A Day in the Life

This is just one day in the busy life of Anne Thompson during awards season:

Friday Night Cocktails and Docs

Friday I interviewed It’s Complicated writer-director Nancy Meyers by phone, Hurt Locker‘s Jeremy Renner by Flip Cam, and went to a Paramount Lovely Bones cocktail party at the Four Seasons. There I talked to Stanley Tucci and photographed him with Peter Jackson, who I will talk to later this weekend. Then I ran off to the International Documentary Awards, which were taking place at the same time as the first screening of Avatar (Arrggh) for the Hollywood Foreign Press. Word on the street at the IDA party: Avatar‘s a 141-minute movie with fab visual effects and adolescent story. I won’t see it until the 10th, alas.

Yours Truly COULD go and schmooze but life is a balancing act — I think of all of the awards bloggers or journalists, I am the only single parent in the group. My daughter is 11 and I sometimes drag her to screenings, and maybe I’ll bring her to a party but my options are to constantly hire a babysitter and spend maybe 50% of her free time with her, or skip the extras. I have always chosen to skip the extras. Most of the time it doesn’t bother me; I’m not really in this to meet artists or celebrities – but every once in a while I feel a little pang.¬† In another time and place I might not have minded trailing after Thompson on this day.

On the other hand, I might preferred to sit with the HFPA watching Avatar.