Three Dog Night
Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
July 21st

To hell with One Dog Night or even TWO Dog Night, and who needs Four Dog Night when there’s THREE DOG NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!  You may scoff at their name, but you’d be ashamed at how many of their songs you know AND love (and if you don’t love them, then you must hate joy, and the world, AND joy TO the world).  And how bout this fact – from 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets.  EAT THAT EVERY OTHER DOG NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!  Well, the boys are still together, minus Chuck Negron and his amazing mustachio, and at 71, principal players Cory Wells and Danny Hutton are still kicking out the jams, and awesomely big hair.  I mean look at this setlist!!!

Family Of Man / One Man Band  / Black & White / Never Been to Spain (Hoyt Axton cover) / Shambala  / Out In The Country / An Old Fashioned Love Song  / You Can Leave Your Hat On / One (Harry Nilsson cover) / It Ain’t Easy / Heart of Blues / The Show Must Go On / Liar / Mama Told Me (with an awesome hip-hop remix version thrown in for fun!) / Celebrate

encore – Eli’s Coming / Prayer Of The Children / Joy To The World

and it all still soundsz so dang glorious!!

SHAMBALAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

CELEBREX!!!!!!!!!!!! CELEBREX!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch

Edward Hopper’s paintings come to life by telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations let us observe an era in American history

more!!!

ps – EDWARD HOPPER IS THE GREATESTSSTSTS!!!

quickies!

Monsters University
From Here To Fraternity 
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
G | 104 min

Never saw the first one, so for once, seeing a prequel didn’t ‘ruin’ any of the fun, but Pixar = fun, cept when they try too hard or not hard enough.  Anywho, it was cool to hear cartoon Billy Crystal chat it up and become BFFs with cartoon John Goodman.  But fo’reals, why does every animnated movie have to have every single role, top to bottom, filled with celeb voices?  Don’t think kids really care that Helen Mirren is lending her pipes to give Dean Hardscrabble her scrabbles hard.  As for the adults, they don’t give a sh$t either, as Mirren’s voice added nothing, and mainly took away from this otherwise frivolously funned G-rated version of Revenge of The Nerds

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Fill the Void
(Lemale et ha’halalrs)
The Marrying Kind
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
PG | 90 min

Sadly this is NOT the sequel or prequel to Enter The Void.  It’s about some Hasidic Israeli dude (Yiftach Klein) having his wife die during childbirth.  Everyone agrees he needs a new wife.  Everyone knows its gonna be his sister-in-law Hadas Yaron, cause she’s hot, and she knows how to deal with kids and she plays the accordion.  A touching movie with a conclusion that’s a tad too foregone.  Regardless – I give it 19 L’chaims! 

Btw, that  Hasidic Israeli dude is a total fox in real life!!!

Verdictgo: both  Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Monsters roars at a theater near Jews, while Void Fills seats in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Apollo 11ers Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

Prince Rainer and Princess Grace of Monaco

Jackie and John F Kennedy

Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore & Marino Marini

all by Yousuf Karsh

SpaceCamp is the single greatest movie about camps about space!!!  it’s true

how? why?

cause…

Joaquin Phoenix was Leaf Phoenix and he becames best friends with a robot named Jinx (a cross between R.O.B. and Johnny Five) who fulfills his wishes of going into space by forcing the NASA computers to send him into space 

 

Lea Thompson was never more adorable (yes, even more so than in Back To The Future and Some Kind of Wonderful)

it was Tate Donovan’s first true movie role and he looked so good in ugly 80s button-down shirts and he’s so cool and he still looks like this today, and he’s still so cool

it proved that Kate Capshaw could actually act and wasn’t juss some dumb chick Steven Spielberg married

Tom Skerritt’s mustache and Terry O’Quinn’s ‘hair’

Kelly Preston’s hair and her My Little Pony eye make-up thing goings on

 

Lamar Latrell is STRAIGHT AND IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!

the movie was actually kinda thrilling and terrifying, and probably most so cause it was made before the Challenger disaster and was released five months after it.  YIKES!!!

but mainly SpaceCamp is awesome cause it represents perhaps the final time when Americans were excited about space and camp and space camps

and in general, the movie is juss dang fun!