Death Be Not Smug

News In Briefs

"Dillinger's Gun Auctioned for $95,600"---Dillinger fools 'em again!!---it was the one he carved from wood!!
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*** My wife complains that I'm always spouting quotations and aphorisms---I think she doth protest too much!

*** Obama's vaunted health plan is beginning to boil down to recommending all families buy the book "Complete Guide to Homegrown Organic Medicine".

*** Paula Abdul leaving American Idol?? O why God!!---wars, global warming, depression---and now this??!

*** The economy's bad---I hear the Publishers are Clearing House!

*** Saw that Curious Case of Benjamin Cute-as-a-Button"---I found it oddly compelling---I felt an odd compulsion to frisbee the DVD out the window.
For some odd , really unexplained reason, Brad Pitt is born an old man with glasses---think Robert Redford now!
As he grows "younger" the characters in his life, of course, are goin' the other way. It's a case of old man meets girl; middle-aged man loses middle-age girl; young boy gets Elsa Lanchester as babysitter.
It's Forrest Gump in reverse. Wasn't Forrest Gump in normal time excruciating enough?!
Of some interest, it's the first time I saw Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinson in the same movie, having held the belief that they were the same person.
Don't fail to miss it!