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Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
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 Posted - 01/26/2008 : 19:59:30
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I know I'm not the first Fourumite to get his or her name in Roger Ebert's "Move Answer Man" column, but I was still excited to see my letter included in this week's column. I even bought a copy of the print edition just to keep as a souvenir!
And, yes, it's true that I played a bear and wore a bear costume in the third grade play. It was called something like "Springtime Surprise," and it was written as anti-littering, anti-pollution propaganda. The basic plot was that various woodland creatures were upset to find their home being littered and polluted and expressed their displeasure through dialogue and (possibly) song.
Although I don't see eye-to-eye with Mr. Ebert on all movies (he and I certainly part company on Juno, for instance), I still keep up with his website on a regular basis and hope that he makes a speedy recovery from his latest surgery. It seems less and less likely that he will ever return to his TV show, which is a shame because the program is just not as good without him. I'm glad that he recorded several excellent commentary tracks (including one for his own movie, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) before losing his voice.
Godspeed, Roger! |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 01/26/2008 : 21:41:15
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That's way cool, Joe!
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 01/27/2008 : 07:16:30
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| Very nice. |
Edited by - ChocolateLady on 01/27/2008 07:17:14 |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/27/2008 : 14:39:16
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| Looks like you could bearly contain yourself back in third grade. |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 01/27/2008 : 18:11:17
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Congratulations, Joe.
Actually, you are the 3rd Fourumite to get answered by the Answer Man. I was the first and Ali was answered twice! |
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Joe Blevins
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 01/28/2008 : 00:01:40
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The third-grade experience is one that still baffles me. I can distinctly remember the "audition" process. We'd read lines from the script in front of the class, and based on their reaction, decide who should play what part. I started reading the Bear's lines, and everyone in the class (including the teacher) started laughing. I thought I was messing up somehow, so I stopped. I started trying to say the lines in a growly "bear" voice. But the teacher said, "No, just keep reading the lines like you were before." The students all agreed. So I kept reading in my natural voice. Again, laughter all around. I had *no* idea what was so funny about the lines or my reading of them.
The night of the play, the same exact thing happpened. To this day, I have no idea what I was doing that was so funny, only that it was unintentional. The entire ordeal seemed like a weird dream, and I almost convinced myself that it didn't happen, but maybe ten years later I was looking through boxes of old junk in the basement and found a copy of the program from that play. It was real, all right. I still remember wearing an ill-fitting bear costume, waiting in a makeshift cardboard "cave" for my cue.
Strange how the memory works... |
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 01/28/2008 : 07:17:59
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Yeah, I saw it on Friday - very cool. He's also published a letter of yours previously, where you bitched about his negative Grindhouse review.
This was my letter regarding the bear costume:
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Having read your Answerman column, I was intrigued by Daniel Stender's art-project, so I did a keyword search on IMDB to find more subjects for Mr Stender: http://uk.imdb.com/keyword/bear-costume/
As you can see, the search yields a few exciting possibilities, e.g. Girls Nite Out, where, apparently, (a) killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college. Me-o, oh my-o, oh-Cleveland Ohio.
Another interesting subject would be, of course, Mrs Henderson Presents, where Dame Judi Dench succumbs to the sartorial siren-song (or ursine urges?) of a bear costume. However, it must be said that if I had to choose between painting people in bear costumes, and painting cheerleaders or burlesque dancers, even just once, that's a really easy choice.
I have had four comments published on his site, and one letter. Who wants to fucking touch me?
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 06:47:13
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You're in it again this week, Joe. |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Joe Blevins
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 02/09/2008 : 04:06:15
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Thanks for noticing. 
This one caught me off-guard, pleasantly. It was a post-script to the same letter that got me in the column the first time. I know that Roger Ebert prepared several columns in advance when he knew he was going back into the hospital. He must've written these back-to-back.
Well, another one for the scrapbook.
Incidentally, I don't know how many people here read the Onion AV Club website, but they just did their "best movies of 2007" reader poll, and I was happy to be quoted a couple of times in the article.
Sorry about the numerous typos in my quotes from the Onion article. I figured they'd clean it up a little before publishing it, but nope -- they quoted word-for-word from the original e-mail, goofs and all. 
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 10:02:18
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Originally posted by GHcool
You and Ali are now 2 time published Ebert readers. I have to up the anti to catch up!
I am a five (or was it four, don't remember) time published Ebert reader, baby. Eat my dust.
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 20:43:25
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Originally posted by Ali
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Originally posted by GHcool
You and Ali are now 2 time published Ebert readers. I have to up the anti to catch up!
I am a five (or was it four, don't remember) time published Ebert reader, baby. Eat my dust.
Prove it! I remember two.  |
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 07:29:25
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You know the two from late last year.
This is one.
This is another.
I am sure there is one more, but, for the life of me, I can't remember what it was about.
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I got my name in Roger Ebert's column!
