I went out last Friday with someone I met recently - attractive, newly single, willing to be seen in public with me (an essential quality). She was a woman of intelligence, professional. We decided to do the time honored dinner-and-a-movie. We saw "About Schmidt". Her capsule review? "It was a long, run-on sentence." Jack Nicholson? Kathy Bates? Life and Death and Transition? Anything? "I like Jack Nicholson," she opined, "when he's a wild and crazy guy. But I can only take so much character development." Yes, I would imagine. "I really like action pictures."

OK, I enjoy an action picture, too. They're fun and forgettable. But how did I manage to find the one woman who prefers an explosion to an interesting, complex human, to "character development"?

We'll probably go out again because - hell, she is willing to be seen in public with me. I just hope this doesn't mean I have to see the sequel to "Gone in Sixty Seconds".
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