Gone

I’m looking forward to the new Affleck movie, Gone, Baby, Gone. The novel is the fourth out of five written by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) featuring a pair of detectives named Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. The five books have a terrific character arc for these two characters as they go from close friends to…well, there’s a certain inevitability to how it goes, but it’s a joy to behold. Lehane is a fantastic writer (even Shutter Island, which fails as a book but succeeds as a piece of writing). All the advance notices about the adaptation have been highly positive. One of them, the NY Times, I think, asked rhetorically “When did Ben Affleck learn how to act?”

Law and Order: Criminal Intent seems determined to mine deeply into Eames and Goren this season. They’ve already excavated Eames’ dead husband, after a fashion. The parting shot between the two partners at the end of last night’s episode was a jagged wound reopened. It was truly a sad moment, I thought. Honest, but tragic.

Given Sara’s response to Grissom’s proposal last night (C.S.I.), and the recent news of Jorja Fox’s departure from the show, I wonder how this is all going to play out over the course of the next few weeks. One week will be tied up with a special crossover episode with Without a Trace (an interesting notion—I don’t know that I would have come up with it).

I did a complete editing pass on the new/old story this morning, and I think I’ve finally got the point of view straight. I even came up with a solution for the awkwardness at the ending which is pretty darned good, in my humble opinion. Now that I have the structure straight, I can spend the weekend honing it. I really want to get it off my desk by Sunday evening, which is going to mean some heavy editing sessions for the next two days. I tend to get a lot done when I spend my weekend days editing. I’ll probably get through the text at least a half dozen times, maybe more.

So, Survivor—interesting switch-up. The two-person swap upset the dynamics of both teams. Interesting that one team saw what was coming and the other one completely didn’t figure it out. The amazing turn of events was the decision by two players to throw a competition…literally. I can’t believe no one (except Jeff) saw the game piece being tossed out of view. It was an interesting gambit, and it remains to be seen how it will play out in the long run. And I was surprised by who was evicted, too. So was he, I think.