January 18, 2006
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The Daily News
1 I think I'm in love with Rachel McAdams.
2 Okay, that got your attention. Actually, I'm not the least bit interested in Rachel McAdams, and I'll thank her to stop her incessant phone calls to my new cell.
3 You just shouldn't give out your number, or so they say. Well, live and learn.
4 Anyway, Wedding Crashers seems to be the DVD to check out this past week.
5 For once, I went mainstream and watched it, not because I wanted to go mainstream, but because years ago, when I was in college, I had an idea for a screenplay in which two broke college guys buy some nice clothes and decide to crash weddings.
6 I SWEAR to you. But the plot had nothing to do with the guys going to weddings to score women. It was more along the lines of them going to weddings to fill their pockets with food, and to steal beer kegs and champagne, and to attempt to live a rich life without ever having to work. I'd STILL like to see that one!
7 So amid all my semester grading, and being ass-over-elbows in papers, staples, paper clips, and ridiculous disdain for anything even remotely resembling thought, I got a chance to watch a movie.
6 Well, it was okay, because I put my throbbing head into procrastination mode, and in the course of it, I saw a reasonably entertaining movie! Hooray for me! Well, a pretty okay movie. I guess there were just certain things I liked about it.
7 For one thing, Christopher Walken remains one of my favorite actors. But Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn tore it up, and I just laughed. Great comedic timing, and GREAT chemistry.
8 And then there was Rachel McAdams. My! What a lovely actress, and what a perfect ingenue.
9 And I loved this one line. She asked Wilson to define true love, and he said this:
True love is your soul's recognition of
it's counterpoint in another.
10 I put on the director's comments on the DVD and just couldn't remember that line, so while that played behind me, I hopped online and looked for that quote, because I enjoy listening to director's notes. Can't imagine why. But I didn't want to stop it, skip back, and all of that. The computer is a pretty handy dandy little resource.
11 In no time, I found the quote, and the second I found it, and the second I wrote it down, I heard the director, David Dobkin, say, "It's a little bit funny..."
12 I just stopped, looked up, gave a shoulder chuckle, you know, how you do, and returned to whatever it was I was doing.
13 It was fun though, because I noticed a lot of the directorial touches and stuff, and he would say, "Yeah, we were trying to do this here..." and I was proud to have noticed all that stuff when I watched.
14 Anyway, I don't want this to sound like some boring blog, so I think I'll put another picture up in here:
15 Shameless.
16 I love "up in here".
17 Kids always say that now. "It's cold up in here."
18 We've become bland.
19 Well, I think I'll tuck this guy away for the day. Craig Ferguson just came on again, and he's talking about a space probe, and outer space, and something about Uranus, so I gotta leave you now.
20 Enjoy the day, and welome back the DN with open arms. It's really just a nice friend.
22 Sometimes it can be your best friend.
23 Peace. Good times. Nice to have you back.
~H~
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