Dear Diary

An Oscar winner for best short (from the director of The Devil Wears Prada), and yet it seems never to have been distributed in physical form, or digital for that matter. I saw it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Va3ieBdQjaU and you can too if you dont mind its lousy image resolution. You probably should if you want to see a fun, quick, yet still somewhat sophisticated short. Too good for TV it seems, as it was originally a pilot that the networks passed on. I think it easily could have been a show on HBO; it reminds me of a bit of Dream On if that show had a female protagonist, or Sex in the City if that show didnt suck. It deserved better then, and I think it deserves better now.

She ought to be settled in life. Annie (Bebe Neuwirth) is turning forty, married with two children and holds down a fairly decent job in publishing. Perhaps its something about her birthday that inspires her to document the next twenty four hours of her life, and thats what she shares with us. The nature of this does mean theres a great deal of dialogue, and even though she delivers it quite entertainingly at times I found I just got a little weary listening as her life seemed to cram in as many incidents as possible into this timeframe. Some of it is quite funny, especially as she looks at her relationship with her husband and her children, and theres no doubt that she is a woman who sees and understands a lot of what is going on around he...