{"id":55,"date":"2003-05-02T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-03T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2003-05-02T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-03T00:03:00","slug":"carluccios-ristorante-village-walk-sandton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/carluccios-ristorante-village-walk-sandton\/","title":{"rendered":"Carluccio&#8217;s Ristorante, Village Walk, Sandton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Saturday, May 03, 2003<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Food: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Ambience: * * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Babe Count: * * * * *<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just watched MOONLIGHT MILE starring Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman. And the dude, I think, from DONNY DARKO. It&#8217;s an exquisite, offbeat movie. And it&#8217;s only showing at Village Walk Nu Metro. I give it a solid 8 out of 10 on the Roy-o-Meter.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m so inspired that I&#8217;m sitting at Carluccio&#8217;s, surrounded by Sandton money-babes, the type who only date guys in BMW 330i and up cars, the type who look at me and think, &#8220;Mr Price T-shirt&#8221;, and I&#8217;ve got my palmtop open on the table with a pot of tea and a terrifyingly hideous smear of Cherry Cheescake which tastes like shaving foam, and I&#8217;m working on HOME, my feature screenplay. (This is not the same one I&#8217;m co-writing with Damon. That&#8217;s a horror. This one&#8217;s quirky and weird and dark and personal. In other words, mine&#8217;s unsaleable.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going really well. By the end of the evening, I&#8217;ll send this SMS to my three movie-writing buddies, the ones who are going to make it with me to driving stretch limousines in Benoni, namely, Janet van Eeden-Harrison, Damon Berry, Eran Tahor: &#8220;I&#8217;ve just written the final scene of HOME!!! Of course, I&#8217;ve skipped a few other scenes in my rush to get here, so I&#8217;ve still got another twenty pages to write. But I&#8217;m essentially finished with my first draft! Yay!!!!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that it&#8217;s a damn long SMS. That&#8217;s cos I&#8217;ve got a Nokia 6310i, which laces up to three SMSs together to form one long one. Aside from that, the damn thing&#8217;s useless. It does NOT communicate with my Psion 5MX palmtop very well at all. I&#8217;m most unchuffed with it. But it&#8217;s okay. Cos I immediately get congratulations messages streaming in from my three buddies. And it&#8217;s just before midnight. And the babes aren&#8217;t going home. Not with me, anyway. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. 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