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June 2, 2006

What does one say when there is nothing to say?

Last Friday felt like we were all in a holiday Cannes coma. This week is not so laid back, yet I feel like we've beaten the holy hell out of pretty much every conversation worth having.

Others may want to try to get into the good intentions of Vince Vaughn on The Break-Up, but I would rather gouge my own eyes out. My best advice to Vince is to get off the ego pony that Wedding Crashers bought him and to go make a funny movie. He's a great performer. He is not a genre changer.

Critics v. Audiences… don't we get into that every year? You want some dense reading on that go to DaveKehr.com… plenty of fighting to go around.

A truly crappy movie weekend is here. If you have access to B13 or The Proposition, go. If not, Nacho Libre will soon be here.

Even freakin' politics are horribly boring. Try finding someone who is happy with the options that the Democratic Party seems likely to put forward for the next presidential election, which should be won in our sleep. (Yes, I wrote "our." I am a Democrat and though I am not a Republican basher, I do prefer the philosophies of the left.)

By this time next week, I will be at the Seattle Film Festival, surrounded by interesting films. What a relief!

In the meanwhile… margaritas. Can I start writing a salt and tequila industry column this weekend?

Have a great one.

READER OF THE DAY: JUST SOME WOOKIE, ESQUIRE writes: "Dude. You, unlike any other critic, can put the FEAR OF FUCKING GOD in me about a movie. It makes no sense what so ever. I do not even think it's about valuing your opinion so much. That I would use your opinion to counter-act my own. Simply put; you can make one hell of an argument and stick it to a movie when it truly deserves it.

So, thank you, for once again levelling the boom on a movie. I sort of kinda wanted to see. Now I can use that six bucks on something else. Better to use it on fast-food, than on a movie featuring two characters being dicky to one another for an hour and a half. Who in the hell thought that would be a good idea? Love cannot overcome two people who are dicks. It's a time tested bit of knowledge known by many a human being. Yet, a studio, thanks to the two stars involved (Who, in real-life, act like dicks about their own relationship. Who wants to see these two in a film. When they are too scared or pompus to admit they have been dating for almost a YEAR!) decided to put this movie out in the Summer? Why? Oy...

E Me: What movie could he be talking about? (And from what I hear, the relationship consisted of a few falls and since then has just been a clever publicty ploy.)

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