Feelgood Hollywood just don’t make me feel good, at least not about the money or time spent. I only go to see the freak stuff. Like the R. Crumb documentary. Now that was fun.

But I do give it points for Dylan Baker’s performance and character. I just won’t ever watch it again.

Then I played Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, and the Spartacus ballet for the early morning shift. They didn’t let me do that again for about 3 weeks. Old ladies were calling and complaining that it wasn’t “restful” enough to wake up with in the morning.

Rock over London. Rock on Chicago.

It wasn’t the “money shot” as much as it was the whole “life will never, ever get any better” theme.

At least “magnolia” had the whole frogs raining down bit o’ redemption.

“American Beauty” had the protagonist’s daughter escaping the harsh reality of suburbia (for an urban drug dealer….huzzah!), so there was a bit o’ redemption.

All of my screenwriter friends say that there was no way that Ball wrote that Spacey’s character didn’t pork Suvari’s character. They all claim that the editors cleaned that one up. Me, I don’t buy it. I think that Spacey probably did pass on Suvari, which is why he was “redeemed” at the end.

“Happiness” had no redemption for anyone. Although Cynthia Stevenson deserved it after getting dumped for Greta Scacchi in “The Player”.

And Louise Lasser looked like that about 2 weeks after “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” was cancelled. Didya see her in those episodes of Taxi? Jeez…get back on the cocaine, your figure needs it.

A psycho shrink. A gay marine. Yes, both are kind of “you don’t say?”, but I think Solonds succeeded at making his movie much more gruesome and creepy. And to boot no one ended up dying a horrible death. They all end up living a horrible life. A much better twist in my humble opinion.

God, but I hated “Happiness.” All I could think was, “Actors, run away! Run away while you still can!” But they didn’t. Poor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

left us over the summer, and it seems nobody noticed.

Me, I was in Prague.

The only thing I found shocking about it was hearing later that the mother was played by Louise Lasser. I’d forgotten to look for her after seeing her name in the credits. All I could think was Oh my fucking God I’d better quit partying while I’m ahead.