Twilight to Sunrise Time Lapse on Christmas Day. 6:15 to 8:00 am. 105 minutes in 24 seconds. 27° F. December 25, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here and here.
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Let it snow. 11:48 am. 35° F, December 20, 2024. Stamford, CT. Pictures from this morning’s walk: Time Lapse video & Sunrise photos.
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NY Times (Reggie Ugwu), January 7, 2024: Paul Giamatti Has Done the Reading. For his role in “The Holdovers,” set at a prep school not unlike the one he attended, the hyper-literate actor mined his own dormant memories.
…”‘His latest role, as Paul Hunham in “The Holdovers” — a solitary and cantankerous New England boarding-school teacher saddled with babysitting duty over Christmas break — adds a number of memorable monologues to the actor’s oeuvre. But Giamatti also imbues the character with a deep well of melancholy and thinly disguised tenderness, traits that tend to reveal themselves in wordless, physical gestures: a crumpling of the chin, a narrowing of one eye.
“There are close-ups where you can see not only his transition from one thought to the next, but all of the little micro-thoughts that happen in between,” said Alexander Payne, the director of “The Holdovers,” who reteamed with Giamatti nearly 20 years after “Sideways.” “You could hire him to play the Hunchback of Notre Dame and he’d do a great job with it.” …
How much? Everything.
Late last night, inspecting Santa’s handiwork, a simple thought occurred to me. A decade or so from now, when, say, I’m waiting for my son to come home from college for his winter break, and, when he does, he wants to spend his time going out with his friends — how much will I be willing to pay then to be able to go back in time, for one day, to now, when he’s eight years old, he wants to go to movies and play games and build Lego kits with me, and he believes in magic?
How much then, for one day with what my family has right now? How much? Everything.
The truth is, I’m the luckiest person in the world today. I hope you are too.
— John Gruber, “Merry” (Daring Fireball, December 25, 2011)