Mom's Movie

[susandennis]

In December 2002 (the 17th, 18th and 20th) my Mom was in a movie. She was an extra in The Notebook. She got a W-2 that year and nearly wore the damn thing out showing it to everyone.

Now the movie is coming out - July 25. She's been waiting a really long time. Wondering if it was ever going to see the light of day. One time I suggested that it might have been a made for tv movie waiting for sweeps release. Wrong thing to say. She really jumped on that one. Her movie was a REAL movie, thank you very much.

The buzz is beginning... I read a piece on it in Entertainment Weekly yesterday. It sounds pretty dreadful unless you like over the top chick flicks. Wonder if I can hold off seeing it until it comes out on DVD where I can kind of fast forward until I get to the part with old people?

I'm having a hard time understanding what the big deal is about the Spiderman adverts on the baseball field. There are advertisements on just about everything else at the ballpark from the drink cups to the protective cups (I'm only guessing here, mores the pity) - so what's so sacred about the bases??? And if it keeps the price of tickets down or gives us more/better baseball, great. If not, I still don't understand the outrage.

Janeane Garafalo on The Daily Show this week was just plain scary. I have not heard her radio show but if this interview was any indication, I hope the Bush administration is paying her well cause she's serving their cause beautifully. I cannot remember the phrase for something or someone working ostensibly for one cause while effectively for another but that's her.

Comments

[geordie.livejournal.com]

Fifth column of Qisling are good terms. Judas sheep perhaps? Then there's all the general terms like liar, rat, traitor, saboteur (to do with wooden shoes, strangely). What exact sentiment were you looking for?

Ah, here we are:
The name derives from the early industrial age, when powered looms could be damaged by the wooden shoes (known in French as sabots) of the displaced weavers (proto-saboteurs) being thrown into the machinery. Literally it means, "to clatter in sabots".

Funny that I remember it because I had a funny plastic drum next to my desk that contained a 120mm APDS round from a Challenger tank gun, the DS part is Discarding Sabot and the explanation for that is that the originals were wooden shoes placed around the penetrator. In my round they were a hard plastic though the driving bands (rings wher the shell contacts the inside of the barrel) were something like PTFE.

Well, you did ask about a word.

[susandennis]

You are so right.. be careful what you ask for! Wow... I never connected satoeur with sabots (although it is one of the few French words I remember).

But I was going with a term used during the Watergate years usually with disinformation... it will come to me, I know it will.

[tbone.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with Spider-Man ads is that they won't keep ticket prices down. MLB is only going to make around $3 million total for the deal, which is nothing. That would be, what, $30,000 per team if divided equally? So they are adding to the ad clutter in a very public way for minimal gain.

Then again I don't know why I feel this way. A base (or on-deck circle) is no different from an outfield wall. Yet somehow it annoys me.

[tbone.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Wow. I hadn't heard that. All the more reason to dislike this deal.

[susandennis]

Thanks... but I'm having trouble just reading about the plot... You wouldn't happen to have a movie clip that just shows my Mom, would you? Spose there's any way I can get away with telling her I went when I only really went in my imagination?

I know what's going to happen. I'm going to have to go to an actual movie theater (which I will not even do any more for Hugh Grant!) and sit through the entire thing only to learn that she's on some freakin' cutting room floor. Sigh...

[estis.livejournal.com]

Well I certainly hope they don't cut your mom out of the movie...in the mean time here is the trailer http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2004/the_notebook.shtml

the plot sounds familiar