A return to the classics....

Some, err, all of 5 of you who read this blog read my previous France Blog. The inspiration for that blog title was two-fold. The clever name (courtesy of Brooke, my Communications Guru, creative, blog-setting-up friend) was inspired by the movie, "An American in Paris". But the reason that film title was familiar to us was due to my favorite television show, "Sex and the City". The final episodes of that amazing show were titled "An American Girl in Paris" since one of the main characters, Carrie Bradshaw, moved to Paris with her boyfriend-at-the time, Alexander Petrovsky.

Well, I was feeling like a bit of a fraud for naming my previous blog after a movie I had never seen. Now that I have Netflix, I decided to rent this movie. Oh, and let me just do a little plug for Netflix here. I don't know why I haven't signed up for that service months years ago! Here's the beauty of it - you don't feel like you are wasting your money on a movie since you know you can return it & get something new 2 days later. And, if you are taking full advantage of your membership, the more you rent, the less each movie costs since you can 'depreciate' that monthly membership fee over the number of movies you rent each month. Beautiful. And I can't believe I used the term depreciate in this context. Can you tell I am in MBA school???

Anyways, back to the main point of this blog entry. The movie was AMAZING! Why didn't I watch this earlier? They really knew how to do movies back then! An American in Paris was released on Feb 4th, 1952 and features Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron. Leslie Caron's name in the film was "Lise" which is pronounced like Lisa, which was kind of cool. Watching the film was great since it provided many flashbacks to sites I had seen in Paris.

As if the fabulous setting and a tap-dancing Gene Kelly weren't enough,

the film also features a great soundtrack (which I think I might buy...) - if you like George & Ira Gerschwin, you'll like this. In fact, I think I have my first dance for my wedding picked out. Yep, you read that correctly - I don't have a boyfriend, thus no fiance, thus no wedding in the near future, but I sure do have a first song picked if/when I have a wedding to plan... Can't you just picture me twirling around the floor to, "Our Love is Here to Stay"? Now I just have to find a guy who's into Gerschwin... and is willing to take ballroom dancing lessons... Hmm... Maybe I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here...

"The Philadelphia Story" and "Bridge over the river Kwai" are waiting for me at home. So my foray into the classics continues this weekend.... Aside from watching those movies (time permitting), I'm taking a knitting class at Bella Lana (learning how to cable knit!!) and am going to the Opera, "Il Trovatore". It's my first Opera so I am super excited as it's something I've always wanted to check out! Then on Sunday, I need to do an 8 mile training run... yeesh. Sort of nervous about that... Hopefully I'll be able to walk on Monday! ;)

Have a great weekend everyone!