Andy Labis, Author at Entertainment Ave!

What’s New? A Movie Review of: “Burn After Reading.”

The
Dude on the Right is getting back into

the movie going groove, and for this one he went to see "Burn After Reading."
He loved it, though not 5 starring loving it. The Dude did like the
laughs, the intrigue, and even the violence, once the movie started clicking on
all cylinders after about the first 30 minutes of plot development. He
thinks Brad Pitt did a great job as the dopey physical trainer, appreciates the
creativeness (and maybe the magazine subscriptions) of Harry, played by George
Clooney, but, in the end, who wouldn’t do anything they can to get the money for
some plastic surgery?

This is a Coen Brothers movie, so expect some Coen Brothers goofiness, but
let the first part set things up for you, and then, as The Dude on the Right
did, you can just enjoy the rest of the ride, especially realizing that Harry
just wants women to be happy.

What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Rain, Movies, TV, and A Loud Starbucks.

Stu Gotz somehow convinced The Dude on the Right that they should record
their

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast at a Starbucks, and even though the music was
loud, it did make for some nice, background music, even if it distracted The
Dude. The both of them, though, overcame the background music to talk
about the boatloads of rain that were dumped on the Midwest over the weekend,
they both talk a bit about Hurricane Ike and the people who want to be rescued
in Galveston now that the storm is gone, and hey, why not critique Tina Fey
playing Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live?" Sure, they both liked Tina,
didn’t think Michael Phelps did that great on SNL, Stu’s got questions about the
ending of "3:10 to Yuma" while The Dude thinks Stu might piss his pants during
one scene of "Burn After Reading," but a podcast with Stu and The Dude wouldn’t
be complete without some talk about TV, and The Dude on the Right needs to quit
reviewing his visits to church. The Dude does give a shout-out to his BFF,
if you followed The
Dude’s Twitter you would have been texted to see Carlos Zambrano of The
Chicago Cubs get a no-hitter, and if you’re looking for Sarah Silverman in
skimpy underwear, go ahead and rent "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With."
Just don’t ask The Dude what a "Hoagie Shack" is because he couldn’t remember
the term during his "review" while talking with Stu.

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Rain, Movies, TV, and A Loud Starbucks.

By:

The Dude on the Right
So Stu Gotz calls me and says, "Dude, I can’t meet you at my place, so let’s do
our

‘Weekend Wrap-Up!’ podcast at the Starbucks in Bolingbrook, IL." I
should have known better, because I’ve met Stu at that coffee shop before, and
the music is always WAY loud, but rather than doing another solo podcast, oh, I
thought, "What the hell? Let’s give it a try!" At least we get
background music.

But loud, Starbucks’ music aside, our podcast deals with
talk of rain, because here in the Midwest we got tons of rain. Sure, it
wasn’t as much rain as those folks in Texas, with Hurricane Ike making landfall
over the weekend and my sister almost getting thrown out into the storm (a topic
for a future podcast with The W.G.N.), but one must wonder if God, or maybe the
Devil, or who is Mother Nature anyway, might be pissed at us, and I think those
people who "stuck it out" in Galveston should be left to fend for themselves.
Sure, that’s a segue into some religion talk, but with the rain, both of our
weekends dealt with some movies having Stu catch "3:10 To Yuma" via his Netflix
queue, and my seeing "Burn After Reading" at the theater and "I Want Someone to
Eat Cheese" thanks to my Netflix queue, both with my BFF. Stu is freaked
by a "Joe’s Crab Shack" commercial, I got to see Carlos Zambrano pitch a
no-hitter, and Stu is excited about his cable TV shows finishing up while I have
TiVo setting up to do as "The Biggest Loser," "Heroes," "Chuck," and nearly
every other show I love to watch on TV starts up in the next couple of weeks.

And we both thought

Tina Fey was great as Sarah Palin, yet Michael Phelps, not so great as most
of anything (except
his "diet" skit) on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.

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What’s New? A Podcast of: I Hate Ike, Getting Shot, Forgetting “The Goonies,” and Remembering The World Trade Center

The
Dude on the Right is flying solo for this podcast mostly because he didn’t
want to invite The W.G.N. to be a guest podcaster, thereby delaying The W.G.N.’s
getting out of Dodge, or at least Houston. The Dude realizes he missed his
opportunity for "I Hate Ike" buttons and bumper stickers, but is happy that he
only got shot in a dream, by a dude who looked like Chunk from the movie "The
Goonies."

