a year old. Son and wife and two kids come for a visit. Everyone's really good in it and Newman deserved his Oscar. Interesting and satisfying.

The Italian Job original with Michael Caine and of all people Noel Coward! Fun caper movie very much of the 60s. Cliffhanger of an ending.

The Jacket with Adrian Brody, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kris Kristofferson, Daniel Craig, and Keira Knightly about a veteran of the first Gulf War who after being shot in the head remembers very little about himself and is pretty screwed up. He ends up in a mental hospital where one of the psychiatrists (Kristofferson) subjects him to a torturous, experimental treatment. I liked it much more than I expected. I thought it was going to be a horror movie, whichin the book. Having seen the movie helped keep the members of the Vanger family straight--I have a feeling that if I read the book first I might have been very confused.

I've just started The Girl Who Played With Fire and it immediately draws the reader in.

I had two wonderful meals this past week: Sushi, at my local Japanese restaurant with lots of Nigori unfiltered cold sake, plenty of sushi and various flavors of mochi (the ice cream wrapped in pounded sticky rice). Delicious. Then Wednesday I celebrated a friend's birthday at Café Soleil on the upper west side. Wine flowed, food was eaten, women talked (it was 13 women) and desserts were tasted. It was a fine night.

This evening I watched It's Complicated, the recent comedy with