dad ' s week off
ferris bueller' s day off
came out 30 years ago this month. unrelated to the premiere, today is also the anniversary of the character' s day off .
ferris bueller 's day off goes through the motions of enjoyable experiences without communicating much joy .
broderick' s smooth, ever - confident patter gives ferris bueller' s day off just the right air of breezy insouciance .
review: an unintentionally depressing view of family life, national lampoon' s dad' s week off updates the seven year itch (1957) by introducing a de - sexed hero who' s too much of a bore to even conceive of an attempt at adultery. the film was made for the showtime, … (more )
matthew broderick charms in ferris bueller' s day off, a light and irrepressibly fun movie about being young and having fun .
protect us from zealots! jimmy perry did not say that, exactly, but the sentiment runs through dad’s army like a stick of rock .
such is the basic plot for the' 80s classic
ferris bueller' s day off .
but after screenwriter and director john hughes turned these fictional events into the hooky - celebrating movie, a mystery remained: what actual day did bueller take off ?
* quote of the week came when jimmy admired the stellar production of his saul goodman ad: “guy at the station says he’s never seen so many star wipes in a row. it’s never been done. ”
if your preferred way to spend a vacation is more the vicarious sort ,
ferris bueller' s day off
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ferris bueller' s day off, granillo believes, was june 5, 1985, almost exactly a year before the movie debuted on june 11, 1986. ﻿here' s how granillo figured it out .
yes there was wisdom in dad’s army, as well as laughter. full marks, jimmy perry: you added a sprightly verse to the unending song of human happiness .
omething else gives dad’s army its zing. it shows us, the british – more specifically the english – in the hours of our greatest peril, behaving decently. although we were ultimately victorious in the second world war, dad’s army bears no trace of triumphalism. indeed, philip madoc’s german naval officer is given some of the best lines in his famous “fish and chips” encounter with the chaps .
warning: this contains plot points galore about get out, so tread lightly. for a safer read, check out our spoiler - free review from last week .
last week, a lady columnist of impeccable metropolitan credentials, her self - loathing on display like so many circus animals, referred to us as “a silly little country” .
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bad idea # 237: make a brand new full - length feature film of dad’s army. we are, happily, not short of original dad’s army episodes. between 1968 and 1977 there were nine series broadcast on the bbc, a total of 80 episodes, of which only three, from the second series, have been lost due to the bbc’s infamous policy of videotape wiping for re - use — set in place to help its hard - pressed executives feel more economically efficient .
but that’s not what you asked me! despite the early clue of both rose and her father using the would’ve - voted - for - obama - again line—the armitage clan has a pretty polished routine by now—i was surprised by rose’s involvement. well, not surprised as much as disenchanted. and that’s really the point, right? of all the things chris tries to look past or laugh off throughout the movie, from the dad’s slang - slinging to the partygoers’ awkwardness, he at least thinks that his girlfriend is proof that things are getting better. she’s the one who faced down the cop at the beginning of the movie, she’s the one who called her dad out for his shenanigans; she was, as discourse - minded corners of the internet like to say, an ally. the question was, was her involvement personal, or just family business? i’m not sure it matters, honestly. either answer fits snugly into the movie’s central metaphor about america’s systemic dependence on (and theft of) black bodies .
( see' s this from a distance) hmmm, so that' s how it is in their family .
he plays hapless computer salesman jack who has a week of disasters, when his wife and kids leave him home alone. he manages to get drunk and drugged, finding himself waking up in a strange woman' s house with nothing but womens clothes and handcuffs to hide his dignity .
still, the cubs' june 5 game against the braves occurred on a wednesday and plausibly happened near the end of bueller' s senior year, which matches with the details given in the movie. paramount has also celebrated june 5 as the definitive marker. as such, granillo' s baseball theory remains the most airtight marker of bueller' s day off .
* is nacho’s plan for hector’s pills what leads to the stroke that we know the drug lord suffers? he might just be investing in a shiny new bell by season’s end .
so dad’s army famine is rarely felt, especially as many of us, as the years wander by, find that we have pretty much forgotten the best bits of earlier episodes by the time they come around again, pleasingly tickling dim but fond memories .
