FILMS GALORE

If you've never seen Phantom of the Opera with a live orchestra then you haven't lived. We saw it on the big screen at Ebertfest this afternoon. Dad and I also saw a movie called "Yesterday". It was a film made in South Africa. Made last year it is the first movie made in the Zulu language, or so they say. It was about a woman named "Yesterday" who lives in a small village. She contracts AIDS and her husband dies of it. It was VERY sad!!! But it was a great movie. Walter recognized the landscape as the Drakensberg Mountains near Pietermaritzburg between Johannesburg and Durban. Tonight we are scheduled to see a movie about the making of "Blacksploitation" films in the seventies. I'll let you know how it is.

In the morning Vikki and I will have breakfast with Erin NeMoyer. Erin is Vikki's nephew Mike's fiance. They are getting married next year up in Buffalo, NY. Anyway, she goes to Veterinarian school here in Champaign-Urbana at the University of Illinois. She is pretty busy so we're lucky to get on her schedule.

Later

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