If you’ve seen Slumdog Millionaire, you know from the title that I have too. We went to the Magic Lantern in Bridgton last night to see it. There were lots of people in the audience! That’s not really a surprise at the Magic Lantern, especially considering that it was a 7 PM show. We were the only people in the audience for the 9 PM show of Coraline in Oxford a few weeks ago. That cinema probably just paid for the electricity to project the movie on our admissions. I felt that Slumdog Millionaire deserved its oscars. It was a little like Crouching Tiger in terms of giving you an image of part of the world you don’t see that often in movies or TV — or at least I don’t. It made me feel that the U.S. is finally joining the world. When you can have a hit movie that doesn’t have any American characters, and hardly even any European characters, that’s a pretty significant step.