TV Reviews of Hell's Kitchen where Chef Ramsey keeps cussing the wannabe chefs keep smoking.
Also a dark horse HGTV reality contest for interior designers…."Design Star".
And as "America's Got Talent" rapidly gains as a challenge to "American Idol" it now has a final top 20.
First guess at the top five here with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
============ Ed and Lois Smart tell the harrowing tale of the search for their abducted daughter Elizabeth.
She'd been taken from her bed in her own home one night and as the Smart family suffered the insults of a community the Salt Lake Police blew this case so bad that Elizabeth suffered many more months for their dereliction of investigative duty.
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For one can never get enough Ted Kennedy.
But more importantly, on Thoughts this week we have a tender story about butterfly babies and backyard habitats. Plus a story about a new computer malware that is particularly nasty.
And of course, as we all need more of the wonderful Ted Kennedy in our lives, my tale of just how I shall explain the story of Ted Kennedy to my granddaughter.
In Thoughts this week we have a weekly wrap up of Obamacare news, including the most amazing, just revealed on Fox News Sunday today, 8/23/09-the administration's attempt to KILL OFF OUR VETERANS!
The Obama admin sent a spokesperson who they thought would stop the anger but God bless the child for her service to our country but she lied, and lied, and lied, and lied.
They want to kill us, folks, the elderly Vets and citizens, don't let them deny it.
Plus Michelle's shorts, Town Meeting cowards, and the snitch White House web site closed down. ================== "Mama Mia" is an okay musical, probably not for our heterosexual brethren. It does feature pop music from my era, has beautiful scenery, great acting, intriguing characters.
Two things, "Dancing Queen" will roll around in your head for a month after seeing it and the plot line, folks, it's really, really uncomfortable. ============== Dr. Bass became head of the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee.
There dead bodies are studied, rates of decay and other nasty stuff, to help solve crimes, identify the long dead or just so people like myself can read some really interesting stuff about it.
The chefs keep smoking on Hell's Kitchen 2009 and Gordon keeps cussing. We've got an update.
America's Got Talent begins the rundown to the big finale and we've got pics, videos, reviews and predictions of the first twenty in the semi-finals.
Here's a new show from ABC, "Shark Tank" and we take a look at it.
All with pics and videos you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
============ Ann Coulter informs us and entertains us with her latest blockbuster…"Guilty".
A review of this book and reasons why you should read this book even if you think you already know everything. ============
In THOUGHTS this week we've got some snarky reasons why Obama's health care overhaul is dead, stick a fork in it.
With the absolute one thing most responsible for killing the thing, the one item they can't talk around, the one notion that Americans will never buy.
Plus Hillary the graceless one is Bad Guy of the Week, a new bathing suit that you might want to purchase and a video of the best dog act of them all. ============ Guest Writer Michelle entertains us with her tale of training a headstrong pup.
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is a book that combines sports, politics in a page-turning thriller.
If that sounds impossible, read the review then get the book. Because it's a well-written story that you'll not put down until you figure out what Cal is up to. ============ Three movies reviewed in this post. "Perfect Stranger" has a smashing ending and good acting by Haille Berry.
"Incredible Hulk" brings back the comic book character in an action packed film worth every second.
And "The Brady Bunch Movie" is packed with satire that had me smiling for every second. Loved the Monkees! ============ So we've got this year's Food Network Star and we eagerly await Melissa D'Arabian's first cooking show.
We wrap this year's contest in this post and make a promise we'll be sure to keep. ============ Lots of information on Obama's awful health care plan, a challenge for yon reader to turn in the Fishy Fish, cartoons that tell it like it is.
Plus a Muslim wedding that will shock you, a video on Clunkers for Cash that will break your heart.
We end with a sure smile and more in this weeks Thoughts.
The intriguing reality is that neither of these two finalists of the Next Food Network Star, Melissa or Jeffrey, have any extensive food background.
Which some would say makes it all the sweeter.
The contenders were good but the Korean, the Creole or the Healthy could beat the cooking of the 2009 Next Food Network Star finalists and their charming on screen presence.
