For a blonde with Scarlett Johanssonesque curves, I am quite delicately made for someone who’s 5′9″ and 140 pounds.

My hands are smaller than some grade school children. My regular shoe size throughout adolescence and on into my early twenties was a 6. Now I sometimes take a 7 1/2 or even an 8. Makes no sense. But I think shoe sizes have gotten as screwy as clothing designations the last few years.

Hah hah. Settle down, preacher man.

You’re been an absolute sweetheart to me. (As you are to everyone.) So I do care about your welfare.

I wouldn’t want you to strain anything…

And I did read Pat’s piece on Woody, and liked it. And I told her over at her site.

Everyone should agree with me all the time. Constantly. Day in, day out. 24/7 – on everything.

They don’t. But they should.

*stamps china doll feet*

And I did read your BRILLIANT WOODY ALLEN piece. I DID. And so did some other people. You even got comments.

Tell Pat that you read it, Rick? PLEASE?

Yup.

And you’re one of those people I respect who liked the first one that I mentioned in my comment to Pat. Can’t go with you there on that one, bro.

It would be fun to go see T-2 and blog about it with you, but I don’t know if it’s worth sitting through the torture that I suspect might ensue.

But it might be kind of cool … maybe we could do a couple of posts, one of us could start off and then the other rebut, or something …

I’m glad you said this.

I am definitely guilty of ripping the filmmakers/actor I dislike, but I don’t really see the point with Bay anymore. I’m not a fan of Bay’s, but the argument just seems like old hat. Weren’t we having this same talk back when Bad Boys (or whatever) was out?

I wanna see Transformers 2 for two reasons:

1. I liked the first one. Truly. Now, I realized people that liked the first one (like Ebert) have torn apart the new one, but still, I though the first one was dumb fun and I though Shia LaBeouf and John Turturo were good in it.

2. Secondly, I’m always drawn to things that people say are “racist” b/c I always wanna get in on that debate. Thing is, I knew this was coming when I saw the hip-hop robots in the trailer. I have a feeling I will think people are overreacting, but who knows, I haven’t seen it yet.

Hey, Rick! Let’s both go see it this weekend and blog about it all next week! Sounds awesome!

Of course it’s a back-scratchin’ kind of game. As I said in the piece, Bay says outrageous things and promotes his movie, the critics get to rage and fill column-inches, and everybody goes home happy.

I think he’s like a demon who gets power every time someone mentions his name. If you think about it, that’s kind of like the whole movie industry thing. No press is bad press.

But, Ed, I DID like that piece by Ebert. I thought it was hilarious.

I also hate the notion that Bay’s films are somehow indicative of a bankrupt film culture— brainless critics using only the lowest-common-denominator films to prove an agenda that simply isn’t true. Instead of throwing mud at Michael Bay, why not use that energy to call attention to under-sung films that prove that good movies are indeed being made? Because press criticism is (for the most part) just advertising, and even these negative reviews contribute to the discourse surrounding this turd of a movie (just guessing) and get the word out. As Barnum said, just make sure you spell my name right.

But like Ed, I do love to read Roger Ebert when he gets all pissy about Bay’s films, or others that he hates.