In the morning I take Lily & Daisy on their bikes to Stoke Park. We stop for an ice-cream, most of which ends up smudged around their faces, the into the children’s playground where Lily impresses with her athleticism. Is she too young for the 2012 Olympics? She is so agile across the beams that I might see if I can get a late entry. In the afternoon, I somehow end up catching a film entitled “Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus” starring 80s pop-starlet, Debbie Gibson. It is so terrible that I have no option but to watch it until the end, although the fight sequence is repeated several times as they were obviously running out of cash from the $200 they were given to make this film. To redeem this celluloid travesty, I watch the brilliant “The Divebell and the Butterfly”, Julien Schnabel’s film that is based on the true story of the editor or Elle magazine, who in 1997 suffered a stroke that left him completely paralyzed except for the ability to wink his eye…which he used to write a novel. He died ten days after it was published. Depressing? Yep. But somehow utterly uplifting, even if there is no Mega-Shark leaping from the ocean in order to take down a 747.
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