Thats Entertainment Pt # 7

I have comcast, no complaints. Lots of "stuff". I was planning on going to fios, but they don't carry a couple of channels that I like including the news channel for NJ.

I like having the news channel... and the NJ weather & traffic channel ... comes in handy

We watched a very nice family movie last night called The Sandlot.

Watched The Social Network. Fascinating!

saw young victoria - was waiting for something to happen - nothing ever did.

she was too young.

(lol Bill)

Waiting for Prince Albert to leave the can.

Ahhh, the sweet tobacco aroma of a 100-year-old joke.

George Burns is smiling in Heaven!

Of course he is, he is God!!

Oh, I forgot about that movie!

I think he also did a sequel, "You Devil!" or something.

David used to love the sandlot!

(And now for something comletely different.) I Participated in a "24 hour Theatre" yesterday in New London. 7 playwrights, 7 directors and 28 actors meet at 8 pm, directors and casts are chosen by lot, a theme assigned, 7 props (one to each group) are handed out, then the authors disappear for twelve hours to write a one act play (7-15 min) using those resources. Everyone meets at 8 am the next day, scripts are handed out and the playwrights go home to sleep while the casts split to rehearsal spaces all over town to learn their lines as the directors invent blocking. A tech rehearsal at 5:30 and the show goes on at 8pm to a surprisingly large and enthusiastic audience. You'd be surprised also at the inventiveness of the playwrights and the facility of the actors who with few exceptions are word perfect after such a short rehearsal period. (I played an old lecherous English Professor who was caught subjecting a young girl to "aural abuse" by forcing her to listen to my "predictable prose and vacant verse". Type casting?)

Cool Don!

OMG What a great idea.
Sounds like you were type cast Don.

Wow, that sounds great Don!

Sounds like great fun !!!

A nice break to see people being intensively creative, instead of just staring at the boob tube (like I do) with a vacant expression.

Well done!

That's cool, Don. Nice challenge.

That sounds like fun Don. Would you do it again?

That sounds really neat, Don

wc it was not a joke the movie was not good - glad you got a kick out of my comment though

that sounds like a lot of fun don.

LOL Bill! - I've got the dvd, my DW liked it!

- I passed on watching it though.. ☺

Watching this one tonight!

☺!

Victor I love the sand lot!!!

I figured this would be the best place to post this.

Superbowl commercials on Yahoo.com: http://video.yahoo.com/network/100076996?v=8731231&l=9275158

My favorite is the new Snickers commercial. I like the Chevy truck commercial very much also.

Thank you for the link!

was not impressed by many of the commercials or the half time show.

Yes - just said the same on the sports thread, Bill. Worst commercials in years and the show was like a bad Jetsons dream.

Ohhhhhh goody there IS a sports thread.

Yes, Virginia...

heeee ! heeee !

Posted this on the sports thread also. My fav was the 1st Pepsi Max where the wife beans the girl in the head with the can and the Audi one "release the hounds" gave me a chuckle..."oh my spleen!"

I saw 127 Hours this past week. It was very good. Based on true events. The guy in it was featured in an episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive, a favorite of mine. I love stories of survival and seeing just what people will endure to live. It's amazing what people can live through. Don't know if I have what it takes if faced with the same situations.

Jo, I have seen a few episodes of Fringe and liked it, but I need to see it from the beginning. I love sci-fi.

Victor, I have seen The Sandlot. That was a really good one.

Have not seen The Social Network yet. It's on my list.

Don, that '24 hour theater' sounds like it was fun.

Loved the Iron Man movies.

Karen

re: "127 hours":

I don't want to give anything away, but the name "Aron" rang a bell...

Did it involve a canyon, and being solitary?

(I might want to skip it, since I already "lived" that account via TV, and was shaken to my core.)

Yes it did, BA. I have not seen that episode, but I did know what was going to happen.

Karen

On American Pickers last night they found a brass belt buckle from the civil war with a bullet stuck in it!

Cool!!!

Really was. There was also a guy with a copy of the first Acts of Congress. Very rare. I have the one that covered the period of the 1812 war. Not nearly as valuable.

I love that show.I watch repeats on the weekend.

Tonight at WC's!

'Texas Carnival' with Red Skelton, Ester Williams, Howard Keel, Ann Miller & Keenan Wynn.

- Red Skelton did a skit once with a rubber chicken on the Red Skelton Show. I saw it as a child, it was the first time I had ever had tears rolling down my cheek from laughter. ☺