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Scenes From A Charmed Life

May 09, 2008
3:44
Growing Up Isn't Easy
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Been thinking a lot lately about the old carefree days, before the rent and responsibilities and this whole being an adult business. Why does no one tell you when you're 5 that life will be this hard? Grrr. On this gloomy rainy day (where I am, anyway), I bring you a few clips that have been keeping the sunshine in my smile.

First up, flying Dutchman Rem Koolhaas and filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak take a look at Lagos, the childhood pal turned ex-lover I wish I knew how to quit. This is from Lagos Wide And Close. The whip-smart and eye-pleasing Funmi Iyanda also pops in to lend some homegrown insight:

Next, we head back to the cheesetastic '80s for The Worst Witch, with actors whose names I now know to be Dame Diana, Charlotte Rea and Fairuza Balk.

See, this is what I do remember being told at 5, that the worst I'd ever have to deal with would be the mean girls at school and my own awkwardness. Surely they could have gone into a little more detail with that theme song.

And finally - yess preciousss, The Last Unicorn - a children's movie unlike any other, and where I first heard it said that in life, there are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Before I became an actor, I never thought that I was one for the fantasy genre. Guess I forgot all the time I spent crying along to this movie and Mia Farrow's off-key notes (which, now that I'm a woman and know better, I still prefer to the sterilized version the kids in Germany were listening to.)

I'm constantly shaking my head at what the Western media - literature, film, television, the press - attempts to pass off as 'authentically African'. What exactly is that, anyway? What is 'American'? What is 'Asian'? What is 'European'? If you read this review of his Lagos/Koolhaas film linked above, you'll see that even the urban planning king himself couldn't quite put his finger on it. It may make peeps feel comfortable to think of Africa as the poor / dark / unenlightened / savage / email-scamming continent, but we're really not that different from you, if you just take a minute to look.Me on @ IMDb: Just one click a day helps support a young actor's career!

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