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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Before I Forget"

This movie about a former hustler is a devastating portrait of the aging body.

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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:59 AM

"the aging body"

"-- and the way the mind refuses to age along with it..." Ouch, and well put. That's the bittersweet taste of aging, all right.

Friday, July 18, 2008 01:31 PM

This is why I read everything you write, Stephanie

Im amazed at the letters for your two other reviews today. Did they forget to read this one? Maybe if they did they wouldn't accuse you of hating movies.

The Ginsberg poem, and now this movie, can join Love in the Time of Cholera in the back of my mind to remind me to appreciate my youth while I have it.

Friday, July 18, 2008 01:59 PM

"before I forget"

Thank you. I will do everything possible to see this film. I'm a student and lover of humankind as well as a straight granny. This is the quality of film I long for. Hopefully it will be made available to a wider starving audience.

Saturday, July 19, 2008 11:12 AM

Aging

Wouldn't be nice if the bodies of aging women, in film and real life, could produce such a reverential and respected description? Sometimes, I would guess always actually, there is beauty and sexuality to be found even in the aging.

Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:40 PM

Hustler

Apparently "hustler" equals "male prostitute."

At least, that's what I was able to glean from the first few paragraphs of this article.

Glad to be able to delete all the other possible definitions of "hustler" from my consciousness. Arbitrary redefinitions of common words are such a time-saver.

Saturday, July 19, 2008 08:51 PM

Okay, this sounds like a good movie

But is Batman in it?

Monday, July 21, 2008 12:27 PM

@limozeen

I've heard/read "hustler" used that way before, many times. It's one of those words that has multiple meanings.

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