{"id":1348,"date":"2006-06-01T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/06\/blutarsky-for-president\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:32:00","slug":"blutarsky-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/blutarsky-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Blutarsky for President"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are in your early 40’s, it is very likely that you think National Lampoon’s <\/a>Animal House<\/a> <\/span>(1978) is one of the funniest movies ever made. (My all-time favorite movies are at the end of this post.) Think about it: the John Belushi (Bluto) scenes alone make it an all-time classic. The part where he is staring in the windows of the girls’ dorm and he falls off the ladder; the part where he is sneaking across the lawns of the college green; the part where he hits the beer bottle over his head and breaks it, smiling, trying to cheer up Flounder; the part where he grabs the sissy guy’s guitar and smashes it up (“I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone…”); and of course, the Food Fight and cafeteria scene (“See if you can guess what I am now.” (Inserts ball of cottage cheese into mouth, puffs out cheeks, squirts out cottage cheese right into frat boy bully Greg Marmalard’s face) “I’m a zit, get it?” He leaves the cafeteria after snorting like a horse at Niedermeyer, a real bad guy, ROTC instructor, whose horse had been accidentally killed. Animal House<\/span> came out right when I was finishing high school and I had never seen anything so funny. My sister does a fantastic imitation of the horse twisting its huge head and dying. I guess I have not grown up much.<\/p>\n

Last night I saw a commercial for Aqua Fina water<\/a>, made with Animal Hous<\/span>e footage, some real, some fake. The real Otis Day was there, singing “Shout” at the toga party. Fake Belushi in a toga. The cops show up. Guess who the cops are played by? Niedermeyer and Marmalard! Old but still recognizable.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Sir, may I have another?<\/p>\n

Favorite Movies (not in any special order) and why:
1) Shawshank Redemption — perfect, fascinating tale of revenge
2) Ordinary People — beautiful story of healing; Mary Tyler Moore — a villain!
3) Gone With The Wind — Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, need I say more?
4) Animal House — see above
5) All the President’s Men — perfect suspense, acting, dialog, mouthwatering men, great political moment in history
6) The Sting — Redford and Newman! Fantastic plot that took me many times viewing to completely understand
7) Jaws — oh, that shark! The scary stuff, the agonizing suspense on the boat!
8) The Graduate — coming of age movie, classic.
9) Annie Hall — all-time best relationship, New York Jewish culture movie
10) Bull Durham — Kevin Costner at his hottest, great story about baseball and sex
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If you are in your early 40’s, it is very likely that you think National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) is one of the funniest movies ever made. (My all-time favorite movies are at the end of this post.) Think about it: the John Belushi (Bluto) scenes alone make it an all-time classic. The part where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-lK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}