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March 21, 2003:

I AM A VOTING MEMBER

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Well, dear readers, I have become a voting member of an online DVD Academy and for becoming a voting member I get sent DVD screeners to vote on. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I now get DVD screeners to vote on. I asked to be on the “library titles” list, but if they have extras from other categories they send you those, too. And so, yesterday I received The Tuxedo, Jackass, the Movie, and Python II. First, of all, may I just ask if there was a Python I? That one must have gotten by me. In any case, I watched The Tuxedo, which was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, even though I like Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt, despite a one-note performance, grew on me, like a fungus. I guess they now think that audiences are so stupid they will sit and watch anything. Which brings us directly to Jackass, the Movie. I’ve never seen Jackass, the TV Show, so I didn’t know what the deal was. The blurbs on the front said it was gut-busting funny. Well, I lasted six minutes, and if that’s gut-busting funny then I wonder what that makes Young Frankenstein, or Trouble in Paradise, or Chaplin or Keaton or Laurel and Hardy. Of course, it cost almost nothing to make and it was a hit. I haven’t had the nerve to open Python II yet.

What am I, a voting member of an online DVD Academy all of a sudden? I also watched The Magnificent Seven (I’ve had the DVD since it came out and finally got to it) and what a terrific movie it is. It’s rather leisurely paced by today’s standards, which I found refreshing. The cast is, of course, top-notch all the way, and Elmer Bernstein’s score is a lesson in how to write music for a film.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because I must pull myself together and head off to two count them two morning meetings.

Have I mentioned that I am a voting member of an online DVD Academy? That sounds like a Gilbert and Sullivan song, doesn’t it?

I will say that it’s an absolutely glorious day filled with blue skies and sunshine for miles. Perhaps I shall even jog a little later in the afternoon when I return home.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must anoint myself with balms and gileads, not necessarily in that order, I must shave and I must shower, I must clothe myself with garments, I must be fine and fancy-free and must skip gaily from one meeting to the next, where I shall be charming and lovable in my own special way. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – DVD, coming next, A Little Romance. CD player, a Les Baxter two-fer from Collectibles. Your turn.

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