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Stir, and you get what’s known in Brooklyn as an “Egg Cream.” Mine end up resembling fizzy Yoo-Hoos with a superior flavor. That and they don’t have the rest of the stuff that’s in a Yoo-Hoo.
Is a movie based on a musical based on a movie which centers around a fictional play named “Springtime for Hitler.” Got it?
The movie came out Christmas of last year, and if you didn’t see it, you missed something special. You can rectify that by picking up the DVD at your local retailer. I managed to see it Christmas Day and it was good fun for everyone in the theatre. All eight of us.
It’s a Mel Brooks comedy, but it is also a love letter to the movie musicals of bygone eras. You’re looking at dance numbers, dress changes for no apparent reason, fancy lighting, and people bursting into song at the appropriate moments.
Not a dry minute, either.
Once upon a time, in a far off western kingdom, there lived a boy.
Now the boy, through no fault of his own, had an offsite backup copy of Episode IV on Betamax. He watched that movie repeatedly until his VCR died. This made the boy sad, because he really enjoyed Episode IV. Even if, midway through the movie, a “flip laserdisc” notice interrupted Luke’s training sequence on the Millenium Falcon. Right before Han dismissed the force as a “hokey religion.”
Then, the boy moved east to seek his fortune and met other people who enjoyed Episode IV as much as he did. They reveled in the remastered theatrical releases, and spontaneously quoted the movie to each other whilst in the theater, much to the dismay of the three people that were watching it for the first time.
Suddenly George Lucas decided to “fix” the movies. It is important to note that at this time, they were not broken. Many people were angered, including the boy.
The boy resorted to watching divx copies of the original versions of the story, ripped from laserdisc editions not available in the United States. He had heard that many people distributed them illegally, but he wouldn’t have known anything about that. Nothing at all.
Then, George Lucas’s handlers decided that maybe they should listen to the people (make more money) and give them what they wanted in the first place, which was digitally remastered copies of the original theatrical releases.
The boy, and everyone else rejoiced—until they remembered Episodes I, II, and III.
This is great. A gun that shoots plush teddy bears.
Of course, with a little “on site acquisition” these bears could become capable of grievous injury, perhaps even death. I guess it depends on how powerful the party crackers are. Sure, it’s better than rice.
But is it safer?
Update:
I know what you’re thinking.
“Did he fire six bears or only five?”
Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a Sunamiya, the most powerful teddy bear launching handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question.
“Do I feel lucky?”
Well, do ya, punk?
It’s good to be back in kung fu. I’m tired, but it’s that good tired. Still not in shape back to where I was, but I’m getting there, and it feels good to be active and learning something at the same time.