Ooooh, the Pain!!
Sunday, between six and seven o'clock in the pm. I was with Team Hillel at the rec center playing basketball, rekindling the magic we had last season. After twenty minutes of play, we were only down by 36 points... 38 to 2. Luckily, we really turned it on in the second half to round out the game with an invocation of the mercy rule (preventing the final two minutes of play.. being played). Final score: 90-15. Yes, we lost an intramural game by 75 points.
Post-game, back at the ranch, Lasagna was prepared, cooked and consumed voraciously to the tune of Bulworth (1998). A political "comedy" involving Warren Beatty, a 32-year-old, hot as ever Halle Berry, a pre-LotR Sean Astin, that guy from Sports Night, two of my favorites Don Cheadle and Oliver Platt. Watching it on cable tv (Comedy Central) was quite the experience because there were an uncommon number of bleeps. In fact, some complete lines of dialogue were bleeped to bleep and back (they were very liberal with what demanded a bleep).
Summary because I doubt the reader's familiarty with this movie:
A senator in the pocket of the insurance industry takes out a $10 million policy on himself and hires someone to kill him by Monday morning (a day or two before the elections). He returns from DC (where he's made these plans to his home-state of California to make the rounds, do last minute fundraising, and be seen by his contributors. With the threat of death looming, and having been sleepless for more than 4 days, Bulworth things go awry on the campaign trail. Soon he decides he doesn't want to die anymore, but ends up shooting his campaign in the foot (so his assistants think) by, of all things, telling the truth beyond a fault. It really goes over the deep end, and is hilarious and chilling at the same time. The quote I liked best of all, despite the bleep was, "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. -- Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color." (though I am betting that's not quoted properly, I snagged it off IMDB.com). Check it out if you're in the mood for a political comedy that is strong until just shy of the finish. And if you're unsure, look at that cast!!
Post-game, back at the ranch, Lasagna was prepared, cooked and consumed voraciously to the tune of Bulworth (1998). A political "comedy" involving Warren Beatty, a 32-year-old, hot as ever Halle Berry, a pre-LotR Sean Astin, that guy from Sports Night, two of my favorites Don Cheadle and Oliver Platt. Watching it on cable tv (Comedy Central) was quite the experience because there were an uncommon number of bleeps. In fact, some complete lines of dialogue were bleeped to bleep and back (they were very liberal with what demanded a bleep).
Summary because I doubt the reader's familiarty with this movie:
A senator in the pocket of the insurance industry takes out a $10 million policy on himself and hires someone to kill him by Monday morning (a day or two before the elections). He returns from DC (where he's made these plans to his home-state of California to make the rounds, do last minute fundraising, and be seen by his contributors. With the threat of death looming, and having been sleepless for more than 4 days, Bulworth things go awry on the campaign trail. Soon he decides he doesn't want to die anymore, but ends up shooting his campaign in the foot (so his assistants think) by, of all things, telling the truth beyond a fault. It really goes over the deep end, and is hilarious and chilling at the same time. The quote I liked best of all, despite the bleep was, "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. -- Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color." (though I am betting that's not quoted properly, I snagged it off IMDB.com). Check it out if you're in the mood for a political comedy that is strong until just shy of the finish. And if you're unsure, look at that cast!!
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