Personal 'Screen on the Green'

As you know, we live in Washington, D.C. and a summer tradition is Screen on the Green: movies shown on the Mall on a huge screen. The producers are careful to pick a movie from every age of Hollywood, and almost every genre. It was quite memorable, for example, to watch "All the President's Men" there, with all the words of Watergate echoing off the government buildings and Smithsonian museums, near where the scandal occurred. However, because of financial reasons, HBO canceled it this year.

What are a girl & boy to do? Make their own Screen on their Green!

We jury-rigged a movie screen out of a white sheet, croquet hoops, old twine, a tomato stake, a broken ladder, wood bits, and a staple gun. Viola: a screen! Junkyard Wars, eat your heart out!

We borrowed a projector, hooked up my ancient stereo, and sat back to enjoy "To Catch a Thief". Watching Grace Kelly and Cary Grant under the stars in our own garden, with champagne and pizza with my lady friends (all of this started because it was my bachelorette evening): it can't be beat!

On Monday, we are celebrating Kelly's birthday (Breakfast for Dinner!) and we will be showing another movie under the stars. Wanna come over?