St., Palmetto Ave., Dancy St., Magnolia Dr., Ponce de Leon Ave., Lighthouse Ave., White St., E. Busam St., Carver St., Red Cox Rd., Lew Blvd., Flamingo Dr., Marlin Dr., and Anastasia Ave.
This project provides tree maintenance to comply with the city’s ordinance which requires overhead clearance of 14 feet above the road surface. It will not entail trimming trees around aerial utilities which is the responsibility of electric, phone and cable television providers.
No street closures are anticipated and all local traffic will have access to their properties. However, at isolated work areas, vehicular traffic will be narrowed to one lane with flag men.
For more information contact city inspector Brett Brown at 904.825.1040.
Source: City of St. Augustine