God stop it all ready, if there is a God and I believe there is! Don’t take anymore of my favorites, please. It was hard enough to lose Tim Russert, and now George Carlin. Give me a break!
Whether you liked his Comedic material or not, George Carlin was a gifted writer and performer with a particular talent for language. Just like Tim Russert, George had a great love of language, and a great gift for language.
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It doesn’t get any better than this.
What a Day this Father’s day is going to be. Here is the line up: Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open, Dodgers at Detroit, World Cup qualifying Soccer U.S. vs. Barbados and the NBA finals do are die for Kobe Bryant’s Lakers. Oh, did I say that my three Sons are coming over to Bar-B-Que for Dear old Dad, tell me jokes and make me laugh. It just doesn’t get any better than that for Dad. I guess that’s why we don’t care if you buy us cards or stuff, all we care about is that we are there in your heart and So maybe today when the jocks look into the camera they could give a shout out to Dad and not a Hi Mom.
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Heaven Hi!
We lost a Star, or maybe we didn’t if you believe in life after death or reincarnation. Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack this morning on Friday, the13th.
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Hey INDIE where art thou!
At a certain point inIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, there is a mundane exchange between Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and a young Ed Burns (cookie where’s my comb) of the TV show 77 Sunset Strip and Marlon Brando (The Wild One) leather-jacketed college dropout (Shia LaBeouf), whose role figures prominently in the mechanics of a needlessly convoluted plot. Both Indiana and “Mutt” are headed toward the next juncture of their storyline, when Indiana, in a moment of throwaway exposition, inquires of Mutt’s schooling and ambitions in life. In response, Mutt describes having dropped out of several prestigious schools before finally settling on the profession of motorcycle mechanic.
Jones gives him a look.
“What–something wrong with it?” Mutt asks.
“No.” Replies Indy, “Not if it’s really what you want to do. And don’t let anybody ever tell you different.”
It’s an exchange which perfectly illustrates how to correctly telegraph an entire conversation into merely a few lines of dialogue, and yet, sadly, it is perhaps the only such exchange of real substance within the entire film. This is because, regardless of its monolithic production value, Crystal Skull has little urgency, and little creative prowess.
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