Gryffyd Eamonn Dempsey » Movies http://www.gryffyddempsey.com Unnecessaries and Effluvia Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:18:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Oh fer two http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/oh-fer-two/ http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/oh-fer-two/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:37:33 +0000 Gryffyd http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/?p=179 Chevy Chase is hoping some fellow comedian will decimate Sarah Palin, who has apparently insulted his sense of proper gender roles:

“I want her to decimate this woman. This woman is, I can’t believe there hasn’t been more about it. … It’s just unbelievable to me this woman is actually running for vice president,” he continued.

Any fool is entitled to their political opinion, but let us recall that this is the same fool who said of Bill Murray’s brilliant turn in Lost in Translation that “I thought Billy’s acting was restrained. I thought it was too controlled.”  What a witless aperçu.

]]> http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/oh-fer-two/feed/ 0 Rites of citizenship http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/rites-of-citizenship/ http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/rites-of-citizenship/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 17:55:14 +0000 Gryffyd http://www.gryffyddempsey.com/?p=133 Due to my peripatetic upbringing, there are gaps in my cultural knowledge so far as it concerns 70s & 80s American film and televison.  Mrs The Fyd is alternativly appalled and amused by this.  Sometimes this shortfall in my education gives her the fits and so she insists I make up a specific lack.  One of the most significant of these lacunae has been my near-complete lack of knowledge of the film The Goonies.  I believe we were in the States the summer it came out and I recall the Cyndi Lauper video, but that’s as close as I ever came to viewing it.  To gauge by Mrs The Fyd’s reaction to learning this, you might think the ship of our marriage had been in danger of foundering, the keel of our matrimony to be shattered on the reef of misaligned cultural referents.  I myself felt I might have benefited from avoiding this particular bit of Americana, and was happy to continue in my blithe ignorance.

Until yesterday.  I have now seen The Goonies.  I am now allowed to call myself an American.  May God have mercy on us all.

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