, it is clear that dad’s army represents the finest alignment of writing and acting in 70 years of television entertainment. the show was a brilliant meshing of skills that continues to delight viewers, including many unborn when the first programme went out in 1968 .
protect us from zealots! jimmy perry did not say that, exactly, but the sentiment runs through dad’s army like a stick of rock. “do you really think that is wise, sir? ” john le mesurier’s sgt wilson would ask mainwaring when the pompous man’s blood was up – a query that carried the force of a rebuke: “don’t be so bloody daft! ”
his time under don hector’s thumb might be coming to a close, though. hector’s envious of gus’ innocent chicken - shop front, and wants one for himself… so he asks nacho about his dad’s car upholstery business. nacho pleads that his dad doesn’t know anything about the drug game, but hector doesn’t budge: “you will teach him. ” hector flies into a rage, though, when he hears bad news about tuco — he broke a guard’s jaw in prison and is stuck in solitary — and has to take pills to calm down. one of the pills falls to the ground… and nacho keeps an eye on it, placing his shoe over it when hector’s not looking. is a coup brewing ?
with dad’s army perry achieved immortality. yet consider how the cast of characters must have looked when he and croft pitched it to the bbc 48 years ago: a pompous bank manager, a barmy butcher, a gloomy undertaker, a mummy’s boy and his vague “uncle”, a cockney spiv, a fusspot arp warden, and a man who enjoyed nothing more than talking about his sister’s cucumber sandwiches .
a computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. so he can get some rest, his wife offers to take their two kid' s camping for a week .
henry' the fonz' winkler stars in this madcap comedy as a stressed - out father and computer salesman who sees his week of peace and quiet descend into nerve - shredding chaos. good - natured craziness - including a spell in prison and kidnapping - in the proud tradition of chevy chase' s vacations .
it' s an outrageous, clever and charming comedy of youth in revolt that john hughes is accustomed to. ferris bueller' s day off is a classical coming - of - age film filled with countless humor, a slick and sleek performance from matthew broderick and smart script, making this a recognizable film of the decade. 5 / 5
that understatement at the heart of so much english humour helped make dad’s army what it was. and it is important, in these fractious days, to be reminded that we are essentially a nation of fair - minded people, no matter what a seasoned grumbler like ken loach suggests .
with all the talk about get out subverting the “the black guy dies first” trope, though, i think people are overlooking that this is way bigger than horror. in virtually all modern storytelling, black people rarely get to complete the hero’s journey: they’re killed off, captured, or otherwise sacrificed before making their way home. we need more of these stories—and i don’t mean black triumphing over white, i mean a fully rounded protagonist with the opportunity to come back home with a story of triumph that shames the haters and gives life to fans. it’s about getting to see a cycle of personal growth pay off. that’s truly where the optimism lies .
this is a lark that i think you' ll respond to and cheer on, a lark about one young man who goes to exaggerated lengths, fighting massive odds and disapproving, fearful people, to take a day off .
thanks to kim’s heartfelt closing statement on his behalf (and chuck’s meltdown last week), jimmy emerges from his disbarment hearing with his law license intact, and he and kim celebrate by sharing a bottle of champagne poured into coffee mugs. he did get his law license suspended for a full year, though, forcing jimmy to call all of his elderly clients and inform them that he’s taking a “brief sabbatical from the law. ” in the process, he realizes his “gimme jimmy” ad is still running on daytime tv, and he’s stuck paying for nine more ad buys he can no longer use. he’s not even allowed to resell it. unless…
so there’s a good lesson for those of us floundering haplessly under the cisgender male yoke. what the antique, unimproved dad’s army was about was, of course, being british, class — the great joke being that the diffident wilson was infinitely more aristocratic than the striving mainwaring, his superior both at the bank and in the corps. an element of this survives but obviously no longer suffices .
celebrated for writing (with david croft) it ain’t half hot mum and hi - di - hi! , he is best - known as the creator and joint writer of dad’s army, which remains, five decades on, the best - loved of all british television comedies – “sitcom” does not really do it justice .
