Colin McEnroe Show: A 'Chuckleworthy' Blurb Show
What goes into writing a blurb? Can we trust movie blurbs? Book blurbs?
Last night I saw "True Grit." I believed it was appropriate to see "True Grit" on a night that required "true grit" to get to the movies.
I had complicated feelings about it. It was, for long stretches, vastly entertaining. And Jeff Bridges is worth the price of admission and a trek out into a blizzard. He really is that good.
But I also wound up feeling that the Cohen brothers, in the grip of their refusal to make certain things epic and cinematic, failed to frame the story very well.
The same instincts that made them not even show the death of Llewelyn in "No Country for Old Men" contribute, in "True Grit," to an intentional narrative laxness.
Things, they happen. But not epically. Not spine-tinglingly.
But if I were a critic, and this were a review, I think we know which phrases would become blurbs. "Vastly entertaining." "Bridges worth braving a blizzard to see."
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E-mail from David on "Fox Weather"
Even worse, in the same Fox weather story yesterday that you referred to today - the Wallingford reporter picked up some snow an informed us that it was "really slippery". Ya think so? And worse still - the anchor told us that the storm was picking up intensity "off the coast of West Virginia"???!!!!! Perhaps the anchor was referring to the coast of the Ohio, Potomac, or Shenandoah Rivers in West Virginia. Duh.
E-mail from Paul
OK, so we had a bucha folks over the other day and the conversation turned around to the impending "Blizzard of the Century". Folks were talking about how grocery stores were being stampeded. Apparently folks were buying up lots of bread, milk and eggs. I posited that everyone was going to make French toast. Thank you for that. The royalty check is in the mail :-)
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