It’s been almost 20 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks put Manhattan’s Upper West Side on the map in the rom-com classic You’ve Got Mail.
Visit my neighborhood today and all the movie’s sights are still here — the local restaurants where they rendezvoused, the farmer’s market, Riverside Park. Everything but her little Shop Around the Corner.
Well, that’s changing.
Book Culture is opening their doors literally around the corner from my brownstone apartment and taking up the ‘small bookshop mantle’ that Meg’s character abandoned lo’ those many years ago.
Their window says it best:
Now, the modern version of the movie’s ‘big bad Fox Books’ exists today — Barnes & Noble is just a couple of blocks away. So it will be interesting to see how this small store will compete on selection and pricing.
But I for one am excited to see life imitate art just feet from my doorsteps.
Wonder if the proprietor will be as photogenic?
For the boys
Today’s blog is dedicated to guys — actors all — who deserve a little extra love today.
Tom Hanks. Oscar Isaac. Robert Redford — all denied Best Actor Oscar nods by the Academy.
Now, I could be talked down on Isaac if the Academy didn’t pretty much ignore Inside Llewyn Davis, save a couple of technical awards. I mean, it didn’t even get nominated for its musical score.
And while Captain Phillips did get six other nods, how can you justify not nominating Hanks?
Did they watch the final scene??
And Redford? He was the entire movie All Is Lost. Period. What more do you want?
Apparently anything by Martin Scorsese…and I do mean, anything.
On a more somber note, I want to pay tribute to Russell Johnson — the original and best nerd crush of my generation, who left the world today…
We’ll miss you, Professor.
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