Top of the morning to you friends and freaks. I just returned from a 9 am. walk on our local beach and although the sun was out, the wind was gusty as warmer weather and rain comes tomorrow- ahh spring, the most bipolar time of the year. Anyway safely back in my little black computer chair, I have a few minutes to spare before the second half of the day begins - the time I call the better half (always on the weekend, always the clock pointing towards 5 pm.). As you know, we have "free tv" which means weekends are not made for tv in our house - it's pledge week on all the PBS channels, which is great if you are willing to sit through "remembering the 50"s- doo- ops and bee-pops" and pay $500 for a 3 CD set. normally we watch PBS all during the week and the evening programming is fantastic - but pledge week is campy, all over the place and yes they need everyone's support. So- our options are limited further by 3 networks and what I call the "Jerry Springer" channels, plus about 10 Christian related channels which is fine but the level of bad production is hard to take seriously in any way.
Right now- we have Gators vs. Kentucky in hoops- Gators ahead by 7 at this moment. Great game, I don't have anyone to watch it with right now since everyone else is out too, but I know we've got some Major Gator fans and family that are glued to their tv's right now. Let's go Billy's Boys!
On the other hand, while flipping through I found some very old school drama from our film past- "Legend of the Fall". WOW> I forgot what a melodramatic over the top matyr driven story this was. It has great acting from Anthony Hopkins and cast but WOW Brad Pitt and his pouty lips. Let's take a moment.
Let''s also recap how incredibly torturous this movie really was, and me and all my girlfriends LOVED it when it came out. We would rent it and watch it even though we knew this happened:
Samuel the little brother (the E.T. child actor) gets tangled up during the war in barbed wire, is blinded, and is shot and killed while his brother Tristan tries to untangle him.
Then - Tristan cuts Samuel's heart out of his dead body. To keep for future use- which is this:
Tristan then retreats to a tent, cooks his brothers heart and smears his blood on his face, emerging as a reborn Native American even though he is obviously Brad Pitt and still very much a white boy.
Upon returning home to his dad's huge cattle ranch (a dream house) Samuel's new widow falls for Tristan and his long flowing hair as they ride around on horses and she talks and he listens -always looking off from her and avoiding conversation but still having sex with her. In fact, Brad Pitt says about 5 words this entire part. But his long blonde hair speaks volumes.
Huge bouts of anger erupt from Tristan, dealing with his brother's death and feeling responsible, so he packs up to leave and was going to do it without saying goodbye.
He leaves, reutrns later with Native American love in tow, and Samuel's wife has married Tristan's older brother Alfred (yes there was another brother). Chaos ensues. No one is happy.There are babies. There are more deaths. No happiness in sight.
Tristan is killed by a large grizzly bear, probably the one he should have shot years ago on the ranch, and this death is narrated with empathy by the Native American narrator which gives it a mystical quality, but still he is mauled to death.
Alfred's wife with the really pretty long curly hair who loved Tristan the entire time, shoots herself out of extreme grief. THE END.
GO GATORS! This game is getting tight now- I'm going to pretend like Legends of the Fall isn't on right now and get back out of the house, keeping track of Gator score. There aren't any tissues in the house, and my high school dreams of unrequited love are OVER.
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