Sometimes it is hard to tell them apart.
But Voltaire wrote, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (“The better is the enemy of the good.”)
While Jim Collins said, “Good is the enemy of great.”
I thought of both today during my last “on the schedule” Lotus class.
Voltaire’s quote is basically a high-minded “it if ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” while Collins (a biz writer) has the opposite point, closer to Madonna’s “Don’t Settle For Second-Best, Baby” (in EXPRESS YOURSELF, of course.)
And of course the last(ish) class was one of my favorites with great students and flow and the largest attendance yet. I am not leaving a bad situation, but rather a good one, moving more specifically into my vision.
Was almost having doubts about making the change, but on the way home my producer called at the perfect time to reconnect.
And as much as I love the 3 hour sojourn to the Mission to teach, completing the screenplay calls me now. Papa has to earn some real $$ for Belle’s education.
[On another French note, the Michel Legrand song “Windmills of Your Mind” –- the theme from the THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR –– is really and originally “Les moulins de mon coeur.” Eddy Marnay wrote the French lyrics and the Bergmans’ wrote the English, and I don’t know how many of them share the 1969 Oscar for best song but coeur = “heart” not “mind” which I find endlessly intriguing.]
Deep into Legrand and right now listening to Jessye Norman, Bernard Lechance, and Michel himself singing it in French and Noel Harrison and Streisand in English–– why fool around?
And can ANYONE tell me why NOTHING seems better than Jessye Norman singing 
Les parapluies de Cherbourg with Legrand at the piano –– except maybe a 20 year-old Deneuve herself at her most inhumanly, insanely beautiful singing it in the film.
Literally every reviewer uses the same two words: “Heart-breaking.”
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