I dragged him out onto the beach last night, long after the kids were in bed, long after the stars had come out to dance their way across the sky. We sprawled out on our backs and just talked, for hours. About our careers, about our family, the two of us. About how the new x-ray technology used in airports will finally reveal that Ann Coulter is ( Read more... )

Busy. I guess that's how best to sum up the way the time's passed the last several weeks. Crash premiered in L.A. last week and opens up nationwide on Friday. Reviews have been complimentary. I've even been given a couple of nods, which is nice icing on the cake. It's a good film, I'm proud of it, and I'll sit out of a thousand sequels to bad ( Read more... )

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The wife's been on the cover of several of the less quality magazines over the past couple of weeks. Speculation's run rampant, apparently. I'm sure you'll all be shocked to know there are signs of trouble in our relationship ( Read more... )

The sand on the west coast is about ten thousand times nicer than the east. This is hardly surprising, the climates are completely different and the oceans are entirely different beasts. I have this thing, where I collect little bits of sand from every place I go where there's water. Inevitably I end up studying the geology of the area to try to ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the space of the last several weeks it was half a year, if we marked those things, which we don't. It seems an impossibly short amount of time given how long we've been under each other's feet. I don't even know why it occurred to me or how, just that it did, and maybe that morning I kissed the ring on his finger with a little more ( Read more... )

He said once if he couldn't be an actor he'd be clinically insane and institutionalized. I think that's probably true. He's like that about everything he does, though. He commits himself, goes balls to the wall whether it's acting or partying or producing or parenting. That fierce sense of drive and commitment is one of the things that made me ( Read more... )

I wanted to write something insanely schizophrenic and gushy about Sundance. Every time I try it just ends up a series of random letters, which is not exactly the effect I was going for. Let it be said, though, that for once I was glad to tag along. Sanoe makes a mean hot cocoa, and rugby in the snow makes for some rather slippery handholds, ( Read more... )

What do you get for a girl that defies description? I wandered the markets in Morocco and settled on a rather ornate djellaba, some bangles for her tiny wrists. Wandering New York I found an old, rather worn first edition of the book from which her name comes, and that got wrapped up, too ( Read more... )

Morocco's beautiful country. We aren't here for long, the filming is mostly exterior shots and I'm told by the weekend we'll be wrapped and I'll have a lot more free time on my hands. It's been an interesting experience, though. I'm a fan of classic movies, and there's something strangely fascinating about taking up residence in a city everyone ( Read more... )