Keeping it in the family in Hollister
Thank goodness the year and a half of smears, slander, name
calling and lies is over with. My mother-in-law finally went home.
Thank God and Greyhound she’s gone.
Keeping it in the family in Hollister
Thank goodness the year and a half of smears, slander, name calling and lies is over with. My mother-in-law finally went home. Thank God and Greyhound she’s gone.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote reason No. 69 why Hollister is not called the city of brotherly love as a brother pepper sprays his brother and his brother whips out a gun and shoots his brother.
Now Hollister is about to lose its city of motherly love moniker as a son is on trial for shooting his mother in the arm. I’d love to be at their house for Thanksgiving. “Could you pass the drumstick Ma? Use your good hand Ma.” Aye chee waa waa.
Where President Bush went wrong No. 69: I wrote the president three years ago saying that he should divert our problems like the president in one of my favorite movies, “Canadian Bacon.” Alan Alda as president of the United States, facing low approval ratings, decides to unite the country by declaring war on Canada. It works. He uses a great rally call: “Surrender pronto or we’ll level Toronto.” Aye chee waa waa.
Not sure why anyone would buy those tiny two-seater cars when for almost the same price you can go to Tiffany Ford in Hollister and buy a Ford Focus. I bought mine from Tiffany’s in 2001 (the year of the Space Odyssey) and it’s running great with low, low mileage and comfortable Bob’s Big Butt Seats.
Anyone can buy a gift from Big-Mart but for great gifts that never get thrown out and on the contrary are cherished, shop the Trinity Lutheran Church Women’s Craft Fair on Friday, Nov. 14. Check the Pinnacle Calendar for more information. Have you ever met a Lutheran you didn’t like? Me neither. Everyone should be a Lutheran. Viva los Lutherans. Aye chee waa waa.
Really enjoy Halloween in Hollywood. On Halloween we always go to a movie on Hollywood Boulevard, making sure we get out late enough to enjoy the tens of thousands who frolic every year, stretching from Grauman’s Chinese Theater down eight city blocks to the Pantages Theater which is still featuring the perfect Halloween play, “Wicked.”
This Halloween night we saw “Appaloosa” at the Mann’s Chinese. It’s one of the best Westerns ever and the best movie of the year so far. Ed Harris stars and directs the finest actor of the decade, Viggo Morgensen, as they play grown-up versions of Butch and Sundance types. The critics love the movie but didn’t like Renee Zellweger who is usually the darling of critics. I don’t like Zellweger’s acting style of pouting and ticks but I thought she was Oscar-worthy in this. When she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame I wrote she was the most plain white woman I had ever seen and, quite frankly, a homely one.
The camera loves her but Harris wisely shows her in all her frumpiness to go along with the great detail to make this Western feel like no other Western made. The details from horse manure to no bull manure dialogue make this as close as you’ll ever get to the real Old West. I doubt this is still playing in a theater near you so when it is released on DVD go out and buy the biggest home theater you can because the way you voted, apparently you believe that happy days are here again.
This week’s Quick Quiz: What was the name of the hugely popular monster film series that Clint Eastwood appeared in?
Last week’s Quick Quiz was when did Clint Eastwood last make us laugh in a movie as he churns out yet two more depressing but brilliant films this year. Ninety percent of you wrote me “Pink Cadillac,” the 1989 “comedy” starring Clint and Bernadette Peters. The only thing wrong with that choice is there wasn’t one laugh in the entire film. Quite a problem for a comedy.
The last film that Clint made that made me laugh was “Bridges of Madison County” with Meryl Streep. This so-called romantic drama was a hoot. Like, who doesn’t want to see two old wrinkled actors doing the horizontal mambo? And any movie with bridges in the title starring Clint Eastwood as the star better have some blowing up of at least one bridge. Heck, in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” Clint even blew the hell out of Jeff Bridges. Aye chee waa waa.
