Note: Obamarifix is taking a holiday while Beth is searching for a new apartment, but she's looking forward to getting back into the health care fray and delving into the minds of those misguided and misinformed Americans who are calling the people who are trying to help them Nazis.
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Speaking of Nazis, go to your neighborhood cinema to see: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino is no filmmaking god to me--Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction showed his talent--and then he flopped. But Basterds is a terrific picture and a whale of a ride! (So why was it considered a turkey at Cannes?) Brad Pitt is pure mountain Southern, and Diane Kruger shows starry acting chops. Inspired performances all the way around. The whole film is terrifically well done. The audience we were part of stood up and clapped after it ended.
And now for Paris.
One of the great pleasures of Paris is walking, and we've been beating the streets in search of apartments. Along rue L'Agent Bailly in the 9th Arrondissement, I spied this mural:
I could live behind one of these secret doors.
And you? Do you find them appealing?
--Beth Arnold
Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by Beth Arnold on her iPhone.