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September 4, 2009

My One and Only -- and a library cameo

renee zellweger my one and onlyCatch "My One and Only," the new movie with Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon and Logan Lerman, and you'll glimpse a cameo by a Baltimore library. The former Highlandtown Branch was converted into a paint store for filming -- the entire area must have been the perfect backdrop for a movie set in the early 1950's. Formstone and fins, anyone? The branch closed in 2007 to make way for the Southeast Anchor Library nearby.

As for the movie, The Baltimore Sun's Michael Sragow gives it three stars. He says: "With any luck, "My One and Only" will draw the same crowds that have made "Julie & Julia" a holdover hit. It's affable entertainment -- a road movie with a smart map and characters who are unpredictable human beings, not just billboard attractions."

Photo courtesy of Runaway Home Productions

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 12:30 AM | | Comments (0)
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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.
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