The Big Vacation: Or how can you miss me when I won't go away?

This is the time of year when nearly everyone in the entertainment biz closes up shop and heads off on vacation. So it seemed like a prudent time to do the same thing myself. I'm already up in the mountains just outside of Aspen, Colo., where they have everything: hiking, whitewater rafting, skeet shooting, tennis, golf, lots of great music and, of course, a film festival. I mean, is there any town that's too small to have a film festival these days?

So when we're not doing all of that great outdoors stuff (and watching some Little League World Series games) I figured I could catch up on a little moviegoing. Aspen has something called Mountain Summit, which celebrates top documentaries, unusual outdoor adventures and thought-provoking social activism. So while I'm gone, don't think I'm going to be loafing. No way, not with even more movies to see up here at 8,000 feet.

I'm just not going to do very much writing for ye olde blog for a while, so why don't you say that we plan to meet up after Labor Day. When I return, I'll have a sneak peek of Werner Herzog's new 3-D documentary, some early buzz about the Toronto Film Festival and some intriguing media gossip. And for all you unhappy Jennifer Aniston fans-- I promise that I won't write another word about your favorite actress, at least not until she makes another bad movie. So stay out of trouble until I get back. 

Comments

[Tyler Measom]

I truly enjoy your blog and am excited to learn that you will be in Aspen for the MountainSummit. While you are there, we would like to invite you to view our film Sons of Perdition, which plays on Saturday night. The film follows teenagers who have been exiled from their polygamist community. Sons of Perdition was just acquired by the Oprah Winfrey Network to be presented as part of the Oprah Documentary Club in 2011. Would love to have you there, I think you would enjoy it. Thanks.

[J. Sperling Reich]

I've noticed your absence has allowed me to dip into my RSS feed a little deeper than I usually do each day. In fact, I've even read posts from some non-entertainment related blogs and publications. Who knew there was such a thing?!

Even so, I'm sure I speak for many in saying your regular commentary in the Calendar section, as well as what I read online has been and will be missed, however briefly.

Enjoy your vacation!

[LATimes Reader]

@ Sperling - Wow, you still suck up to anything, don't you? Haven't you been kicked out of enough places in this business - CAA, Saturn Films - to learn something? Patrick Goldstein isn't going to do anything for your wannabe career.

[Learnfilmonline]

You know it's funny cause CineVegas in Las Vegas closed it's doors. So were a small big town with no film fest. LOL?