The Crazy Dick-Gun Speech (Episode 10)

Welcome all Derners of The American Revolution!

We are back with our most solidified format, and quite a bit of Dern to lay on you. Our paramour, Lady Laura is staying safe at home in some snazzy new PJ's (gifted to her by the lovely Robin Wright) and helping out some charities - as is the way of the celebrity in these times. Life is going on, Nic has become one with the land and is in a longterm committed relationship with a woodchuck, and Max is eating from a mound of stale birthday cake three stories above the streets of Philadelphia (little has changed).

We got started this week with a BIG DERN by Nic, 'Lonely Hearts', the 2006 Travolta/Gandolfini led Neo-noir cop drama. It follows the true story of Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto) and Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) 'The Lonely Heart Killers' as they conned and later killed women in cross country spree and relationship we can only describe as insanely toxic. They were closely hunted by some top notch Long Islandy cops (who happen to employ a H-O-T Lond Island tongued Laura Dern as a desk worker and romantic partner to Travolta) until everything ends in a head with a dead kid in a tricycle box and our two con artists frying at Sing-Sing. Worth the watch, pop some corn and get at it!

Between our Derns this week Max did some Wiki snooping into the Philadelphia Poison Ring, a fantastic tale of old world Italian superstition and insurance fraud on a massive scale. Nic rode a HALF MARATHON (on his bike, which still counts) and watched a few things like 'Crip Camp' (2020) a fantastic documentary about disability, humanity, and hippies. And read 'Our Town', the fantastic 1938 Thornton Wilder play about Americana, small town life, and life in general (it is like the carousel of progress but a play, A+).

Max took the LITTLE DERN to town this week with the 2002 Scholastic short film 'Goose', based on the Molly Bang book (and Caldecott Medal RUNNER UP) of the same name, which tells the story of a goose raised by a family of woodchucks. Through some fun misadventure and growing up the goose grows weary, and is shook out of the blues by the discovery of flight! All of this is told in the words of none other than Mrs.Laura Dern.

That is all we have for you, our adoring public, this week. Stay tuned for a fantastic week of movies next time (seriously, we are SHAKING). Wash your hands, don't hoard, and don't gather in mass to protest heath and safety measures...do it (and don't do it) for Dern. xoxo, stay safe.

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