Mood:  chatty

There are movies in my collection that are both so good and so not mentally taxing that I can run to them every time TV programming pisses me off.  This is a lot.  And so, these movies get watched a lot--and that's how good they are, as I never get tired of them.  One such is Noises Off!.  It is the story of the stage production of something called "Nothing On," which is full of sardines and telephones and doors.  My only ever roomate, ex-roomate, wonderful friend can't stand this movie because she said it was too spot on (or something like that, she'll probably deny everything).  I've never worked in theater myself, so I couldn't say though I have worked in artist spaces--which are just as flaky--and been in the small and buzzing enclosed spaces of a working theater production, so.....The characters in Noises Off! are the amalgamated caricatures of theater.  At least I hope they are amalgamated caricatures, and amplified.  It would be like walking around in a cartoon if one were surrounded by people like this.  Walking around in a cartoon might seem cool at first, but I have a feeling it would drive everyone to lunacy(like Who Framed Roger Rabbit right?)--that's why cartoons are so fun to watch and not live.  That's why Noises Off! is so much fun to watch.

A few random, closing thoughts:  I wish Christopher Reeves had done more comedy.  Carol Burnett is and always will be the bomb.  I miss John Ritter.