SFnal

Adventures of a Boy, His Dad and His Alien
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: March 7, 2008

A devilishly entertaining curveball thrown at unsuspecting family audiences, “CJ7” is “E.T.” as reimagined by the premier clown of Chinese cinema, Stephen Chow. Whether American viewers will respond with the enthusiasm of their Chinese counterparts remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that Mr. Chow’s notion of family is decidedly more Addams than Brady.

A simple fairy tale — albeit with a perverseness that no Disney executive would permit — “CJ7” finds Mr. Chow in a Chaplinesque mood as Ti, an impoverished widower caring for his young son, Dicky (the 9-year-old actress Xu Jiao in her debut). By day Ti works long hours on a construction site to pay for Dicky’s elite private school; at night they return to a sweltering, cockroach-infested shack with unreliable electricity. Both suffer constant bullying: Ti’s overbearing boss (Lam Tze Chung) berates him for having ideas above his station, while Dicky’s fastidious teacher (Lee Sheung Ching) and snotty schoolmates treat him like a leper. More

Crisp

It's a crisp -4.9, warming mildly from a cool -7 degrees fondly Fahrenheit earlier in the morning at the Minneapolis Washburn High School. Sunday's forecast is falling; they were talking 40 and now they're talking 25. On the other hand, the sun rises before I leave for work and sets after I get back home, unless I stop at MicroCenter to buy DVDs, of course, like I did last night. One hundred -R, and an additional 30 -R for the Lightscribe burner upstairs.

Not that I got one or nothing...

Why o why

Do right-wingers want to tell everyone else how to run their lives? Meanwhile, they often do all the things they tell others not to do. There must me something I'm missing here.

Apt

" Cold as the March wind his eyes."

I keep forgetting

About so many libruls forcing young gurls to have abortions - I guess that's why they wanna have sex in the first place.