Blue Jasmine

This is one terrific film.  Another snappy Woody Allen script. It is edited seamlessly as it moves from Cate Blanchett's current life to her former life.  She is the down, blue dame, who has lost it all, thanks to the criminal acts of her husband, Alec Baldwin.  She moves across the country and in with her sister, Sally Hawkins, in San Francisco.  She can't help putting down Sally's life and her boyfriend, Bobby Carnavale.  This guy,... I couldn't wait until he was back on the screen.  Funny, tough, outrageous and lovable.  How could Sally not go for him, but in Jasmine's eyes, they were both losers.
Not this movie, though.  Don't miss it.
I love Alec Baldwin, but here, he has an insignificant role.  I'd like to see the sequel, with him as the star, so that we could be treated to the shenanigans that he must have pulled.

Trayvon

I've been traveling for awhile, and I now find I'm compelled to comment on the most horrific, tragic, and disgusting nightmare of a case in my adult lifetime.  George Zimmerman stalked Trayvon Martin, provoked him into an encounter and killed him and wasn't even arrested until there was a massive public outcry.  Trayvon was executed for walking while black.  The horrid case of Dan White murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk and getting away with it while being convicted of manslaughter comes to mind, but at least he was convicted of something.  The Trayvon Martin case is an indictment of our so-called system of justice.  It exposes in the most acute way how much racism, profiling, fright and anger exist in our society, deeply in our society, even now in 2013. I think George Zimmerman wanted to kill him and provoked the encounter so he could do it, and he's been judged innocent, completely innocent.