A Touch of Pink

went to see The Notebook yesterday, but we were late, so we decided to watch A Touch of Pink instead. It's about this South Asian Muslim guy, brought up in Canada, living in London with his English boyfriend. Alim, our mopey hero, played by Jimi Mistry (of East is East and The Guru fame) has a rather peculiar Guardian Angel - the spirit of Cary Grant, played wonderfully by Kyle McLachlan, who has Grant's speech patterns down pat, even as he says lines like, "there you are, my little samosa!" All is well until Alim's mother, Nuru, comes to visit, and Alim rushes back into the Closet and introdules the boyfriend as the roomie. Hilarity ensues.

My favourite line of the movie - Nuru makes eggs for her son, and the boyfriend, Giles, thinks the eggs are for everyone and digs in. Nuru says, "You people think everything belongs to you - eggs, India, Africa..." and the audience explodes. figuratively.

All in all, a fun movie - if a bit racy in parts. S Asian people might get more of the humour than others, but you won't know till you try, right?

Go read the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - who wrote, among other things, Renascence and First Fig. Here's the opening verse from The Philosopher:

"And what are you that, wanting you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?"

With such a fondness for Angst (note the capitalization!), it's no wonder I'm a Buffy/Angel fan. :D

-later, then!