How sad! Sydney Pollack died this week. Great movies. I remember watching that scene in "The Way We Were" where Barbara Streisand calls her husband and tells him that even though they've broken up she really needs someone and if he could just come over... Powerful scene.
So I watched Silence of the Lambs tonight. I am enthralled by the character of Hannibal Lecter. Even though Anthony Hopkins only gets a little more than 15 minutes of screen time, he was voted AFI's most memorable villain. That's quite an accomplishment if you ask me. And I watched it with the siblings, gotta educate them on quality cinema early or they'll end up idolizing 'horror' flicks like Scary Movie - no thank you.
Ooh, I read a book that was simply lying on the fabulous library wall this week. I'd finished reading Bram Stoker's Dracula earlier so I was on quite a vampire streak, and I picked up this young adult novel, The Blood Confession, by Alisa Libby. Aside from the dark subject matter, I adore the way she writes with so much historical credibility. It's basically the story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, thought to be one of the true inspirations for vampire folklore, from her own perspective after being found out in her sadistic activities. Upon further research, I found the countess is the number one serial killer in recorded history according to number of victims, thought to be 650+. The actual number is unknown, as well as the actual tactics used to torture them. The basics entail her 14th century castle's dungeons being utilized for bleedings of young peasant girls. Legend further implies the blood was used by Elizabeth (Erszebet in Hungarian, where her family castle was located, now modern day Slovakia) as a beauty agent, along with the belief that if bathed in, the blood could actually transfer the beneficial qualities and physical beauty of the person bled. I found myself disgusted, yet intrigued. Envy is a dangerous feeling, and it drives women to take drastic measures - especially in Ms. Bathory's case.
Something to be wary of, ladies.
Ok, geek time over for the night.
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