I saw this (gulp) 20 years ago at the cinema with my sister, and we were nearly kicked out for laughing too much! It’s dated in parts (no cell phones, smoking inside the police station, modifying the ID on the plane – with SCISSORS) but it is still a damn funny movie. The chemistry between De Niro and Grodin really makes this work.

**edited to add: and let’s not forget Dennis Farina, who has one of the best movie lines in this, “You two better start getting more personally involved in your work or I’m gonna stab in you the heart with a pencil.”

good gawd that opening was horrifying, and it was only because this was an Oscar contender that I didn’t immediately shut it off. I managed to get beyond all the bloody dog-fighting scenes (albeit in FF) and then somewhat enjoyed parts of the remaining movie.

I found there were several moments of incredible acting in this film, but the scenes with the dogs so turned me off that I’m quite certain I won’t ever watch this again. I’m trying to grasp the necessity of such violent and bloody dog-fights to the plot line, but truthfully my shock turned to disgust which quickly turned to disrespect and then I just didn’t give a fuck anymore what happened to those characters.

Next time I’ll read the synopsis before ordering a movie!

I adore this show, and find it’s still funny even after multiple viewings. I remember watching this every week, with the Mom and Grandma, and can still hear the echoes of our laughter. Watching this show is like visiting with old friends and it helps ease the ache of missing my Grandma.

Season finale on Tuesday (which means I can find it online on Wednesday)!

I’ve really enjoyed this show— don’t know for sure if I’ll make the effort to watch Season 2, but I think it’s likely I will.

I do not normally buy self-tanning products however, whilst I was browsing for more body lotion, I saw this product and liked the idea of building a gradual “glow”.

After reading the instructions on the back, I expected to have this “glow” after 3-4 days. What I got was one entire day of smelling like feet (this stuff really stinks; not so bad during application but within an hour there is a distinctively unpleasant odour) and now I’ve awoken to orange streaks all over my body.

There is absolutely NO WAY I’m going to continue using this product.

New episodes beginning April 22nd!

I’ve been wondering where the other episodes have been, completely forgetting about the writers’ strike. Finally went to their website (duh). The show is a hoot and I’m looking forward to completing the season.

Published in 1957, I feel the philosophical lessons in the this novel are even more relevent today. Here are excerpts from the book, where John Gault was speaking to the religious and political “leaders” of America (typed from audiobook, so may contain clerical errors):

1) Man’s reason is his moral fact. The process of reason is the process of constant choice in answer to the question true or false, right or wrong.

2) To live, man must hold three things as the supreme ruling values of his life: reason, purpose, and self-esteem.

3) Damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means, and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. Demands as its first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof, demands that he start not with the standard of value but with the standard of evil, which is himself— by means of which he then defines the good, the good that which he is not.

It does not matter the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts. His only concept of a value is a zero. The good is that which is non-man. The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin.

A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms. That which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it. If he has no will he can be neither good nor evil. A robot is amoral.

To hold as man’s sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched, yet that is the root of your code…

AWESOMEBOOK. I’ve enjoyed the audiobook so thoroughly that I would love to have a copy of the printed book.

Europa (Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile) by Carlos Santana has to be one of the sexiest songs ever written. Prrrr.

just discovered this show today— I’ve been in bed all day nursing a bad back and migraine and started playing these episodes as a way to distract me and have found that this is a rather enjoyable show. A little different from things I’d normally watch, but well worth the view.

If that’s not enough to get you to watch, I clicked on this to add to my All Consuming list and see that one viewer is none other than Calypte. Cool!

I was confusing this with some other Aniston flick, one I had no interest in seeing. Then this weekend I was sort of ‘tricked’ into watching this, and I found it rather entertaining. Shirley MacLaine had some of the best lines, playing a character that was a cross between the mom in Postcards from the Edge and Ouiser in Steel Magnolias…

Katherine: “Come on in, I’ll put on a pot of Bourbon.”