BLAME IT ALL ON DICK: Stone's 'W', Powell spurns Old Mutton for Obama, other stuff
Old Mutton must prevail! Just say no to socialism!
DD saw 'W' in Pasadena on Friday. Fear not, GWB fans -- all three of you. With Josh Brolin in the lead, our most detested president comes off as an avuncular dimwit misled by minders and his own idiot belief that he's on a mission from God. (At one point in the movie, Brolin as Bush sounds like he's riffing from the first Blues Brothers movie, which is probably intentional.)
Partial spoiler alert
While DD still wouldn't want to share an O'Douls with the man, Brolin makes GWB appear a great deal less despicable than he's seemed during the last eight years. Instead, the archvillain is Dick Cheney, played with glabrous over-the-top glee by Richard Dreyfuss. And poor Condi Rice! If there's an Oscar for Most Simpering, in good conscience, Thandie Newton is your only choice. As for Karl Rove, DD saw him onscreen as the corn-fed evangelical Christian version of Truman Capote reborn as a political advisor.
Some of the best one-liners are reserved for Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, written as a man with principles and regrets who went along with the conjured wisdom in the room, anyway. In a memorable scene from a White House meeting just prior to invasion, W has his advisors run through the countries making up the Coalition of the Bribed and the Suckers. Mongolia is contributing ninety soldiers, Powell says dryly, adding "and they're damn fine wrestlers, too." Morocco, says Rice, is furnishing trained monkeys for the setting off of minefields.
DD recommends W. It's not a satire or an end-to-end laff riot. In fact, its tenor is inoffensive. Unless you're one of those hyperventilating about the imminent transformation of the United States into a socialist state administered by an implacable bureaucracy of Ellsworth Tooheys whose only aim is to deprive you of your small business.
"A great soldier, a great statesman and a great American has endorsed our campaign to change America," Barack Obama said of Colin Powell today. "He knows, as we do, that this is a moment where we all need to come together as one nation — young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Republican and Democrat."
If you drop the "great soldier, great statesman" and change "great American" to "famous American," it's about all right.
More on point was Powell saying Old Mutton's campaign is uncool and his running mate unfit. In case you've missed all that because you were stuck in the bathroom or something.
And you surely won't want to miss the recent edition of the Lehigh Valley's only sheer comedy blog, here.
In the most up-to-date posting, one disturbed local trouser delivers a skit warning that if Obama is elected, Israel will be wiped out. And we'll stand by "like the gutless French in WWII ... reaping the benefits of a free America and our capitalist system, all the while sliming the people that are making sacrifices and dying for their rights and freedoms."
Old Mutton must prevail! Just say no to socialism!
DD saw 'W' in Pasadena on Friday. Fear not, GWB fans -- all three of you. With Josh Brolin in the lead, our most detested president comes off as an avuncular dimwit misled by minders and his own idiot belief that he's on a mission from God. (At one point in the movie, Brolin as Bush sounds like he's riffing from the first Blues Brothers movie, which is probably intentional.)
Partial spoiler alert
While DD still wouldn't want to share an O'Douls with the man, Brolin makes GWB appear a great deal less despicable than he's seemed during the last eight years. Instead, the archvillain is Dick Cheney, played with glabrous over-the-top glee by Richard Dreyfuss. And poor Condi Rice! If there's an Oscar for Most Simpering, in good conscience, Thandie Newton is your only choice. As for Karl Rove, DD saw him onscreen as the corn-fed evangelical Christian version of Truman Capote reborn as a political advisor.
Some of the best one-liners are reserved for Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, written as a man with principles and regrets who went along with the conjured wisdom in the room, anyway. In a memorable scene from a White House meeting just prior to invasion, W has his advisors run through the countries making up the Coalition of the Bribed and the Suckers. Mongolia is contributing ninety soldiers, Powell says dryly, adding "and they're damn fine wrestlers, too." Morocco, says Rice, is furnishing trained monkeys for the setting off of minefields.
DD recommends W. It's not a satire or an end-to-end laff riot. In fact, its tenor is inoffensive. Unless you're one of those hyperventilating about the imminent transformation of the United States into a socialist state administered by an implacable bureaucracy of Ellsworth Tooheys whose only aim is to deprive you of your small business.
"A great soldier, a great statesman and a great American has endorsed our campaign to change America," Barack Obama said of Colin Powell today. "He knows, as we do, that this is a moment where we all need to come together as one nation — young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Republican and Democrat."
If you drop the "great soldier, great statesman" and change "great American" to "famous American," it's about all right.
More on point was Powell saying Old Mutton's campaign is uncool and his running mate unfit. In case you've missed all that because you were stuck in the bathroom or something.
And you surely won't want to miss the recent edition of the Lehigh Valley's only sheer comedy blog, here.
In the most up-to-date posting, one disturbed local trouser delivers a skit warning that if Obama is elected, Israel will be wiped out. And we'll stand by "like the gutless French in WWII ... reaping the benefits of a free America and our capitalist system, all the while sliming the people that are making sacrifices and dying for their rights and freedoms."
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