My choice for the winner. All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
============ It could have been the stimulus that didn't stimulate, the health care package Americans hate; bowing to the Saudi King…well President Obama has given us enough actions that will likely bring down his presidency as his ratings tank like our 401-k's.
But folks, the Gates incident illustrates more than anything where this very naive man is coming from. It will be the incident that caused his downfall.
Plus some detailed information on the Health "reform" that will have you killing Grandma; some Clinton kitchen utensils; and some thoughts on just why you have to be crazy to ask for a birth certificate?
Does this make every MVA in America conspiracy theorists?
============ Even though Father Beachem was his twin brother, the protagonist in this fiction short story helped arrange his twin's surprise birthday party which turned out to be a bigger surprise to the caterer and priest's brother than to the party's man of honor.
============ Some 2009 summer reality shows plow on, others start up, some are brand new, some old and stale.
Reviews here of 2009 "Hell's Kitchen", HGTV's 2009" Design Star"; "America's Got Talent" finally over the auditions and a new one that fat people across the fruited plains will adore:"More to Love". Or maybe not.
All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
============ 2009 Bachelorette Jillian has chosen her man.
We have a review of the Men Telling All, The Final Rose and After the Final Rose.
With some analysis of the series, some smirks, a few laughs and, of course, pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet. =========== Kaitlyn Mae visits in July 2009 and her and Mom-Mom-ME-go to Delaware State Fair, the Cape May Zoo and watch a live musical- Oliver.
Plenty of pics and video. Watch the Zoo video cause we’ve got a winner here.
TV Reviews of Hell's Kitchen where Chef Ramsey keeps cussing the wannabe chefs keep smoking.
Also a dark horse HGTV reality contest for interior designers…."Design Star".
And as "America's Got Talent" rapidly gains as a challenge to "American Idol" it now has a final top 20.
First guess at the top five here with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
============
Ed and Lois Smart tell the harrowing tale of the search for their abducted daughter Elizabeth.
She'd been taken from her bed in her own home one night and as the Smart family suffered the insults of a community the Salt Lake Police blew this case so bad that Elizabeth suffered many more months for their dereliction of investigative duty.
============
For one can never get enough Ted Kennedy.
But more importantly, on Thoughts this week we have a tender story about butterfly babies and backyard habitats. Plus a story about a new computer malware that is particularly nasty.
And of course, as we all need more of the wonderful Ted Kennedy in our lives, my tale of just how I shall explain the story of Ted Kennedy to my granddaughter.
Much more.
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Pic of the Day
The Scam From Hell
I was doing a google search on monarch butterflies, more on this later.
The list of sites on my requested subject came up and I clicked on one that seemed to cover my curiousity. It was taking a long time for the screen to come up and in disgust I stopped it from loading, figuring Comcast had slowed down to a crawl again and a modem reboot would be required.
Suddenly this screen appeared on my desktop informing me that a vicious virus was discovered on my system. Pic of the screen below.
Now you got to admit that this is a handsome thing, this Windows Antivirus Pro thing. I had no idea where this came from but as these things go, it had only been a few days prior that I had downloaded a Windows update so I figured that perhaps this antivirus pro was part of that update.
One button asked if I wanted to clean up the infected files and to just click here if so. Well of course I wanted to clean up all these worms just then infecting my computer so I clicked.
“Enter your certificate number” the program instructed with a box to do just this. Of course I did not have a certificate goodness I didn’t even know I had this program on my computer much less need any sort of certificate. I was not, however, born yesterday, and I do know that the request of a certificate usually is a way for the program to verify that the user had, indeed, purchased the program. I figured this was some sort of “trial” program from Windows that was on my recent update and there would be a way to get out of it.
Which there was.
Windows kept popping up, all sorts of windows, windows that told me that my computer would be murdered, windows warning me that a nuclear bomb was about to detonate over New York, windows excoriating me for not fixing these files.
My computer had an anti-viral program which did not complain a whit about all these programs which I thought curious.
I told my husband I’d never seen a trial run program so insistant and such a nuisance and let me get rid of all these annoying warnings and I intended to write Microsoft a letter giving them a piece of my mind.
