Well, dear readers, here it is, Monday, and the start of a new week. I can’t even believe that we’re in the final week of March. I was just saying that about February. Months are speeding by, aren’t they? Speaking of speeding by, I had a perfectly perfect Easter. I got a nice night’s sleep and then got up and greeted the Easter bunny. I took a nice walk, did a big grocery shopping, and then lazed about the home environment like a gazelle doing the Locomotion. I ate all the livelong day and night, but only low-calorie, low fat gram foodstuffs. I even took a swim. I also had a lovely telephonic conversation with someone I haven’t spoken to in ages, and it was grand catching up. I hope to be having more telephonic conversations with said person – it’s been too damned long. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Yesterday, I watched two count them two motion pictures on DVD. The first motion picture on DVD was entitled High Roller: The Stu Unger Story. This motion picture on DVD told the story of Stu Unger who, coincidentally, was a high roller. The film is from a first time director/writer/editor and he shows not a lot of talent in any of those fields. There is a credit at the end of the film that the film was entirely edited on Final Cut Pro on an Apple computer. In other words, he sat in his house and edited the film on his home computer. Brilliant. Only editing is an art best left to those who have some training, not those who purchase software. But, he got the film made (if it was shot on film it was shot poorly – if it was shot on video and transferred to film, it still doesn’t look great, at least not on DVD). It played the Kentucky Film Festival (it appears that some of it was shot there and probably funded there as well). Hence, the rave reviews on the imdb from four people in Kentucky who, I would guess, worked on or invested in the film. I don’t know that the film actually was released anywhere. It has some interesting actors, including Michael Imperioli and another Sopranos guy. But, the writing is poor, the framing device is inane and the product of a bad, bad writing imagination, and the direction, while not inept, is merely serviceable. I like films about gambling, and there are a couple of interesting poker scenes. Stu Unger, a real-life gambler who died at forty-five, is the only person to have won the World Championship of Poker three times. I then watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Ocean’s Twelve, the sequel to a motion picture entitled Ocean’s Eleven. I remember enjoying Ocean’s Eleven – it was fluff, but easy to watch. Ocean’s Twelve is more of the same, only not so easy to watch and not as much fun. In fact, it gets so unremittingly dumb at times that you can never stay in the story. The cast is all fine and they are obviously having a good time. There are some amusing guest appearances, most notably by Bruce Willis. Albert Finney also appears uncredited. But, as I said, it just gets too far-fetched too often, and when movies do that, they just become a bore. The transfer is fine.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly I’ve grown weary of this section and I’m hoping the next section will perk me up. I must be perky. I am without perk at this time. I need a perky injection right this very minute.
We had so many errant and truant folks around these here parts yesterday, that I shall remind those culprits that they should catch up on the notes and the posts, so they can be with it and happening like the rest of us. Also, do check out Donald’s new radio show with special guest me. And let us all know how you like it.
Don’t forget, our live chat is this evening at five o’clock Pacific Mean Time. We shall have fun and it shall be a very perky affair.
I definitely feel perkier than before. I feel I have achieved the full perky. I’m so perky my teeth are beginning to ache. I’m just one perky person and I’m actually beginning to feel quite manic, perky-wise. Suddenly I’m flitting about the home environment like a gazelle on speedballs.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be perky. I must proof, I must do errands, I must make phone calls, I must pick up packages, I must drive about in my motor car, and I must eat low-cal, low fat foodstuffs. Today’s topic of discussion: Who are your absolute favorite leading ladies and gentlemen from the Golden Age of Television – say from the beginning through 1970. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and really, let’s be perky about it. See everyone at chat – be there or be round.