The Dude also does some reflecting on the anniversary or September 11th,
remembering that he was actually at the top of The World Trade Center in 1985,
and is kind of sad that Presidential politics has come to sound bites about a
"lipstick on a pig" comment that has been around for years, rather than the
actual issues we really care about. The Dude isn’t perfect by not joining
in with the stupidness of it all, but hey, he’s only a dude.

I Hate Ike, Getting Shot, Forgetting “The Goonies,” and Remembering The World Trade Center

By:

The Dude on the Right
It’s
another solo podcast this time, mostly because I didn’t want The W.G.N.
delaying his getting out of Dodge, or at least Houston, what with Hurricane Ike
barreling down on the area like a lipsticked pig would be drawn to mud, in order
to be a part of, well, my discussing getting shot, September 11th, and if you
can actually put lipstick on a pig. Oh, hell, I can’t even figure out the
controversy with the Barack Obama lipstick thing because if anyone thinks he was
calling Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin a pig, well, are you stupid?
She’s the furthest thing from a "pig" that we have ever probably had running for
Vice President.

But this podcast isn’t a lot about politics, I do explain a
dream I had last night where I got shot even though I was just trying to help,
about my forgetting the movie "The Goonies," and on the anniversary of September
11th, today being Patriot Day and all, for whatever reason I flipped through an
old scrapbook and remembered that I had actually been at the top of The World
Trade Center, back in 1985, and have a picture that can never be taken from the
spot I was standing in ever again. Weirdly, it took me too long to
remember this.

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What’s New? A Podcast of: Bears Win!, A Dead TV, The MTV VMA’s, and no Stu Gotz.

This should be a “Weekend Wrap-Up!”, but The Dude on the Right is flying solo for this podcast because Stu Gotz decided to see Mickey Mouse. Actually, it was mostly Mama Gotz and the LIttle Gotz’s that wanted to see Mickey, but, in any case, The Dude is left to lament about his TV woes by himself now that it is confirmed that his TV is really dead. And as The Dude contemplates purchasing a new TV, he sort of wonders why he should, especially since he fell asleep while watching the Chicago Bears beat the Indianapolis Colts, it was probably easier to watch the Cleveland Browns lose on a smaller TV, and there really didn’t seem to be a reason to watch the MTV Video Music Awards, especially since Britney Spears wasn’t a train wreck this year, she was just inserted into a lame skit. And yea, blah, blah, blah, the joke is old, but why is MTV still having a Video Music Awards ceremony when they don’t show many videos anymore?

Bears Win!, A Dead TV, The MTV VMA’s, and no Stu Gotz.

By:

The Dude on the Right
Okay, fine, I don’t really talk about the MTV Video Music Awards that much

during this podcast mostly because I thought Britney Spears’ opening was
kind of lame, and I was more distraught about my TV taking a crap about four
months before I really wanted to buy a new one. But hey, at least I was
sadly able to watch the Cleveland Browns get their asses kicked and happily saw
most of the Chicago Bears kicking ass before I fell asleep on my couch, in front
of my little TV that I had to bring up from my basement area to my living room.
In case you can’t tell, this TV thing is really pissing me off, especially since
a $1.00 fuse from Radio Shack, and my risking life and limb, didn’t fix the damn
thing.

The worst part? Stu Gotz isn’t in town to do our "Weekend
Wrap-Up!", so I’ve got no one to really bitch to about my TV, nor have someone
to convince me to spend money I don’t have on something like a monster, 65" LCD
TV.

And now, with my TV worries in front of me, I’ve also got to worry if my
BFF will want to see "The Women" at the movies (and by the way, I thought the
new version of "At The Movies," without Richard Roeper, sucked, but that’s a
podcast for another time), this weekend, instead of Brad Pitt in "Burn After
Reading." Who wouldn’t want to see Brad Pitt get punched in the nose by
John Malkovich?

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The Dude’s TV: R.I.P.

