The Week in Entertainment

Film: Venus - this movie is wonderful on its own merits, and deepened by the awareness of what you're watching, which is a great actor at the probable tag end of his career, still great, playing a good actor at the very end of his. And yet, because it is Peter O'Toole, you never feel like you're watching his life (he's not reduced to playing dying grandfathers in made-for-tv movies, he's bloody well starring in a major motion picture playing a man reduced to playing dying grandfathers in made-for-tv movies and kicking butt while he does). He can still dominate a scene - that Oscar® nomination was well-and-truly earned.

Live: Smetana's The Bartered Bride in Baltimore - and what a wonderful evening it was. Excellent singing, nice staging, good orchestra, and funny.

TV: more March Madness. Scrubs.

Read: Finished Wild Sheep Chase, and read Harry Frankfurt's two little books, On Bullshit and On Truth