{"id":25,"date":"2006-07-05T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T23:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-07-05T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T23:29:42","slug":"great-movie-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/great-movie-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Great movie week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/prada-streep-1221.jpg\" data-versionurl=\"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/amber\/cache\/0487174b82d8b197f661d54cd7400328\/\" data-versiondate=\"2026-01-09T16:46:05+00:00\" data-amber-behavior=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" id=\"image24\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/prada-streep-1221.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" \/><\/a>Last weekend, Noel and I went to see <em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>. It&#8217;s a really fun film with a wonderful performance by Meryl Streep that straddles the line between authentic and scenery-chewing.<\/p>\n<p>But as it happened, there were whole stretches of the film I&#8217;ll have to see again because I got so excited by the fact that all the office lobby and exterior scene were filmed in the building where I work, The McGraw Hill-Rockefeller Center Building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. And a lot of the movie happens in those locations, so I spent scene after scene giggling and pointing like a little schoolboy. &#8220;I walk past there every day!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s my elevator bank!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s not where the security desk is!&#8221; And so on. I can&#8217;t wait for it to come out on DVD so I can see what I missed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Over the Hedge\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/hedge.jpg\" data-versionurl=\"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/amber\/cache\/b0ed12c4ccc0f367ca3da778f6803297\/\" data-versiondate=\"2026-01-09T16:46:12+00:00\" data-amber-behavior=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" id=\"image26\" height=\"72\" alt=\"Over the Hedge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/hedge.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C72\" \/><\/a>On Independence Day, instead of fighting the crowds (as we&#8217;ve done in years past) to see the fireworks over the East River, we went to see <em>Over the Hedge<\/em>. Oh my God&#8230; Sidesplitting doesn&#8217;t even begin to cover it. I laughed so hard I literally thought I would pee myself. There&#8217;s a scene with a dog (I won&#8217;t say more) that I missed parts of because I was in hyperventilated hysterics. Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> a film I can&#8217;t wait for the DVD of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Noel and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada. It&#8217;s a really fun film with a wonderful performance by Meryl Streep that straddles the line between authentic and scenery-chewing. But as it happened, there were whole stretches of the film I&#8217;ll have to see again because I got so excited by the fact that all the office lobby and exterior scene were filmed in the building where I work, The McGraw Hill-Rockefeller Center Building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. And a lot of the movie happens in those locations, so I spent scene after scene giggling and pointing like a little schoolboy. &#8220;I walk past there every day!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s my elevator bank!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s not where the security desk is!&#8221; And so on. I can&#8217;t wait for it to come out on DVD so I can see what I missed. On Independence Day, instead of fighting the crowds (as we&#8217;ve done in years past) to see the fireworks over the East River, we went to see Over the Hedge. Oh my God&#8230; Sidesplitting doesn&#8217;t even begin to cover it. I laughed so hard I literally thought I would pee myself. There&#8217;s a scene with a dog (I won&#8217;t say more) that I missed parts of because I was in hyperventilated hysterics. Now that&#8217;s a film I can&#8217;t wait for the DVD of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last weekend, Noel and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada. 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