two holiday dances in my trio!

Just one word of warning before I reveal my dance card: the order is wrong.

Yes, again.

I honestly do not know why AMC has listed them this way, but, there it is.

 

The one at the end was the first one viewed, not the third.

You'll notice that it's listed as if it were part of a double header today, too.

That's also wrong.

I watched "Weekend In Taipei" on Tuesday at 2:05 PM, before seeing "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" at 5:15 PM that same day.

So, I did have a double header... just not the one AMC says.

Both had a lot of action, though that was all they had in common.

I enjoyed "Weekend In Taipei", but I had hoped to maybe see something that I might remember from my USO tour there in 1981.

Besides the colorful restaurant and store signs that spoke of that Asian environment, one sight was instantly recognized: a shrine.

 

I had a souvenir photo of me, taken in front of that very place, enclosed in a thin encircling frame of etched black marble.

Wow.

That denim skirt had been one of my favorite items of clothing.

The photo has yellowed in the forty-plus years since it was taken, and I don't recall the name of the shrine, but this image is crystal-clear in my mind.

The movie itself, about an American narc and a Taiwanese driver of drug cars, was pretty engaging, even if it did err on whether it had been 13 years or 15 years since they were once lovers and he was once living there undercover.

Oh, well!

I wouldn't have noticed but they kept bringing the time line up in dialogue.

As for the holiday movie, I watched it with another couple in the screening room.

They were from Missouri - same as my sis-in-law Laura! - and their daughter had seen the play in Rincon the same year I had!!!

How about that!

Right place, right time.

Very nice!

I had company at the movie today, too.

That would be the movie in the middle of my A*List, "Red One".

 

I specifically chose this date so I'd be in the running for that trip to Aruba!

Sandy watched the Big-D screening with me, which was a nice change of pace.

The movie, with J.K. Simmons as a possibly-extraterrestrial entity known as Santa Claus, was absolutely fabulous and had a story with all kinds of twists!!!

If not for other movies next week that I really want to see - including a Screen Unseen on Monday!!! - I'd be using all three dances for this one!

Perhaps I'll do this one as a trio the following week... we'll see!