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While recommending the
movie "I'm Reed Fish"
to MoSup last night, while I watched Hoops - it's available on Showtime
On-Demand - I said that I couldn't do the same on my blog, or I'd be
expelled from the man club. But I'm doing it anyway, because now
I can add something that men will understand. That in a moment.
I watched two movies over the weekend, The Promotion,
and said Reed Fish.
Both wildly exceeded my expectations. The Promotion, because I
associate star Seann William Scott
with American Pie goofiness, but he's excellent in the role of Doug, the assistant grocery store manager, as is John C. Reilly as his nemesis, but I expected that.
I don't know what prompted me to try Reed Fish, but I'm glad I
did. Didn't recognize a person in the movie ... including
Katie Sagal who has .. aged somewhat. I found Reed's old
girlfriend Jill, played by Schuyler Fisk, whom I'd never heard of before, hauntingly pretty. Her impromptu singing
at a bar talent show blew me away, so I looked her up. Here's her
Facebook, but I'm sure
y'all know her stuff. Now, here's the man stuff.
Some years ago, c1983, the wife and I were meeting friends for lunch at
Charlottesville's Boars Head Inn. We had a
table, they were late. I went to the lobby to make sure they
weren't waiting for us there and noticed a women with a baby stroller,
baby and bags in arms, struggling to open the door. She was with
an older woman I took to be her mother. I opened the door for
them, and offered to carry her bags, which she allowed, and I followed
them into the dining room where they were seated at the table behind
ours. It was Sissy Spacek, and the baby had to be her daughter,
now named Schuyler
Fisk.
Our friends arrived just then, and I whispered to them "don't look, but
that's Sissy Spacek behind you. They looked, but fortunately she
didn't notice, because she was removing her breast (left one) from
behind a dropped flap, and began feeding little Schuyler. Guys
know where I'm coming from here. I 'm uncomfortable with women
who breast feed in public, because I can't not watch. I just
can't (unless it's my daughter, stab my eyes out). She looked up
and caught me, gave a wee hint of a smile and I looked away,
embarrassed at being caught.
That's my Schuyler Fisk
story. I recommend both movies.
Oh yeah, Sissy somehow got my phone number and called and called until
MoSup threatened to rip her eyes out. I think that happened, but
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