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!

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?

Bu

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!

test audiences demand a new ending

The Pope's visit to the US was alot like watching The Fight Club or the Sixth Sense. A hitoric visit and a story so completely fascinating and absorbing, interesting and unique.. until... the VERY END of this tale when things go horribly wrong.
The Pope started off his east coast tour by inspiring us with very simple sentences and statements- mostly about how to treat one another and how we must care for the most very vulnerable. His words were so simple, basic and true, and yet so profound at the same time.. much like the finale of Bill and Ted's excellent adventure filled with quotes such as "be excellent to each other, and party on dudes"...or "we are all just dust in the wind" (yes from another source of course)... he really got us thinking and feeling....but then.... OH the horrible ending.. the Pope meets with Kim Davis... test audiences everywhere are revolting and demanding a new ending. this is unacceptable! I demand a re-write.

Bean there, done that

Feeling so OLD now that Frances Bean Cobain is grown up and married.. how did this happen? how is John Stamos playing a grandfather on TV? how did I get to be so old?

5 possible explanations for today's style choices of Joe Davis, the husband of Kim Davis, at her rally with Mike Huckabee:

There is certain fascination with the husband of Kim Davis, Joe Davis, who showed up in his overalls today to rally with Republican nominee Mike Huckabee. Besides questioning their intentions, one cannot help but just say wow that is some presentation. How did he show up like that and consciously choose to wear such an interesting outfit?

Thinking it over, here are some possible explanations:

1. He is in a Dexy's Midnight Runners tribute band called “Midnight Run” and he got the call that Kim was getting out of jail when he was at a dress rehearsal, so he put on a long sleeve shirt and kept the overalls, and got there as fast as he possibly could.
2. Like most men, he has trouble coordinating outfits without his wife's help... and with her in jail.. well his style really fell through the cracks. Normally she has him in indigo denim and black Armani t-shirts.
3. He is in an amateur theater production of Of Mice and Men and he came straight from rehearsal. He is of course portraying Lennie Small.
4. Along the same lines as above, he is possibly in a local dinner theater production of Oaklahoma! as villian Jud Fry.
5. He is working with Annie Lebowitz on a depression era/dustbowl black and white artistic coffee table book, reinacting the plight of displaced farmers during the dust bowl migration of the 1930's.

Rethinking Bond

James Bond series Writer Anthony Horowitz (not to be confused with consumer advocate David Horowitz) is trying to apologize for comments made about disliking the idea of actor Idris Elba portraying James Bond. Much like trying to unfry an egg or clean up a massive oil spill, it's not really happening. He probably just wants Bond to remain white, although I am sure audiences would love dashing Idris Elba as Bond.

This story brings up another related topic.. how did Sean Connery ever get to play bond? He is WAYYY too street to be the suave, sophisticated lady killer in a tuxedo /and then quick change into a diving suit- storied hero. This scrappy kid growing up in Edinburgh working as a milkman and then joining the navy, getting tatoos when it was sort of a daring thing to do... well how could he play Bond? OH YEAH, these are actors portraying characters!! something that needs some reminding perhaps?????

And what about Elba's cool collected and classy response to ill conceived comments? Totally and completely in the style of 007 of course!