NEWS FLASH! GEEZERS GO TO MOVIE!

Your Dad and I actually went to see a movie tonight, can you believe it? We do this maybe once or twice a year. Why don't we go more often? We have two multi-screen theaters right here in town, but the problem is that invariably we see such a stinker that we swear off going to the movies for months. We decided a few months ago that this was ridiculous and that we should MAKE ourselves go more often. So what happened? We began by going to see the football movie "Friday Night Lights," and I had to leave after 10 minutes because the shaky, hand-held camera shots made me ill. I got so woozy I thought I was going to throw up. I hadn't felt that way since I was a kid and always got carsick.

That put me off the movies for a couple of months. And there wasn't anything I really wanted to see anyway. Than this firefighter movie came around, Ladder 49, and I thought that would be really interesting since I used to be a volunteer firefighter. But for one reason or another, we kept putting it off. We finally went on the very last night it was showing--and guess what, the projector had broken down and they cancelled it, so we had to go back home and watch Bill O'Reilly.

Tonight we went to see "Sideways." It is about these two doofus loser friends who take a week touring the California wine country and trying to get laid because one of them is getting married the next weekend. I know, I know--it doesn't sound like our type of a movie. So, why did we go? Well, have you ever seen this really crabby conservative columnist on Fox News named Charles Krauthammer? (Doesn't that name just kill you?) He is a big favorite of your Dad's because he is always giving the Democrats hell about something, and last week he mentioned in passing that he had seen "Sideways" and that it was great. And since he is always right--far, far right--he has to be right about this.

So we went. And he WAS right. It is a fabulously funny, touching movie. And it has naked people in it. Right there on the screen. Full frontal. Hadn't seen that much hanging there in plain sight since The Full Monty. But mostly it gets you to caring about those two guys and feeling that you actually know them. One of those quirky movies that get under your skin and you don't easily forget.

So, am I telling you to go see it? Hmmm. I don't know for sure. It's one of those movies you either absolutely love, or come out of the theater shaking your head and muttering, "That's the DUMBEST thing I ever saw!"