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it' s official: after a week of buzz in which it racked up a near - perfect score on rotten tomatoes, jordan peele' s horror film get out dominated the weekend box office bringing in more than $ 30 million. while it' s not uncommon for low - budget scare fare to do well—especially for get out studio blumhouse, which seems to specialize in tiny overperformers —this one transcended the usual genre audience and became a vehicle of mass catharsis. (it also got some blowback from certain predictable corners of the internet. )
when jimmy’s phone starts ringing off the hook with businesses offering to buy his ad time, kim asks to see the commercial he ran. after some hesitation, jimmy pops the tape in, and we see him hawking the ad time in disguise — wearing a baseball cap, a fake goatee and a many - pocketed vest, like a cut - rate spielberg. the name he gives at the end? saul goodman productions. jimmy explains to a bewildered kim: “it’s like, ‘s’all good, man’… it’s just a name. ” yeah, we’ll probably never hear that pseudonym again, will we ?
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so let’s talk about how the lovable old con man met his end. in 1995, booth killed a serbian war criminal, general radic, at radic’s own son’s birthday party. now — after apparently letting that wound fester for a nice long time — someone connected to radic is out for revenge. they don’t know booth’s name, but they seem to have figured out his army unit, and they’re tearing through every ranger on the list until they find radic’s killer .
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* chuck was still devastated after last week’s courtroom turmoil, but howard assured him the bar’s decision on jimmy was good news: he’ll surely screw up again during his suspension, and then he’ll get his license revoked for good. so they toasted “to new beginnings” with a very old bottle of scotch, and that inspired chuck to face his affliction head - on, first gripping a battery in his bare hand and then walking the neon - lined streets of downtown… albeit with a mylar hoodie on. is he trying to get better in hopes of exacting vengeance on his brother ?
* mike only popped up in one brief scene, accompanying his late son’s widow stacey to her church support group. he also got roped into helping fix up the church’s playground — the old softie .
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danielle’s charity ride and silent auction on last night’s outdaughtered was a hit! find out more about why this charity hits so close to home for danielle, and what prompted her to take action and give back .
stripping off the double period patina it enjoys — being both set in that ever more distant war era and made in quite a different time — feels like cultural vandalism, not loving renovation. it’s rude. they may try to be a little tactful, giving us, for example, partial teasers only of the great catchphrases — “stupid... ”, “they don’t like it... ” — before we get the full line .
one of my favorite exchanges between brennan and her father came late in season 5 when the gravedigger’s trial wasn’t going so well. not content to watch the woman who buried his daughter alive get away scot - free, max very nearly took out the gravedigger on his own. “i don’t want you to kill people for me, ” brennan sighed. “just buy me a sweater like a regular dad. ” she got in a few good years with a kinder, gentler max who might buy sweaters, but i’m glad he died as the man who would kill people for his daughter because that’s the max we met .
his camera also proved lucky, though: georgina and walter might have been behaved suspiciously, but it wasn’t until the flash - bulb mishap at the party that chris really started to do the math about what was going on. in fact, speaking of poor “andrew logan hill”—the dude who was kidnapped in the beginning of the movie, and then popped back up as arm candy at the party—he’s presumably still stuck in the sunken place, stuck with someone else’s name (message !) and watching life through a tiny screen, unaware that he’s dressed like a rich white woman’s antebellum fantasy. and there’s no reason to think that everyone else in rose’s photo box isn’t out there suffering a similar fate. just because one lucky guy got out doesn’t mean everyone does—and in peele’s super - smart directorial debut, that might be the scariest thing of all .
such recoil is not just outraged conservatism about who first created and defined these roles, as it would be if one always resisted the re - casting of any great play or film. even defining performances can always be outdone or at least re - worked for another age. but dad’s army can’t, not possibly. it was a sitcom, which is to say habitual — and since it is still frequently broadcast and enjoyed, it is with us as much as it ever was. and we don’t enjoy our favourite habits being changed for us .
