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: : ....and after needless worry about how dressed up to get, my friend : : George and I walked from the subway, and saw the press crowded : : around the red-carpet superbright gauntlet, got our tickets and found : : our seats. Saw way-newslim Robert "ratface" Holtzman, beaming the : : unmistakeable newfather beam. He said he'd lost weight on the : : Atkins diet, and George, following the introduction, said it had prolly : : been the Ratkins diet. To our right, in sparkly hose, sat Elyse Viola, : : and down the row to our left , Laura Greenlee. Affleck in the aisle : : signed autographs. Harvey Weinstein spoke of Miramax being the : : joined names of his parents, and of Kevin and Ben as family. Kevin : : led off by acknowledging the supporting cast, and following one JLo : : joke (Kev said they would run the movie as soon as she arrived) and : : Ben's nifty gratitudes to Kevin, Jersey Girl arrived, with many a : : quandry solved. : : [ As one who read the Fifth Draft laughing with tears streaming down : : (and vice versa), I can only hope there's a book made of the movie, so : : you all can see the Big Fishy scene, find out about man gravy/sister : : sauce, the Arthur-Susan combo, and how Gertie's mother got her : : name. But maybe that's what DVD bonuses are for.] : : The concentrate of the Ollie-Gert love affair at the beginning, given : : the necessity (under the very radar of the kill-bennifer press snipers : : and the time crunch and the focus group druthers) of omitting several : : of their other scenes, witty and tender - worked beautifully, I thought. : : I thought the performances were pluperfect. The balance of : : poignance and humor was exact. The diaper delivery man! The : : receptionist at Angelotti! The Arthur-Ollie luncheon scene at the Hard : : Rock is quietly revolutionary. Carlin's restraint - his brusque : : love....Raquel's radiant naturalness....Liv's bountiful kindliness and : : laughter....Ben's homerun wit and heartfelt anguish... : : Root and Starr, together and distinct...every word given it's right : : weight and spin. : : And what a wonderful script! What swell characters! And what bliss : : to be part of! : : It touched my heart, and I had already seen it. : : The dedication hit so hard. : : Then the lights up, and the crowd movingb toward the exits. An : : exceedingly glamorous woman, tall and thin and maybe blonde? : : attempted to exit by a side door, and then thought better of it, : : vanished in the throng. Too late I realized it was: Jen! Glimpsed : : Harley, so grown up! Saw Gail, way busy. Liv holding forth in a circle : : of admirers...looked for Raquel but never found her. People making : : off with the J.G. posters/posterboards. : : George really liked the movie. He and I made our way slowly (I was : : wearing heels) to the Hard Rock Cafe where the music was so loud : : my internal organs started to get down and boogie. We made one : : pass round the place, upstairs and down, failed to find familiar faces, : : with the exception of the wonderful boy betrothed so early to the : : Jersey Girl - who didn't recognize me because my hair was down in a : : kind of page-boy blow-dried for me by a divorced father named : : Gerard, who was so happy, as was my postman, Bob, to know it was : : a film he could take his children to.......and went out into what was left : : of the night.... : : what a night! Thanks, Kevin, maya without end. : : Tonight's a sad night, because my beloved calico cat, Mishu, may be : : dying. I found her 11 years ago, wandering around the Chapel of St. : : Michael the Archangel, a Byzantine Catholic tiny church on Mott Street : : in Manhattan.She's at the vet's tonight, in case they can do anything : : for her, and I'm having hard time with the grief. If you will, say a little : : prayer for her? Thanks. : : love to all

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