MooPig's Site Review :: "This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow"

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Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 23, 2012 | Bryan TX

MooPig loves the ridicule of despots, the implosion of bombasts... so apparently does Tom Tomorrow.

This Modern World:
January 22, 2012
Tom Tomorrow:  Scenes from the class war
EXCERPT  |  " ... I would have assumed that the rich get certain amenities in hospitals — larger, private rooms, more attentive doctors, etc. But this would never have occurred to me:

The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes. The bathroom gleamed with polished marble. Huge windows displayed panoramic East River views. And in the hush of her $2,400 suite, a man in a black vest and tie proffered an elaborate menu and told her, “I’ll be your butler.”(NINA BERNSTEIN. Published: January 21, 2012. HERE)

The punchline, buried deep in the article, comes after an anecdote about the Saudi King taking up an entire floor at another hospital:

The hospital said in a statement: “NewYork-Presbyterian is dedicated to providing a single standard of high quality care to all of our patients.”

But never mind the absurd disparity between first class hospital accommodations and what the rest of us are likely to experience back in steerage. Here’s the bit that’s likely to go viral in the wingnut zombie-lie media:

But even the rainmakers — doctors who bring in such patients — can sometimes resent the tilt toward luxury.

“The one misgiving is patients with Medicare, which pays physicians almost nothing,” said Dr. Brian Katz, 59, a laparoscopic surgeon in scrubs who took a break in the same library later. “Yet those patients will come up here and pay to enjoy five-star comfort.”

The doctor is complaining that rich patients on Medicare can pay for the accommodations while he himself makes no profit. But watch for that to be distorted by Sean Hannity et al. into a story about welfare patients receiving luxury treatment on your tax dollars.

And speaking of the gilded age, here’s a fascinating little article about our plutocrat overlords, and how they behave when they think no one is watching. ... "

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 10:21 AM
'via Blog this'

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http://thismodernworld.com/archives/6622
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/nyregion/chefs-butlers-and-marble-baths-not-your-average-hospital-room.html?_r=2&hp

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MooPig Movie Reviews :: "DUMMY, [2003]"

Rated: R for language
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 12, 2003 Limited


MooPig Movie Review :: "Dummy"  [2003]
by Pat Darnell and Cecil B Toothelong

Starring: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga
Director: Gregory Pritikin
72% on the Tomatometer

MooPig's Synopsis: Wedding Planner finds her voice and gets finally rid of her stalking ex-fiance’.


MooPig Movie Reviewer, Cecil B Toothelong, considers Dummy one of the best Woody Allen school of Jew-ploitation cinema knock-off’s yet. "Dummy corrects all the bad timing and lack of emotion of those era Woody films," remarks Cecil.

"Dummy almost makes me want to establish a family Wedding Planners business... for real," says Cecil. Components of a marriage ceremony and celebration are risks that must be mitigated or else, the event will not happen. It seems Dummy documents a theory of risk management. It says: All conflicts converge on the outset of any project. Those conflicts arrive precisely with the people themselves who are responsible for the wedding’s outcome.

Mitigating, or anticipating, organizational antagonisms in achieving “plans to completion” are our major themes in Dummy. Don’t be fooled, it has been consistent themes of all human concerns for over five hundred years of wedding history.

“Trust” is the “brass key” being passed between sisters, mothers, grandmothers, dads, wedding singers, caterers, and would be lovers, throughout Dummy. The mastery in the film is in reduction of monologue by cutting out long whiney silloquy. Purposeful bursts of one-liner quips, float the plotted action of the many figurehead characters.

Lots of funny metaphors: for instance, all the available spinster women using TRP, temporary restraining order, as a solution to keep away impotent ex, who is shooting blanks, is a gaff, no?

“Can I trust you with my wants, desires and dreams,” Dummy’s characters prey upon each other repeatedly. No one is exempt from the lunacy, not even the dummy.

One best line is at the dinner table of the Dummy and ventriloquist’s house one evening. Adrien Brody as the movie's Ventriloquist invites his romantic hopeful, single mother Lorena, and her wizened young daughter to dinner; where his mother asks Lorena if she is Jewish. The answer is “I’m Italian,” to which the mother replies “... all the same.”

Dave Litton at Movie Eye says: "There is a sweetness at the center of his character that comes through in his relationship with Lorena, and their quiet, budding romance soon becomes the film's emotional core. ( Copyright @ Hauntnut.com ; David Litton HERE)"

Thus, proves the equation JAP equals IAP ... and as for the off-spring, it would not hinder progress? We are comforted in knowing that the “precocious young daughter” of single mom, Lorena, carries forward all the wisdom needed to offset this imbalanced, wobbly-spinning, Panagea of Dummy.

4 X 

On a scale of ‘Five fingers up your back side’ -- Jeff-Dunham-style-vernacular -- ‘secular Ventriloquist Award,’ MooPig decides Dummy is a full frontal four fingers.

Go see it, especially if your name is Capotosto, Ruggiero, or Feinstein.