Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mamma Mia

Well, I didn't imagine I would be writing an entry regarding a movie but - seeing "Mamma Mia" last night, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth inspired me. It's a dream movie set - filmed in Greece on an island. Lots of singing, dancing and mythic themes of love, finding one's true purpose and living one's truth were present. I cried, laughed, clapped and sang -a long time since a movie has created that many feelings all at once... The only dissonant note in the movie is the miscasting, (in my humble opinion), of Pierce Brosnan as the male singing lead - rather incongruous and even though he's certainly easy on the eyes I would have chosen someone different - maybe Antonio Banderas or Andy Garcias - I know Antonio can sing because I saw him in Evita! The movie had happy endings to bout - a real chic escapist entertainment film. And of course Meryl Streep is my idol - I would go and see anything that she's in - I remember seeing her in "Dancing at Lughnasa" a depressing, morose film set in Ireland but she was, as usual, suberb...

The day started with interviewing the stunning Jennifer Brugh (www.jenniferbrugh.com), a self proclaimed idea architect who at 38 has patents approved and pending for her creative retail inventions (an after shower robe called "wrapsher", and a men's wallet named "bing, bing"). Jennifer believes in following whatever her passions and interests are on a daily basis and she has many: technoaerobics, ballet, squash, tennis, creative design, consulting, and her newest service line - "Brand Experience". She developed a prototype for "Brand Experience" while vacationing for 3 weeks at a resort. While relaxing and enjoying the resort she started envisioning how her experience could be even more perfect than it was and she went to work creating a 25 page report on everything from her initial greeting, the accomodations, food, checkout, facility, etc. to present to the manager at the end of her stay. This soon launched requests from other companies to experience their services (at all expenses paid, of course!) to have Jennifer provide acute detail oriented appraisals on how to improve a customer's experience. That sounds like a dream job to me! I wonder if she needs an assistant to travel to the Greek Isles, perhaps staying at the villa that Meryl Streep managed in the movie, "Mamma Mia"?

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