VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[Joe Allonby]

I wasn't that bad, AND TELL HIM TO STOP TALKING ABOUT MY MOTHER!!!

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>        The Movie at Nine, more than the usual basketball epic, was a
>        story of transcendent courage on the part of the gallant but
>        doomed L.A. Lakers, as they struggled under hellish and
>        subhuman conditions at Boston garden against an
>        unscrupulous foe, hostile referees, and fans whose behavior
>        might have shamed their mothers had their mothers not been
>        right there, screaming epithets, ruining Laker free throws,
>        sloshing beer on their children in moments of high emotion,
>        already. To be fair, the producers had tried their best to make
>        the Celtics look good. Besides Sidney Poitier as K. C. Jones,
>        there was Paul McCartney, in his first acting role, as Kevin
>        McHale, with Sean Penn as Larry Bird. On the Laker side were
>        Lou Gossett, Jr., as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Douglas as
>        Pat Riley, and Jack Nicholson as himself. Vato and Blood, who
>        were watching this down at the garage in Vineland, being both
>        passionate Laker fans, had to find something else to bicker
>        about. "Say Blood," Blood remarked, aggressively, "some
>        righteous-looking shades Jack's wearing tonight."
>        Vato snorted. "You wear them for work¨ªn on mufflers, Vato,
>        lookit 'em, they ain' even big enough to cover his eyeballs."
>        "What's that you're wearing on your own face, Blood? What do
>        you use them for, messin' with Contras? ¡ªWhoo!" both of them
>        distracted for a minute as Lou Gossett, Jr., appeared to execute
>        a perfect skyhook.
>        VL, 377, 378
>
>
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