I’m pretty sure last night was the last night of Leah’s birthday celebration. I’ll have to check with her to make sure. If it was, it was a nice way to end the festivities.
We hired a babysitter and went out to dinner and a movie. We hadn’t made any reservations anywhere, but we figured we wouldn’t have much trouble getting a meal. The first two places we went were packed, so we made our way over to 126, which had a couple tables open. As Leah and I walked through the pedestrian mall, we were amazed at the number of seriously drunk college kids everywhere (this is at 8 p.m.). We spotted at least three huge bar crawls.
Our dinner was delicious. I had a smoked duck breast with cherry glaze served over wasabi whipped potatoes, and Leah had a tasty little pizza (hold the garlic). We didn’t have time for dessert, which was probably for the best.
We were then off to the glorious CEC Cinema III theaters for a late showing of Capote, which finally made it to Iowa City last week. I’ve only seen two of the performances up for Best Actor at the Oscars this year (Hoffman’s and Ledger’s), but if I had to decide between those two, Hoffman would get the statue, hands down. Ledger was very, very good in Brokeback Mountain, but Hoffman’s performance is on an entirely different level. He was deserving of the Golden Globe.
Catherine Keener was also great in Capote, but I still like Michelle Williams better in Brokeback. That’s going to be an interesting race come March.