max resists. he’d rather help his daughter by staying by her side and doing what he does best — you know, killing someone. evading authority. having a fight in a parking lot. max things. but brennan insists that he go to the safe house; she needs to know that christine and hank are okay, and she won’t know that unless they’re under max’s care. “dad, i have never needed you more than i do now, ” she says, practically sealing his fate. “please do this for me. ” how could he say no ?
according to granillo' s research, bueller and his friends then had to rush to see the other stops on their impromptu tour of chicago .
washing up in thomas’s lower east side apartment building, w. f. quickly becomes the young man’s literary life coach. heaven knows he needs one: an aspiring writer who equates rebellion with a downscale zip code and a whining contempt for the financial success of his father, ethan (pierce brosnan), thomas moons over a gorgeous young woman (kiersey clemons) and frets over his emotionally fragile mother (a warm cynthia nixon). he probably also needs a therapist, preferably a freudian, to unravel why he’s obsessively stalking his father’s mistress, johanna (kate beckinsale) .
a computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. so he can get some rest, his wife offers to take their two kid' s camping for a week. when his fellow salesman and best friend is fired and thrown out of his house by his wife, he moves in and immediately starts unending parties which ultimately ends up the house on fire and winkler arrested on multiple charges. in between, in a drug - induced stupor, he gets mixed up with a ditzy blonde who wants to marry him and rescue her child from being raised by her parents .
“marty will more than likely come back again but for now they want him to take some time out to think about the way he’s behaved recently. ”
aldo clemens was the first to die, but the next victim is an innocent bystander: an elderly shut - in named margaret kwan. margaret’s regular delivery guy was booth’s ranger buddy, mike, who sounds like he comes from the seeley booth school of withstanding torture: really good at staying quiet when he’s the one in pain but really bad at watching other people suffer. since mike was more likely to give up booth’s name to spare margaret than to spare himself, the killer grabbed them both, forcing mike to watch as margaret — a sweet old lady who just wanted to knit! — was brutally tortured .
as for the movie’s lasting impact, i think that remains to be seen. i thought dave chappelle’s commentary was helping tear down some of our oldest cultural walls in the early ’00s, and look where we are now. we always assume ours is the generation that’s fixing this stuff, only to sometimes find out otherwise. that’s why i couldn’t help wondering how complicit rose was. what did you think about the fact that ol' girl was in on the scheme? was she just a dutiful granddaughter helping her grandpa get over getting sonned by jesse owens back in the day? or was she just pure milk - sipping evil ?
burdened by thuddingly obvious musical choices (including simon & garfunkel’s gorgeous title song and, for crying out loud, dylan’s “visions of johanna”), allan loeb’s script is glib and grating. the way is cleared for w. f. , with his aura of slovenly glamour and precise knowledge of the cooking temperature of heroin, to steal the show. but mr. turner holds his own, gamely countering his strong resemblance to the young richard gere with a performance of perplexed immaturity .
( if you' re curious, here' s the box - score from the game bueller and his friends attended as it is listed on baseball reference. )
what made it so memorable? the wit of the writing, of course, and the opportunities perry and croft gave their team of top - class actors to grow into their roles. when arthur lowe’s captain mainwaring tells clive dunn’s lance corporal, “i think you’re entering the realms of fantasy here, jones”, who can resist a purr of pleasure ?
hey wouldn’t get away with it today. no black faces, nor any character remotely ethnic other than john laurie’s tetchy scotsman. women only in subsidiary roles. and certainly no suggestion of sexual ambiguity beyond a wet clergyman. the bbc’s modern cultural commissars wouldn’t give the pilot script a second glance. white. middle class. home counties. show him the door, doris .
last night, the busbys and co. took a much - needed vacation to galveston for mother’s day. find out what adam and danielle were really thinking during the girls’ first beach outing !
but the film is tonally off, inevitably. to make it into a movie rather than a bundle of sketches, an overarching plot has been provided. we are later on in the war, leading up to d - day, and the nazis have sent over a secret agent, catherine zeta - jones, codenamed cobra, to try to find out if the invasion is planned for the pas - de - calais or normandy. she has headed straight for walmington - on - sea, pretending to be a journalist called rose winters, writing for the lady, to exploit the gullible locals .
