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Frozen Acorns and Queen Latifa

    Hey, everyone. Tonight I watched a movie called Bringing Down the House. It is a comedy starring Steve Martin as a tightly wrapped lawyer and Queen Latifa as a lady he meets on line.
    Peter Sanderson (Martin) is a divorced lawyer who has managed to mess up his life. His career has helped destroy his marriage and his relationship with his kids. He meets Charlene Morton on line. She calls herself a lawyer but she is really an inmate in the penal system. Peter is somewhat taken aback when she turns up at his front door. It is understandable when their beginning moments are rocky, but it is a deal in which they badly need each others help and he, at least, doesn't know that he needs her. Her earthy common sense and toughness is the perfect balm to his troubled life and career. His astuteness about legal matters is a blessing to her as she seeks to clear her record of an armed robbery charge.
    Peter's odd friend, Howie, (played wonderfully by Eugene Levy of American Pie) has a case of the hots for Charlene and this sub-plot is a great benefit to the movie.
    I would call this film 4 stars out of 5. See it and find out if Charlene is an escapee. Is she innocent? Will she find happiness as a lawyer's wife, a paralegal, or will she fail to pass go and not collect $200, let alone go directly to jail? Sorry for the monopoly reference.
     In non-related news, I was playing 4 Elements 2 again tonight. I encountered the dreaded frozen acorns. Some of the matches are frozen and thus need to be matched several times in order to allow the flowing lava to...flow. It is truly a good game and I highly recommend it.
     In the NFL games, it seemed that they saved the best game for last. Seattle and Washington had similar teams, similar quarterbacks and appeared to be evenly matched. The final difference came down to Washington's rookie quarterback was hurt and Seattle's rookie quarterback was not. As a Falcons fan I am not thrilled with the prospect of playing the Seahawks next week but it should be a fun game. I am really impressed with Russell Wilson. I blinked in surprise when he ran ahead of Lynch on his touchdown play and blocked for him. Is this guy a breath of fresh air for the quarterback profession or what? I respect his game and his ethics.
    Well, I hope you have a nice week at work and play, and I bid you a good night from the author's green retreat.
      I'm CE Wills.
      
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