{"id":77,"date":"2005-04-25T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/25\/leave-it-to-matt\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T14:39:14","slug":"leave-it-to-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/25\/leave-it-to-matt\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave it to Matt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, on Friday night Matt and I went to see the Interpreter (with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn). It was okay…but we hated the ending (and, truth be told, we still didn’t understand the certain parts of the complicated plot). But when we got back to my apartment, Matt had me watch the strangest, most wonderful thing:<\/P>
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Dinah Shore Portal to Hell<\/P>
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It was a bootleg DVD of musical performances by non-musical artists appearing on the Dinah Shore show in the 1970’s. You’ve not lived (and truly cried) until you’ve seen William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw, Bert Reynolds, Dick Clark, Robert Blake, Gavin MacLeod, Chuck Woolery, and best of all, Herve Villechaize (of Fantasy Island) singing. Herve might have been the best (or worst) – dressed like a miniature cowboy and singing (if you could call it that) alone on stage.<\/P>
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But wait -there’s more! We enjoyed the bonus features even more. They had some out-takes from Siskel and Ebert that were pretty fierce. Who knew those two could be such diva’s? And there was the scene with Zsa Zsa Gabor doing what appears to be a car commercial and then getting bent out of shape and having a hissy fit, screaming “I vill not verk like this” <\/P>
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There’s also a tragic scene of a local reporter in Florida interviewing Richard Pryor during the making of Stir Crazy. Apparently, Richard had too much cocaine prior to the interview and was a complete mess. It was actually somewhat tragic. He also outed Gene Wilder (which may or may not be true). <\/P>
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But the best bonus feature of all was “The Period Story”. Unfortunately, there are no descriptions of these features…they just appear. But without a desrciption of the source, my best guess is that this little educational movie was meant to be shown to mentally challenged little girls. It featured a mother, father, older daughter and a younger mentally-challenged girl. She asked her Mom what a period was and her mom said it was when “a women bleeds from between her legs. It happens ever 28 days for 3 or 4 days.” Then the daughter would ask “Do you get periods? Does my sister get periods? Does Mr. Jones get periods?” over and over and over. <\/P>
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Finally, the older sister tells her younger sister that she’s currently having her period so she’ll take her into the bathroom and teach her how to change her pad. I’M NOT LYING! So the big sister sits on the toilet, pulls down her panties and exposes a blood-stained pad!!!!!!!!!! She then pulls it out, folds it in half, wraps it in toilet paper and throws it in a trash can. This is all taking place with the little sister (and me and Matt) watching. She then opens up a clean pad wrapper, sticks it to her panties, pulls them up and washes her hands. <\/P>
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The little girl got so excited, she had her sister do it again (this time, the pad was clean). Then the little girl tries it herself and runs into the living to tell her parents. Throughout the pad changing party, the sister repeated each step slowly (“First you pull down your panties, then you take out the dirty pad and fold it”, etc…)<\/P>
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It was frightening. And so basic and repetious that it felt like a TeleTubbies episode about menstruation. Everything was repeated constantly and said very simply.<\/P>
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I had nightmares.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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