a wide - open goal post for accusations of triteness and affectation, marc webb ’s “the only living boy in new york” dares us to score the second we hear jeff bridges’s cynical, omniscient voice - over. as w. f. , an alcoholic author with a mysterious connection to the movie’s nebbishy hero, thomas (callum turner), mr. bridges slips delightedly into the kind of arrogant - artist role he perfected in “the door in the floor” (2004). here, his character is more grimy and less lustful, but no less certain of his own rectitude .
kr: ever since hopper and fonda blew it at the end of easy rider, the pessimist take has been the mark of serious countercultural cinema—and honestly, if it were my first big solo project, i might’ve given into the temptation to go cynical. it’s just too easy to go full chicken little with every setback on this bumpy road to progress. but i have to think that peele is an optimist (rose’s milk glass was half full, right ?), who doesn’t think that the colorline is permanently insurmountable. his life is testament to that: he’s mixed himself, and he’s married to chelsea peretti. the playing field might not be level, but there are of enough of us who have mastered the judo needed to escape the trap. even you, whitey !
margaret died from a single slit to the neck, so it’s safe to assume that the killer ended her life after mike caved. and if the killer knows booth’s name, then booth, brennan, max, and the kids can’t stay at home. caroline, who blesses so much of this episode with her presence that i was a little worried she might die, arranges to put the whole family in an fbi safe house .
it seems executives had the final straw with chloe ferry’s ex, who was spitting feathers and raged on his account: “so i won’t be going back to @ mtvgeordieshore as i’ve been sacked according to a few people .
the actors and film crew did not film at the june 5 game and instead shot the movie' s wrigley field scene in september. during this game, the cubs played against the montreal expos, not the braves .
jimmy reassembles the film - school misfit crew who shot his ad and hustles around town to local businesses, offering to shoot an ad for them and giving them his airtime for free — only charging them for producing the ad. it’s a nifty loophole he’s found, but the clock is ticking; when the owners of a discount carpet warehouse ask for time to think about it, jimmy tells them, “we would need to be shooting in the next 15 minutes. ” he returns to his film crew dejected, without a sale, but an offhand comment from one of them (“maybe you could make a commercial? ”) flicks on a light bulb above jimmy’s head .
peter rubin: first off, kelli, i have a hard time thinking of the last time we were both so excited for the same movie. best man holiday, maybe? we' re huge key & peele fans (the shining - inspired
continental breakfast
sketch being among our mutual favorites), so this has been on our radar for a while now. when jordan peele tweeted out the first trailer for get out last october, my first reaction was that i couldn' t get over the way it refused to turn into a comedy. it took away the wink, which made its satire feel even sharper, and it seemed like it had the potential to be more incisive than most comedies about race and racism in america .
this prompted another to quiz: “so you’ve genuinely been sacked? ! wtffff! so you’ve been sacked? nah man! give over! ! ” before another referred to the loss of the show’s stars and put: “dropping like flies ffs. ”
don' t get me wrong, being black right now has its share of issues, and it’s nice to see it given a deeper dimension in a scary movie. the absurdism of horror tropes extends pretty easily to the absurdism that surrounds so much talk about race and racism: it’s not a far walk from “why is he going into the woods? ” to “why do we really have to explain why black lives matter? ” we all know exactly how it' s going to go down, but it doesn’t stop us from re - enacting it time and time again. and the movie acknowledges literal historical horror for sure, mirrored in the armitage family members’ weapons of choice: from seduction, to brute force, to guinea - pig experimentation, to plain old bamboozlement .
which brings us to that ending. while chris was fighting his way out of the family’s twisted chop - shop, whether by bocce ball or foot on the devil’s neck, you turned to me and said “this isn’t going to end well. ” and when we saw the flashing lights of the police car, just as chris was about to bid a farewell to armitages, i agreed with you. it felt like the whole theater did, honestly. the mood changed abruptly, because we all knew what would happen next: rose appealing to the cops to trust their eyes and their instincts; the movie turning into the tragedy - mask version of the end of key & peele’s “negrotown” sketch. but somehow, miraculously, that wasn’t to be. so, kelli, why? why not leave us miserable ?
