Sundance--Park City, Utah

Sushi time, Onika? And you're welcome! 😉

Did your skin turn into a desert in the cold weather? Mine always does. Looks like lizard skin after a week. (No offense, Lizard. 🙂 )

None taken!

Utah may be cold but is not the coldest - having lived in Minnesota and Utah I would say Minnesota is the coldest. Glad you had a good time in Utah - it is pretty.

Park City was gorgeous.

Trade, you are so right, my skin is still scaly despite the copius amounts of cocoa/shea butter applied!

EE--maybe in a few weeks??

Onika,
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Aren't those mountains incredible? When I worked for Amex I had to fly out to Salt Lake City quite a bit because we had a big facility there. My skin always dried out the minute I got there. They say its a dry cold, so it's not that bad, but as soon as that wind whips up, I'm just frozen. I do agree with Glynnswife, however, Minnesota adds an additional twist with the cold, humid conditions (I also had to travel there for work--usually SLC & Minneapolis in the winter and Phoenix in the summer, sigh).

Any movies you enjoyed in particular? Kim

Well, now that you mention it KLJ555, it seems quite fitting that one of my faves and the Dramatic Jury winner was a film called Frozen River. It is about a Mohawk woman living on the res at the border of NY and Canada who engages in a smuggling business with a working-class white woman. It was a beautiful movie with something for everyone. It was picked up by a distrib so hopefully we can at least get it on DVD here on our little island.

There were others too, the Black List (coming to HBO; interviews with prominent Black-Americans--really insightful and fresh. Made by Elvis Mitchell, whose arts reviews in the NYT were also always insightful),
Kicking It (coming to ESPN; about the Homeless World Cup Soccer Championship of 2006),
A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (the title alone was worth it, but I also loved the 70s style),
The Visitor (I think Sony picked it up; lonely, depressed Prof. returns to his NY apt to find a Syrian man and Senegalese woman occupying his home. Through drumming and much-missed human interaction he regains his humanity).
The list goes on, but one movie I would suggest avoiding at all costs: Downloading Nancy. A perverse movie that ultimately sexualized the pain of a woman who had been repeatedly sexually abused by her uncle as a child.
It. was. just. BAD.

I forgot to mention Trouble the Water, a film about a couple surviving during and post-Katrina. Tickets were impossible to come by so I didn't get to see it but it is apparently FABU. Should be coming to HBO shortly.

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JDuboz@wma.com Frozen River info

You must be a big movie buff. So are we, but we usually just go to the main stream movies. 64 last year, it's our dat time together. We never rent, because if we get one that one of us don't care for, someone will leave the room and go watch another TV, so the time together is not the same.

Oinka,
Thanks much for the run down on the movies. I will watch for them. I'm also going to send your list to my parents. They live in northern MI, near Traverse City. You wouldn't think they would get interesting movies there, but Michael Moore (Roger & Me, Rolling for Columbine, etc.) restored an old movie theater there and they get all sorts of stuff. My parents are actually more cutting edge when it comes to movie watching than my husband and me, despite their conservative midwest mindset. Thanks again, KJ

I noticed Netflix has Sundance movies. I wonder if they're available faster than mainstream movies are?