On Monday morning I grabbed the News & Observer out of my son's hot little hands as he withdrew the coveted "morning after" Sports Page. He announced that he had already completed his bracket "for better or for worse." Oh, the drama! I topped off my morning meal of national and local news (in that order...never stray from my OCD reading habits) with a glance at Lifestyles where the headline of "Movie Madness" and the appearance of a complex bracket of comedies jumped out at me.
If the onset of March Madness has you updating your Netflix queue so you have SOMETHING to do while others in your family are planted in front of seemingly endless basketball games, then Movie Madness is for you. Office productivity has been way down as employees labor over their brackets instead of their in-boxes. Now those who are as passionate about Caddyshack and It Happened One Night have their own brackets to work on and their own reasons to shirk their work responsibilities.
OMG...my son just said, "Come on Mom, Wayne's World HAS to beat Blazing Saddles." This is going to get ugly!!!
Just think of the water cooler discussions. Two hours of broad farce, nuanced dialogue and sight gags to argue about rather than a couple of missed free throws and an overlooked flagrant foul. A multi-generational team of actors and actresses to mull over rather than a bunch of
pimply-faced soon-to-be NBA millionaires. Let them talk about Coach K, Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun. We'll muse on the leadership skills of Billy Wilder, Mel Brooks and Cameron Crowe.
I did my brackets and while my winner isn't exactly Cinderella, it's also not a favorite by any stretch. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours! Click here for your Movie Madness online bracket. Ooooh....and the winners will win DVDs in addition to major bragging rights. Ahem...Vicky, Donnie, Elinor & Donna, if you are reading this, I expect the Duffy's Trivia Team to kick butt on this!
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How much fun was that? Great list of comedy classics...what, no "House of Wax"???!!!
Posted by: Elinor Bernstein | March 18, 2008 at 01:39 PM
Great list....my winner, Princess Bride, inching only barely past Blazing Saddles.
Posted by: Penelope Anne - The Mama Bear | March 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM