News from home: Clint Eastwood’s new movie, “The Mule,” is
being filmed in Augusta, Georgia, which apparently looks like Detroit in the
post WWII era.
Here’s what Variety had to say about the movie:
[“The Mule]” is based
on a 2014 New York Times Magazine feature by Sam Dolnick and follows Earl Stone
(Eastwood), a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his
business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive — easy enough.
But unbeknownst to Earl, he’s signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel,
and also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates (Cooper).
Since Clint Eastwood is 88, it’s possible it will be his
last movie. It’s also Karen’s first. Yes, my aunt in Augusta is going to be an
extra, playing a horticulturist at a meeting that the protagonist attends. She
answered a casting call, and, being a gardener herself, is already being typecast.
Karen follows in the footsteps of her Golden retriever,
Butter, who has appeared in print ads for Mahindra Retrievers: https://mahindrausa.com/sites/default/files/tractor/pdf/Mahindra_2018RetrieverBrochure_0218_LR_0.pdf
(Butter is the blonde.)
I think it’s fantastic. I love Clint Eastwood’s movies (Coincidentally, I watched "Absolute Power" this week) and
find it funny that Karen has yet another talent and another thing
on her to-do list. Her scene will be in the opening part of the movie. I’ve no
idea when it’s due out; she’s filming her part in June.
Here, I am not really counting the days but feel the
departure date creeping close. I’ve been really busy over the weekends
sightseeing but this particular one went off the rails.
I needed to work on Saturday morning and suggested 8 a.m. to
start, which was readily agreed upon. The project wasn’t supposed to take long,
so I had delusions of getting home around 11, stopping really quick at the
street market and hitting the gym before returning to the area of the office
and cooking for part of our security team. There’s one woman who’s done it on
her own once a month forever, but this month we have some guests, so I offered
to help. The plan was to get there at 3 p.m. and start frying chicken, eat
around 5 p.m. I figured I’d be home around 7 p.m.
Well, nothing worked out. The contractors, whom I really
didn’t think would be there at 8 a.m. but I figured around 9 a.m. for sure,
arrived about 10:30, and the “couple of hours” project was still going at 3:30,
but at that point someone else offered to take over, so I headed to the
building to jump in with the cooking, but the coordinator wasn’t there yet.
Around 5:30, I was wondering if she really meant Sunday, but
as the people to be fed assured me it was Saturday, she finally arrived – she’d
been cooking the side dishes at the house and got behind. At that point, we
thought we were ready, but then we had issues getting the cooker to work. The
American propane connector, on the cooker, didn’t want to work with the Turkish
gas tank, so we ran back for a turkey fryer, which took forever. Basically, I
thought I was going to be home at 7 p.m. but we didn’t even start cooking the
chicken until after that.
But when it was all said and done, the chicken was awesome;
I brought an extra piece home for lunch. Cornbread too. Man, she thought of
everything. Talk about feeling lucky!
Today, I’d planned on doing more sightseeing – I’m running
out of weekends – but after getting home after 10 p.m and skipping the gym
yesterday, I decided to just play homebody today. I hit the gym, pool and
sauna, then took a short nap before pulling myself out of bed.
A friend is coming this weekend so I have to clean; I feel staying
home was a smart move. I’m on the second load of laundry and have run to one
store but the street market calls.
No real feel on what we’re going to do this weekend. This is
one of those visitors who’s not so much in it as Istanbul as a destination but
more of a “I need a peaceful break” kind of thing. There will undoubtedly be
some sightseeing (I will use anyone/anything as an excuse to go to the Galata Tower
area!) but for the most part, it’s going to be chillaxing by the pool – and possibly
catching “Han Solo” at the theater. That, more than anything, would make my
day.
No comments:
Post a Comment