well, Kim...

When you're right, you're right, and when I'm wr...wr...wr...

lemme try it again.

When I'm wrrrr....wrrrrr...wrrr....

Dang. There's something about that word that always trips me up.

When I'm wr. Wr. WRRRRR.

Forget it.

When I'm accuracy impaired, I'm accuracy impaired.

:)

Just finished watching Nora. Not only did they do the hand job (and not
quite right, unless my memory fails me. The movie had them standing up
behind a wall and I thought the bios said they were sitting down), but
about half of the movie was taken up with Joyce and Nora having sex.
Probably 80% of the movie was taken up with Joyce's obsession with
Nora's past or current relationships with other men, and perhaps even
Joyce's desire for her to be with another man, making most of the movie
concerned with Joyce and Nora's sexual life.

You don't see any of Joyce's sense of humor (while you do see his
regular drunkenness and their constant moving due to failure to pay the
rent), but Nora does indeed come across as a toughie.

The movie hardly covers Nora's life (through the birth of their first
two children and Joyce's last visit to Ireland) and leaves out at least
one important incident -- the train shooting. It includes some physical
abuse of Nora by her stepfather, and I don't recall that. She tells the
story of her Previous Love who Died and we're let in on the fact that it
made its way into The Dead.

BUT, with its gaps and omissions, it still does manage to cover at least
a few of the more erotic letters between James and Nora and/or the
events that inspired them (their exchanged erotic letters during their
first separation, the FUCK UP...UP thing, etc.). It goes up to the
point of around the publication of Dubliners and ends with a STUPID note
at the end saying they stayed together their whole lives and Joyce
became a famous author.

Good freaking God I'm glad they filled me in on that. Even if I hadn't
read the bios I don't think I would have known...golly.

We see them in Trieste and do see Stanislaus (who's a better father to
James' children than James is) and Eva live with them. We do see a
somewhat obsessive nutzo relationship between Joyce and Nora and Joyce
translating his life with Nora, and her letters, into literature.

The actress playing Nora, thank God, at least looked good naked.

Despite my complaints, I still managed to enjoy the movie. It was
supposed to be based upon Brenda Maddox's bio of Nora, so anyone having
read that (esp. along with Ellmann's bio) would have a good time filling
in the blanks the movie left, deciding which scenes were done "right"
and which weren't -- the fascination is something akin to seeing a
partially assembled picture puzzle left laying on a table by someone
else.

It's just too much fun pushing in a few pieces yourself :).

Jim

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