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Yesterday Josh came by for lunch. It turns out he does not fly to Amsterdam for two weeks until today. He did not come for 24 last Monday because he had been skiing and was in slow traffic coming home, so he watched at Pat's house. Last night I went with Larry and Judi to see the movie The Last Station. It was a biopic about the end of Tolstoy's life in Russia in 1910. It had great performances by Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as Tolstoy and his wife. All I knew about Tolstoy was from watching the 13-hour production of War and Peace on PBS in 1974 and a couple of more time when it was repeated in the following years. Also I watched the PBS production of Anna Karinina. It was interesting to see the how these books reflected the experiences of Tolstoy's own life. I give this movie 3.5 stars.