Spring is in the air! (It's 45 degrees and raining here - that's spring, right?) Tomorrow's forecasted temperature is in the 60's, and a barbeque is in order. I'm looking forward to some warmer temperatures, but I'll be sad to see the pretty snow go. Eh, perhaps not so sad.

A recommendation: Infamous, the "other" movie about Truman Capote. It tells the same story as the highly acclaimed "Capote" and was released just a year afterwards, but it is no less extraordinary or powerful. The story itself is riveting, the real-life characters are so, uh, full of character that they seem other-worldly, and the acting is outrageously good. Sandra Bullock's Nelle Harper Lee will blow you away. A.O. Scott of the NYTimes says that Sandra's "mellifluous Alabama accent, like the performance in which it is embedded, is a marvel of observant precision." Indeed, the movie may be worth watching just to listen to her accent. Her character has a much larger role in this movie than in Capote, and a good deal of the subplot is dedicated to Nelle's struggle to return to writing after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird. There is a poignant scene at the end of the movie in which Nelle laments "the very American question, What's next?" She says, with intense solemnity, "But the next thing can be so hard because now you know what it demands..." The movie as hit me in the gut and I can't get it out of my head. That's some good cinema.