Category: To Watch
The other day Lily had her shirt pulled up and was grabbing her belly. After a bit she came over and said, “Mama, I think my stomach is fat.”
I didn’t even look at her stomach, I just looked her straight in the face and said, “Nah, I don’t think so, but you know what is the best part about your body? How fast it can run and how high it can jump!”
“I can run very fast,” she said.
“I know,” I answered. “Show me!”
And off she flew.
Translation: “Maradona has the ball, two mark him, he touches the ball. The genius of world football dashes to the right and leaves the third and is going to pass to Burruchaga. It’s still Maradona! Genius! Genius! Genius! Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. Gooooooooooal! Gooooooooooal! I want to cry! Dear God! Long live football! Gooooooooooal! Diegoal! Maradona! It’s enough to make you cry, forgive me. Maradona, in an unforgettable run, in the play of all time. Cosmic kite! What planet are you from? Leaving in your wake so many Englishmen, so that the whole country is a clenched fist shouting for Argentina? Argentina 2, England 0. Diegoal, Diegoal, Diego Armando Maradona. Thank you, God, for football, for Maradona, for these tears, for this, Argentina 2, England 0.”
Bye, Philip Seymour Hoffman
This makes me sad. I recently watched him and loved him in A Late Quartet and especially The Master.
But my favorite will always be his role as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous: