The Week in Entertainment

Film: National Treasure: Book of Secrets - much like the first one, this is a lot of fun while you're watching it though it doesn't bear much close scrutiny. But it does what it promises, and you can't argue with that.

DVD: The Last Man on Earth - it had been a while, but after seeing I Am Legend it was interesting to compare. TLMOE is much closer to the novella, though they distorted the ending slightly; where Matheson's Neville died thinking that he was the freak and the vampires the normal ones, the movie's Morgan (and why they changed only that name escapes me) died yelling "Freaks! You're all freaks! I am a man - the last man on earth!" And then, since it was on the same disc, The House on Haunted Hill - Elisha Cook really adds a certain something to this; I loved it when, after being told that the group will "have to stay for six more hours!" he got all thoughtful and then said, "Six hours. Six of us," and, nodding, added, "Time enough." Both the Fantastic Four movies (they grow on me, they really do); my father got them for Christmas. Also he got Jumanji and Zathura so we watched those, too.

TV: Hardly anything at all once more. The Outback Bowl, of course. A very funny Edward G Robinson film called Larceny, Inc., and The Woman in White, which was odd but good; Sydney Greenstreet and Agnes Moorehead are extremely good in it. It is interesting that the film has Hartwright marry Marian instead of Laura, though. Did catch the tail-end of the Mercedes-Benz classic at Kapalua, though - Daniel Chopra putted like a machine all day until the 18th, and then in the playoff he couldn't get 'em to drop. Twice the ball stopped dead on the lip! Sheesh. But finally, in the last minutes of daylight he dropped a birdie putt and won. He's one to keep an eye on, I'd say.

Read: The Committee of Sleep by Deirdre Barrett, about dreams and the creative process - art, film, and science. Very interesting. Started Ayala's Angel by Trollope.