The Aviator

Monday-Saw the Aviator and I think Leonardo DiCaprio did a very good job. His seduction of a cigarette girl was fabulous. The whole movie was very well cast and I think Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn was genius. She was terrific and definitely deserved the Oscar nomination. It is, ultimately, a tragic story about Howard Hughes and it ends strangely, way before the decrepit old age and serious mental illness destroyed him. There's a hint of that in a sequence where he sequesters himself in a screening room and urinates in empty milk bottles. And then, you think to yourself, if anyone can pull you out of OCD madness, you can do no better than Ava Gardner. It makes me wonder if all of the men with OCD had a movie star like Kate Beckinsale urging them toward normalcy, how many would actually get better and stop washing their hands a hundred times day.