Missed the game: Tivo malfunction - Operator error. That's the third missed game of the year, through 55. 27 to go, can only miss one more to set a new Dos Minutos season high.
Dwyane Wade had a career high 50 - sorry I missed that.
Orlando shot 17-32 on threes, led by 15 after one quarter, and it was never close - not sorry I missed that...
Watched Frost/Nixon last night. It is the best movie I have seen since All the President's Men.
Really good movie, not great - compelling for the first two-thirds, then kind of petered out, I thought. Kind of like Chris Webber's career. It felt like the drama (in the movie, not Webber's career) built and built, and created a sufficient sense of suspense, and then Nixon's ultimate admission of responsibility was so benign that it was anti-climactic. Essentially - and I hope I am not ruining it for anyone unaware of Nixon - he said, Yes, I made some mistakes and let the country down. I suppose it is a sign of the times - at that point people, I suppose, maybe expected more of their president, and, perhaps, the Vietnam War had been so traumatizing that people needed someone to blame, and wanted someone to accept fault, needed some sort of cathartic moment, however small it may have been. Thirty-odd years later we are more conditioned to failure, and were George Bush to make a similar admission about Iraq or the economy, I suspect we would all shrug our shoulders, think to ourselves, "no s---, Sherlock," and move on with our lives.
The two best things in the movie:
1) In the film epilogue where someone points out Nixon's most enduring legacy is that, whenever we have a cover-up that turns into a big fiasco - or anything negative, really - we just attach a "-gate" on the end, and we all know exactly what we are talking about. "Steroid-gate," etc. Excellent! Especially so, because when you think about it, "gate" isn't even a separate word in "Watergate" - it's all one word - so it wasn't even that natural to separate it out from the "water." We really had to make an effort there, we really had a need to be able to specify just how annoying and pitiful certain situations were.
2) Kevin Bacon. Always outstanding and, perhaps, now starting to reconstruct his career after the gay-Michael-Jordan-underwear commercials. Or, as I like to call it, "Hanes-gate."
