Fine art photog Lois C. whipped up a delectable pesto dish at her NYC pad using fresh herbs from her PA garden. It made me wish I had a garden in the city! It was delicious and was complemented by a beautiful bouquet of flowers, also from her garden. We finished with fruit salad (strawberries, blueberries and pine nuts tossed with lime juice) and chocolates before heading to see the highly anticipated DARK KNIGHT.
Even though we arrived 40 minutes early on a Monday night, it was still packed, with a line clear down the entire theater lobby and the air was stuffy (at best - I think the a/c was broken), which made me a bit dehydrated and grouchy by the time they opened up the house just minutes before the scheduled 8PM start time. I wondered if it was really worth the crowds, wait and unsanitary breathing conditions ...
IT WAS! For me, the main draw of the show is Ledger as the Joker, and not because he tragically died just down the street from my apartment months ago, but because his performance is so intoxicatingly terrifying, darkly humorous and fun to watch that I couldn't take my eyes off of the screen for even a second during his scenes. Despite his naughty, psychotic antics, part of me kind of wished that my own Gotham had a superhero and a villain or two slugging it out while hanging off the sides of skyscrapers to perk things up around here. Kind of.
I give DARK KNIGHT an A- and wish that Ledger's Joker could have made it into future Batman flicks ...
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