Only the windows wouldn’t go away. They kept popping up everytime I managed to clear them out and over and over and over again. Finally I tried to run Excel. “EXCEL CANNOT RUN AS IT IS INFECTED AND WILL DAMAGE YOUR COMPUTER” this new message informed me.
Now I was in deep trouble. For I could get no programs to run. Husband told me to do a “restore” but I couldn’t get the control panel to work at all.
Again, I was not born yesterday. I was able to get in the task manager via control-alt-delete and removed this program completely from memory but within fifteen seconds it CAME ON AGAIN!
“I guess I’m just going to have to go buy this program,” I told husband, still unsure what was going on, perhaps my files were all corrupt and perhaps I’d invited this trial program on my computer with that Windows update and a curious combination of circumstances caused my computer to freeze up with the “infected files”.
I was doubtful however. I’d never seen a trial program act like this before. And yet if all my files had been infected…
Meanwhile husband was busy at his computer. Just when I was in a panic and about to click the button that would have me buying this wonderful Windows Antivirus Pro, he shouted for me to stop.
Husband then read something off of his screen to the effect that this WINDOWS ANTIVIRUS PRO was a grand hoax and even if I did purchase their “product” it likely wouldn’t fix a thing and they’d probably peg me as an idiot and demand more money.
It took me four hours that night to get this thing off of my computer. We had to use all three computers to get it worked out. Husband found a site that had instructions on how to remove this nasty thing. That site warned to print out the instructions and indeed, yes indeed. Because to fix this thing required actually changing the registry file and removing various operations and applications via the task manager. It was not for the faint of heart.
May God drive a stake through the heart of whatever evil people came up with this.
My question to husband and perhaps yon readers, whoever did this, aren’t they breaking the law? I mean they took over my computer, hijacked same as if they’d broken into my car while I drove it and demanded I give them money at gunpoint.
Further, wouldn’t it be easy to catch these characters? Obviously they have to have some sort of credit card thing set up for those poor fools who fall for this scam and I’m thinking there’s quite a few who would be fooled. The thing does keep ALL programs from running on your computer. The popup screens are very professional, made to look like Windows. A person could easily believe their computer had been badly infected, it’s a scenario that could fly.
I am looking for how to turn these people into the authorities. I heard it was an FCC issue but reader input is appreciated, send me an email.
For this is as cruel a robbery as any I’ve encountered and I don’t see why they should get away with it.
The Joy and Drama of the Monarch Butterflies
I actually paid for this plant. I forget what it was called but it had the word “butterfly” in it. It could have been “butterfly plant” or maybe “butterfly weed”. I figured it would attract butterflies and what gardens is complete without butterflies?
Heh. Well I didn’t know the thing would become a nursery for monarch butterflies but in the past ten years of my existance this fact is right up there in my top ten of most delightful surprises of my life.
I saw the bright yellow and black caterpillar and immediately did the only right thing to do. I called my husband outside to see.
“You’re sure that’s a monarch caterpillar?” husband asked. Well damn, it was yellow and white and black and any fool could see these were the colorings of the monarch butterfly.
As a Backyard Wildlife Habitat Specialist, trained by the National Wildlife Federation, of course I want to plant those plantings that will provide nesting places for the creatures, maybe fruit to eat, cover from predators. It’s what having a Backyard Wildlife Habitat is all about, after all, inviting God’s beautiful creatures to live right alongside you, to grow and thrive with the humans, to provide human children the chance to view life, survival, birth, even death.
Still and so, when it really happens it just takes my breath away.
The next day there were over 30 of the handsomest caterpillars on the planet, all of them munching away, getting big and fat and happy. I wondered aloud to husband just what the hell…?
“This is sold as a butterfly plant,” husband explained after a research of the Internet revealed some of the facts. “But it is really related to the milkweed, the ONLY plant used by the Monarch butterfly plant to lay its eggs. They don’t want to call it a ‘weed’ cause maybe people don’t want to buy something called a weed.”
Which, of course, I’d have bought it if it were called a weed so long as it had butterfly in the name but that’s just me. But I did think that it was a plant that would attract butterflies of the flying type and yet the plant bloomed some kind of orange flowers in early July, not really full=fledged butterfly season, and while a butterfly or two might flit by, the plant didn’t especially attract butterflies any more than, say, my fine coneflower plant.
