Must confess: I don't go to church. Not regularly anyway, though there are churches all around throughout the Historic Hill neighborhood (and throughout Newport), and that's really our truest claim to fame in these parts: freedom of religion. Massachusetts gets the credit. Rhode Island got it done. Anyway ...
Upon wandering through town earlier today, it seemed there was something going on at Trinity: construction cranes, blacked-out windows, substitute steeple (?), crunched VW bug (?). There's a movie being filmed, I'm told. Something involving Bruce Willis among others. Something called "Moonrise Kingdom."
I asked a policeman directing traffic along Spring Street if he'd seen Willis.
"Not yet, " he said.
Good to know (I hadn't missed it/him), though it was a little eerie looking up at blacked-out, taped-shut windows where the sun usually streams in ...
And having seen "Incendies" last night at the Pickens — which has nothing to do with anything although it has something to do with religion — all I can say is that I'm half-glad I don't feel any particular affiliation (while half-sure I'm missing out), as that can affect the way one looks at others of other affiliations. I like to think it's OK to harbor just a general/historical reverence for it all ...
But when I went back out again this evening — for a typical stroll down & around Washington Square and back home past Trinity — I saw it all in a different light, including the bug, now SQUISHED by the steeple.
I guess we'll have to wait to see "Moonrise Kingdom" to see exactly what transpired, and how, and why ...
Addendum: The stars are out! Click here (and here, and here) to see what I mean.
