Well, Louis, this could be the start of a beautiful career...

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eeee! So, yesterday I was at the comic store bemoaning the fact that I have no money to buy all the titles I want and Peter the owner said, hey, why don't you do some review for our website and I'll give you a discount or you can just bring em back in or whatever and so I'm like hell yeah! And he gave me WE3 to review, and it was awesome! So I wrote a review and it's now on the website. Ta dah! My check is in the mail, I'm assuming... Upon reflection I think I've rated it too highly, an 8 would probably be more accurate, but eh. I hate rating systems anyway.

ETA: Saw Sideways today. Very funny, much more so than I expected. Giamatti was great of course, but the standouts for me were Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh, who were just GORGEOUS. Ah, theat speech where Madsen talks about wine, I fell in love. The ending was a bit disappointing; without them in it it lost a lot of life and was a bit anti-climactic. But that's life, I guess.

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Virginia Madsen

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I LOVE her! I've not seen her much over the years, but remembered her face and her name thanks to a movie I saw YEARS ago. Can't remember the title, but it was about a girls' school, with a boys' school across the river (of course!). Virginia Madsen does a beautiful Ophelia scene in the river. I've loved her ever since.

Re: Virginia Madsen

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You know, I don't think I've ever seen her in anything else as well, but she was so wonderful in Sideways I will definitely keep an eye out for her, and for the girl's school movie, from now on!

Re: Virginia Madsen

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I haven't seen "Sideways" yet, but I plan to.

Ooo. She was also in "Electric Dreams" (1984), which is very cheesy and not that good, but kind of cute in a nerdly kind of way. It's about a guy whose computer falls obsessively in love with his gorgeous, cello-playing girlfriend (Virginia Madsen).

I did a search on IMDB.com, and the girls' school movie is "Fire with Fire" (1986). Obviously there's a lot I've forgotten about it, because here's the Plot Summary: "A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must runaway together to escape the law, the church and their parents." (Not boys' school ... PRISON CAMP! Oops.)