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Saturday Night Live: Eric Idle/Kate Bush (1978)
Important Episode, But Impossible to Find Uncut
This was a great episode, but the Number 1 reason some people seek it out has been left off of the home video. It's for that reason I gave it a lower rating than I would have if it were available in its entirety.
As one website put it, almost every Kate Bush fan in the US knows where they were December 9, 1978. That was the evening of Bush's sole US appearance in her entire career. American audiences had never seen anything like the young woman sitting on Paul Shaffer's piano in a gold body stocking, or her two dramatic performances ("The Man With the Child In His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People").
For unknown reasons, her numbers were scrubbed from the video that was later sold. A total shame because Kate Bush became a tremendous influence on some of the most important female musicians to emerge in the nearly-thirty years since that appearance.
Still, the comedy of the night was fantastic.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Someone Peel Me Off the Floor
NO SPOILERS
Just got home from the theatre and I'm still absorbing RotK. Huge is the word I keep coming back to. This movie is so huge it would be Texas if Texas wasn't so messed up. It is 3-plus hours of peak after peak after peak. It has its cheesy moments near the end but they are so rare as to be milked from mountain goats raised by peasant shepherds in Spain. ie, forgivable.
Every Rings fan that trusted PJ & Company with this novel is in for a great reward. Even the lack of the Scouring doesn't seem like the major disappointment I thought it would be, if only because there's just so much to absorb in this movie.