however, for that modern touch, the women of walmington save the day, godfrey’s elderly sisters, rather resembling the old dears in fawlty towers, perform some prime detective work, ringing up chanel in paris to find where rose got her flashy clothes delivered (berlin). and mrs mainwaring, dreaded but never seen in the original version but here forcefully incarnated by felicity montagu (lynn in i’m alan partridge), leads a women’s army troop, including alison steadman as mrs fox, which is far better organised than the men. when the shooting starts, they prove the decisive factor .
but as painful as it is to say goodbye to max keenan — bank robber, absentee father, doting grandfather, and prime booth / brennan shipper — i can’t think of a better way for him to go out. after he dropped a hospital bracelet at brennan’s birthday party, it seemed like we’d be spending this season watching his health gradually fail him, but max isn’t the type to go gently into that good night. max is more the type to get a pacemaker without telling his daughter, then, as soon as he’s back in peak health, give up his own life in a blaze of badass granddad glory .
in the movie, bueller steals a lunch reservation for noon. since the cubs game started around 1: 25 p. m. (cdt), the group at least should have had ample time to make it to the cubs' wrigley field. but after that, bueller' s day gets a bit busier .
besides, the film was stuffed with predator - vs. - prey imagery that ended up subverting expectation. the lion next to the bed ended up as nothing but a stuffed toy; meanwhile, the deer head on the wall became the film’s bloodiest weapon. interracial fear can go in either direction—fear of the other exists on both sides .
pr: sure, laugh now, but the race is on to see who titles their next mixtape the sunken place vol. 1: behold the coagula! (my money’s on lupe fiasco .) i think you’re dead on about chris. as with any horror survivor, it’s partially luck and partially character. being a photographer might have been the thing that made him so attractive to the blind art dealer, but it also made him a watcher. even in the earliest scenes, he just sat back and observed. that telephoto lens on his camera wasn’t just an obvious (and black) phallic symbol he was poking into the armitages’ world—it was a penetrating gaze that helped him expose the nefarious goings - on .
so that’s plenty to be going on with — all but the first two series were in colour too, for those who care about that. there are also still available three chunky unabridged boxed cd sets of the excellent radio versions that were made in the early seventies, running to 70 - odd episodes, perfect for bath - time, in my experience .
for the whole platoon, from mainwaring to wilson, naive pike to spivvy joe walker, being male and therefore sex - addled, are instantly infatuated and led a merry dance, even the cameraman having a special soft - touch lens for zeta - jones, perhaps to compensate for the strange fixity of her features. i wonder if she’s had vitamin b ?
nacho business | nacho is really setting himself as the conflicted villain of better call saul, isn’t he? when krazy - 8 (hi, krazy - 8 !) brings him a short stack of cash, nacho almost lets him go with a warning… until hector taunts him, “who works for who, huh? ” (nacho responds by yanking krazy - 8 around by his hair and administering a savage beating .) then when nacho picks up a drug shipment from gus’ los pollos hermanos crew, he’s supposed to take five drug bundles, but he insists: “don hector gets six. ” victor sticks a gun in nacho’s face, but gus tells his guys to let him have it, and nacho calmly walks out with the six bundles .
these are the sort of scrapes out reluctant hero get' s into and it should all be pointless, totally far - fetched and silly, which it is (winkler gets arrested and is initiated into a street gang at one point) but nonetheless this is strangely fetching in its sublime stupidity and winkler is perfectly cast as the man who doesn' t know what' ll come next .
so why? o why? the film — produced by damian jones, whose credits include the iron lady, the biopic about mrs thatcher, and the alan bennett shows, the history boys and the lady in the van, and directed by oliver parker, who worked on the two st trinian’s films — provides no answer at all. perhaps a public enquiry is needed, although preferably not one chaired by sir john chilcot .
kelli rubin: the second i saw the trailer i knew we' d be in for something special (though i also thought that about tales from the hood, and i was not at all right). i was somewhat worried it might pan out to be little more than a mad tv sketch—
guess who' s coming for dinner! ”—but i still hoped that we' d get some shining moments like in that winkingly kubrickian sketch .
