Copie's Choice for the weekend of January 20

Published: Fri, 01/20/23

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season filled with love and laughter. At my house, it was really special with baby Nora’s first Christmas. The frustrating part was that I have all of these ideas for dolls and playhouses and tricycles I want to give her, but she’s too young. It’s like, “Hurry up and grow so I can start spoiling you!”

I stayed close to home the last month other than performances of my plays THE JEWELRY BOX and GRANDMA & ME. By the way, GRANDMA & ME returns to the Marsh San Francisco tomorrow night, Saturday January 21 at 5 PM. Counselors, Therapists and people who work in the field of supporting single parents and their children get free tickets! Just go to www.themarsh.org and use the code CHILDREARING to claim yours. Single parents also get a discounted ticket (I know what sitters cost!). Just go to www.themarsh.org and use the code SINGLEPARENT10 and get your tickets for $10. This is all on the Honor System. Proof of Covid Vaccination, at least one booster shot and masks are required for all audience members while they’re in the theater.

Speaking of theater…if you’re in the East Bay, the 8th season of my Best of San Francisco Solo Series starts at the end of February. It’s eight of the best solo plays from The Marsh, San Francisco Fringe Festival, ACT and Berkeley Rep presented over the course of 2023 at the main library on Estudillo Avenue in San Leandro. The facility has a lovely little theater that we’ve been using for this series for ten years now (counting the two years we were shut down due to Covid). This year we have some special shows with some of the best solo performers working in the country today including Dan Hoyle, Don Reed, Lorri Holt and more! For more info on the show schedule and lineup, go to www.BestOfSfSolo.com. For tickets, go to www.brownpapertickets.com.

Since I stuck close to home during the holidays, I watched a lot of streaming. Here are a few things you might want to check out.

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Netflix

I love murder mysteries and I adored the 2019 film KNIVES OUT. GLASS ONION is not a sequel to that film, but rather a completely different mystery for Daniel Craig’s master detective, Benoit Blanc, to solve. It’s just GREAT. It features an all-star cast including Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn and GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY’s Dave Bautista.

COPIE’S CHOICE: WATCH

WEDNESDAY

Netflix

I loved this eight episode series (four of which were directed by Tim Burton) so much that I watched it twice! In this record-breaking series for Netflix, Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family. Wednesday is now 16 and shipped off to a boarding school for misfits after filling the boys’ pool at her previous high school with piranhas in retaliation for the bullying of her little brother, Pugsly. At the new school, Nevermore Academy (her parents Gomez and Morticia’s alma mater), she finds herself embroiled in a series of grisly murders around the school and has to figure out if any of the werewolves, vampires, sirens, or psychics in her class are responsible. It’s great fun. Part comedy. Part thriller. Part horror movie. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

COPIE’S CHOICE: A DEFINITE “MUST WATCH”

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT

HBOMax

I’d been meaning to check out this critically acclaimed Kaley Cuoco starrer for a while now. The comedy/drama just finished its second and possibly final season. Cuoco plays an alcoholic flight attendant who gets caught up in murder, espionage, and international intrigue. Her biggest problem is that she’s such a blackout drunk that she forgets important details surrounding the murder of the dead man she wakes up in bed with. It’s a fun ride and I’ll watch Kaley Cuoco in anything.

COPIE’S CHOICE: WATCH

MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET

Netflix

If you’re like me, you probably think you know the true story of Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street financier who for 30 years, ran the biggest Ponzi scheme the world has ever known, leaving thousands of people who trusted him with their life savings destitute. Trust me when I say that you don’t know the half of it. This man was pure evil. Dying in prison after serving ten years was too good for him.

COPIE’S CHOICE: A CRINGE WATCH THAT WILL INFURIATE YOU.

READING

SPARE

By Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

I’m about a third of the way into Prince Harry’s new autobiography and I’m hooked. The Duke starts his story with the circumstances behind the death of his beloved mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12 and his struggles to cope with it and understand it under the glare of the worldwide media and the British tabloids. I’m up to his high school years at Eton School in the UK. It’s a story of loneliness, isolation and unfair expectations placed on the shoulders of a boy simply because of the family he was born into. I look forward to finishing it.

COPIE’S CHOICE: A sad yet great read thus far.

I hope that I see you at the Marsh this weekend for GRANDMA & ME!

Talk to you here again in two weeks!

Copie

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