Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin. Streep and Baldwin have been divorced ten years and he's remarried to the younger woman with whom he cheated on Streep. Streep and Baldwin start having an affair just as she's becoming interested in Martin. Streep and Baldwin are great in it. Martin is stiff. Not as funny as I would have liked but pleasant enough.

The second movie of the evening is the amazing French movie Innocence, which has to be one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. It opens with a coffin and a bunch of little girls opening it and goes on from there. About thirty girls from 6-11 years old are living within a "park" that houses a school. They are taught by two young women andcatered to by a bunch of elderly servants. Marion Cottilard is one of the teachers. It's written and directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (her first full length film) and based on a novella by Frank Wedekind (author of the hit musical Spring Awakening. Interestingly, after listening to a long interview with Hadzihalilovic, the movie is not intended to be creepy. But see it for yourself.

This interview with someone from the FTC demonstrates the ignorance of the FTC when it comes to book publishing and book reviewing:

The new rule, which you might have heard about, is regarding those who blog about items for which they receive review copies (books are only one of the types of material received and of course are a drop in the bucket compared to tech