Young, Dumb, and Full of America (Episode 4)

BaCk In ThE sAdDlE aGaIn BaBy - Dern is going USA all THE way

(sorry about that)

This week was a slow week for Dern news, but she deserves a rest after her hectic and victorious awards season. While our queen (who stiffed us on being guesting this week) slumbers, we decided by our random lottery system to go back to 1989 and 1999 respectively to see some sultry and scandalous Dern rolls of yesteryear. 

Max got us going with the big Dern 'Fat Man and Little Boy', the star studded WWII historical drama about the making of the atomic bombs that would be dropped on Japan and subsequently end the war. Of course it is not as simple as that, Robert Oppenheimer (portrayed by Dwight Schultz of A-Team and TV fame) has a steamy affair with a commie - and Laura Dern (playing sexy nurse) falls in love with scientist John Cusack in a shoehorned romance sub-plot. Oh, and Mr.Salad Dressing himself Paul Newman shows up too!

Between the Derns this week we discussed tinfoil-hat book 'Family of Secrets' by Russ Baker, which delves into the Bush family and their possible connections to basically every political unrest from the Kennedy Assassination to now. We also discuss 'The Simpsons' which needs no further description.

Nic finished us up with the little Dern 'A Season for Miracles', a smash hit Hallmark Original Christmas film. In which Laura Dern plays a drug addict mother who's children are looked after cum kidnapped by her sister. They make it to Bethlehem, PA (Where Nic spent very much of his life) where they squat in a house and are mistaken for its retiring inherited owner. Needless to say the sister falls for the town cop, a real life corporeal angel helps to push off the kidnapping investigation, Laura Dern is written out of the story as she is a sinner in the eyes of an angry Hallmark, and sed cop proposes to the sister in court so they can be a couple to raise these stolen kids. *whew* 

All in all, a pretty Americana week, and two not awful movies in the gran scheme of Dern rolls.

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