In my wildest dreams I didn’t think it would be a monarch butterfly nursery, goodness this tidbit wasn’t included in the garden catalogue. Maybe they were afeared that folks not want to buy a plant that would be covered with fat caterpillars and would, in due course, be stripped naked as if a hoard of locusts had mowed it down.
I didn’t care. Both husband and I were delighted with our “babies” and visiting them every day became part of the day’s joy.
Below is a movie I made and hey, it’s kind of boring some might say. But I captured all of the happy caterpillars and provided some insight as to what was going on better than I ever could have done with a picture.
In Thoughts this week we have a weekly wrap up of Obamacare news, including the most amazing, just revealed on Fox News Sunday today, 8/23/09-the administration's attempt to KILL OFF OUR VETERANS!
The Obama admin sent a spokesperson who they thought would stop the anger but God bless the child for her service to our country but she lied, and lied, and lied, and lied.
They want to kill us, folks, the elderly Vets and citizens, don't let them deny it.
Plus Michelle's shorts, Town Meeting cowards, and the snitch White House web site closed down. ================== "Mama Mia" is an okay musical, probably not for our heterosexual brethren. It does feature pop music from my era, has beautiful scenery, great acting, intriguing characters.
Two things, "Dancing Queen" will roll around in your head for a month after seeing it and the plot line, folks, it's really, really uncomfortable. ============== Dr. Bass became head of the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee.
There dead bodies are studied, rates of decay and other nasty stuff, to help solve crimes, identify the long dead or just so people like myself can read some really interesting stuff about it.
Not for the squeamish.
Pic of the Day
White House Snitch Site
For now, someway, somehow, Debbie Stabenow has a relative connected with this thing but later on the details.
Not that Dems lie, cheat or steal or anything. Or run gubmint paid for web sites to encourage citizens to snitch on each other, God knows I never thought this day would ever come in the USA.
At any rate, last week they shut the snitch site down. I did ask for yon readers to snitch on me as my name is Fish and they wanted anyone expressing “fishy” thoughts about Obamer health care. Some suggest my thoughts are fishy.
Heh.
So my names on their list I must hope.
Tom DeLay On Dancing With the Stars!
The Democrats made this man so evil. They even had some rogue Texas prosecutor put out some bogus charges against the guy.
The pubs, brave men all with their fine, fine tans and perfect head hairs, threw the poor guy to the wind. For if the Dems can’t win fair and square, with the help of gonad-less pubs, they cheat!
Now Tom Delay is going to be on Dancing With the Stars and you gotta smile.
I simply cannot imagine Tom Delay dancing around the room, much less winning anything.
We’ll be following Dancing With the Stars closely on this Blog.
Stay tuned.
The Death Book & Other Obamacare News
I finally got my jaw off of the floor after watching Fox News Sunday early in the morn this fine Sunday, 8/23/09. On the show, moderator Chris Wallace had VA Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth, who lost two legs during the Iraq war herself.
I am simply stunned at what I heard.
This story hit the news via The Wall Street Journal this past Wednesday and the administration did the best they could do with damage control by sending out a crippled vet to fight with the spin.
This woman lied and lied and lied and lied and shame on her, no dammit, child thank you for your service but a pox on you and how you are covering up what this country is trying to do to its veterans.
For if yon ladies and gems thinks its bad enough that the administration wants to put Grandma to death once she costs more than her life is worth, as THEY (whoever THEY are) determine, get a load of this book to which all veterans are being referred.
Pay attention for you all will be hearing about this next week so stop now making fun of Sarah Palin’s reference to death panels.
As of July 2nd, the VA is referring veterans to the book. That's interesting in itself, because the Bush Administration ended use of the book in 2007. And it has now been reinstated. What makes the book controversial is that--according to critics--it seems to push veterans in the direction of "pulling the plug." For instance--page 21 is a worksheet in which the veteran is asked to consider various situations and then check--whether in each case, life would be "difficult, but acceptable"--"worth living, but just barely"--or "not worth living."
You might think that the scenarios would involve irreversible comas and the like. But no--they include: "I can no longer walk but get around in a wheelchair"--"I live in a nursing home"--"I am a severe financial burden on my family"--and "I cannot seem to 'shake the blues'".
