Normally I have a weekly dinner meeting with Chuck [1] about a small side project we're working on. But this week it was canceled, and my friend Jeff's fiance was given four tickets to see a preview of Seven Girlfriends, [2] a movie about a man who has a breakup with his girlfriend and he goes on a journey to see what went wrong with his past girlfriends.
Okay, so it sounds like High Fidelity [3] and in some ways it is similar. Much like Deep Impact [4] and Armageddon [5] are similar.
But this was interesting not because of the film (which is quite good and rather funny, although at times it's a bit of dark humor) but because both the director of the film, Paul Lazarus [6] and the main star of the film, Timothy Daly, [7] were both at the viewing to help promote the film. Tim Daly is quite funny in person (“This film was the … latest film I've done …”) and Paul Lazarus reminded me of a younger Richard Gere.
[1] http://www.armigeron.com/people/chuck/
[2] http://www.sevengirlfriends.com/
[3] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0146882
[4] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120647
[5] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120591
[6] http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lazarus,+Paul