Next Best Thing

In the moive The Next Best Thing, Abbi was a straight yoga instructor and Robert was a gay gardener, they were best friends. They messed up once and did not talk for a while. Then, Abbi went to Robbi's flower shop and told him about the best thing happended to them. Robbi: So we are friends, again? Abbi sighed and she took a long breath: Actually, the next best thing. Robbi: What's that about? Abbi: I am preganent with your baby. Robbi fainted right away. Then Roboert went to airport to pick up his parents. His father teased him and asked: How is your BEST friend Abbi? How is her sex life? Robbi hesitated and answered: She is preganent. Robbi's mother: She married? Robert: No. In fact, I am the baby's father. Robert's father: You what? You will make us the laughtstick of our relatives. You are still queer? Robert: Yes, I am qeer! And I am a father now. Rupert Everett played the active gay father Robert in this so-so film against Madonna as Abbi. He is one of my favorate British actors, starring Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Ideal Husband and Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream. His playfulness and humor make him a great comedy actor. In this rather boring film about what makes a Father and what is meant to be a homosexual father, there is so much more could be discussed and elaborated. Happend to listen to a radio discussion about Janna Levin's new book, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. Levin is a physics professor from Banard College and the book is about two 20 ceuntry mathematicians, Kurt Gödel (1906" 1978) and Alan Turing (1912" 1954). Gödel's incompleteness theorem destroying the line of inquiry (arguably spearheaded by Wittgenstein, who cameos)that argued math was complete in itself. Turing broke the German Enigma code during WWII and was the forerunner of computer. Both of them are gay and eccentric to their times and great fun of Disney cartoons. Turning killed himself by eating a poisoned apple, exactly like what happend in Snowwhite. The ordinary world is too much a burden for talents like them.