Another reason I'm glad to leave

They're about to start renovating the bathrooms at work next week. It's going to be the round robin of the guys using the women's room while the men's room is redone, and then women using the single private bathroom for the duration. I anticipate great confusion and inconvenience. None of which is going to be my problem.

Meryl Streep

...was a lot of fun in Into the Woods, but doesn't really deserve a Best Supporting Actress.

I'm glad we got a chance to see Into the Woods--I have a lot of issues with the play, but I thoroughly enjoyed everyone's performances. ("Agony" was just amazing. We were dying of laughter.) I think some of the cuts they made helped line things up a bit better with the marketing campaign than I was expecting.

( Spoilers ahead )

So after seeing Streep as the Witch, we noted how much better the part was suited for her voice than her last musical, Mamma Mia! Which, coincidentally, the B&B had. And we had a bottle of wine in the middle of the afternoon and no toddler, and somehow it seemed like a good idea to rewatch this.

That movie is one of the most terrible fun movies ever. Everyone in it is clearly having such a good time that you just can't help but enjoy yourself. The plot makes no sense and the daughter is such a freaking twit. Meryl Streep doesn't have a lot of the notes, but that's nothing on Pierce Brosnan, who is so remarkably, startlingly bad at singing that it's actually comical. I mean, seriously, he's terrible. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to cast him except that maybe Hugh Jackman wasn't available? Surely someone else handsome with an actual ability to hit more than two notes without cracking was? But he's so entertainingly terrible. It's a shockingly endearing movie.