To Be, or Not To Be

The other night my friend Jill and I ventured to the theater to see An Education. It was a no-brainer: period setting (1960's England!), fantastic costumes (pearls and gloves! Odile Dicks-Mireaux!), great music (Juliette Greco! Brenda Lee!), a scandalous romance (He's 30! She's 16!), and so on. We live for that kind of thing. Patrick, who does not, elected to skip it.

Oh, and it was good. Especially Carey Mulligan, who plays Jenny, the young woman swept away by Peter Sarsgaard. She's so absolu...