Monday, December 8, 2008

Watching Morning Joe on MSNBC

My former employer Joe Scarborough (used to own the Independent Florida Sun in PCola- one of a few independently owned conservative papers left). Love Mikka as his sidekick- she's the news host who refused to read anymore news feeds about Paris Hilton being in jail live on air, and kept her job! Good for her. Anyway, I thought of a few more bad movie titles....see what you think.

"Hudsucker Proxy" - great overlooked Coen Brothers movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newmoan and that Tim guy shacking up with Susan Sarandon the past two decades.... flopped in the theaters, but a wonderful art-deco vision of a failed "inventor" of the hula-hoop..you gotta see it sometime. The title sounds like a bloodsucking memo is going to fly out of a fax machine and leech onto your neck for dinner.
"Feeling Minnesota"- dreary movie w/ Keanu Reeves doing something in some lame town where everyone has greasy hair and it looks really cold. no thanks...I don't feel like "feeling" a place like that!
"The Astronaut Farmer"- Please! Any title with two occupations is working too hard. Even Billy Bob could not lure me to see this one.
"The Royal Tennenbaums"- based loosely on JD Salinger tales, this classic by Wes Anderson is one of my all time faves..every time i watch it there is another detail I missed before. This movie is popular and will remain a classic of our time, however I always thought to the title was long, and misleading. Until you see the movie and realize the title is the patriarch's real name, it sounds faintly like a Christmas bar of soap or something to do with a dark ages fur tree....call me crazy.
Have a good day! P's off today - we we're going to Dunedin Causeway and Honeymoon Island to fish, and walk the beach to look for Spanish coins. All I want for Christmas is a metal detector!