Can you imagine? They actually give veterans a questionnaire and ask if life is worth living if they are…IN A WHEELCHAIR?
This Tammy Duckworth character, what a fool, what a lying damnable fool she made of herself.
She said that this was just one of several references to which veterans were referred and Chris Wallace pointed out that oh no it was not, that this was the ONLY book where veterans were referred on the VA web site.
Duckworth pooh-poohed it as unimportant but why did Obamer put this awful book back into play after the Bush administration pulled it in 2007? Oh, and yeah, Duckworth sure did try to blame it on Bush but that went over like the proverbial lead balloon.
Finally Chris Wallace asked her if the administration would pull the referrals to this awful, terrible, horrible piece of written crap (and there’s a whole bunch of very interesting history on this book’s author out there) off of the VA’s web site and, heh, of course she couldn’t agree to this stipulation.
I could almost feel the wheels in her head spinning across the air waves. She had no authority to pull that book.
So guess what she said? She said the book would not be pulled because, sit down now and make sure your bladders are emptied ye shall laugh so hard…that the writing of this book was paid for by public funds and by law they MUST use it!!!
I am NOT making this up. This humble Blogger brings this to you fresh from its happening for already it’s all over the Internet.
No Death Panels they say?
Heh.
Now on to more information on Town Halls and other news as the Obamer administration tries desperately to pee upon our feet and tell us it’s raining. He calls it getting “wee-wee’d up”.
From the Orlando Sentinal we learn of one very brave Florida congress critter who brought his children to a Town Hall meeting, sort of human shields.
The Orlando Sentinel reports Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson brought three of children to use as human shields at a town hall meeting tonight on health care. The Sentinel also reported Grayson found a new way to stack the meeting with supporters.
The paper reported that during a contentious point in the meeting, Grayson told a man to "knock off the bull" and invoked the presence of his children to try to keep the peace at the meeting.
As for Grayson's new way to stack the meeting, the local Democratic party held a meeting in the same room right before Grayson's town hall. They stayed and took up seats in the small 120 seat room.
Next we have a New York Dem congress critter who says, right out loud, that he does not care a whit about the wishes of his constituents, he will vote for what is best for them. According to him we must imagine.
They say they don’t want death panels but what’s the deal with that VA thing? They say they don’t want a “single payer option”, Saul Alinsky talk for “gubmint run health care” but look at the collection of clips below.
They will vote however THEY want. They want to decide when you die as the elderly cost too much money that they could better use to buy votes for themselves.
And they need the gubmint option to do this and if you’re still not satisfied, note how well that Cash for Clunkers thing went.
Or as Rush Limbaugh calls this Obamer healthcare reform…”Cash for Caskets”.
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14 . Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
Michelle Obama and the Shorts
She’s the First Lady for God’s sake! She knew she would be photographed while disembarking from Air Force 1. So why does she look like she’s jumped out of bed, combed her hair back in a ponytail and threw on a pair of wrinkled shorts?
Laura Bush never dressed like this.
She considers herself an icon of fashion. For sure there’s nothing terribly wrong with how she looks. I don’t look any better.
But then I’m not getting off of Air Force 1 to a bevy of flashbulbs.
Ending With a Smile
”Beyond the Body Farm”
by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
The “Body Farm” is a place in the University of Tennessee that was set up for the study of human decomposition.
Really.
It’s a place where dead bodies are taken and allowed to decompose under all sorts of conditions. The study of the timing and circumstances of the decomposition provide valuable information for future homicides or other circumstances of death.
Evidently this team, a bone detective and a writer, founded this Body Farm and wrote a first book all about it. So now we have, of course, BEYOND the Body Farm.
The cover blurb notes:
"a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries and the revolution in forensic science"-cover blurb
This book is not for squeamish. In fact I had to quickly scan some of the chapters. Such as detailed minutiae of insect activity on a dead body is hardly appetizing.
Some of the cases Dr. Bass investigated were quite fascinating though. Bass is called in as a consult for all sorts of death studies, some criminal, some accidental, some personal.