but there was something else i needed from this movie. i' ve seen my share of brutal 3 - hour slave narratives, and those films tend to send me to the sunken place: feeling mired in intractable issues, perpetually trapped on the bottom rung of society' s ladder—when, of course, reality doesn' t feel like that. so i get a little spine tingle when the genre expectations get flipped. sometimes we need less misery, more misery .
he heads to the offices of tv station kwbv, where he’s bought the ad space, and sets up a shoot in their parking lot: he’ll make an ad for his ad space, telling local businesses he’ll produce their ad for them. he realizes he can’t really show his face in the ad, though, because it’ll hurt his reputation as a lawyer. and his crew is hopeless at reading ad copy in front of a camera. so jimmy decides, “we’ll have to karloff this thing. ”
* this episode was a real stroll down breaking bad memory lane, wasn’t it? along with krazy - 8’s cameo, tyrus (gus’ henchman who stepped up after the chicken man slaughtered victor) handled the drug exchange with nacho. plus, gus went to scope out the industrial laundry that we know later becomes the front for his meth superlab, and he reported his approval of the place to… lydia! yes, the stevia - loving corporate exec who attempted to kill mike and walter white — and got a dose of ricin in response .
also, throughout the movie, bueller and principal ed rooney make contradicting statements about how much time is left in the school year. bueller refers to graduation being a few months away and claims he has to graduate in june. meanwhile, the principal says he won' t let bueller
coast this last month
meaning the school year is already almost over. as principal rooney probably has a better grasp on the school year than bueller, his statement coupled with bueller' s claim about june seems to allow for the june 5 date .
while at the game, bueller catches a foul ball, which granillo places sometime after 4 p. m. , given details from the box score. as granillo wrote in his original analysis ,
that leaves, at the most, one hour and forty - five minutes for their trips to the museum, sears tower, the lake, and sloane' s house, while squeezing in two musical numbers during the parade before racing home at 5: 55 p. m. seems a bit tough to squeeze all of that in for most normal people .
now that it' s got a weekend under its belt, though, we thought we' d wade in a little deeper. the movie didn' t leave too many questions unresolved, but it did give viewers plenty to chew on. have we not been giving the tsa enough credit? is
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plus, i don’t know how many of us could’ve taken it if chris had ended up in the hands of the cops—there’s enough in the world reminding us that privilege and brawn still have the upper hand. and speaking of, how did the armitages manage to get away with their annual auction? what happened to the rest of their quarry? was rod right, and there are handfuls of zombie black sex slaves sprinkled up and down the northeast corridor? and how much of this is based on the kardashians’ real life? most importantly: what saved chris from their fate? was it because he didn’t lose his head during the many parts of the movie when he could have ?
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a brilliant, hard to find national lampoon comedy that originally aired on tv back in 1997 and starred henry winkler and olivia d' abo. was recorded from tv on to vhs back in 2004 and has been played quite a few times so excuse the quality .
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a computer salesman (henry winkler) is charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. his family give him some space to relax .
henry winkler looking good in this over - the - top comedy from the national lampoon team, considering the fonz was no spring chicken even all those moons ago in happy days .
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from left, callum turner and jeff bridges in “the only living boy in new york. ”
everyone, in fact, works hard to transcend the artifice, and they deserve better. so, for that matter, do simon & garfunkel .
rated r for drinking, drugging and mistress - sharing. running time: 1 hour 28 minutes .
pr: that milk though. of all the begging - for - audience - reaction moments that peele stocked this film with—the deer business, the passing glances of georgina acting creepy, the open door—that milk might have been the sleeper hit of the movie, at least in the theater we watched it in (shout out to the century 16 in san leandro !). for a film that hinged on playing with expectations about the specter of evil white folks, the shot of rose merrily sipping milk while she shopped for basketball players online was a hilarious dogwhistle. speaking of chappelle, that was a scene he must have loved .
