It’s About Making Babies!

This was a nice movie. Little language, no nudity - well, there was this one guy that wandered through but no intimate exposure. And they do talk about a mummy’s organ.

But this is about unfinished things, interruptions when people die. And how simple things can unkink hard knots, and allow lives to go on in peace.

Greg Kinnear is still Greg Kinnear. Maudlin cute, not that likable. He did this role pretty well - most everyone did. This is a nicely moving story, don’t look for any of the actors at Oscar time, at least not for this picture. But the story comes off nice, and tender.

*spoiler*

The story is, this paranoid, reclusive dentist dies during a routine hospital procedure. For seven minutes. When he recovers, and proceeds home, now he sees all the ghosts hanging about - ghosts of ordinary people that died, but their families are missing some important communication. And the ghosts want the dentist to fix things for them. Did I mention the dentist is reclusive, and obnoxious? That he is in the habit of blowing people off rather that acknowledge them or what they have to say? That he reported his neighbor for cooking obnoxious ethnic food that smelled horrible and caused his eyes to sting (tacos)? That is, this horrid little man won’t do anything for anyone.

But now he has become the hope of all these ghosts. That he just wants them to all go away.

Bringing it all together, with a love story twisted in, actually moves along rather well, and comes together pretty nicely.

*end spoiler*

I give the flick 4 stars of 5. The story came out nice; I didn’t recall any moments of greatness.

The Weekly World News, touted the 8th highest circulating paper in the world, featuers an article on Governor Palin of Alaska, “Palin Bags a Bigfoot“. h/t to Billlls Idle Mind for spreading this word!

Most Americans have seen the Weekly World News - the black-and-white printed ‘tabloid’ paper next to the gossip rags like National Enquirer - at the grocery store checkout stand. Often with prominent cover photos of The Space Alien shaking hands with Jimmy Carter, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, and Ross Perot. Or maybe recent photos of the several hundred pound “World’s Largest Baby”. Or the signature Bat Boy spottings.

Read the Weekly World News and learn astonishing things. Like the tourist hotel with a rocking chair - that everyone that ever sat in that chair has died. Amazing!

And now they cover a dead bigfoot on the edge of a national forest in Alaska, that might have been shot (the body is gone, now, the feds took it) in the face by a ’sexy librarian’ shooting from a helicopter. There you go - proof positive!

At least the article doesn’t place VP Candidate Sarah Palin on a trip to Georgia, shooting the local bigfoots down south.

The Weekly World News - good entertainment. And, apparently, so is Gov. Palin!

You go, Gov!