Camp Mommy 2009 - FREE Summer Movies!

Regal Theatre's terrific summer program is back:

REG’s Free Family Film Festival is Now Showing!

When school’s out, kids around the country visit selected Regal Theatres for the Free Family Film Festival. It’s a fun-filled nine weeks of movies for kids and parents. Since 1991, Regal has provided this service to the community, and best of all it’s FREE!

Selected G & PG movies start at 10AM each Tuesday and Wednesday during the festival. First-come, first-served seating is limited to theatre capacity. The Free Family Film Festival is safe, lots of fun and a great way for kids to spend a weekday morning in the summer.

Check out the details and participating theatres at:
www.regmovies.com

Rebel Twitter for the non-tweets

Our current Twitter following on RebelHousewife.com (follow rebelupdate) is at 6 (SIX!) and steadily increasing -- I am really excited about that! For the other 3,546 dedicated Rebels out there who are not on Twitter.com or who can't/don't want to follow rebelupdate on Twitter, here's today's update, in 140-character Twitter snippets:

1) Home again & finally to work after getting everybody up&out to various destinations. Fixed son's bike chain - so dirty, so proud of myself!

2) Update on Obama book*: Last section in Africa best part, ended up loving the book-Book Group did, too. Going to read THE AUDACITY OF HOPE next.

*NOTE: 4 days ago - Midtown ATL Book Group Weds night @ B&N: DREAMS FROM MY FATHER by Barack Obama. I am 1/2way thru. Like it, drags a bit, fascinated by Obama.

3) (Last tweet 2day - TGIF!)[I lied] CAMP MOMMY: Free Summer Movies@Regal Theatres: www.regmovies.com

4) I am really excited about this! Oprah's Books of Summer:
Oprah's Books of Summer Bookmark PDF

Have a great weekend!

Stranger Than Fiction

love, Love, LOVE this movie!!!

How perfect is this, at least in my life right now:
Is life a comedy or a tragedy?

"It's the nature of all tragedies, Harold. The hero dies, but the story goes on forever."

I can totally relate to Emma Thompson's writer character in this movie: I recognize the far-away look in her eyes in her first scene, doing "research," imagining various death scenarios through the movie, and feeling each one so deeply. She seems one step beside reality, preoccupied, in her artistic life, her disheveled appearance, exhaustion and nervous habits. I feel that same way myself, often. Especially when I'm writing, working in the novel.

I just wonder: Where's my Queen Latifah?!
(She plays the writer's assistant in the movie, and she is fabulous, as always. I love QL.)

Will Ferrell, in the first non-comedic role I've ever seen him in, is also fabulous, as is Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Stranger Than Fiction is a quirky, deep, unexpected treasure; funny in places, and incredibly sad in others. Fabulous.