{"id":20556,"date":"2014-07-09T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2014-07-10T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:37:33","slug":"bad-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/bad-company\/","title":{"rendered":"BAD COMPANY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not<\/strong><\/span> good around movies. I frequently go negative right afterward. I can\u2019t stand being in a dark room for two hours watching mostly junk. What percentage of movies are good? Not that many. I get dragged along to movies because I\u2019m a social animal.<\/p>\n

I went to Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon<\/em>. I had read an interview with the “legend” in the Forward;<\/em> I liked the word \u201cSupermensch\u201d in the title; and a friend said the movie was good.\u00a0 Lastly, and most importantly, my wife wanted to go.<\/p>\n

Shep Gordon is a booking agent\/manager, who managed Alice Cooper, among others. Shep did a lot of drugs and messed around with a lot of women. He was loyal to his clients — for sure the ones interviewed in the movie. Gordon comes off as a very loyal sybarite.\u00a0 In Hollywood that apparently qualifies as a “supermensch.”<\/p>\n

Why not<\/strong><\/span> more about Shep\u2019s mother, who liked the family dog more than Shep? What about Shep\u2019s brother? He isn’t in the movie. Shep had a few marriages; I lost count.\u00a0 Gordon hung out with just famous people. (Not entirely true; there were three or four non-famous people in the movie.)\u00a0 He liked round tables, as compared to square tables, for his dinner parties. Round tables are more conducive to\u00a0 good conversation. That was interesting.<\/p>\n

\"thumbs<\/a><\/p>\n

I walked out when Gordon had a heart attack.\u00a0 Maybe it wasn’t a heart attack. He was in a hospital bed with tubes in him.\u00a0 I didn’t hang around for the diagnosis. Heartless.\u00a0 Me or him?<\/p>\n

In the Cedar-Lee Theatre lobby afterward, I was called a curmudgeon and cynic.\u00a0 I went on Rotten Tomatoes the next day: one-in-four reviews said the movie was crap. So I was redeemed.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 One in four.\u00a0 I was redeemed.<\/p>\n

I wonder what Searching for Sugar Man<\/em> got on Rotten Tomatoes. I didn\u2019t like that movie either. [Ouch. Almost all positive reviews.]\u00a0 I thought Sugar Man<\/em> was too much about the music business and not enough about the guy . . . \u201cWe were big in South Africa but not Detroit\u201d stuff. I had a friend who was fairly big in Japan in the 1960s, but not in America. So was Joan Jett. I remember this stuff but don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n

I need<\/strong><\/span> a 98-percent-or-better on Rotten Tomatoes to go to the movies. Ninety-eight is my sweet spot.\u00a0 Sugar Man<\/em> was 95; Supermensch,<\/em> 75.<\/p>\n

I’m going to check out Anvil! The Story of Anvil<\/em> on Rotten Tomatoes . . .<\/p>\n

98.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Anvil! <\/em>was inspirational; a bunch of Canadian guys with lousy day jobs got their old band back together and toured.\u00a0 Check it out. And don’t kvetch to me if you don’t like it.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"Ann<\/a>

Ann Wightman, salutatorian,
Brush High ’68<\/p><\/div>\n

I wrote this one for Cleveland.com last week:<\/span> Class Reunions Shouldn’t Have to Be Every 10 Years.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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