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they have assembled an eminent cast. toby jones plays captain mainwaring. bill nighy plays sergeant wilson, tom courtenay plays corporal jones, michael gambon plays private godfrey, while private pike is played by blake harrison from the inbetweeners, ian lavender having moved on, 40 years later, to play the local top brass brigadier pritchard. except they don’t .
all the main actors play not their parts — how could they? what an impertinence that would be! — but the great actors who created them first. so toby jones, excellent though he may be, plays arthur lowe playing captain mainwaring; bill nighy, lovely as ever, does john le mesurier almost as well as john le mesurier, and so forth, right around the shop. of course these actors are good but by the same token they are all highly recognisable as themselves, so you constantly think: why is michael gambon trying to be arnold ridley, who was and forever will be godfrey? what good does tom courtenay think he can do by impersonating clive dunn being corporal jones ?
even when they are told by mi5 that they have detected transmissions from a german spy in walmington, the troop can’t conceive that it could be a woman, probably not having seen gone girl or anything like that. “what? a spy? a real one? i intend to catch him, ” says mainwaring, blinding himself to the possibility .
two performances stand out. the wonderful frank williams, now 84, the huffy vicar in the original, appears again, delightfully, in the same role, suddenly bringing authenticity. and contrariwise, weedy pike has been equipped with a girlfriend here, an entirely new character called vera, fetchingly played by holli dempsey, with a freshness and reality made easier by her not being any kind of re - vamp .
but making the film ever so slightly more genuinely about the second world war — even showing the nazis, including possibly hitler himself, in the reich chancellery, ordering the cobra mission — stirs an unease the original never did. that was a genuine period piece, this is a fake. think even a little about the realities of that war now and any laughter, even at the most harmless pratfalls, sticks in the throat .
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ferris bueller
has some cheerfully zany scenes, but lacks the originality and verve of hughes' previous telltale teen comedies .
what should' ve been a joyful romp turns into a stale, sour - edged celebration of the new conformist, an affluent, technology - addled cherub without a rebellious whim in his brain .
it is most curious that hughes, who is obviously clever and talented, has failed to develop the intriguing situation he has set in motion .
[ while risky business ] suggested that money isn' t everything, ferris bueller insists just the opposite .
broderick is remarkably likeable as the arrogant, spoilt brat, ruck is excellent as his melancholy friend and jones almost steals the show .
though it sinks to teen - film cliches at times, the film is undeniably iconic and memorable, and, at times, strangely brilliant and haunting (the museum scene being the best example of this) .
the question isn' t what are we going to do. the question is what aren' t we going to do .
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on a spring day in the 1980s, a high school senior named ferris bueller faked being sick to get out of going to school. the charming truant then convinced his girlfriend, sloane peterson, and best friend, cameron frye, to join him on an adventure through downtown chicago .
hughes never explicitly revealed the date in the movie. but sportswriter larry granillo wanted to figure it out. so he looked into the chicago cubs' 1985 season trying to decipher the specific baseball game the teens attend in the movie in hopes of solving the decades - long mystery. and he did .
granillo was able to use the few details hughes reveals about the game to pinpoint the exact date .
and it occurred to me that the cubs footage they showed on the tv screen, combined with the audio, had to have come from a real game ,
granillo told the huffington post over email .
i pulled up baseball reference (still the greatest gift the internet ever created), and with a little digging into the game logs of the players mentioned on screen, i found the game .
the cubs lost to the atlanta braves on june 5, 1985, 4 - 2, but the movie doesn' t show the school - skipping friends staying until the end anyway, so the loss shouldn' t have soured their
we' re young and anything is possible
mood. and even if he did stay at the game, as a resident of the chicago suburbs, bueller should already have been used to the cubs losing. i say this with regret as a cubs fan, but c' mon, the team hasn' t won a world series championship since 1908 - - back when the ottoman empire was still around.
dad 's week off is an american television film that premiered on showtime on march 29 , 1997 . it was written and directed by neal israel , and starred henry winkler , olivia d'abo and richard jeni . 
dad's week off is an american television film that premiered on showtime on march 29, 1997. it was written and directed by neal israel, and starred henry winkler, olivia d'abo and richard jeni.
dad's week off is an american television film that premiered on showtime on march 29, 1997. it was written and directed by neal israel, and starred henry winkler, olivia d'abo and richard jeni.