:: Saturday, February 28, 2004 ::

Finally caught up with "Something's Gotta Give" this past weekend. Title is always confusing me, becuase of course, there is already a 1962 movie called "Something's Got to Give" which of course was the unfinished film Marily was working on at the time of her death. "Something's Gotta Give" is Nancy Meyer's humorous and touching take on middle age romance, with Jack Nicholson, who's getting better as he gets older, and Diane Keaton, who is now (along with Charlize Theron) my pick for Best Actress this Sunday night. Diane is lustrous, exciting, and still beautiful. (Major female stars of the seventies, as they age, usually pile on the botox and collagen, to somewhat startingly frightening effects. Witness Goldie Hawn, for example, who tends to look these days like the character she played in Zemeckis' "Death Becomes Her". But Diane Keaton has "aged well" and still looks beautiful. I've always said that Susan Sarandon is the most beautiful 53 year old gal I've ever loved, and Diane Keaton certainly gets my vote for the most beautiful 58 year old.
The film is one I would recommend to anyone, but especially to aging boomers like me. It rekindles one's belief in romance. It's funny. It's warm and has a feel good feeling to it. Something that most major films in 2003 certainly didn't offer.
"Monster" for instance, with the aforementioned Theron, is almost too painful to watch. The denoument of "Cold Mountain" is really chilly. And even though "Mystic River" is a great work of art, it isn't light comedy that's for sure.
"Something's Gotta Give" gets a 9 of 10 on the Mikometer.
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