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Category: Weekend Viewing

Weekend Viewing: Rent-a-Cop

“Hold me, Burt, I’m sho shcared!”

It’s been an annoying last couple of weeks around here with medical appointments, my dog’s tooth saga, and too much ice and snow. With any luck, things will calm down now and I can resume watching terrible movies like Rent-a-Cop.

The original plan had been to spotlight this atrocity on February 11th, the national holiday known as Burt Reynolds’s birthday. Other things came up and now the aim is to watch it, deeply ponder it (as you might an ancient philosophical text), and then write about it next month, when Liza Minnelli turns sheventy-shixsh.

As for my dog, Muriel’s tooth was extracted yesterday. Even as she periodically whimpers from mouth pain, she’s aggrieved at not being permitted to gnaw on chew toys. (Little does she know this torturous deprivation will last for the next couple weeks.) And, like Liza recovering from another hip replacement, or Burt in the wake of his City Heat jaw injury, she prefers her pain pills wrapped in American cheese or a hickory-smoked Greenies pocket.

UPDATE – 03.12.2022: The Rent-a-Cop post was published today, on Liza’s 76th birthday.

Weekend Viewing: Judith Anderson Edition

Sounds a little better than Lady Capone.

In the 1990s, a young Cranky excitedly reserved the family TV and VCR to record Dame Judith Anderson’s Lady Scarface (1941) off AMC. Despite this, my parents still didn’t realize I was gay. I’ll rewatch this forgettable, somewhat lighthearted RKO gangster film this weekend ahead of viewing Susan Lucci’s Lady Mobster. Oh, the humanity!

UPDATE: Here’s the review.

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