Little Women

Just watched Little Women. Beth recovered (after a fashion, and for a while), but I wonder what happened to the baby (which introduced the scarlet fever)?

Given that, in Little Men, Alcott describes Jo as being not at all handsome, but [having] a merry sort of face..., I can't quite understand what possessed them to cast Winona Ryder to play her ("not at all handsome" being probably the least apt description of Ryder as is both conceivable and not "exceedingly ugly" or some such). In any case, she played the role very well indeed in-spite of being rather more "handsome" than the character.

"Do you REALLY want to be a NPC?"

In a recent rant, Fred Gallagher (a.k.a. Piro) wrote:

Don't just blow voting off like its a game you just aren't interested in playing. You are in the game, whether you like it or not. Not voting makes you an Non Player Character. Do you REALLY want to be a NPC, letting others decide what happens in the game?

Adding to the Wikipedia

I've just added my first real contribution to the Wikipedia: Image:Airfield_traffic_pattern.svg, a vectorisation of Image:Airport_traffic_pattern.jpg.

Lucas

Chickenfeed have been flogging some cheep DVDs lately and every time I'm in one of their shops, I have a look at what they have in stock. The last time I did so, I got a copy of Lucas — Winona Ryders' first feature film. I just got around to watching it tonight and, while it's really cliched in places, it does have a few redeeming features.

The fairly drawn-out love-triangle (or, square, or even pentagon, depending on how you count) could have been resolved a lot quicker. It would have been nice to see a resolution to the Rina-Lucas sub-plot, though doing so would have interfered with that time honoured '80s feel-good film tradition: the closing freeze frame of the hero triumphant. My view can quite easily be summed up as: O.K., but more Winona Ryder would have been nice (as though it needs to be said).