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[livejournal.com profile] snowy_kathryn is a good wife. She took me out on a hot date: bubble tea and a movie.

As we walked along in our dance class clothes, some yobs leaned out the window of a pickup truck and shouted, "UGLY BITCHES!!!" This set us off in gales of laughter. I suspect our hecklers were very rude gay men.

After our delicious Hong Kong-style bubble tea, which I'd been craving for two months, we got dolled up and went to see The Devil Wears Prada.

It's the first time I've ever dressed specifically for a movie.

Although I've actually become accustomed to guys scoping us out (a big change for me from being derided as the homely, scrawny, weird chick in high school), the effect of us sashaying down the street in our metallic silver gowns was astonishing. I was afraid there'd be a car accident, because male drivers simply were not watching the road as they crept past us. It was also evidently prom night, as we saw scores of pastel-clad girls with their tux-wearing escorts. These girls stared, too, and not in a catty way. Passers-by on the sidewalk were coming to full stops, then turning, mouths agape, as we strutted by.

Ugly bitches, indeed.

The movie was pure feel-good fluff, but entertaining. Meryl Streep did a fine job, and Anne Hathaway is too cute for words. Not bad for a "fat" chick ('zif!). Hmm. Is she typecast as the ugly duckling, I wonder? What else has she been in besides The Princess Diaries?

The Devil Wears Prada is pure, escapist fantasy, of course. No one is as saintly as Hathaway's character. Even happy, smiling Buddha himself wouldn't have put up with the shit she shrugs off then rewards in the course of the movie.

...

Ugh. I need sleep. I'm so tired, I feel drunk. And I really need to get more rehearsal time in tomorrow. G'night.

Date: 2006-07-01 10:00 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiolekt.livejournal.com
Did anybody take pictures?

Date: 2006-07-01 11:31 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
Yes, but I haven't seen them yet.

Date: 2006-07-01 01:23 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com
Ann Hathaway was in "Brokeback Mountain"

Date: 2006-07-01 02:21 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I haven't seen it. Is she an ugly duckling in that one, too?

Date: 2006-07-01 03:15 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com
No, far from it. She's kind of a middle-class cowgirl sort of thing. She appears nude in the film. She did the nude scene apparently so that she could sort of shed "The Princess Diaries" typecasting.

Date: 2006-07-01 07:32 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] nymphie.livejournal.com
No pictures of said dresses? :(

she's in......

Date: 2006-07-02 12:44 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)
Anne Hathaway is also in The Other Side of Heaven. It's about a mormon missionary, and she play's the beautiful girl who waits for him for the three years he's in Tonga.

Date: 2006-07-02 01:57 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] thebluestar98.livejournal.com
what kind of dance are you taking?

Date: 2006-07-02 02:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I wasn't taking a dance class; I was teaching it. [livejournal.com profile] snowy_kathryn teaches it, and I was a guest instructor.

I am taking a choreography class at my gym, though. It has elements of hiphop and other modern styles.

Date: 2006-07-02 04:16 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] thebluestar98.livejournal.com
im amazed and admire how active you are. youre doing many of the things that i am interested in.... have you dabbled in capoeira at all? fun stuffs.

do you have any of the photos taken of you [like ur userpics] in regular size anywhere [i think i read that you model at times, too]? not to sound like a perv, heh, i just enjoy photography, even better of people i find interesting. i especially like the red one where you are looking at your flexed arm. the dance one is quite kewl, too.

Date: 2006-07-02 11:41 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com
www.shanmonster.com/gallery :-)

Date: 2006-07-02 12:23 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I've not studied copoeira--yet. I found a place which teaches it nearby, and if I ever get the money, I aim to study it.

You can find pictures of me here, or scattered through [livejournal.com profile] f00dave's photo posts.

Date: 2006-07-02 11:57 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] daughty.livejournal.com
I want to see "The Devil wears Prada", too. Entertaining fluff is all I need at the moment. And I think Meryl Streep is a good Anna Wintour or what the heck her name was (the chief editor of "Vogue").

Thought Anne Hathaway was supposed to drop a dress size for this movie?

Date: 2006-07-03 01:39 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] catalystika.livejournal.com
One of the first movies Anne Hathaway (sp?) did that was a bit beyond her normal "Disney" fare was called "Havoc". Quite a bit different than what you're used to seeing her in. Sex, drugs, nudity... and all performed by Anne Hathaway. It was actually a pretty good movie and she did a great job in it.

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