Our first film today was Slingshot Hip Hop - a documentary about Palestinian rappers. I had tough time at the beginning because it is heavily biased against Israel. But once I saw what these young people are trying to achieve for peace, I was able to open myself up and appreciate them. They are not growing up to be terrorists, but rather to share a message of pain - and hope - with their people, and teach young kids there's another way.

The anticipated problems at the screening never materialized but there were definitely a lot of Palestinian sympathizers in the audience. My friend Nancy who is the theater manager said they had brought in extra security just in case.

Our second and final film for the day was a dramatic narrative called Love Comes Lately. David said a more apt title would have been Mr. Magoo Falls in Love. It wasn't very good.

We spent the evening at Linda's having a big Shabbat dinner party. Nancy joined us for for the second time, and we saw some great folks we met last year.

My friend Deborah from Microsoft is here with some customers and gave us some of their unused tickets which fill out our schedule quite nicely. Tomorrow we plan to see 3 films. Hopefully also see come celebrities. Nancy has the list of expected stars and said she'd show it to us tomorrow.