Knee Caps or Else

While running mock 10 on the elliptical tonight, I saw a trailer for the movie adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's incredibly introspective, challenging, and thought-provoking play, DOUBT.

Anyone watching my face probably started laughing.

Halfway through the trailer, I realized my mouth was hanging open, my eyes were bulging out of my head, and a little bit of drool was slipping off of my lower lip. I might as well have stretched out both arms toward the screen and gone in for a hug.

I am so excited.

I saw DOUBT live on stage at the Seattle Rep a couple of years ago, and actually blogged about it: O, Sister


It gets better.


I started paying attention to the T.V. screen, which had formerly been playing an interview between Larry King and Brad Pitt, when I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman (aka the actor love of my life--CAPOTE--loved it) in a black priest's getup. Then I KNEW. It had to be DOUBT. And it was. It IS. It WILL BE.


It gets even better.




Meryl Streep plays the primary role of the nun who has doubts.


Oh, it's going to be good, or else I will have some knee caps to break in Hollywood.