note: Bradley Cooper gets much hotter with drugs; let's just say this isn't a morality tale
I saw the Bradley Cooper vehicle “Limitless” a few weeks ago and loved it, despite the somewhat mixed reviews. Early in the movie, he starts taking a drug that grants access to the 9/10ths of the brain we supposedly don’t use, and the first thing he did was overcome his writer’s block and finish his novel in four days. He went on to do lots of other things unrelated to writing and entirely related to shady dealings, but for me, the writing fantasy was simply wonderful. And my fascination, despite the negative side effects the character suffered, certainly worried my friend — she kept leaning over the armrest to whisper, “No! No drugs!”
Luckily, the drug was fictional, and given that I don’t indulge in anything stronger than Diet Coke (and the occasional mojito or three), I’m not in serious danger. But I read a Salon book review today that brought it all rushing back. And if that book can cure my block without the side effects of a (fictional) drug, perhaps it’s worth exploring. Pray, tell me more! →
Posted on 19 April 2011 * 1 Comment
Tags: Pop Psychology * Sara's Books * Scenes from the Interweb * Writing Life * Writing Process *
As far as I know, the Regency did not have anything like “Top Chef” (they were rather short on televisions, after all). But, they did have one of the very first celebrity chefs – Marie-Antoine Carême. According to Venetia Murray’s book “High Society”, Carême’s father was a stonemason with fifteen other children; and so, when Carême was eleven, his father took him to Paris, “fed him supper in a tavern and abandoned him in the street.” Awfully nice of dear old dad to give him supper first, right?
