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“I can name every nut there is.”

Sunday, December 15th, 2002

I’m generally not the kind of person who enjoys watching movies more than once. Seems to me every time you watch a movie you’ve already seen, you waste two hours you could have spent watching a new one. But there are exceptions.

“Hoosiers,” for example. And a few comedies. It used to be that any time I was channel-surfing and stumbled onto “Groundhog Day,” I’d have to stick around and watch. I’ve seen that movie so many times I start to feel a little like Phil Connors himself when it comes on again.

The latest movie that merits my repeat watching is “Best in Show.” It’s one of just a handful of movies I own. And now that HBO’s is playing it incessantly, it’s making serious inroads into my free time. Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy nail nearly every dog-owner stereotype dead-on. Harlan Pepper, Gerry and Cookie Fleck, Stefan Vanderhoof, the Swans — in my 3+ years as a dog owner, I’ve met all of these people. Several times. And Fred Willard is absolute comedic brilliance as dog show “play by play” man Buck Laughlin.

I know I’ve recommended the movie on this site before. Probably several times now. But I just watched it again yesterday afternoon. And I laughed again. Hard.

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2 Responses to ““I can name every nut there is.””

  1. #1 |  Missy |  December 15th, 2002 at 5:27 pm

    Radley, much as I wholly disagree with you on Far From Heaven, Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries (heavy emphasis on “mock”) are comedy gold. And like you with Best in Show, my experience in community theater (especially back where I grew up in Ohio) make me simultaneously cringe and cry with laughter whenever I watch Waiting for Guffman.

    “Teacher’s pet….I wanna be teacher’s pet.”