Richard Jamieson, for example, was found burned in his car. Law enforcement wanted some help on his death as Jamieson had been dead in that car for quite a while. Was it a murder or an accident?
Bass did an autopsy and discovered that Jamieson’s body had many burned insect larvae in it. Which could only mean that Jamieson had already been dead and had already decomposed to the point of having massive insect activity. With the larva of these insects burned as well as Jamieson’s body, it could only mean that someone loaded Jamieson’s already decaying body into that car, or that he had been in the car already dead and decaying, when likely his murderer torched the car.
It’s discovering this sort of information that makes for helpful criminal investigations and successful prosecutions.
Bass provides other examples of his craft, including personal pleas to identify found skeletons, bureaucracy requests to identify airplane crash remains and one study in Iran for anthropological artifacts.
It’s quite an interesting book, well worth the read for those interested in my favorite literary genre-True Crime.
Of course I am a female and women, as I guess by instinct only, tend to like musicals more than men. Such as actors suddenly bursting into song at the weirdest of moments upon the big screen is not normally the stuff males of the human kind like.
So okay, maybe it’s just my husband. And my three other husbands.
Point is I’ve been around men in my lifetime and I assert, anecdotally, men do not normally like musical movies.
In the case of Mama Mia, however, my current husband had mixed emotions because he is, like me, of the era of this movie’s music and it was music he liked as a young man.
Except he doesn’t much like musicals.
But okay, I do and yes, I liked “Mama Mia”. I liked the music, I liked the acting, I liked the characters, I liked the setting, I liked the camera work, I liked the costumes.
Actors in this movie: Meryl Streep ... Donna Sheridan Pierce Brosnan ... Sam Carmichael Colin Firth ... Harry Bright Stellan Skarsgård ... Bill Anderson Julie Walters ... Rosie Dominic Cooper ... Sky Amanda Seyfried ... Sophie Sheridan Christine Baranski ... Tanya Ashley Lilley ... Ali Nancy Baldwin ... Sam's PA Rachel McDowall ... Lisa Heather Emmanuel ... Harry's Housekeeper Ricardo Montez ... Stannos Mia Soteriou ... Arina Enzo Squillino Jr. ... Gregoris
So Donna Sheridan runs some kind of hotel thing located somewhere on the ocean, not sure where or what country. But it’s a beautiful setting with, naturally, breezes constantly blowing over a setting of azure blue skies over clean, clear refreshing ocean water.
Donna Sheridan has a daughter, Sophie, and Donna Sheridan has no idea who is the child’s father.
Well not exactly NO idea. It could be one of three men who passed through Donna’s life all in the span of one very busy month when Donna’s child Sophie was assumedly conceived.
The movie involves Sophie’s wedding, her invite to all of these three possible fathers, their collective astonishing acceptance of the honor and moves on through this rather improbable plot line that left me, well a bit embarrassed.
Donna Sheridan, played by that most wonderful of actresses Meryl Streep- of apples with Alar fame so much for Streep’s activism may she stick to acting her liberal self- is a very likeable character.
She was once, along with two other youthful friends, a singer who then became a single hotel proprietress who eschewed males of all sort, alleging their uselessness except for that sperm thing and even at that Donna Sheridan messed it all up.
The idea is that the mother knows just WHO is the sperm donor as children should have a father whose identity they know and in the best of all worlds, that father will know these children exist and will stick around to raise them.
But maybe it’s just me.
For Donna Sheridan was a nice lady who wasn’t a slut as one might think. She just had that one busy month and it all happened because she had a broken heart anyway.
So while I quite enjoyed the movie with its fine music, beautiful scenery, pretty costumes and sometimes funny scenes, the thought of that pretty child having lived her life without ever having a proper father in her life, her somewhat pathetic attempt to locate him to give her away at her wedding, her obvious regret at never knowing her father, well this lent an aura of sadness to the movie.
Sadness and musicals, I’m just not sure they mesh all that well.
It was this discomfort that detracted from my enjoyment of the film. Which is not to say that overall I didn’t enjoy it. I did.
If I didn’t feel so damn sorry for poor Sophie Sheridan throughout the whole thing I would definitely have enjoyed the movie much more.
