tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post2786381546207741273..comments2024-03-25T10:47:42.656-07:00Comments on Can't Explain: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)Jeff Pikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-4320504321998402252018-12-18T12:15:10.680-08:002018-12-18T12:15:10.680-08:00Thanks for your very positive take on this one, Je...Thanks for your very positive take on this one, Jeff -- I was ready to go see it as soon as I finished reading the review. Teresa told me we'd already heard a discussion of the movie on NPR, but I guess that didn't reach me as acutely. Anyway, we caught up with the film on Sunday, and that was the most engrossed I've been inside a cinema for years. I hadn't ever expected Hollywood to come up with something portraying so much in common with my own earlier life (relatively speaking) -- pecking away on a manual typewriter in a freelancer's solo garret, carrying a stack of promo LP's into the record exchange when we needed more groceries, taking one of our cats to the vet (never refused service due to an overdue account, fortunately), on and on. Of course, I managed to avoid committing any of the sorts of fraud Lee Israel did, in my written creations, unless you count one or two emotions I faked when I did that lucrative-but-not-my-beat video column for CREEM Metal in the '80s. I can't add anything to your review, you've got it down perfectly, very impressive performances by both Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant (heard him interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air just before seeing the movie, quite a story in his own life.) -- Richard M. Riegel Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com