Wednesday, April 6

Today is Great-Granddaughter's birthday. Happy Birthday, Great-Granddaughter!

Up at 7:30, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, Mother cut up veggies for a stir fry supper.

Around 8:30, Hubbie joined a group of Master Gardeners in cleaning one of the public gardens they are responsible for. He was back home around 10:30.

We spent the rest of the morning doing this and that around the house, and then we wasted our afternoon after lunch watching the exceedingly long movie, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. I was curious to see it again after the recent death of Elizabeth Taylor.

It'd been many years since I'd seen it, and I'd forgotten how long it is at three hours and twenty minutes. It's still a good movie, though. It was released in 1963, at a time when filmmakers were beginning to be more daring with costumes, or the lack thereof. One scene shows Taylor on her stomach with the length of her body exposed. A small flesh-colored towel, folded lengthwise, discreetly covers part of her behind, and no bulge of her chest shows, though plenty of her chest is exposed in the very low-cut dresses she wears.

It's rather disturbing to realize that the main actors in this film, except for three or four, are now deceased. The only one who still survives that I recognize is Martin Landau.

The stir fry over rice for supper was very good. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I continued to idle in front of TV. Tonight, we watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Dorian Gray," starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. The movie is, of course, based on the classic novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde. A man who wants to keep his beauty as painted in his portrait, makes a deal with the devil in exchange for a path of murder and wickedness. As he sinks lower into depravity, his portrait becomes ravaged.