Going to spend the day working with a writer on her copyedited manuscript. I just want to say for the record that I love the copyediting stage more than any other — it’s the fine tuning and the points of grammar, syntax, tense and word choice that really turn me on. It’s what I miss most about no longer being an editor. The best copy editor I ever worked with is Peg Anderson formerly of Houghton Mifflin. No one could work a blue pencil like Peg.
Then meeting a writer for a discussion of her novel.
Then paying the bills. Party!
Then catching up on everything else I didn’t do today.
Then going to a movie. I will see anything just to escape myself. I mean it. Any suggestions?
Betsy Lerner 
Man, you need a good laugh this week. I supposed “Up” is a bit too out-of-character? And order a large popcorn.
Drag Me to Hell
1hr 39min – Rated PG-13 – Horror/Suspense/Thriller – Trailer – IMDb
Regal E-Walk 13
247 W 42nd St, New York, NY – Map
11:15 11:45am 12:15 12:45 1:45 2:15 2:45 3:15 4:15 4:45 5:15 5:45 6:45 7:15 7:45 8:15 9:10 9:40 10:10 10:40pm AMC Loews 34th Street 14
312 W. 34th St., New York, NY – Map
12:10 1:50 2:45 4:20 5:20 7:00 8:00 9:35 10:30pm
AMC Loews Kips Bay 15
570 Second Ave., New York, NY – Map
1:15 2:05 3:40 4:30 6:05 7:05 8:35 9:35 11:10pm AMC Loews 19th St. East 6
890 Broadway, New York, NY – Map
2:00 2:45 4:30 5:30 7:15 8:00 9:45 10:30pm
City Cinemas Village East Cinema
181-189 Second Avenue, New York, NY – Map
11:00am 12:00 1:15 2:15 3:30 4:30 5:45 7:00 8:00 9:15 10:15pm AMC Loews 84th Street 6
2310 Broadway, New York, NY – Map
12:35 3:05 5:30 7:55 10:30pm
Mayfair Triplex
6405 Park Avenue, West New York, NJ – Map
6:10 8:10pm AMC Loews Orpheum 7
1538 Third Ave., New York, NY – Map
12:40 3:05 5:40 8:15 10:45pm
Regal Battery Park Stadium 11
102 North End Avenue, New York, NY – Map
12:35 3:00 5:35 8:00 10:45pm Phoenix Theatres Columbia Park Stadium 12
3125 Kennedy Blvd, North Bergen, NJ – Map
12:40 3:05 5:25 7:50 10:20pm
Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas
339 River Road, Edgewater, NJ – Map
12:20 2:45 5:10 7:50 10:20pm Summit Quadplex
1214 Summit Avenue, Union City, NJ – Map
8:10pm
AMC Loews Newport Centre 11
30-300 Mall Drive West, Jersey City, NJ – Map
1:45 4:10 6:45 9:20pm UA Kaufman Studios Cinema 14
35-30 38th Street, Long Island City, NY
11:45am 2:20 4:55 7:45 10:20pm
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9
2309 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY – Map
12:00 2:30 5:00 5:45 7:20 8:00 9:50 10:35pm UA Court Street Stadium 12
106 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY – Map
12:05 2:45 5:15 7:45 10:15pm
Center Cinema 5
42-17 Queens Blvd., Sunnyside, NY – Map
2:00 4:30 7:00 9:40pm Concourse Plaza Multiplex Cinemas
214 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY – Map
12:15 2:35 5:05 7:25 10:00pm
AMC Loews Ridgefield Park 12
75 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, NJ – Map
1:50 4:35 7:05 9:35pm Jackson Triplex Theatre
40-31 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY – Map
2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00pm
Coliseum Cinemas
701 West 181st Street, New York, NY – Map
3:05 5:10 7:15 9:20pm Bay Ridge Alpine Cinemas
6817 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY – Map
12:00 2:15 4:30 6:45 9:05pm
Hudson Mall Cinemas 7
701 Route 440, Jersey City, NJ – Map
4:40 7:30pm UA Midway Stadium 9
108-22 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, NY – Map
12:45 3:10 5:25 7:45 10:00pm
Frank Theatres – South Cove Stadium 12
191 Lefante Way, Bayonne, NJ – Map
1:15 3:30 5:45 8:00 10:10pm Bow Tie Cinemas American Theater
1450 East Avenue, Bronx, NY – Map
2:30 5:15 7:30 10:05pm
College Point Multiplex Cinemas
2855 Ulmer Street, Whitestone, NY – Map
11:55am 2:15 4:40 7:10 9:45pm Linden Boulevard Multiplex Cinemas
2784 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY – Map
11:55am 12:25 2:15 2:45 4:40 5:10 7:10 7:40 9:30 10:10pm
AMC Clifton Commons 16
405 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ – Map
2:00 2:15 4:40 5:20 7:20 8:00 10:00 10:40pm AMC Loews Kings Plaza 6
5201 Kings Plaza, Flatlands, NY – Map
12:05 2:30 5:15 7:45 10:20pm
This is a Netflix, but we just looked at 1979 Mikhalkov film, “Oblomov.” SO fabulous. Even with the bad audio. You just don’t see acting like this much anymore. Great, quintessentially Russian story with the most interesting camera relationships (fluid POV) and, across the board, detailed, unusual, physical expressions of character that we Americans laud as Stanislavskian but seldom achieve.