Weekend Frivolities: Movie Trailer

While I put on my dark glasses and floppy hat to venture up Madison Avenue, you may be interested in a visit to the picture show. The colonel and I strolled up Broadway to the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 last night to see Across the Universe, the new Julie Taymor movie, and we enjoyed it for all kinds of reasons. I thought that the movie was the perfect end to the British Invasion Walk, as it involves a romance between an American blonde and a cute John/Paul Liverpudlian boy. The action goes back and forth from Greenwich Village to Liverpool. The movie is set in the turbulent sixties, and we enjoyed seeing our neighborhood in its psychedelic glory. Taymor is part of a creative group that attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in the 1970s, and fellow alum Bill Irwin makes a cameo appearance in the movie. Her use of gigantic puppets also references those creative days. You might wonder why WOTBA knows all this, but I don't need to go into all that right now. Enjoy the show.

See the trailer and more at the official website for Across the Universe.