By:

The Dude on the Right
Maybe it’s just a fuse, maybe it was God telling me I shouldn’t watch John
McCain’s speech at the Republican Convention, but yesterday, just as I was
getting ready to settle on to my couch to see how John McCain will save the
world in a better way than Barack Obama (because that is what these conventions
are all about, aren’t they?), I went to turn on the TV in my living room, and,
well, it didn’t turn on. Because I couldn’t believe it wouldn’t actually turn
on, of course I kept pushing the power button about twenty times, both on the
remote and on the TV itself, and still nothing happened. What to do, what to do?
I fished the TV power cord from out of the power strip, went to my garage to get
an extension cord, plugged it into an outlet I knew was working, plugged the TV
into the extension cord, and wouldn’t you know it, my TV still didn’t turn on.

Now I know that my TV had been making funny noises a few weeks ago, but those
noises, surprisingly, had gone away, and things were working well. I
figured my TV was just going through a phase, but sadly, it looks like that
phase was "Screw you, you ‘America’s Got Talent’ watcher. I just can’t take it
anymore, and since you continue to watch crap shows like "America’s Got No
Talent," "Dancing with Loser Stars," and "Yup, These People are Fat," or
something like them, I’m done. I just can’t take it anymore. I’ll show
you!"

Yup, I think my TV just couldn’t stand my TV viewing habits, and with a new
TV season upon it, and my forcing it to show another season of the Chicago Bears
while the Chicago Cubs totally collapse during September, it felt it was actually
doing me a favor by shorting itself out, thereby making me realize that there
might actually be life without television.

But what my TV didn’t realize was that its days were numbered anyway, what
with him being an old tube, non High-Def television, and as I know The Chicago
Bears will be in the Super Bowl in 2009 (I am so optimistic right now), I was
looking to kick him to the curb anyway, or maybe put him in my bedroom,
especially when those great sales came around before the big game. I’m
thinking, though, that I still might wait for those big sales, in the meantime
moving my basement TV to the living room, and putting my really old TV that is
still in the garage in the basement, even if the color is all discombobulated on
that old TV. Who cares if green grass is red, anyway?

In the meantime, maybe I’ll put my broken TV on eBay. If Governor Sarah
Palin can try to sell an airplane on eBay, maybe some sucker, I mean handyman, I
mean handyperson, will want a broken TV. At least I should be able to make
some money on the shipping and handling!

That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

What’s New? Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Cheese Curls, Google Chrome, A Favorite Shirt, and More!

Stu
and The Dude survived their respective Labor Day Weekends, and

for this "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast they both show that hanging with a BFF,
and doing some painting, can really be exciting.

Okay, maybe the more exciting parts of this podcast are about The Dude on the
Right getting his BFF addicted to Snyder of Berlin Cheese Curls, and Stu Gotz
loving his favorite shirt, but don’t be mad at them. At least they don’t
try to discuss Sarah Palin, churches wasting money, or the difference between
sluts and whores.

You know what, go ahead and be mad at them.

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Cheese Curls, Google Chrome, A Favorite Shirt, and More!

By:

The Dude on the Right
I
was a little worried about seeing Stu Gotz for

this "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast because as much as my Labor Day weekend was
very fulfilling, well, it wasn’t that much exciting, and I figured Stu was going
to be the person to show that my weekend vacation exploits were lame.
Little did I know that Stu decided that painting projects around the house were
the order of the weekend for the Gotz family, that seeing Stu in his "most
comfortable shirt" from Long Beach Island, NJ, might give me ideas for "easy
access" nightwear for both dudes and dudettes, and while I got my BFF addicted
to the tastiest cheese curls in the world, those "Snyder of Berlin Cheese Curls"
(and I still can’t believe the Snyder folks haven’t sent me a free case to eat,
I mean give away, thus solidifying my legend as the Midwest "dealer," giving the
rest of the world their "free" taste), Stu recommends some musical accompaniment
for the podcast when I have "trips to the ‘Old Country.’"

Sure, we talk about
snacks, we talk about Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and we talk about
things left in hymnals at church, and we even talk about Google Chrome.
I’d like to say we don’t talk about "Tropic Thunder," but Stu just can’t resist,
and please, send all comments about "Slut or Whore" to stu@entertainmentavenue.com

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