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Volume 17 Edition 5 PrimeTime capecod steve heaslip/cape cod times A Lenten rose frames Joanne Wallace at her West Barnstable garden as she gets ready for planting season. PAGE 13. d e pa rt m e n ts our thoughts | 2 money & markets | 3 tastes of the cape | 4 health & well-being | 8 your cape home | 10 your cape garden | 13 making friends | 20 brain gym | 34 o n t h e c o v e r eDiTor erin Healy aDverTising manager Sean Randall aDverTising coorDinaTor oceanna o’donnell Design anD ProDucTion Nora deVita MailiNg addReSS Box 550, Hyannis, Ma 02601 pHoNe editorial - 508-862-1156 advertising - 508-862-1219 distribution - 508-862-1376 1-800-286-2233 (Ma only) merrily cassidy/cape cod times Devon Foley’s home is filled with art that she has created. This piece honors pets – now dead – with bright colors, funky collars and a unique shape. PAGE 24. f e at u r e s BeTTyann lauria | 18 running her first half- marathon at 60. Devon Foley | 24 realizing the long- suppressed artist within. marTin sanDler | 29 a historian makes his own history. Bettyann lauria of yarmouthport ran her debut half-marathon at 60. pHoto By cHRiStiNe HocHkeppel/cape cod tiMeS e-Mail primetime@capecodonline.com oRdeR a SuBScRiptioN $22.95 per year, call 508-862-1156 MoNtHly ciRculatioN 30,000 PrimeTime cape cod is published monthly by the Cape Co d Ti m e s primetime cape cod is online at www.PrimeTimeCapeCod.com
2 MAY 2011 Ou r Th O u g h T s Making friends while watching Movies For the second month in a row, Joan Harrison has inspired me to write about PrimeTime’s Making Friends. This column is intended to help people find others who enjoy the same activity in the hopes that new friendships will blossom. This is especially important in a retirement community like Cape Cod. Some people move here after an illness or divorce, others retire here, but almost all washashores are faced with rebuilding their network of friends. Making Friends gives you a way to reach out to others in your area who share your interests. This month Joan talks about her love of “films.” It made me laugh out loud, first because for two people with drastically different tastes in movies there were actually a few on her list that I agreed with, and second, because there are people who refer to movies as “films” and those who call them, well, “movies.” Perhaps my “film” tastes were hamstrung by being exposed to such uplifting numbers as “The Marriage of Maria Braun” and “Fitzcarraldo” before my formative mind was able to consciously reject depressing European fatalism. No matter how great a movie “Das Boot” is, you’ll never again convince me to spend two-plus hours of my life with guys I come to care about, only to be given two in the heart. Ditto, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” You said it, unbearable. I always end up screaming, “What’s the point?” In other words, I was reared on too much Masterpiece Theatre and not enough Disney. But movies certainly are a fun topic to share with people. Another way to build on Joan’s discussion of how a movie can remind you of an actor, who in turn reminds you of another movie or a different actor, is to add in the book angle. Joan likes “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which I like too, especially since it was so loyal to Harper Lee’s book. “Cold Mountain” also did well by Charles Frazier’s novel. That book I chucked in the trash because the ending frustrated Erin C. Healy me so, but I bought it again and well, ... he was a deserter. I’m so lucky that more often than not my husband and I agree on movies we like – and don’t. We both roll our eyes whenever someone mentions “The English Patient” for example, but we could, and often do, watch other movies repeatedly. We both love “No Country for Old Men,” even if directors Joel and Ethan Coen tinkered with the Tommy Lee Jones character, making him a doubting Thomas and a bumbler with an aversion to guns, none of which he was in the book. But that reminds me of another Cormac McCarthy book: “All the Pretty Horses,” which Billy Bob Thornton directed into a movie that definitely warrants a second viewing. Speaking of Tommy Lee Jones, he’s unforgettable as Woodrow Call in “Lonesome Dove,” a TV movie, but a classic none the less. Now my tastes are starting to show. If it’s a western, I’m liable to like it. Have you ever noticed that Ethan and his sister-in-law are in love in “The Searchers”? Even though “Appaloosa” steals from the Gus and Call relationship of “Lonesome Dove,” Everett Hitch is truly a unique character. The dialog in the new “True Grit” is terrific; the lack of dialog in “Jeremiah Johnson” is also terrific. I could relate to Joan’s dislike of “The Silence of the Lambs,” which I loved – because I did walk out of “Hannibal” – and we all know why. “L.A. Confidential” is a must-see, as is “Zodiac” – notice how the color palette shifts from yellow to blue as the trail gets cold. You get the drift. What a fun way to make new friends: Start a movie group (see Page 20). Just remember that movies, like all art, are a matter of taste, and we all have our opinions about what makes one memorable – or forgettable. Editor ehealy@capecodonline.com 508-862-1156
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