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Yesterday, we saw the movie THE HELP. Evie had read the book but I knew little about it, so it was an enjoyable afternoon, with a bout 15 other retirees. Although it was filled with cliches, all the blacks were kind and thoughtful, the whites racist and appearance conscious, excepting Skeeter (Emma Stone who was wonderful), I enjoyed the movie, especially the acting of the two maids, Abilene and Minny, both so real that I forgot I was in a movie theater. It was a movie about character, mostly flat, but for Skeeter and the maids, so it was worth watching. I particularly enjoyed Jolie, the white trash wife, who brought some humor and energy to an otherwise serious movie about racism in Jackson, MS, in the 1960's. And I wonder if there really was an attempt by the legislature to pass a Sanitary Bill requiring all houses with black maids to have a black only toilet. Amazing.
After the movie, we went to the Seezurh House for dinner, Evie getting grilled prime rib, and I had the good old beer batter fried fish fry.
They look like strawflowers.
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