Whatever Happened To Richie Cunningham’s Brother?
Posted on | May 27, 2008 at 10:31 pm | 2 Comments
Tonight I watched the original HBO movie Recount, which was about the 2000 presidential election and the whole Florida mess. It was directed by Jay Roach, who is known mostly for comedies such as Austin Powers and Meet The Parents. It was written by Danny Strong, best known to me as a TV actor – he played Nerd of Doom Jonathan on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Paris’ boyfriend Doyle on Gilmore Girls. It starred a whole mess of people, including Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain (he doesn’t really look like him), Denis Leary as Denis Leary playing Michael Whouley (who says the F word a lot), and Ed Begley Jr as David Boies (he does look like him). Most fascinating was Laura Dern as Katherine Harris – a really good, funny imitation. Harris came off as both a crazy person and a dolled-up puppet who depended totally on the advice of others. Her performance was almost like a Saturday Night Live parody, though I’m not sure how much of it was actually parody.
There was a lot of suspense for a movie that basically revolved around people counting things. I learned a lot about what went on during that time that I didn’t know (or didn’t pay attention to) at the time. It made very clear how flawed the voting system was and how everything is open to interpretation. It really did make me wonder what would’ve happened if the US Supreme Court hadn’t stopped the recount. And it made me sad because even though I didn’t like him much at the time, I wish now more than ever that Gore had been declared the winner.
But the best part was the discussion about how “dimpled chads” and “hanging chads” makes no sense because the plural of “chad” is “chad”, not “chads”.
Latre.
Pet Peeve of the Day: Having to turn the furnace on tonight because the house was damn cold when I got home. I thought it’s almost June?
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “red light right turn citation bay area”.
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2 Responses to “Whatever Happened To Richie Cunningham’s Brother?”
May 28th, 2008 @ 2:51 am
I heard he went upstairs.
May 28th, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
“Chad” is a collective noun – “there was a bunch of chad on my desk after my 3-year-old cousin found my three-hole punch.”
“Hanging Chads,” however, is the correct description of the aftermath of a suicide epidemic at a Dave Matthews Band concert.