Sunday, December 20, 2015

Long overdue review of Trainwreck, the movie.. much too dirty!

After finally seeing the rom/com/chick flick Trainwreck, (heavily sprinkled with pro-athletes in supporting roles..in order to blatantly lure in more boyfriends and husbands and male sidekicks etc.. for even MORE box office $$$$) ...long after it has come and gone from theaters... and long after it has been out on DVD a whiles... my personal review is in. And it is not so good.
Unfortunately this movie is much too dirty for me. I'm not talking about off color language or offensive sexist, racist or homophobic jokes, I am talking about harmful bacteria and antibiotic resistant strains of filthy microorganisms, such as staph...multiple strains of bacilli, or noro virus to name a couple of possible pathogens.
I take great issue with one particular segment of the movie, when Amy Schumer's character's dad, played by Colin Quinn (now an older dude- making me feel REALLY old as he was originally from my MTV watching days of long gone youth) who is unnecessarily living in a nursing home, falls.. and gets a bloody gash on his forehead. The facility can't seem to respond adequately to this event, so the boyfriend character, who is a doctor, and who is just visiting the nursing home, and who is trying to impress his new girlfriend, stitches it up with his handy doctor kit that he carries everywhere, even on his day off! This is done against the patient's consent to boot.
I am all for good Samaritan acts, especially in emergencies, but what kind of surgeon would perform this service, especially when not having privileges or any professional role at the facility, and who does not even bother to superficially clean or disinfect the area treated, or even assess the patient for a head injury?
He just starts stitching up the wound, likely introducing infectious bacteria to the circulatory system with each stitch... yuck. And if the fall was on the floor of a long term nursing facility the possibilities of strains of organisms are endless!
I take issue with this blatant display of medical malpractice and poor technique. Obviously there is a conflict of interest= trying to impress the girl at the expense of the patient! wrong! We need a medical ethics consultant for Judd Apatow's next endeavor..
But I did enjoy the finale with the cheerleaders! And the cameos. Go LeBron!

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Rekindling the old flame

What better news to receive right before the holidays than the stories surfacing about
Courtney Cox (on the heels of a broken engagement to a younger man), now dating again (old flame), Michael Keaton?
This mended/recycled/reused/repurposed relationship is bigger news than the reunification of East and West Germany.
It is far more powerful than old stories of Michael Bolton and Nicollette Sheridan getting back together.(and splitting yet AGAIN)

And while we are at this juncture, can we just take a few moments of silence and remember when Michael Bolton and Ashley Judd were an item?
But I of course digress...
After the wildly popular, critically acclaimed and successful Birdman, maybe... just maybe Michael Keaton feels centered, calmer, ready to settle down... and has realized that Courtney is the only woman for him.. but wait a minute....
Now we are hearing the stories in the press that they are NOT dating... despite reports.. and the other strange rumors that Courtney is dating and then NOT dating former Friends costar Matthew Perry?
What can we believe anymore? What is real? What is imaginary?
Were these stories simply planted to off set uneccessary embarrassment about a broken engagement?
Are they true... but now being squashed by publicists?

Despite all the confusion and conflicting stories/information, we can ALWAYS forever enjoy these memories of Courtney's small screen romances and moments:




this is what 61 looks like

61 is the new 21... this is what being in your sixties can look like for all of us!
Rocking out at your ex husband's (Billy Joel) concert, wearing your new boyfriend's (John Mellencamp) tshirt...here is the Dorian Grey of supermodels, out on the town, with her iPhone, cool outfit, and AARP card in hand, showing us that aging is a concept! Perhaps in her attic in her estate in Montauk, NY, she is hiding a portrait of herself that looks like this..... and it just gets older and dustier and more deeply lined, while she gets younger...
Maybe in 30 years from now we will see an ageless 76 year old Gwyneth Paltrow, rocking out at ex husband Chris Martin's show while wearing a Harry Styles Tshirt!